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Today on AWE Me artists we're going to be remaking something from Man at Arms Pyramid Head's great
knife which was this huge sword size knife that we made we're going to be making in a smaller
buoy knife of course it's going to be a really big bowie knife but it's still only going to be
something that we can manage that we can handle this was originally commissioned by Benjamin
Sager quite a while ago so you'll see in this footage that it's actually before the renovations
in the shop but finally we're reaching the point where we can get this finished for him but one of
the things about it because it was heat treated and the original finishes were put on it a very
long time ago at this point over a year ago it was also blackened and allowed to sit in the shop so
it has this really great patina and crusty surface that you really just can't create those kind of
surfaces it'll be great to get this piece finished and i think it's very cool when you compare it
with the original sword which of course we still have and you'll see it all here on all me artists
often on man at arms we're fully forging this piece but for this buoy knife we knew the material
we had was perfect it's been sitting outside so it's got a great kind of crunchy surface
so we'll use the hand plasma torch and rough this out and then get to finishing
so
Tanner now takes this rough cut out to the grinding wheel
he's starting with a 50 grit and just taking off that kind of quick plasma cut that i did he's
going to take the full shape of this piece and then we'll really be able to get at the final form
We're going to use some large chisels on the fly press to put this design on
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Kevin now brings the blade up to temperature before the quench
that's how we harden it we'll also be tempering it off screen where we take it to 400 degrees
and that prevents the piece from breaking
Bill now goes to the knife wheel to cut in these serrations on the really big knife i
mean they're absolutely huge but these small ones look like they could really do some damage as well
it moves over to the large wheel on the baiter grinder to start finishing these edges out
i've cut and machined these small parts the guard sections and the pommel
basically to have the same look as the large knife does
i'm using the welder to put them together before we put the handle in place
Gari uses the oxy propane torch to put a burned finish on this purple heart wood the same wood
that we used on the large knife once he's got a good look on them they'll be gluing them in place
now we see the handle going into place and all that texture that's on the garden on the blade
really like the way this is turning out and even though it's not as rough as the big blade is
i think it really has much of the same look very pleased
Gari had some crushed charcoal and some dirty oil to this rag it really is to get that same
kind of finish and since we remembered that we had a smoldering fire on the last one
we wanted to make sure that we had something on this new knife that would give us the same look
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