One of the most beautiful looking Katanas I've ever seen. It actually looks like a modern, beefy, heavy duty Katana made to chop off human limbs (in some alternate universe where that's still done)... as opposed to one of those decoratively slim & ultra curvy from classic-Katana-making Japanese periods.
Great job ! One of the best options for making a blade. Excellent geometry and architecture. The width of the fuller is very well chosen. Thank you for a pleasant viewing! 👍
Exceptional work. Your getting really really good at this craft. I love the wootz steel work you use pretty much exclusively. I’ve been following for some time now.
Minunată muncă! Atent la detalii! Dar nu cred ca oțelu din burghie e un material asa de bun! Poate e un secret, ai mai pus ceva acolo! Respect si apreciere! Chiar ai reusit? Pe o parte moale, pe o parte dură si ascuțită? Si flexibilă! Felicitări! O imagine cu tine, nu mă supăra! Ești bun!
Wonderful, I really appreciate everything. There is one thing that can also be dangerous, the peg of the mekugi-ana is always made of wood because the metal can break or deform.
I'm impressed with the detail you put into the koshirae! The tsuba alone gets very messy and complicated when you decide to add detail to an iron tsuba, let alone a brass or copper one, but your's came out looking fantastic! Could I ask why you decided against the traditional katana's differential heat treatment? I don't know the properties of wootz steel intimately, I'm curious if the material had anything to do with that decision. Regardless, it's a beautiful piece!
Very cool. This is actually one of the traditional katana grinds, though one from a more recent period during the meiji transition. I appreciate the bevels on the top. Too many people forget about them, but practically all traditional katana designs feature this grind on the spine of the blade.
👏👍 Impressive craftsmanship! It's amazing how skilled you are at forging wootz steel and turning old drills into a beautiful katana. I've been a follower for a while now, and it's great to see your progress and dedication to your craft. Keep up the great work!
Beautiful. I was wondering if when you ground dimples into the brass if it was for decoration, or if it was to replicate an original katana, and if it were, would it have been ground in, or penned to cold harden it our something.
wish you would have quenched with a hamon and maybe chose something different for the handle wrap, but I guess the hamon would've looked weird with the pattern form the composite steel, and you have to make due with what you have, overall from one bladsmith to another, amazing build and quality work. keep it up :)
Another great video and another great blade like the mix of drills there was a couple cobalt in the mix ,that billet sounded so hard when you first hammered it .your fit and finish is amazing
Great vid as always. Like the blade. Out of curiousity, do you anneal the brass before workin it? It makes it much easier ti bend/form. And what solder are you using on it?
It's always a joy to watch you work, sir. One question - is the final connection between the blade and the handle just that single pin, or did you also include some epoxy? I didn't see anything else, and wondered if that single pin would be sufficient on its own.
Can you give me a little run down on why everything is added to the crucible? i know when you make Wootz from scratch you need to add a specific amount of carbon to the raw iron materials to get steel, but you start off with a previously made high quality material like these drill bits. wouldnt adding graphite to the mix just add more carbon and essentially turn it into brittle cast iron? the steel powder is obviously to bulp out the ingot, and my guess on the glass would be it acts as a bit of flux to help melt and collect impurities. i guess im just curious about the graphite.
What is the metal powder you used, what is the white material? Also if you crush the container can you reform/refire it or do you have to always sacrifice and buy a new one?
Wouldn't quenching it compromise it's durability? I mean it's carbon content is already pretty high since it's wootz and quenching it would just harden it making it more brittle🙄
Your work is amazing! I’m retired now, and can put much more time into my passion and would love to learn to make wootz. Do you have videos showing the process from beginning to end of making wootz?
It turned out very nice i like how precise your work is! I would like to ask you do you only charge the furnace with coal once or add more later on? Thank you
As many on here, thank you for sharing, I have been watching this channel for a while. I am curious how long is your ‘cooking time in your oven’? Does it vary for the mass in the crucible? Or is it consistent based upon your method? Again I enjoy your posts thanks for giving us your artistry in such a time as this. May you and yours stay safe and healthy…
Did you measure the hardness of the knives and swords you made from crucible steel? What is the degree of hardness? We want to see the weight and endurance test. Has the cast turned into steel?
I really liked the video. I am just wondering why you didn't do differential hardening on the blade hence making a Hamon Line? I only ask because you were making a Katana and that was kinda a big thing with them.
This is really cool. I would love to also see demonstrations of toughness and flexibility. I have friends who see your work and they are doubtful, because it is such a hard metal in the end. I would like them to be able to see just how flexible and tough this kind of steel is too.
