Forging a WAKIZASHI/KATANA inspired sword from a FILE. PART2 FINISHED!
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- čas přidán 5. 07. 2024
- Hello everyone and welcome to the forge, In this week's episode I wrap up the Wakizashi forged from a Nicholson file. I learned a lot from this build that will help me immensely on Katana/Wakizashi builds in the future as well as knife making in general. As always I appreciate you watching and if you would hit that SUBSCRIBE button and ring the NOTIFICATION bell to be informed when my newest content posts.
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Great job on your tribute blade. Turned out very nice. The traditional wrap really finished it off nicely. Only thing missing was a nice menuki.
excellent close up camera work.
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Bro that's a clean weld. Kudos to your welding skills
Thanks! I still have a long way to go but it's a lot better than it was when I first started out. I appreciate you watching!
Looking real good. Forge On. God Bless.
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a note on the handles.... full depth cut one on side, and clearance cut the other... the idea is no way for the blade to split the seam like you would have if the inside was cut half depth on both sides... love your work man, just a pointer
Good to know, I appreciate the tip, I will definitely apply it moving forward. I
Great work! Going to use your videos as a guide for the one I’m going to try to make!!!!
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Emeğinize sağlık ,harika bir çalışma oldu ! Tebrik ediyorum ,kolay gelsin !😊😊😊
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Awesome work enjoy watching your videos
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Fantastic build ❤️
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great job looks amazing Matt some day when im more confident ill try making 1 looks fun Mark
Well menuki or not i was blown away lol! Of course now im going to have to have a go my self. Love the content and find it really interesting . All the best to you Matt.😊👍
Awesome man, best of luck on your build! I appreciate you watching!
nice looking blade overall brother
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Nice work. Great video, digging the channel man.
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Nice work bro looks good
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nice work man, i think its inspired me to get back out to the workshop and do some more knife making, cheers
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Japanese knives are hard to make. Well done👍
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She came out Gorgeous brother!
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😎 👍🏼
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Great work. Katana next?
I'm probably going to do some hunting knives and such for a bit before the next sword, but it is definitly on the agenda. Thanks for watching, I appreciate it.
It's a looker for sure, the hamone came out great, the copper work is better than mine,🤣 on that part, I wonder about using silver soldier aka silphos? Have to use higher heat, but we used it in refrigeration for pressure lines so it seems stronger? Oh, dont worry about the traditionalist snobbery. Folks need to lighten up about artistic expression. They can complain when its them making one on YT. I'm curious, I've seen folks use a bedding technique on the handles after slotting for the tang. Do you use one? I'm saving for a mini mill, so darn handy and much easier and quicker than hand work.
Thank you for watching, I greatly appreciate it, I didn't bed the tang on this one but I do on other knives especially like my chef knives. I love the mini mill I have, it makes a lot of work so much easier.
Beautiful Art Work Sir!
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Really nice work, I am working on my first katana at the moment, so this was a great video! What solder did you use for your copper fittings? I've been using copper phosphorus solder and it is way to silvery.
Thanks, Thats awesome! I use the same kind of solder, it's all I can get locally, I plan on looking for a better alternative for future builds.
good work.but.... no copper tsuba ! newer ! only iron.
Beautiful outcome, Matt! You didn't add a menuki though?
Thanks! Yep I had to Sacrifice putting a menuki on this one due to a time crunch, I will make sure to get them on the next one though.
@@Mysticmountainforge Hey, at least its a piece you can add later. 👍🏻
Nice result! I went and checked the length of the tang on my (real vintage believe it or not) katana. You were right to lengthen yours I think. I maybe would have made the guard bigger (woulda coulda shoulda, haven’t), but I think you can be well happy with what you made.
Thanks, the tang was definitely too short before I welded the extension on, as for the guard I would have liked it to be bigger as well, I learned a lot on this one, I'm building up to doing a pattern welded Katana, then a Odachi eventually.
LOL the inevitable finishing bleeds...
Right on lol!
what is the black layer given? At the time of gilding the blade
The black material I put around the wood is dimpled leather. Traditionally ray skin would have been used but it was unavailable to me at the time this sword was made. I greatly appreciate you watching!
Dude! You have four hands!?!?!
You can make AMENOMA KAGEUCHI?
Maybe one day when I get through all of my custom orders. Thanks for watching, I appreciate it!