I'm Matt I'm Kerri we are the stag my brother is a Baltimore knife and sword we're gonna be
building some of your favorite weapons some weapons that you've never seen before this is
man-at-arms reforged recently at e3 they released some new game footage of the new god of war game
where we see the return of Kratos but this time he's no longer wielding his chaos blades he's got
one big badass ex and we knew we were gonna have to make it here on man-at-arms we're gonna start
with some wrought iron we're gonna make that the body of the axe because it looks really crunchy in
the gameplay footage and then for the edge we're gonna use the Damascus billet 15 and 20 and 1095
there's gonna be a lot of intricate detail work at the end so we're gonna get right to it when
I prep those pieces for the Damascus and then hand them off to Ilya and he'll begin the forging
after prepping all of our pieces John can now carefully weld them
all together so we can begin the forge welding
now that our billet is prepped and it's up to temperature it's time to let the madman go to work
after Forge building our billet Ilya is gonna draw it out a bit and cut that piece in half
he's then going to move on to flattening the wrought iron and cut two equal pieces
of that as well these four pieces will make up the body of our ass
now we're ready to do a little house construction this is the floor that's wrought iron this is the
wall and this is a wall those a high-carbon they're going to be out front edge and back
edge and here's the roof wrought iron again those species are going to be cleaned up
and tack welded and a handle is going to be relative so we can manage it and then
we're going to Forge well to gently in the press so that our little compartment right
here is not distorted too much that's going to become the socket for the handle up to
that the walls are going to be pinched out and become the front edge in the back edge
once he gets it drawn out just a tad he's gonna insert a rod
into the eye the axe so we can start forging out the shape a bit as well
so the roof on his little house came tumbling in a little bit last night we had some tears in
the wrought-iron here and here we could still go back and make this work but because of our
time limit it's actually going to save us a bunch of time to go ahead back a few steps
we're still going to use wrought iron we're still going to use Damascus but Ilya has a much better
construction idea how to make this ax happen when this is welded up and assembled into a
plate it's time to proceed with the combining of the Damascus and the wrought iron and make the ax
now that the iron is sized correctly Billy can attach it to the Damascus bill it may look weird
that Ilya laid his piece of metal onto a 2x4 but the reason he did this was to prevent any oxygen
getting to the surface of that metal making it scale up and inhibiting as well he now lays the
wrought iron on top of the Damascus paddle goes to the hammer and very gently Forge welded you
can see that you don't need brute strength for this process it just has to be the perfect strike
now the preform for his axe is complete he can move on to bending it over and
Forge welding the edge you can see that he uses the dies on the power
hammer to clamp down as I hold from behind he strikes and starts spinning his u-shape
you may notice that we have a little extra material on the edge of our axe now Illya
basically did what would be called a reverse hot dog in the bun method we took a bill of Damascus
that he layered with some more wrought iron and folded over the edge to give us some more mass
Illya is now doing something it's not exactly safe he's gonna use a hand hammer underneath
the power hammer dies very carefully to spread very specific areas of the addict
so the edge of the axe is now growing too large defend our well at Forge so what I'm doing is I'm
keeping the charcoal porch shot Billy has modified our eat treating porch so you can get the ax in
there a little bit you gain some temperature but we really want to achieve our for grilling
temperatures here so we're going to be going back and forth between this gorge that Forge the power
hammer some hand forging just to spread that edge out to get it right where we want it to be
it's now time to forge weld in a Damascus bit Ilya already prepped what will become
that back edge we now have to force that bit in so that it fits just right take it
out bring everything up the temperature and then do our Forge well after it's
forged weld we can then draw it out a bit and it will be ready for grinding
so we have the bulk of our acts now ground to shape Billy has really had
to think outside the box to get this done guys who forged these axes on the regular
have a ton maybe several dozen different very specific tools to use during forging
that we just don't have because we don't do it very often and I'm pretty sure if the Vikings
had themselves in Illya we'd probably all be speaking Old Norse right now if you know what
it means but my next step is to get this thing profiled and then we'll move right on to edging
now that the main body of our axe is now defined and ready to go it's time
to start them those land Jets Illya is gonna Forge those out of wrought iron
it's going to move to the power hammer to get his basic shape and he's going to
punch those three central holes that you see and then we'll be able to attach them
so I did a lot of perimeter grinding last night on this ax got it to the right shape
or going for it Illya forged these land jets out of wrought iron and then he punched three
holes on either side the next step for me is to edge it I already beveled some on the
back fleet here but I haven't done anything on the front I'm gonna go ahead and finish
that up and then I'll hand it off to Illya and he'll get those runes carved and inlaid
the magic motif from kratos's axe allows it transform into an ice axe later on so
right now I'm using my simple w-2 cutter and cutting in the design so later on we'll be
inlaid with nickel because the outside of this X is all wrought iron because
fairly easy but once in a while I hit a hard spot of Steel so I have to be very careful
Lily's gonna use a hand engraver and just remove material and create tiny
little trenches some of those trenches will be later filled with pure nickel leaving
a nice bright line others will leave plain that will give a nice dark line
it's been carving on the face of the axe now for about an hour most
of the rooms are set in place he's now going to start doing some of the inlay
after further looking into the ax handle on the gameplay footage I noticed that
it's a modern shape this isn't really a historical axe this handle basically a
fireman's axe handle I'm gonna go ahead and lay that shape in
I got most of our shape sanded in here it's gonna hand it off the ferrets and he's gonna get the
dragon card in the end it's gonna go ahead and check it see how it fits to our head right now
looks pretty good I'm gonna have to shave a little more off the back on the front side
but I think that's about the right length whoo gonna be wicked matt has gotten us the
Hickory handle for the battle axe for God of War he's done some late shaping around here we've
started to do some profile cuts as you can see I've done a light sketching on the top I'm not
going to sketch the profile on the front I have a mental picture in my head of what this looks like
dimensionally I'm gonna work off of that there's not a whole lot of reference for what this really
looks like it's a brand new game things are not out yet so we're going to do a close rendition
of this it's a primitive Viking style dragon and we're going to follow those parameters
so you've seen us begin to lay out the artwork and the carving we've started
to carve in our lines starting to get our pierce through x' like underneath of the
tongue we've actually finished this side so you can see the differences it's finishing it
away to retain that primitive look of carving we're going to pass this out to Matt now he's
going to go ahead and finish the entire ax handle and we're going to get her done
now that all our runes are carved in and the inlay is now complete the last thing we have to do is
heat treat rx Ilya heats it up in the Forge and quench is just the edge into the oil not only does
this hard in the edge but also gets our surfaces crusty again from where we sanded on them before
god of war more like Godzilla Forge we brought Kratos his new axe to life
I love it can't wait to see this thing smash stuff up in the demos
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