This blade is sadly going to snap, both beacause he used a lot of drill bits (HSS steel, basically very hard but brittle, made to cut, not to bend), and the steel powder he added might not have been enough to reduce the carbon and alloying elements enough to get back to a more medium carbon steel. Historically, katanas were about 0.55% carbon, sometimes more. That's not a lot, but that's enough to make a good hard but tough blade. Then, his temper was too unequal, being blue at the base (that's good, the base of the blade needs to be souple and forgiving), but then too cold on the middle, and then too hot again where you use the blade to cut. Basically his blade is both softer than it could have been at the striking point, and more fragile than it could have been right in the middle. Wootz also doesn't have the properties of modern steel, the grain pattern we see is also sign of poor homogeneity, but it's nice to look at, and back in the days it was better than usual folded steel.
@@jeanladoire4141 As you may observe from the carbide patterns after the nital, much of the steel is far lower in carbon than the overall carbon content would account for. There's a lot of carbon in the rafts of carbide nanospheres and nanowires. In short, yes, that's the conventional wisdom, but the final product is not homogeneous and may have unexpected properties. The only way to see is experiment.
I mean yes that's how wootz works, it has crystals of very high carbon steel, and crystals of iron. But i wouldn't say that's quite enough to make it tough in the middle after a quench.
@@jeanladoire4141 That's why I would like to see a demonstration. :) I want to see the properties of the item, as opposed to what you would say about it.
You do some nice work. I would encourage you to relegate the use the sharpie as layout fluid and start using a scribe, calipers and patterns for layout though. When making the guard the drilling got outside of the rather thick nebulous lines of the marker. At the end this showed where the inner circle of the guard was too close in the corners and the inner circle didn't match up to the bands around the hilt. I think with a little closer attention to layout, and the fit of the parts you could have a very first class sword there. I wouldn't bother even commenting but I really think you can get there! 😉👍
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Of course
You have a golden hands!! I really want to buy your KATANA!!!
May I suggest you use a traditional test cutting on realistic targets. I hear Orc makes a good test medium.
One of the most beautiful looking Katanas I've ever seen. It actually looks like a modern, beefy, heavy duty Katana made to chop off human limbs (in some alternate universe where that's still done)... as opposed to one of those decoratively slim & ultra curvy from classic-Katana-making Japanese periods.
The best boss
Your wootz skills are amazing. Not to long ago wootz remained a mystery, you have really fine tuned your craft. Bravo!
Excelente trabajo!! Saludos desde Uruguay
Un trabajo impresionante 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💯💯💯💯💯💯 saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷
Замечательная работа!
They say that the soul of a blacksmith is reflected in his work. Your Katana is truly beautiful. You should be proud.
Voir vos tutoriels est toujours aussi captivant, tant vous excellez dans votre domaine. 👍
Great job ! One of the best options for making a blade. Excellent geometry and architecture. The width of the fuller is very well chosen. Thank you for a pleasant viewing! 👍
Thanks 👍
Just so you know, the like on the press worked for me. Your videos are very therapeutic for me. Thanks 😃
That wootz steel is so beautiful!
Комментарий в поддержку канала и ролика, а также труда мастера.
Absolutely incredible. Very beautiful. ~Kevin
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Exceptional work. Your getting really really good at this craft. I love the wootz steel work you use pretty much exclusively. I’ve been following for some time now.
Сверло состоит из быстрореза и хвостовика из сыромятины. Крайняя хрень получается....
The video i needed to my holiday.
Man i like the smoke grey color of the blade‼️ excellent work
Minunată muncă! Atent la detalii! Dar nu cred ca oțelu din burghie e un material asa de bun! Poate e un secret, ai mai pus ceva acolo! Respect si apreciere! Chiar ai reusit? Pe o parte moale, pe o parte dură si ascuțită? Si flexibilă! Felicitări! O imagine cu tine, nu mă supăra! Ești bun!
สร้างสรรค์งานได้ยอดเยี่ยมมาก สวยงามไม่มีที่ติ ขอคารวะ
This is a beautiful sword 😀😀
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Beautiful work!... A master katana maker!...
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Uma Obra de arte supimpas. Parabéns!!!
Have been watching you for awhile. Inspiring. Learn constantly...
As always your fit and finish is outta this world 🌎 😮
Beautiful sword Beautifully made well done
Thanks 👍
Absolutely gorgeous!
