we're always trying to bring you something new one of the things that we've decided to
do is to search around the globe and find some of the international Smiths that are
friends of ours that just do absolutely amazing things we're going to start with
our friend Ram in the Philippines absolutely fantastic work he starts with fairly simple
things this is all recorded on cell phones in his shop you'll be able to see the tools
he has and the tools he doesn't have how he takes his skill and just moves forward and
makes a fantastic object for us so stay tuned here on Man at Arms International
working from scrap stainless material he's going to be cutting out these two
sections these are going to become the cladding from the outside when he puts
this together it's going to look pretty easy it is not stainless itself as it
heats up will oxidize and then you won't get the welds that you get when you need
to do pattern welding it has to be done essentially in one heat and be very clean
channeling his inter Ferenc Gregor Ram now reaches for his inspiration
so now that I'm finally done cutting out the outer layers it's now time to cut out the inner core
I'll be using my crafty hand panel that I've been using for a couple of years now let's cut it out
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using his arc welder he tacks these pieces together it won't create the
final Forge weld but it keeps everything from moving and keeps oxidation off the
surfaces by holding them tight in the Vise when he makes the weld foreign
cycling in and out of the heat he continues to take his initial weld
he won't stop until he's satisfied that these pieces are fully bonded
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ER and begins to cut pattern into the surfaces
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as he cuts out the profile for this blade
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the final profile of this blade is going to be ground rather than forged that's really
more about how he's going to expose the pattern on this blade since there's only
three layers he has to be careful and think way ahead of where he's going to go with this
so I'll be dipping out the stainless steel sunlight this will be my first
time to see the lamination lines and how good my porch rolled is
okay everything looks okay everything is nice I get lucky real lucky
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it may seem like he's grinding off all of the stainless material that this blade is
clad with but because he did that cut work earlier and then forged it again afterwards
some of that material still goes down the edge I can't wait to see how it reveals
charcoal is often the fuel that is preferred by many bladesmiths it will give you clean
even heat over the entire piece it'll allow you to immerse a blade of almost any size
tempering a hardened Blade with the torch is actually a fairly tricky operation it takes
a very skilled Smith to do this and do it well watch how he goes through this it's almost perfect
thank you
now that we're done on the 220 belt on the Belt Sander it's now time to move on the fine hand
sanding and we'll be starting at q20 grit up to a higher grip to have a very very nice greenish
on display so come on so now I'll be using my Japanese polishing Stone uh approximately
300 or 400 grit and I'm gonna be refining the lines on the bevel the knife so
now that I'm pretty confident on the lines and bevels of my build I'm gonna move now
to find hand sanding and I'm gonna be using my Thruster ruler and I'll be starting at 400
grits finishing up the blade up to a 7000 grit so let's do it let's do it do it do it do it
it may have looked like he started with a pile of
scrap but now we see he had this planned out all along
the red tarlike substance is chaser's pitch as he needs to hold the blade but have nothing in
his way no clamps or anything like that so that his hands aren't impaired basically he
can warm this up and stick the blade to the side of it let's watch what he does
please
remember that pattern we saw in the blade design well here it is
and here's how he's going to use it he's going to trace over it so that
he can see the design on the blade itself and then cut it out foreign
makes this look easy it is not easy to cut this in the side of a piece
of Steel it is far more difficult to cut it into a piece of stainless steel
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he now takes a polished burnisher and goes over the section he engraved
that'll take out some of the tool marks and make this piece look much
more organic it will reveal the beauty of this Engraving foreign
so now that I'm done working on the blade it's now time to make the handle I'll be
using this hemp uh hemp with Burl the first thing that I'll be doing is to drill a hole
to accommodate the tongue of the blade all right
so since that I can reach the end part of it using my files I'll be using a black knife
I'm gonna burn fifth the tank since it got the same uh I'll be burn feeding it to the handle
so now that the handles finally defeated on the blade now time to make the bolster I'll
be using this aluminum bronze uh block that I've made so enjoy here come closer
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here in the Baltimore knife and Sword shop for Man at Arms we kind of have all the machines and
tools you could ever dream of it is absolutely inspiring to see somebody whose attention to
detail and skill surmount the tools he has at hand I can't wait to see the finish of this knife
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sanding in the cavity for this blade into this wooden Scabbard seems like
a logical step but I can tell you I've never actually seen anybody
do it this way before just makes sense and he makes it work foreign
next tap is a lot of hand sanding and a lot of elbow grease
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