MAKING A KATANA!!! 1 MILLION LAYERS!!! PART 14 ... Finished!

ladies and gentlemen welcome back to the workshop it has been a long series and the plan is that today is the finale of making our million lire Damascus steel katana thank you so much for joining me the forge is led behind me because it's a cold day and we have a lot of fiddly work to do here on the sukkah as we left off yesterday I let you know that the next step was indeed wrapping the cotton onto the handle so I took to the internet and I found a website by Andrea's Brack bush where I found a template so you can make your own paper deals that go on top of the handle for when you wrap the cob and I've made my own to match the length of the handle and the width of the cotton cord [Music] so I've got my pieces cut out here there is an issue however is it didn't look like it's scaled as perfectly as it should have oh wow and the other issue is and I didn't know this when I made the handle you got to make the handle so it's an odd number of cotton cord widths now cotton cord widths once it's stretched out in length otherwise the issue that you then have is the issue that I'm gonna have which is that you can't get the wraps to go up it that's one problem another problem is captain do force over here that's me did not put the holes in into the stingray leather before I glued the leather on so I don't have holes we need to find where the holes are [Music] holy moly it has taken like an hour and a half to poke those two holes in our table it was so difficult because I have no idea where the hole in the wood is and the whole point of it was I made the hole in the wood that it was super accurate to like 0.1 millimeters as you saw in yesterday's episode I don't think it's gonna be accurate to 0.1 millimeters anymore but the holes are there it's now time to think about the step that I'm really dreading I was dreading that or am i dreading this I need to start wrapping the handle this side that faces in surah when they like learning a new language it's like learning a new language language that's a very very good point Jamie now I'm not sure if this paper thing is incredibly essential I think it helps keep it all together and helps keep it all neat I'm gonna see we're gonna be giving it a try I've also seen a video of a guy he used a piece of electrical tape so that when he was gluing onto the electrical tape I'm gonna be using glue I don't think I'm at all good enough to not use glue he can then glue on to electrical tape instead of straight on to the handle [Music] sighs include it's this going terribly okay look terrible it would appear this is very dangerous work super glue this is no joke okay much better now I just need to get it glued could it be very careful can't make any mistakes this is so difficult come on wow this is not appropriate arts and crafts glue this is industrial ethyl to cyan acrylate oh boy double-sided tape tape this is too thick but I'm gonna hold onto it for a second make a nice bracelet out of it double-sided tape come on double-sided tape no masking tape double-sided tape I believe you call that a clog blade not didn't work and ladies and gentlemen that's how you get two rolls of tape from one [Music] [Applause] [Music] I thought mmm yeah I made a little bit of a mess there so that's a worry now there is another way that people do this he says acting as if he knows what he's doing I have no idea what it is that I'm doing but there's another way that people do this which is instead of this where you have the thing go around the whole way they just have these tiny little triangles and they manually slip them in so last attempt now is gonna be I'm gonna cut these little triangles and we're gonna see if we can start wrapping it with electrical tape on the side supergluing as we go putting the triangles in hopefully this works so I hope I have enough of this material I'm not particularly sure if I do because I had no idea how much I needed so when I went on the website and I bought it I just bought whatever length it was that they said assuming that they'd probably be selling lengths that are good enough for a katana what's it look like twelve feet so got the halfway point and on to the double-sided tape we go now we're gonna work out what I got to do next holy macaroni this is gonna be very difficult doing this for the final for the final wrap here this is just me testing and experimenting and you can see there are a couple of things I've learnt which is one I can't have electrical tape up there and it cannot be that wide because you can see electrical tape through it too I need to be careful with where it is I put my double sided tape but that's fine this is not the final thing I can pull that off of that one three there's a hole that's meant to be on this side but you can't see it from the other side that's a problem because I need to get a peg in there because that's the large side of the hole and so you need to be able to poke it in from here so I don't know how I'm gonna fix that frankly I don't know how I'm doing any of this I have to say though it looks like a katana wrap I don't know where these things go and frankly at this point I'm not sure it needs it I don't know what it would serve so what do I do it's a good question I was hoping somebody else did have the answer cuz I don't know what I'm gonna do so I thought I was doing it right but then I'm looking up here and I'm seeing how the spacing looks different it doesn't look like they're getting any air gaps way up here innit so I've got to be doing something wrong the way they're doing this fold here with the with the cotton seems to be very different my understanding of what it is that you do is you simply come across and you twist and then go back around the other way but they're saying fol what does fold mean what I mean because that means something different is that maybe fold