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empires today in this almi artist episode we're going to be creating a war hammer that is inspired
by the skyrim steel hammer but the particular customer that we're building it for specifically
asked us to make it raven themed the entire shop is gonna have some involvement in this build
so you're gonna see kevin forging pretty much the big section of what's gonna become the back spike
but the back spike on this hammer is the front of the hammer because it's a raven's beak
so we'll have a raven's head at that end the gems will be set in the eyes
the back side of the hammer where you normally see a hammer face will actually have wings on
it so you know it definitely is going to be evocative of the back of the bird you know
the bird's tail feathers so rather than make the final big masterpiece that the customers asked for
we're going to be making a smaller one-handed version of it so that before we get into the
final piece he's going to be able to hold this in his hands look at it make some decisions
if he wants something changed differently this hammer will have forging stone setting
chisel work engraving woodwork in the handle pretty much everything you normally see us do on
a man at arms episode but we're gonna skip through it just a little bit faster here on all me artists
so
one of the nicest things about a big power hammer is we didn't really have the right size piece of
material so kevin started from just a round end cut off that was just laying around the shop
squared it up and then began to draw out the end
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i like jumping on the game while i'm taking a break it's something that lets my mind kind of
get away and get refreshed while i'm just about to go back to work i think it's really interesting
that to get better weapons in the game you know you have to be upgrading and working to create a
more powerful situation for yourself and uh you have to do research it's not actually different
than real life here at baltimore knife you know we've spent much of the winter rebuilding our
forge and that's really what it takes to make a better weapon the same as it is in the game
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there are a lot of different parts and they're cut out of multiple different material thicknesses
although all basically just mild steel this is something that we're going to be able to
chisel while it's still cold using the fly press to create high pressure
i'm going to just get on the plasma and start cutting all the different sections out
there's a lot of pieces here but we'll go back through
clean them all up and they'll all get some kind of detail before they're welded onto the hammer
since we really haven't decided how we're going to form the beak on this we're going to take
this forged section and just start grinding take away the material you know is in the way
hopefully what we have left is a raven's
head
bill and rick are going to pass this back and forth mostly with bill doing the hogging and
rick doing the detail we're going to create this entire piece out of one forging that kevin laid
out for us once that happens it'll get attached to the rest of the hammer and we'll see where we go
so
and we've got all these pieces before they're assembled on the hammer they
actually have to have the different textures and designs laid into them
rick's going to go over the screw press and using a series of different chisels that we've created
all different sizes and shapes he's going to go through and lay in the patterns that
he thinks are going to work best for this since he made the initial drawing i'm just
going to leave it up to him to create whatever patterns he feels work the best we'll get them
all in place blacken them highlight them it should really pop on the side of the hammer
so
i knew you're used to seeing a really big south bend lathe
we were able to source a le blonde lathe that's shorter and a little bit more powerful since
i'm turning some chromoly steel to create this top spike instead of free machining
steel the difference is actually pretty astounding it just tears this metal right off
it seems like all roads lead to john's room
no matter what happens when we get these pieces blended if we get them textured whatever we're
doing when it comes to putting them together and putting this puzzle all together the correct way
it ends up in john's hands he's got a separate room where he kind of keeps us out it's
air-conditioned it's nice but all the welders are in there that's where the magic happens
so
phil's gonna be taking a texturing punch that i created basically you just walk
it over the surface like you're chasing and it creates this background texture
you can use it to create kind of different detail work but since we didn't really have a plan for
what that design was going to be and we want it to be dark when we blacken the entire piece
leaving a smooth surface won't give us the same kind of shadowing
so we just go over it with this chasing punch so bill's got to walk that punch
over the entire thing keep it pretty even and it it really ended up looking fantastic
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