I've been a blacksmith Armour for over 30 years I've created weapons for over 200 feature films
this is man-at-arms I find it really interesting to take weapons based off anime designs that are
just humongous unfeasible on the wheel double weapons and then try and make it real guys who
drew this had no idea that someone would actually make this full-scale it is actually going to be
manageable you're not going to need two people to carry it around I'm going to make this thing work
bleech sword is going to be about 72 inches long overall 48 inches of it will be 1/8 of
an inch thick 1075 spring steel almost 9 inches wide most of the time I'll develop
a paper or metal template in this case I freehand drew the contours I wanted
on the big sheet of steel I take it over the plasma cutter and cut out the profiles
after rough cutting it on the plasma cutter I take it over the belt sander and refined
this piece I'm going to send out for commercial heat-treating they're going to use salt paths to
keep it straight if I quench something that then and that large it'll turn into a giant
taco it just warps all over the place I need to send it in and to pieces when it comes back
I'll use a heel er cur TIG welder to weld the handle which was 2 inches by about 20
inches long as 10 18 mild steel and then put it in my heat treating oven and tempered it
to about a 52 Rockwell I started grinding the edge bevels approximately 2 inches to
20 inches in using the belt grinder and a 50 grit belt I made a template for the grip
that we'll be going over the 10:18 handle and we cut those out of 5/16 thick aluminum
took a divider and take a sharpie to one of the legs and use that to lay up a three-inch line
from the cutting edge and we cut that line in with an abrasive cutoff disc the cutting
portion of the blade will be polished bright the rest of the blade will be black oxidized
there'll be a chemical blackening on the back of the blade I have the 1075 steel blade with the
welded on mild steel bang and about 5/16 of an inch thick aluminum plate coming on here that's
this shape which is also going to hopefully bring the weight back in the hand a bit more
and then that will be wrapped with stingray skin here this is the actual pieces used in
Japanese katanas which is called a Sami that will be glued on the top of the aluminum
grip then crisscross with leather back and forth in a katana pattern and the back end
of it will have a slot in here with a silk ribbon coming off of it the bleach sword is
the second biggest sword that I've ever made the biggest one being buster sword
working in the tight quarters that I have is really not optimal for grinding swords
of this size as I continue making bigger weapons like this I'm going to need to get a bigger shot
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