it 90 degrees is that any different is it a fold twist no and I believe is you come across you didn't twist it in the other direction or fold it in the other direction I have no clue what I'm doing it doesn't look any different okay so I think what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna pull this off of there I'm gonna make sure I'm gonna cut down my electrical tape and put a thinner piece of electrical tape on I'm gonna get rid of the thing at the beginning and I'm just gonna super glue that on and I'm gonna start going and I'm gonna make sure that I bunch it all up as I go and hopefully that's gonna get us where we need to be [Music] I am 3/4 of the way up the handle and I already have six hours of wrapping gone I've given up on the paper triangles it was too difficult for me to put them in I don't know enough of what it is that I'm doing I couldn't follow the diagrams or any of the tutorials I could find online so I made it up as we go and this is what I'm doing and I think by hook or by crook by luck this is actually a proper way of doing it I'm doing a one full twist and I do it by making a fold and then twisting all the way over so it goes all the way over and then as the next piece comes across that also gets a full twist but you do your half twists in such a way that almost encapsulates the first piece that goes across the other way and you alternate direction so that it supposedly won't untwist and holy-moly the amount of tension that you've got to keep while you're doing it my hands are exhausted it is so tiring I'm pulling and pulling and pulling I'm using superglue as we go on every other one just to make sure that we can lock it in and keep it tight this is a massive massive undertaking I never ever would have thought wrapping a katana with cotton would be so difficult this is a fascinating experience I'm gonna keep going and then it's on to tying the knot again something I have no idea how to do have no idea how to tie the knot there are plenty of diagrams I'm probably gonna have to end up making it up as I go okay so I had made a major difficulty understanding any of your diagrams I looked at online so I've ended up doing this first things first with the cord I wrapped it into the whole back down underneath this side back over with a pretty fold right there back through underneath over folded and then doubled it over and I'm now pushing it back into the hole been putting enormous pressure on it trying to get it in there as deep as I can while I still think I can go further I'm now gonna blunt in my nice carrot dashi and cut off the excess material before finishing to shove it into the hole and hopefully make it make it a seamless and invisible end to the cotton wrap there is a lot of pressure on there and I think I have done it that is the handle wrap for how that that's exciting well I see daylight at least that means that the halls line up it's time to make a tapered peg [Music] so I actually just comped another one cuz the last one was a little loose and off-camera there I've already installed it but this is a problem Tim a big problem yes that's right it looks like when I drove the pin in it is in fact pulled the handle back and created more gap that's a serious serious issue well it looks like the only way that I'm gonna be able to fix this is by making another space maybe to replace it and maybe as an additional one either which way this is an annoyance but something to overcome [Applause] [Music] okay so we have our little extra space that made up and I've made it to be the side here of the end with a little bit of rounding a little bit of a looming hopefully that's just gonna look rather lovely up against the cotton it is much thinner than the last spacer about 3/4 of the width and what we're gonna do is we're gonna go ahead and put it all together and see if when we put up a little a wooden peg in this all works you see it's a little proud bear up on top however before I do anything to that I just want to see if when I put this peg in everything stays tight there's no point taking it apart and tweaking it only to find that it doesn't end up working everything's rock solid the peg needs to be whittled down a little bit there however [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] 160 hours and the katana is complete it has been an unbelievable challenge I had no clue if I couldn't make it but with this this project that has taken longer than any other project I've ever undertaken I've learnt so much I've been so humbled I've learnt how much there is to learn it has been fantastically enjoyable and I sincerely hope you've enjoyed watching these 14 parts if you haven't watched any of the other parts and this is the first video of you watched there's a link in the description below make sure you go back to part 1 enjoy your way the whole way through see the trials the tribulations the mistakes I made the successes I had and see what it is that I learn as I built this throughout the whole 14 parts that'll of it if you'd share the videos with your friends drop a like of course leave your comments what is it that you want us to make next because we're gonna be back tomorrow with more daily videos on the projects that we work on I can't wait to see you then that's 500,000 subscribers we're gonna be doing a fantastic fruit and ninja session not only with this katana but with a lot of the other projects that we've been making here in the last year so I can't wait to see you then can't wait to see you tomorrow thank you all if your continued viewership and your wonderful wonderful comments throughout this entire process I cannot wait to see you soon

Channel: Alec Steele

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Id: 0eeWUw59GYk

Length: 16min 57sec (1017 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 06 2017

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