You are lucky to have your brother. He’s as much a craftsman as you are. You guys put some of the best videos on RUclips. Thank you too both of you and awesome job.
Aye, matey, the paper guard was a fearsome weapon in its own right. Many a sailor fell to massive paper cuts!! But in all seriousness, the cutlass is great, certainly is the work of a craftsman!!
Anealing the brass could make the proces easier. Heat up the brass until it glows and quench in water. It makes the brass softer and easier to work with. Stunning build!
Very nice results, thank you! Cymbals come already hardened, you can reduce cracking stress by heating the part red hot and dipping it in water. This will anneal it. It will then reharden (work harden) as you shape and tap in your texture.
second and fourth ! hammering brass and bronze makes it harden and become brittle , you heat it and quench it to soften , exact opposite of steel , turned out really nice , and any sailor of the 16`th through early 19`th century would have been happy with it ! and that`s coming from a guy who has been doing the same sorta thing since 1975 ! keep up the good work !
Those are made by Coloma. I bought one in Jamaica alongside the road that had a wooden sheath made and shaped to look like a cutlass when inserted. I like your show and have been tooling some knives and axes and recently repurposed that old machete. See you on the bay !
I hope the axe turns out good for you. I too am making a viking axe and practicing my engraving. Next for me is a viking seax which is what I'm practicing engraving for
I am amazed by your creativity I have been interested in making knives lately and was struggling to make a yellow handle guard but it was possible by simply using drum cymbals like you did!
Sir! i am so captivated by ure approach & ideas on what you will do. i respect you for that. you have a lot to offer the people out there.Your family Must be very proud of you. i thank U & forgive me for being so mushy with my descriptions. it's just the way i is !!. Go ! go! go !!!
I like the blade choice. Seems more authentic from the period pirate etching I've seen. Aside from that, your use of pre-existing and salvaged materials is something I really admire. As a drummer, I especially like the repurposed cymbal (I hope it was cracked when you got it!) Your craftsmanship is so good that your cutlass begs for a better, heavier blade. But I get the thrifty reasoning behind the repurposed machete. Just brilliant work and some of the best videography on the web.
To be honest this is the first video I have watched of yours in a while, you lost me on the pod casts and live feeds. You did a great job on the short sword and it was refreshing to see you just make something.
I love pretty much everything about this build. The one thing that confuses me is how you managed to cold-forge a cut off part of a cymbal without it just shattering. I know you had that one crack early on, but how you got that to work without annealing the thing is just baffling. I'm a former music major, and I've seen used cymbals break from being dropped on a concrete floor. That brass/bronze (whatever it is) work hardens like crazy just from the vibration of being played in a drum kit for a few years. Whatever witchcraft you used, it worked, and the finished cutlass is absolutely gorgeous, especially considering that it started life as a mass produced military machete. Stuff like this is why I love this channel. Keep doing what you do
The one on the bottom if your looking for a true swashbuckler look. I've got a piece of 2" x 1/4" steel in the garage I've been saving for a two handed sword. Think I've found my inspiration. Thanks mate! RRRRR!!!
There's an old book somewhere that would help you identify the metal by the sparks produced when grinding. The sparks reveal alloys by color. I enjoyed the video, thanks for posting.
Since it's main use in reality is as a machete, (gardening tool) my experience is the best machete is the sugar cane style because of it's forward weight. Design four keeps the forward weight the most. The reality too, is that almost every person who uses a machete, in real life, buys a wooden handle one, and customizes the handle if at least to cut it away wherever they get a blister. More often just to make it smoother or smaller for their hand, or to thin it in front of the "pommel" for easier retention against centrifugal force of swing. Machetes are usually thin and work better that way, until they become wobbly. Pirates most likely started very poor, bought the cheapest longest blade they could find, and would have added a guard and made it pointy for fighting, and slashing sails and rigging. Design 4, is a typical traditional Chinese machete. with it's extra weight would have been the best for hiding on vegetated islands, and for slashing ropes on a boarding party. Design 4 would also be too heavy to use if it was thicker than a cheap machete. The design in the video above, is more likely to have been a Spanish scimitar, in real life. Design 4 was probably always an adapted bolo, if not made specifically by cutlers, Even when just used for slashing foliage, that hand guard protects the knuckles from abrasion, which can lead to infection, which is very dangerous before modern antibiotics. I can really only speculate, but i do share ancestors with the famous Captain Kidd. Who however, was not actually a pirate. he was a Privateer, which means he was an admiral of the US navy, Operating flag-less, to plunder the enemy, On the orders of the US government, All the goods and ships taken went to the US Navy Treasury. Basically a false flag, the US government denied responsibility for the whole operation and William Kidd was Executed as a scapegoat by Gibbeting. On a lighter note, and back to the present, there are modern peaceful sailors on you tube and you will find when you watch them, that they nearly always go ashore with a machete, if the land is uninhabited, or they fear any unknown. Nealy always, in search of freshwater, and to make a fire to cook on, and collect fruit or coconuts, or to sift through flotsam and jetsam on the beaches for anything they can use. So, in my mind, the "sailor's cutlass" is by no means a thing of the past, nor is it predominantly a weapon.
