Witcher 3: Silver & Steel Swords - MAN AT ARMS: REFORGED

I'm Matt I'm Kerri we are the stag my brothers a Baltimore knife and sword we're going to be building some of your favorite weapons some weapons you've never seen before this is man-at-arms reforged upon seeing all the requests for the swords from witcher 3 all i had to do was look at the box cover to realize they were swords we had to build today we're going to be making the two most iconic swords from the new witcher game since these are two very similar long swords we're going to show you two very different processes one's going to be forged and one's going to be cnc so the first thing i got to do is draw the blade that's going to be CNC and then we'll go from there we're gonna size it to about 35 inches which is a pretty standard long sword blade i'm gonna go ahead and get this one cut out first and then when we go to forge the second blade we'll try to match the dimensions so the first thing Sam did was he forged a note that gives him a nice little area to hold with a pair of tongs to begin the forging he's now going to the hammer using a hot cut tool and cutting the excess material away allowing him to just draw the blade out from the leftover material using a hit turn technique because Sam begins to taper the bar out rotating your hot metal over the forge a quarter turn at a time allows you to keep it very symmetrical and keep everything nice and even you can see this hammer makes really quick work of this not only is it really powerful it also has a lot of finesse control so Sam is able to draw this blade out basically in one heat he can now just go straight to the flat dies and flatten it out into a sword blade this power hammer will make really quick work in this process for the pummel on one of the witcher swords we essentially have a wheel pommel that's going to get sculpted on one side so i'm going to cut this piece of material for Ilya and he's going to be able to cut it to shape using chisels when house starting to forge the other pommel from The Witcher first thing Haley has got to do with either side of the bars reduce material slightly to start creating that leopard-like head Balian now moves for the vise clamps the material by the snout uses a hot cut tool at a angle create like the ear like shapes and he did a really freakin good job of it guess I shouldn't sound so surprised he's now using that hot cut again to form the mouth he's using the same tool to go ahead and cut the V like shape from nose now he switches to a chisel with a rounded edge this is going to start creating our eye sockets you can see that we're rotating a quarter turn each time don't want to work one side more than the other keep it even we made a triangular shaped punch to do the texturing on the neck of the pommel I assist Ilya using a pair of tongs holding the head into the swage block as he lays in the detail now we got a nice gentle bend in our pommel went ahead and quenched each head to cool it off a little bit to make sure that Center area is hotter so that's where the metal will move we're now gonna crisp up that bend and then start building those heads over after getting our pommel bent into a nice u-shape Illya moves to the fly press he could go to a power hammer or even the hydraulic press but the fly press gives him a lot of control allows him to shut it just right without getting any overlaps or cold shuts in keeping with the concept of one piece being forged to shape and one piece being machined to shape I set this blade onto the milling machine I'll be CNC carving the floors into this mat we'll be forging and then grinding the ones in the other sword now that we have the triple fuller blade for the silver sword I can now start grinding my edges I don't want to grind too much material off before he treat but I got to get it roughed in save me a lot of time after we get it hardened so I have to put a fuller in the forged blade that we did I went ahead and use the sharpie and just struck my center line just gonna help as a guide if you ask 10 different sword makers how to put a full run blade they're probably gonna give you ten different answers in this case I'm gonna use a narrow wheel on the grinder and I'm just gonna grind it right in initially Ilya used a rounded offset tool to create that center section to ramp into the coin on the guard he then just use another square offset tool just to crisp everything up now we're using a hot cut tool to cut off the excess material that we don't need on the end of that guard he'll then flip it over and get more heat draw out the other time and then hand it off to me for upsetting choice ting I'm doing here I'm just using the torch to heat a specific area that I'm then gonna lay in some twisting kind of get my heat as even as possible so when we do the twisting we don't have any tight or loose spots I'm gonna use a pair of wrenches so that I put even torque on it hopefully keep it straight don't get me lopsided quit I've watched Kerry twist hundreds if not thousands of guards while working with him side by side over the years