【Japanese Jewel Steel】The world's purest steel "Tamahagane"
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Tamahagane is a premiere steel used in Japanese swords or Katana.
Tamahagane is really hard but at the same time, elastic.
I would say it is one of the best steel for kithchen knives.
But you can not find Tamahagane kitchen knives easily.
I visited the swordsmith "Suketada" who can make Tamahagane by himself.
I would like to tell the world that how great tamahane is and why tamahagane making is not spreading around Japan.
I decided to stand up and save this tradition.
I opened up Tamahagane kitchen knife online shop
URL : zenknife.mysho...
Insta : / zenknife_japan
I hope you will like this video.
This video is about how tamahagane is made(Tatara iron making) and the history of tamahagane.
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The qualities of tamahagane are mostly mystical. For hundreds of years Japan had only one local source for iron and that was iron sand. It took a lot of time, effort and money to remove the iron from that sand, mainly because the iron ore in that sand was NOT particularly pure. The steel made from this iron is pure in the way that it only contains iron, carbon and maybe traces of silicon and manganese, but not much else. It made sense to use that expensive steel in swords for noblemen. The fact that these swords were status symbols carried by rich and powerful men helped proliferate the reputation of tamahagane's purity - a virtue held high in Japanese culture - and the mythical way it was created. You can still make nice knives and swords from tamahagane, but any modern steel is easier to manufacture, therefore cheaper and better in almost all aspects.
the reason that the blades were folded so much is because the iron contained so much carbon that the blade would be extreamly brittle... the swords were made of iron, not steel.
@@Jimothy-723It was steel. If your starting material was carbon steel (tamahagane goes around 0.5-1.5%C), piled and forged and folded, it'll reach a desired carbon content for the edge.
Plus we have works written on the matter that analyzed any kind of ironwork in Japan you could think of
I am so happy to have watched your video. Many questions I had were answered by you. So Thank you for a wonderful video. Peace💫
I just noticed this video, Nice job! I am sitting here watching it on a very snowy morning before going to work at workshop Kurogane!
Thank you for the explanation of how Tamahagne was made. It's very interesting and I hope the tradition stays alive!
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"if you were to attempt making tamahagane you would fail to control the temperature and remove the impurities" except the rest of the world has made furnace iron/steel just like that for thousands of years, nowadays in europe in most blacksmiths fairs, people make iron just like that, and remove the impurities, and get a nice bloom. There's nothing mystical by itself about this steel, it's just a lot of work to make.
The world’s purest steel? Hardly.
They shoulda brought back tamahagane during World War II for some epic samaurais
I hope you are doing well, and I wish you happiness
Are there still a tetsubin caster who still use iron sand or wazuku for making iron kettles?
I want to make this. Is there a proper way to learn how to produce tamahagane?
1200°C🤚, 1440°C 👍
You have my absolute dream knife. Legit, ‘turn in your swords’, but saved, chopped into knives. Plus, you have a Canuck?! 😅 how’s it goin bud, sick FKN blade you made there, but out of my range, eh! One day i will get my Jewel.
525 for the dream knife, 1600 bucks for the Canuck’s tamahagane
I wonder if for the sword blade if there. Is any picture, lineage for the sword that was used?? It says 300 year old swords, but per knife would want to know.. 😊😊😊
Can I have a 1998 honda civic frame made from this?
I have the metal, because I found it stored in a hole left by the Japanese in Indonesia, if I buy it , I sell it I com from Indonesia🙏
"the world's purest steel" is absolute nonsense. Tamahagane has MUCH more impurities than modern steel. That is what gives it such interesting patterns. I don't know why you felt the need to lie in your title, but it honestly makes you look very bad. It's ok for it to be beautiful, you don't also have to lie about it. Tamahagane is impressive enough already.
If it was the purest steel it wouldn't have so many imperfect impurities in it
The term "purest" here doesn't refer to the absence of solid impurities in the bloom/ingot but rather the absence of alloying elements like chromium and Vanadium whose carbides are larger than carbides of iron. Because of this, tamahagane and equivalent modern steels can attain a sharper edge. This isn't important for swords since you're swinging them with the force of a bat, but it's a nice bit of info. Western steel was always bettefm
The term "purest" here doesn't refer to the absence of solid impurities in the bloom/ingot but rather the absence of alloying elements like chromium and Vanadium whose carbides are larger than carbides of iron. Because of this, tamahagane and equivalent modern steels can attain a sharper edge. This isn't important for swords since you're swinging them with the force of a bat, but it's a nice bit of info. Western steel was always better
@@varun009 your wrong
@varun009 but western steel has always been better then others
Worlds purest steel… its one of the worst
there is no such thing as "pure," steel... all steel is an aloy of multiple components, therefore it is imposible to be "pure."
That myth of purity developed long before there was a thorough understanding of chemistry and the individual components that make steel. What was later understood as "pure" is the absence of elements that are detrimental to the steel's properties such as sulfur, oxygen, phosphorus and such. A pure steel is one that contains only iron, carbon and traces of manganese.
This is one of the earliest ways of making tool steal. It was an amazing experiment and research and Development for it's time.