Pretty, but a MAJOR quibble w/the handguard made of such flimsy stock! Just as the pommel is a serious crushing weapon, so too should a “basket hilt” be built in “brass knuckles,” as well as offering serious protection. You’ve got plenty of machetes, do try again! You’re too good to settle for half baked measures, tho it was nice to give a shout-out to your bandsman friend! 😁👍❗️
Much nicer than what I made. Also from a machete, I don't have access to the tools you used, since it was costume only I rounded the edge instead of sharpening it. Hand made scabbard, belt, and baldrick are good enough. Pirates gear wasn't always taken from the rich and maintenance for leather and steel at sea wasn't always great either. Drunkenness was pretty common I believe and drunks are notoriously careless.
I'll be honest I'm on a quick break so had to skip to the end I had to see it lol great build looks amazing. Also I hope Alex is doing ok its been 6 months since his last video and have been looking forward to this collaboration. Cheers.
I liked the blade shape on #4 the best but what you ended up with was awesome . BTW I’ve been subbed over at Alex’s channel for a while already so I went over there to check and can’t find the video of what he was supposed to make in exchange for this killer cutlass . Just subbed to your channel . Keep up the great stuff
13:10 Is that you playing the guitar, Dustin? It's *really* good. I've just started watching your videos. Enjoying them so far! Watching the first, where you make a knife, I thought as I heard the guitar come in for a long segment, "Hell, that's Cortez the Killer!" And now I had another doubletake: "Hell, that's Time the Revelator!" Neil Young and Gillian Welch are great choices for your shop soundtrack.
Hey, great video, amazing project..and you inspired me to do soemthing like this as well. My one point i will make, sorry its not evena critiqe, its just opinion..the glue up of the handle. I agree that putting pins in it will strengthen it..and I often do suggest using small metal pins up atr the guard..like the brass piece at the top of the handle, that often needs a pin or two to keep it from working loose and wiggling around later on after heavy use. But there really was no need to add those dowels. The glue up came apart..prolly not enough epoxy or it hadnt fully cured yet. The thing is...once the tang is in the handle and epoxied in..that will be MORE than enough to keep the handle together. If that happens to anyone my suggestion is to just sand it smooth..and reglue or re epoxy..whatever..and finish the fit up. Or do as you did and finish the fit up with the pieces seperate (often easier for some) and then reglue. Ok...sorry if that comes across as an asshole know it all type sounding thing. Thumbs way up.
My friend Dustin. Really an impressive job, surely the next time I see you will be on the tv show Fire Forged....., because surely fans you will have a lot. It really is impressive how you work in that things. Congratulations on such an excellent job. Speaking of something else, why in the hell don't you wear gloves when you are sharpening? It would be a shame if you hurt yourself and you couldn't do those jobs. I have worked in a silverware workshop and I have seen very ugly things ..... believe me. A big hug and best wishes. Take care!!
Do I understand it correctly that since you kept the blade cool while reshaping it, you didn't ruin the heat treatment? Therefore you don''t need to redo that?
I used an identical machete to make early medieval messer
You are lucky to have your brother. He’s as much a craftsman as you are. You guys put some of the best videos on RUclips. Thank you too both of you and awesome job.
Damn that's right!
Aye, matey, the paper guard was a fearsome weapon in its own right. Many a sailor fell to massive paper cuts!! But in all seriousness, the cutlass is great, certainly is the work of a craftsman!!
Anealing the brass could make the proces easier.
Heat up the brass until it glows and quench in water.
It makes the brass softer and easier to work with.
Stunning build!