not easy you can get halfway through a project get to the twisting and be overconfident and mess your whole piece up at Forge peace it's not too bad alright got both our guards forces shape they leave forge this nice shape here got a true off a little bit to even the sides and then clean it up from there this one's pretty straightforward now time to get our first guard fitted to the tank John had to bend the tines of the guards out a little bit to be able to get in with the vertical mill so now we got our guard slotted and fitted to the tang I can do some grinding on the center section here which is called the coin block the interesting thing about this sword is and all the game art the center section changes some of it has no peak at all some of it has a really tall peak so what I'm gonna do is just leave it about where it's at split the difference gonna go in here clean this up and then I'm going to do some sculpting on the face from the first time we looked at doing The Witcher blades we thought of blueish all his handles look almost exactly like those in the game we've brought him in we're gonna turn it all over to him Luis is gonna be not only making the handles for us but he's also going to be doing the Farrell's the Farrell's are the metal spacers that are in between the handle sections so these are the Farrell's for the grips on The Witcher swords I mark them in with the dremel tool I'll come back with the hacksaw and now come in and just gently round them over with the file it's scintillating work but it will have a really nice round over detail when I'm done Luis has done hundreds if not thousands of these wire wrapped handles that's why he makes it look so easy trust me from experience I know it's not ultimately you want these wires to look like they're one single braid in order to do that you take two wires twist them clockwise and other two wires and twist them counterclockwise at the same amount of times for the black and silver Witcher Sword I'm using a kneeled steel wire on the other one I'll use copper the annealed steel is fairly soft that's going to allow me to chisel it down into the shape of the grip afterwards without it snapping because if the wire snaps 3/4 of the way through the process I have to start all over again and I do the very unhappy dance Leah takes the wheel pommel that I prepared to carve The Witcher design all the tools he's using he's made he is almost completely self-taught I've always said that drawing was one of the hardest parts of engraving and he just makes it all look easy so I'm here treating the first of the two which are blades it's the triple four silver sword blade I've got to watch my temperatures keep the piece from warping very much I'm running a fairly hot furnace with this material after I make the quench into oil pieces pretty fragile until tempering so we have to be careful how we handle it around the shop so for the forge play this is w1 tool steel we're going to go into the furnace this is running a little bit hot for this material so we're going to give it a minute or two to start to come up the temperature I'll be flipping it keeping it even like that and we're just going to turn the Forge off and let the residual heat bring it up to temperature before we go to the quench once again we're tempering into canola oil I'm just about 400 degrees here and we're going to keep it in here for two hours it'll then be pulled out cleaned off and polished so the blades got its diamond cross-section we blended the Fuller's out it's at 80 grit we're gonna do 180 to 80 scotch-brite and then everything else will be done in buffing and the blade will be finished and we'll just be mailing Kerry already ground the first blade using a nice flat grind I'm going to show you guys something different and do a hollow grind basically passing this blade horizontally across the edge of the wheel and the radius of the wheel creates my edge I take both guards to the scotch-brite I'm going to be smoothing and finishing them before final polishing I want to make sure that everything is ready to go building two swords at once for this episode was very difficult but now with these swords in hand I'll be able to keep the northern kingdoms safe 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 build so tell us in the comments below what weapons you want to see next

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Keywords: The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings (Video Game), Action Role-playing Game (Video Game Genre), The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (Video Game), Wild Hunt, Swords from Witcher, Video Game swords, how to make a sword from a video game, CD Projekt RED, Video Game (Industry), Industry (Organization Sector), forge a fantasy sword, Man At Arms, Man at Arms REforged, blacksmith, How To, AWE Me, Awe Me channel, Sword (Fictional Object), Defy media, Geralt of Rivia, witcher 2, witcher

Id: HJZekaPAd_M

Length: 12min 10sec (730 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 24 2015

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