A NEVER Before Seen Traditional Japanese Sword | The Rise of the "Bow-Kizashi" | Samurai Challenge

for the YouTube Samurai Bill challenge I made this extremely historically accurate sword after 126 hours of studying the ancient art of feudal Japanese swordsmithing contemporary bladesmiths have been trying to recreate period pieces like this one for years but have missed some unexpected key elements that can only be incorporated after reading the recently discovered ancient text from the 8th and 9th centuries while I am barred by ancient custom from verbally describing some of these lost techniques used in this video I will be showing them in detail visually in the coming minutes now if you think I got a small detail wrong here or there please give me some direction in the comment section below also if you love this build feel free to let your imagination run wild and fake being an internet keyboard Samurai for a day by giving me the funniest and most troll like rebuke possible for the sword at the end of the video I'll be going over what I like and don't like about this blade as I normally do make sure to check out the sponsors of our challenge watch watch the other channels builds and vote with the provided Link in this video's description for your favorite Samurai [Music] [Music] build [Music] [Music] sh [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] for [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] n [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] n [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] n [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] h [Music] he [Music] [Music] a [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a [Music] w [Music] [Music] say well if you've made it this far I'm sure you've realized that I was joking about this being a period piece from feudal Japan it was a bad joke I've really come to enjoy these challenge builds because they've allowed me to expand my skill set by making truly unique blades like this one that joins a Waka shaki blade and Habachi with an American buoy handle I am tentatively planning on a follow-up video to this one to answer questions about the build itself so if you do have any specific questions go ahead and put them in the comment section below with AMA for ask me anything notated in front of your question so that I can find them easily also as a gentle reminder make sure to vote in this challenge it's easy to do with the links in the top comment and the description below now I'm going to go over what I don't like about this blade followed by what I do like about it the first and largest issue with this blade is the solder job on the Habachi now you can see here on the bottom that I have what looks like a void or a crack going along the entire length of the Habachi now I think the solder job is actually good on the inside of the Habachi closest to the Tang however there are some voids on the outside and as I ground down to my desired Dimensions I noticed those voids so that was a painful experience now I did go back and surgically try to fill in this void with some JB Weld and Q-tips but honestly I think it made it look worse normally I would have remade this piece but if I tried doing that on this build I wouldn't have been able to get this video out on time so the time constraints caus me not to make another habaki it's for this sole reason that I am reluctant to selling this knife so it will end up with the other Misfits at my house the second dislike on this one is also related to the Habachi I left a brew to forg finish on the rounded sections on the top of my Habachi where I bent it around and I thought this would look cool but in real it it just draws your eyes to the most unfinished part of the blade so if I had to redo it I would finish these rounded sections of Habachi to the same finish of the rest of the knife lastly on the dislikes I wish I would have rounded these bottom two corners of the handle a little more uh I left them a little more Square than I would like and I can tell in hand that you know I can feel those Corners a little more than I would like to uh if I would have rounded these over I would have also needed to have changed dimensions of the front spacer as as well as the front copper spacer would have also needed to be changed ever so slightly now with the dislikes out of the way let's get into some of the parts of the blade that I love firstly I think the meshing of these two Styles came out really cool you know it's not every day that you see a western style buoy handle with the Habachi and a Waki blade it really makes me wonder if I could put a Habachi onto a traditional buoy ricasso and that may be something I need to investigate in the future I'll look into it I'm also a fan on how the finish of the Damascus turned out on this blade I think the you know low layer counts cool and all but it's really the finish that I'm keying in on here it's taken me a while to get this right with the multiple etching Cycles the cleaning up of the blade in between cycles and then the coffee etch and I really learned a lot from watching Kyle Royers and Tyrell Knife Works videos so thank you guys uh yall brought my Damascus I think to the the next level some other small points in the winds category would be the construction is super super solid I love through tangs with the final on the back I feel like that is a nice robust way to make a buoy handle and it looks cool with the final being shown in the back like this the wood from Oleg is really pretty as it always is this is a green dyed Willow that's been stabilized so I really like the way that that looks and lastly The Edge came out super sharp on this one I was a little apprehensive putting this long of a blade in the wicked Edge system uh but it did a great job so I'm really happy with the sharpness of this full flat grind blade so even with the caveats and the dislike section I want to be clear that I really do love this blade I think it turned out cool you know there are some flaws here and there but that's handmade knife making for you and I'm grateful for the opportunity to make cool blades like this that are abnormal so uh thanks for all the organizers of the challenges and I hope that I get to do more of them in the future if you like this video please consider hitting the Subscribe button down below I'm trying to hit the coveted 100,000 subscri subcriber Mark by 2024 so we'll see if that happens or not uh but your subscription would be greatly appreciated until the next time I'll catch youall on the flip [Music] [Music] side

Channel: Red Beard Ops

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Id: l_cJ35x7USA

Length: 29min 1sec (1741 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 14 2023