The handle from #2 is my favorite, but I have to say I agree with Devin on liking the stereotypical shape of blade #4.
This may come as odd, but thank you for having a shop in your video that looks ACTUALLY WORKED IN!!! Great video!
OUTSTANDING WORK!
The orange slice was a perfect ending.
Very nice results, thank you! Cymbals come already hardened, you can reduce cracking stress by heating the part red hot and dipping it in water. This will anneal it. It will then reharden (work harden) as you shape and tap in your texture.
Why not dipping it in oil instead?
Beautiful and finished with executing a naval orange.
😁😉
I love this so much!! The cutlass is so cool and absolutely beautiful!
It's not so much the product I like, it's the meticulous craftsmanship. Beautiful job!
Thank you very much!
I'd vote for #4. I love that design.
I love the photobomb moment around the 16 minute mark. I wish that my kids were as interested in seeing what I'm doing when I'm down in the shop.
pro tip: watch series at kaldroStream. I've been using it for watching lots of of movies lately.
@Rodney Patrick yea, been using Kaldrostream for months myself :D
@Rodney Patrick yea, I've been using kaldrostream for since december myself :)
@Rodney Patrick yea, have been using kaldroStream for months myself :)
second and fourth ! hammering brass and bronze makes it harden and become brittle , you heat it and quench it to soften , exact opposite of steel , turned out really nice , and any sailor of the 16`th through early 19`th century would have been happy with it ! and that`s coming from a guy who has been doing the same sorta thing since 1975 ! keep up the good work !
Beautiful!
Awesome. That turned out some nice.
I love the blade on #3 and the gard and handle on #4
I love watching your video. You are an artist .
That Cutlass turned out extremely nice. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida 🌞
Thanks James.
Another Beautiful peace of craftmanship, I need a workshop so badly!!
Thank you Ali🙏
Great piece of work and workmanship. As you stated far more attractive to look at than the machete.
excellent job great master !!!👏👏👏👌
What a neat project, Dustin.
Very satisfying...
MAN... That was a crazy awesome build. I would kill for one of those
Amazing build! Good job.
So awesome!
Those are made by Coloma. I bought one in Jamaica alongside the road that had a wooden sheath made and shaped to look like a cutlass when inserted. I like your show and have been tooling some knives and axes and recently repurposed that old machete. See you on the bay !
Great video. I’m still working on my first viking ax. Great channel for a retired person, there is always something to do.
I hope the axe turns out good for you. I too am making a viking axe and practicing my engraving. Next for me is a viking seax which is what I'm practicing engraving for
Great job
Result is beautiful.
I am amazed by your creativity
I have been interested in making knives lately
and was struggling to make a yellow handle guard
but it was possible by simply using drum cymbals like you did!
WoW top looks owsome. Super job done. 🍻
Sir! i am so captivated by ure approach & ideas on what you will do. i respect you for that. you have a lot to offer the people out there.Your family Must be very proud of you. i thank U & forgive me for being so mushy with my descriptions. it's just the way i is !!. Go ! go! go !!!
wooo hooo amazing pirate chopper !!!
Wow great job you are amazing man
So very nice and you know it. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from Jacksonville Florida
I would of personally picked #4 because of the dramatic look and the “clip like point” of the blade! But the combo of 2 & 3 looks amazing!
Thank you.
very nice love ur work
I like the blade choice. Seems more authentic from the period pirate etching I've seen. Aside from that, your use of pre-existing and salvaged materials is something I really admire. As a drummer, I especially like the repurposed cymbal (I hope it was cracked when you got it!) Your craftsmanship is so good that your cutlass begs for a better, heavier blade. But I get the thrifty reasoning behind the repurposed machete. Just brilliant work and some of the best videography on the web.
Looks great. Good job.
Very beautiful art masterpiece!! Perfectly pretty but deadly. Job well done 👏!!!
Very good job, I like it!
Nice build brother I have a couple machetes I think I’ll make one, I will probably go for #4 but I love the one you made, Great show
Thanks James.
Very beautiful piece. Truly enjoy watching your imagination come to fruition.
Thank you Tony!
Looks great man
Thank you.
Looks great!!
Anybody else screaming at their tv for him to anneal that brass?
I wish I could make one it looks fun
To be honest this is the first video I have watched of yours in a while, you lost me on the pod casts and live feeds. You did a great job on the short sword and it was refreshing to see you just make something.
