Yoru, Mihawk's Sword (One Piece) - MAN AT ARMS: REFORGED

I'm Matt I'm Kerri we are the stag  my brother's a Baltimore knife and sword we're gonna be building  some of your favorite weapons and some weapons you've never seen  before this is man-at-arms reforged the most requested bill at this point by far Drock  homie Hawks yodel which is known as the strongest sword in the world this sword has many different  processes so we're gonna get right to it we decide to use the same 10:45 material that we make our  large striking hammers out of John welds a h

andle under this so that it's much easier for us to  move in and out of the forge and on the presses and hammers to begin breaking this giant piece of  steel down we first moved to the hydraulic press we repeat this process several times  before moving on to the power hammer with Ilya assisting him Sam now  moves to the flat dyes to start drawing or bleed out to link he then  moved to the profile and then removed the blade for one last heat to start  refining the point to its final sheet now tha

t the blade is pretty much  to length and shape Sam cuts off his handle to flip it around hold it  by the point and draw out his tank in order to save me a whole lot of  time while grinding this massive blade Sam does some beveling with a hand hammer I cut down a large block of pure graphite set  it up and turn it on the lathe what I'm doing here is I'm cutting some solid graphite I'm gonna  make a mold that we can press the glass for the pommel and the sword into using graphite forms  Lauren do

es lamp work on the glass to create the cabochon for the sword the glass is pretty  forgiving once it all gets to temperature and I can manipulate it for quite a while actually  and then once I get the shape I want I'm gonna flame it so it gets glassy once you don't have  anything glowing you put the glass in here and it'll keep it to slowly cool off once they're  cool we're gonna cut them at the bottom and put them in the kiln to anneal after doing the  lamp work there's a fair amount of stress

in the glass it will have to be tempered it'll  go into the kiln at room temperature be raised up to 950 degrees Fahrenheit and then slowly  pull over a minimum of six hours the blade is so huge Kerry did a little hogging on the  edge for me last night probably took four to five pounds already I've got a four to five more  pounds to go so I'm gonna start by just refining the profile here on the backside a little  bit on the edge and then I'll start my bevel after defining the bevels and now mov

e on to  sanding the flat mat always seems to make this look easy but grinding this huge blade took over  eight hours of work and a whole bucket of sweat with Ilya assisting him Sam removed the blade from  the forge and places in the water for our quench although Tim 45 is a water quenching steel  it makes it a little safer it's still a huge risk and no one at this shop is quenched  ibly with this much mass or link before in dole straight water they remove the blade from  the water no king or Ki

ng sounds that means we have no cracks we didn't hear any pings or  pops so it looks like this blade survived the quench acquainted temper the mihawk sword  in our regular hot oil bath in this case the sword is actually too long so after it's been  in temperature for a while we're gonna flip it over onto the opposite side and allow the heat  to crawl up we initially set out to create this blade we were gonna leave the flat of the blade a  rough Forge finish but in the anime it has a very perfect

black finish so we're gonna sand the  flats perfectly and add some black oxide after polishing to create that finish Sam's gonna be at  this a while he's gonna be polishing the entire blade most likely he'll be using two or three  different Sanders with different grits on them we decided to use some black oxide acid this is  gonna turn a nice even black color I'm gonna keep scrubbing it until it gets nice and black go back  and brighten the edge and then it'll have the same look like it does in

the anime this is the wood  core for our sword guard that we're going to cover in brass later you can see I've laid my pattern  out on this piece of ash and I've started to make my relief cuts I'm going to finish now the cuts  in the end and then we'll finish cutting her out for the mihawk sword if we decided to make the god  made out of wood and put brass leaf on top of it the construction of a hollow gardening out of wood  can be traced to mongol sabers of the 9th to 12th century thusly i don

't think it is inappropriate  to make a huge guard that is unlifted well if it were solid out of wood cover with brass billiad  begins to cover the cross with brass he'll be turning an edge and then using brass tacks to nail  everything down we drew on some design work onto the main guard using a chisel and a hammer ilium  bosses that design into the metal first I use a liner and trace the sketched out design the liner  sets up and captures the material then I work from the back giving the mater

ial some height and then  work back from the front to give it more depth I continue to attach the overlays using  small brass nails it takes close to a hundred of these nails to hold the  overlays down using a chisel under the fly press I'll and some design work  on the land jets that run down the blade since we made the land jets out of Steel I  have to get them looking like the brass guard so I heat them up in the Forge move to the anvil  and use a wire wheel to cover them in breakfast I take

a large piece of 360 brass and drill  through the center I tap this so that I can fix it to the sword I then begin to cut the piece  so that I can put the glass pommel in place I place a locating flange on top of the  meat Hawk guard this will be welded to the core that goes down and holds the line Jets  and then be nailed in the top on a massive bleed like this it's actually difficult  to figure out how things are going to go until you actually assemble it I was a  little concerned that everyth

ing would be out of whack but we got it just right I  think we did the greatest swordsman in the world justice by creating this sword can't  wait to see Sam try to swing it in the demos and honor of made man's take your dad  to work week we brought our dad to the shop to show us how it's done a little  more technique lets daddy show you have that's it click here to subscribe or click  here to watch more episodes thanks for watching man-at-arms reforged  we need to know what you want the guys to

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