❤
Good job 👏👍
Awesome result for that katana! Really nicely done! 👍
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Another beautiful work of art!!
Thanks 👍
не плохо !!! респект и процветания !!!
Wonderful, I really appreciate everything. There is one thing that can also be dangerous, the peg of the mekugi-ana is always made of wood because the metal can break or deform.
Головне не зупиняйтеся! Як завжди вподобайка і подяка за відео! Робота супер!!!
My best part is when you using that machine ❤️ I love that👍
I'm impressed with the detail you put into the koshirae! The tsuba alone gets very messy and complicated when you decide to add detail to an iron tsuba, let alone a brass or copper one, but your's came out looking fantastic! Could I ask why you decided against the traditional katana's differential heat treatment? I don't know the properties of wootz steel intimately, I'm curious if the material had anything to do with that decision. Regardless, it's a beautiful piece!
Great katana made video,
gorgeous!!!
What a beauty FZ. What a beauty. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks 👍
Great video. Love from Vietnam!
Very cool. This is actually one of the traditional katana grinds, though one from a more recent period during the meiji transition. I appreciate the bevels on the top. Too many people forget about them, but practically all traditional katana designs feature this grind on the spine of the blade.
Not even close to how a katana is traditionally made
@@manuelf2984read, "grinds" as in how the bevel was grinded nowhere did it say made.
Excellent work.
Thanks
Spectacular Katana !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Шикарно, спасибо за видео, сколько по времени трудились над этим творением?
¿Cuales son los ingredientes? Podrás ponerlos en los próximos videos. Excelente video, Muchas gracias. Saludos desde Campana, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Beautiful work mate!!!!!
Amazing results! I love your channel.
Krásna práca ďakujem za poučné videá❤❤
Це не "old drills", а "new drills"..))
Дякуємо за майстерність!..👏👏
Beautiful result!
Thoroughly enjoyed watching this , great looking Sword. ❤
I love this 😀 katana
WONDERFUL!
Thanks
👏👍 Impressive craftsmanship! It's amazing how skilled you are at forging wootz steel and turning old drills into a beautiful katana. I've been a follower for a while now, and it's great to see your progress and dedication to your craft. Keep up the great work!
Меч витвір мистецтва.
Робота пречудова, але як на мене руків'я дуже яскраве. Але всеодно катана виглядає чудово
Beautiful. I was wondering if when you ground dimples into the brass if it was for decoration, or if it was to replicate an original katana, and if it were, would it have been ground in, or penned to cold harden it our something.
beautiful katanan ❤❤❤❤
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Impressive as always
Really good job.
Great job, congratulations
Thanks 👍
Thanks 👍
wish you would have quenched with a hamon and maybe chose something different for the handle wrap, but I guess the hamon would've looked weird with the pattern form the composite steel, and you have to make due with what you have, overall from one bladsmith to another, amazing build and quality work. keep it up :)
belo trabalho parabens
คุณเก่งมาก👍
awesome katana
Another great video and another great blade like the mix of drills there was a couple cobalt in the mix ,that billet sounded so hard when you first hammered it .your fit and finish is amazing
Most Beatifull Video #Greatprocess
Превосходно!!!
Это ПРОСТО ШЕДЕВРАЛЬНО!!!!!!!
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Настоящее ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЕ ИСКУССТВА!!!!!
Very nice build absolutely love it 👍
Wow... that was truly great work 🙂👍
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Amazing work
Thanks
Quá tuyệt vời luôn 👍👍👍
Beautiful job!!!
Very nice 👍🙂👍🙂👍
Thanks 👍
Great vid as always. Like the blade. Out of curiousity, do you anneal the brass before workin it? It makes it much easier ti bend/form. And what solder are you using on it?
It's always a joy to watch you work, sir. One question - is the final connection between the blade and the handle just that single pin, or did you also include some epoxy? I didn't see anything else, and wondered if that single pin would be sufficient on its own.
Очень красиво. Интересно, у каких произведений черпал вдохновение?
Can you give me a little run down on why everything is added to the crucible? i know when you make Wootz from scratch you need to add a specific amount of carbon to the raw iron materials to get steel, but you start off with a previously made high quality material like these drill bits. wouldnt adding graphite to the mix just add more carbon and essentially turn it into brittle cast iron? the steel powder is obviously to bulp out the ingot, and my guess on the glass would be it acts as a bit of flux to help melt and collect impurities. i guess im just curious about the graphite.
What is the metal powder you used, what is the white material? Also if you crush the container can you reform/refire it or do you have to always sacrifice and buy a new one?