Awesome build my guy💪
Awesome project thanks
One thing I like about the cutlass it has a lot of protection for your hand that’s holding it
Thanks for the tutorial.. Iike to watch your videos.
It’s my pleasure.
You are definitely a pirate 🏴☠️ at heart
I love the idea of repurposing an old machete! Hats off to you man!
The thing is that in my country a machete is legal while a pirate cutlass isn't...✨
Coolest project ever! haha I love it.
Thank you. It was a ton of fun.
@@TheArtofCraftsmanship I bet! And the end result really looks great too.
I love pretty much everything about this build. The one thing that confuses me is how you managed to cold-forge a cut off part of a cymbal without it just shattering. I know you had that one crack early on, but how you got that to work without annealing the thing is just baffling. I'm a former music major, and I've seen used cymbals break from being dropped on a concrete floor. That brass/bronze (whatever it is) work hardens like crazy just from the vibration of being played in a drum kit for a few years. Whatever witchcraft you used, it worked, and the finished cutlass is absolutely gorgeous, especially considering that it started life as a mass produced military machete. Stuff like this is why I love this channel. Keep doing what you do
We were worried about the cymbal... but somehow it all stayed together! Thanks so much for watching Spencer!
Awesome Pirates Cutlass from a Machete, Sir !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The orange didn’t stand a chance😂 nice job👍
Lol. It should have stopped running it’s mouth. 😂
The one on the bottom if your looking for a true swashbuckler look. I've got a piece of 2" x 1/4" steel in the garage I've been saving for a two handed sword. Think I've found my inspiration. Thanks mate! RRRRR!!!
I like your nostalgic style intro
That turned out amazing. I liked # 4 the best I think you would have hit it out of the park
Meticulous creative artistic craftsmanship! Subscribed, watched and learned from watching you. God bless!
I used a table saw with chop saw blade. Cut very fast actually, but had to take it 1/2 to 3/4 inch bites. Never changed the temp.
There's an old book somewhere that would help you identify the metal by the sparks produced when grinding.
The sparks reveal alloys by color.
I enjoyed the video, thanks for posting.
LONG ASS video, but wicked build. incredible craftsmanship.
That is great
Greetings from Croatia !!!! I am for number 4
Hello Croatia from Maryland!
This is amazing..
Very nice..
🤝🥂
Cool as Hell👍👍👍
Since it's main use in reality is as a machete, (gardening tool) my experience is the best machete is the sugar cane style because of it's forward weight. Design four keeps the forward weight the most. The reality too, is that almost every person who uses a machete, in real life, buys a wooden handle one, and customizes the handle if at least to cut it away wherever they get a blister. More often just to make it smoother or smaller for their hand, or to thin it in front of the "pommel" for easier retention against centrifugal force of swing. Machetes are usually thin and work better that way, until they become wobbly. Pirates most likely started very poor, bought the cheapest longest blade they could find, and would have added a guard and made it pointy for fighting, and slashing sails and rigging. Design 4, is a typical traditional Chinese machete. with it's extra weight would have been the best for hiding on vegetated islands, and for slashing ropes on a boarding party. Design 4 would also be too heavy to use if it was thicker than a cheap machete. The design in the video above, is more likely to have been a Spanish scimitar, in real life. Design 4 was probably always an adapted bolo, if not made specifically by cutlers, Even when just used for slashing foliage, that hand guard protects the knuckles from abrasion, which can lead to infection, which is very dangerous before modern antibiotics. I can really only speculate, but i do share ancestors with the famous Captain Kidd. Who however, was not actually a pirate. he was a Privateer, which means he was an admiral of the US navy, Operating flag-less, to plunder the enemy, On the orders of the US government, All the goods and ships taken went to the US Navy Treasury. Basically a false flag, the US government denied responsibility for the whole operation and William Kidd was Executed as a scapegoat by Gibbeting. On a lighter note, and back to the present, there are modern peaceful sailors on you tube and you will find when you watch them, that they nearly always go ashore with a machete, if the land is uninhabited, or they fear any unknown. Nealy always, in search of freshwater, and to make a fire to cook on, and collect fruit or coconuts, or to sift through flotsam and jetsam on the beaches for anything they can use. So, in my mind, the "sailor's cutlass" is by no means a thing of the past, nor is it predominantly a weapon.
wow, wow, ottimo lavoro, e i tuoi video sempre curati e professionali.
Aaaarrrrrr Matey!
