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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
Welcome back to episode two of Berserker from Lost Ark this sword is really moving along.
You know it's a very large piece we're going to be basically putting things together making sure they
all fit and then we have to take pretty much the whole thing back apart and refinish every single
piece of the sword ellen and derek have spent an incredible amount of time so far on the lion heads
and they're really beginning to take shape they'll get those finished while the rest
of the team is working on everything else for this sewer but for now let's get back to work
we've got all of the major details sorted out now we've got the browse situated we've cut
off a tremendous amount of material around the edges the jawline is situated so next up we've
got to get the eyes going yeah we're going to punch it right in the eye from the back
to raise it up and then we'll go back in and do some chasing repousse work to get the detail
probably use a ball peen hammer to isolate the heat back there and push it out and then go in
uh with pitch and do some chasing rappers they work we're incredibly thin in the eye sockets
and in the tips of the nose because of how much relief we have in this we're just having to be
extra careful especially when we get into these eyes we're gonna have to take a lot of precautions
okay looks like we're pretty even now
we've got both ends tapered out next we'll cut it in half after it cools off we'll take it to the
vise heat it up again put the bends where we need to and then we'll be one step closer to our pommel
derek now steps in with an extra set of hands to help kevin he's going to be holding these
in place on the anvil as kevin begins to form these from spikes into horns
so we don't have a lot of round parts on this weapon but we do have a piece on the handle
and it's kind of a feral at the top of the handle underneath of the chin of the lions it ties really
the entire handle area and that entire guard section together and all the pieces come up to it
and blend so it's a pretty important part i've got some oversized stock i'm about three inches here
and i only need you know two and three quarters so i'm going to cut it down to size
and then i'm going to cut the basic form of it and then we're going to
make kind of a ramped angle that's going to go underneath of the chins and that's
going to tie in the whole thing and we'll see that when the guys get it in the other room
now that we have the first half of our blade edge assembled welded and fitted
it's time to do the second half because of the complex shape it's quite difficult to fit
so we're going to have to drive it on to the body fit it locate it and then i can weld it
so this is the first blade of the berserker sword i'm gonna have to go in grind this edge
down i'm gonna have to be really careful because once i get to this weld area here
this is really thin sheet metal and it's gonna be really easy to mess it up if i go too hard
so
so we're working on the finishing touches of these lions right now so we're getting in just
the detail work up in the mouth we did a lot of detail in the nose apparently this lion is swole
and has a six-pack on its nose according to the drawing so we have incorporated that in our pieces
i think we've done a pretty good job of getting these forms manipulated into the right shape
i'm in the final stages of getting this thing uh finished up i've just got a little bit of work to
do here in the lip just to define this a little better and get rid of some of my chisel marks
but we're basically ready to pull this off
of the pitch and start cutting into it to add the main to it
so we have a fair number of different pieces that we've cut out that are essentially templates
you know i cut these out to match the drawing of the nose some of these templates have to be cut
different for the bend allowance as we create a 3d form but we're only coming out about two
inches on this piece and since that's the case i was able to just take these over the anvil
bend them they're 12 gauge steel so they've got a fair amount of weight to them even with the edges
touching now i've got basically the distance that i need to create this nose cap but for now i'm
going to get this together welded up on here and this will get us moving forward on our structure
wow
now that we've completed the power tool steps we've moved on to the hand
sanding and the final finishes as i do that i continue to illuminate the piece
so i can check the final finish against what we'll have once we mount this on the sword
all right next thing we have to do i have to take these pieces of inch and a half round stalk and
to make the spikes that come out the top of the sword our berserker sword and i need to make these
square and draw them out to a point once once we've got a rough shape i'll bring it back here
finish it off by hand we'll get it all smoothed out and then we'll be ready to have them installed
so you've seen how we've created these forms they're getting closer and closer to the
final shapes that we need there's an incredible number of pieces that go into something that's
over eight feet tall now we have to take it apart
and make every piece absolutely perfect before we put it back together and get the final shape
make sure to come back for episode 3 to see the final form of this berserker sword from lost ark
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