Daqui do Goiás Jaraguá Brazil agente diz Bisurdo de bao parabéns professor
can you make celurit, one of the typical weapons from Indonesia
Senjata elek, cocok dinggo ngaret. Dont make it, not weapon but just a farming tool.
Wkwkwk, iki do lapo tah 🤣🤣🤣
Ora iso
Buat sabit rumput kasih kambeengg
Weapon for preman kampung cuukk... 😁😂😂
Hey 👋 man how you doing bro I'm in love with this katana inpecable 👍🗡️
Wouldn't quenching it compromise it's durability? I mean it's carbon content is already pretty high since it's wootz and quenching it would just harden it making it more brittle🙄
Your work is amazing! I’m retired now, and can put much more time into my passion and would love to learn to make wootz. Do you have videos showing the process from beginning to end of making wootz?
Al Pendray wrote a book that provides a good overview of the process (as he recreated it), and there are some more detailed resources out there too.
Dope AF!
Чувак, ты крут!
SUPER 💯👍
Thanks
흥미진진... interesting...
Very nice
Amazing katana! I'd like to get into wootz making myself one day.
That is an incredible blade!
Complimenti, lavoro veramente stupendo, per bravura e accuratezza sei il migliore. Peccato solo per la scelta del colore del nastro.
Посмотрел с наслаждением.
It turned out very nice i like how precise your work is!
I would like to ask you do you only charge the furnace with coal once or add more later on? Thank you
As many on here, thank you for sharing, I have been watching this channel for a while. I am curious how long is your ‘cooking time in your oven’? Does it vary for the mass in the crucible? Or is it consistent based upon your method? Again I enjoy your posts thanks for giving us your artistry in such a time as this. May you and yours stay safe and healthy…
Perfect!
Гарда на кольцо лыжной палки похожа)))
да там вся сабля больше на лыжную палку похожа, чем на катану
Amazing work... Would you mind to tell me what paste do you use for polishing?
Did you measure the hardness of the knives and swords you made from crucible steel? What is the degree of hardness? We want to see the weight and endurance test. Has the cast turned into steel?
I really liked the video.
I am just wondering why you didn't do differential hardening on the blade hence making a Hamon Line?
I only ask because you were making a Katana and that was kinda a big thing with them.
This is really cool. I would love to also see demonstrations of toughness and flexibility. I have friends who see your work and they are doubtful, because it is such a hard metal in the end. I would like them to be able to see just how flexible and tough this kind of steel is too.
This blade is sadly going to snap, both beacause he used a lot of drill bits (HSS steel, basically very hard but brittle, made to cut, not to bend), and the steel powder he added might not have been enough to reduce the carbon and alloying elements enough to get back to a more medium carbon steel. Historically, katanas were about 0.55% carbon, sometimes more. That's not a lot, but that's enough to make a good hard but tough blade. Then, his temper was too unequal, being blue at the base (that's good, the base of the blade needs to be souple and forgiving), but then too cold on the middle, and then too hot again where you use the blade to cut. Basically his blade is both softer than it could have been at the striking point, and more fragile than it could have been right in the middle. Wootz also doesn't have the properties of modern steel, the grain pattern we see is also sign of poor homogeneity, but it's nice to look at, and back in the days it was better than usual folded steel.
@@jeanladoire4141 As you may observe from the carbide patterns after the nital, much of the steel is far lower in carbon than the overall carbon content would account for. There's a lot of carbon in the rafts of carbide nanospheres and nanowires.
In short, yes, that's the conventional wisdom, but the final product is not homogeneous and may have unexpected properties. The only way to see is experiment.
I mean yes that's how wootz works, it has crystals of very high carbon steel, and crystals of iron. But i wouldn't say that's quite enough to make it tough in the middle after a quench.
@@jeanladoire4141 That's why I would like to see a demonstration. :) I want to see the properties of the item, as opposed to what you would say about it.
While not strictly “Traditional” it’s exquisite work…. I want one but reverse edge. And can you make a matching sheath?
You do some nice work. I would encourage you to relegate the use the sharpie as layout fluid and start using a scribe, calipers and patterns for layout though. When making the guard the drilling got outside of the rather thick nebulous lines of the marker. At the end this showed where the inner circle of the guard was too close in the corners and the inner circle didn't match up to the bands around the hilt. I think with a little closer attention to layout, and the fit of the parts you could have a very first class sword there. I wouldn't bother even commenting but I really think you can get there! 😉👍