"Esmerilando a fuego"....
Pretty, but a MAJOR quibble w/the handguard made of such flimsy stock! Just as the pommel is a serious crushing weapon, so too should a “basket hilt” be built in “brass knuckles,” as well as offering serious protection. You’ve got plenty of machetes, do try again! You’re too good to settle for half baked measures, tho it was nice to give a shout-out to your bandsman friend! 😁👍❗️
Much nicer than what I made. Also from a machete, I don't have access to the tools you used, since it was costume only I rounded the edge instead of sharpening it. Hand made scabbard, belt, and baldrick are good enough. Pirates gear wasn't always taken from the rich and maintenance for leather and steel at sea wasn't always great either. Drunkenness was pretty common I believe and drunks are notoriously careless.
AoC: " This is just going to be a wall hanger..."
Me: Wait for it..........
AoC: * finishes build at 51:26 *
Me: * Sips coffee and nods* called it!
I'll be honest I'm on a quick break so had to skip to the end I had to see it lol great build looks amazing. Also I hope Alex is doing ok its been 6 months since his last video and have been looking forward to this collaboration. Cheers.
I like the 4th one
You know in some islands in central America
They call machetes cutlasses
So you doing this is fullfilling its destiny
I liked the blade shape on #4 the best but what you ended up with was awesome .
BTW I’ve been subbed over at Alex’s channel for a while already so I went over there to check and can’t find the video of what he was supposed to make in exchange for this killer cutlass .
Just subbed to your channel . Keep up the great stuff
That is really amazing work. This earned a subscribe from me.
Thanks so much Hainero
13:10 Is that you playing the guitar, Dustin? It's *really* good. I've just started watching your videos. Enjoying them so far! Watching the first, where you make a knife, I thought as I heard the guitar come in for a long segment, "Hell, that's Cortez the Killer!" And now I had another doubletake: "Hell, that's Time the Revelator!" Neil Young and Gillian Welch are great choices for your shop soundtrack.
Good ear brother. We do all the music. Deep cuts only.
I want a whole box of machetes☹️
Same
Very nice work. I'm sure your use of a cymbal to make the hand guard has some musician somewhere screaming at his screen. 😂😂😂
Sir, how lenght the short sword blade that you've made? I looks so awesome?
Nice.
Fantastic job , a real talent , do you ever keep a record of how many hours you have in the job ?
Not really. It’s not really worth it, because it always takes 3-4 times longer when filming.
How do you keep your area so clean of grinding dust in such a limited space. You should make a video on how you do it.
Hey, great video, amazing project..and you inspired me to do soemthing like this as well.
My one point i will make, sorry its not evena critiqe, its just opinion..the glue up of the handle.
I agree that putting pins in it will strengthen it..and I often do suggest using small metal pins up atr the guard..like the brass piece at the top of the handle, that often needs a pin or two to keep it from working loose and wiggling around later on after heavy use. But there really was no need to add those dowels. The glue up came apart..prolly not enough epoxy or it hadnt fully cured yet. The thing is...once the tang is in the handle and epoxied in..that will be MORE than enough to keep the handle together. If that happens to anyone my suggestion is to just sand it smooth..and reglue or re epoxy..whatever..and finish the fit up. Or do as you did and finish the fit up with the pieces seperate (often easier for some) and then reglue.
Ok...sorry if that comes across as an asshole know it all type sounding thing.
Thumbs way up.
This guy is a legend hes still here heating comments 👍 I liked number two aswell. Going to start making my own knives 👍
Wow...luar biasa..
48:00 is real satisfying
I was cringing.
I might get a machete and make a German messer.
отличная работа
My friend Dustin.
Really an impressive job, surely the next time I see you will be on the tv show Fire Forged....., because surely fans you will have a lot. It really is impressive how you work in that things. Congratulations on such an excellent job.
Speaking of something else, why in the hell don't you wear gloves when you are sharpening? It would be a shame if you hurt yourself and you couldn't do those jobs. I have worked in a silverware workshop and I have seen very ugly things ..... believe me.
A big hug and best wishes. Take care!!
Nice "Kill Bill" moment on that orange at the end.
Lol
Do I understand it correctly that since you kept the blade cool while reshaping it, you didn't ruin the heat treatment? Therefore you don''t need to redo that?
I'm kinda parcel to# 3 I like a long blade too I also like the long narrow point
No. 4