i'm Kerry Stagmer and we are the blacksmiths of Baltimore Knife and Sword
we're going to be building some of your favorite things and fantastic
objects you've never seen before this is man at arms reforged
so here we are back at man at arms making the most requested item we have on the channel
we're going to be making gideon the giant hammer from seven deadly sins
this is a massive hammer obviously if we went full size there'd be no way to lift it
or really even make it in the shop so we've scaled it down to man size but it is still
massive we'll get started on the plasma and then we'll be able to go and show a bunch more things
we'll do some forging too because we know it's not man at arms unless we forge something
now we're ready to start deburring our parts for our seven deadly sins build
then we can assemble it
now we're ready to start assembling the center section of our seven deadly sends build
as you can see we're starting to build a box out of all these little components
the reason we're making it hollow is because steel weighs approximately 400 pounds a cubic foot
which is about where we are this thing would be unwieldable you wouldn't be able to pick it up
the original is about 30 feet tall i understand so we're making ours
the height of the average woman which is about five and a half feet
so as you saw john put this box together it's going to be the center of the hammer
and i'm sure as he explained it would be incredibly heavy basically impossible to
lift it's still really heavy and it's hot and it's got lots of welds that have to be ground so
i'm just going to jump right in and get to it it's going to take a while to get clean
now that the center section of our hammer is welded up and the corners are blended
we're going to assemble the back spike here i'm taking the overlay
and putting it along the base and we'll weld the perimeter then they can sand it off
john just finished uh welding these two pieces together now we got to pretty them up make them
nice and smooth so we're ready for the next piece to go on and we'll get started on that right away
i told you we'd figure some way to get some forging in well since we're building this
back spike out of sheet metal i mean it's thick it's it's over a quarter inch thick
um but it's just not the kind of thing that'll take some damage so we're going to be able to
have derrick take some hot metal some 1045 like we use to do some of our larger swords
he's going to first take this big piece of round stock and make it square or rectangle shape
and that's a preform for him to begin drawing down a point that point will then replace the
point in the sheet metal section and that'll give us something that can take some damage
so
derek's just measuring this to make sure that we have enough material we don't want to undersize
this because then there'll be no way to blend it into the spike when we weld it all together
he'll leave it a little bit thicker we'll grind it right on the money and put this together
decker now steps in to hold this material he holds it in a large set of tongs
so that derrick can come in and begin doing the forging by hand he's still using a pretty
big hammer because it's a pretty big piece of material but that's going to let them work and
create this form a little bit closer and a little bit faster than they would do on the power hammer
one of the things that happens when you have a team or a striking team when you're blacksmithing
is you really can't hear what's going on and so the smiths have to have some way to communicate
there'll be some body language there'll be some hand signals
but in general just working with that team you learn each other's cues and it allows you to
continue working even when you can't necessarily give verbal orders or requests to your teammates
we go back into john's room and kevin will be helping john
to get these spike sections in place so that he can weld them up
they'll get tack welded at first and and they're welded to that center section but after the pieces
are welded he'll cut them off of that center section so that we have a way we can we can
still carry this thing around we'll then get the spike blended up and put it back in permanently
i've poured a hole through the center of these large sections of aluminum but i've made a couple
of steel plugs up the reason for that is so that i can do what we call turning on centers which
allows us to be farther out from the chuck because the teeth on the chuck that hold material will be
in my way if i try and cut both directions on this form so by pushing it out farther forward i'll be
able to spin it on these center sections and that will let me be able to cut the entire form in
one set of passes instead of trying to figure out how to hold it and flipping it over
we have developed a technique where we use the screw presses to create a lot of force
um it looks like what rick is doing is is uh you know fairly safe and fairly easy but the amount
of force that the screw press is putting on the back of the chisel is very much like if you were
hitting it with a sledgehammer uh so he's he's got to be a little careful you may actually catch if
if you're watching the chisels as he presses them you may even see them both slightly even
though they're very substantial pieces of steel all right now that we have the main body portion
of the hammer head part assembled next step is to put the face on top weld it around blend it off
john's to go ahead now and remove the spike section from the back of the sheet metal
um we're going to get that end off so that we can weld in the piece that was forged it was
forged fairly close to shape but a couple of us have uh kind of worked back and forth getting it
cleaned up on the grinders so that it's very close in size we want to leave it a little
proud or a little thick so that when it's welded we can grind it blend it in and then once we
have some color on this entire weapon you really shouldn't be able to see where we put the piece in
all that's left now is to get this thing cleaned up get the welds all blended
and get some color on the entire weapon and then diane's
giant hammer gideon has been brought to life and is ready to destroy its enemies
so
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