I guess I should come out and clarify that the blade is a san mai construction, the material in the middle is 1095, the clip material is mild steel and does not participate in the actual cutting. But it can increase the overall willfulness of the blade. 2:55
El problema de la forja tradicional es que las katanas resultantes eran literalmente una basura por su acero súper quebradizo gracias a su excesiva concentración en carbono
pleasantly relieved when i saw the high carbon come out. seen a bunch of videos where they try to trick you into thinking they used a bunch of nails or welding rod to make a complete knife. very nice work.
I don't understand why the comments are being so pedantic. It's ok to just make something cool to look at with zero function. We typically call it "art".
The quench has to be the scariest part in the forging process. If you get a warp you have such a short amount of time to correct it, and if you hear a ping, it’s over, gotta restart from scratch
@@johnnyfaint7114 It means a stress fracture formed in the blade, so it's liable to break. You can't really just reheat and reforge it most of the time, you just have to cut your losses and start over
If you get a warp and are unable to fix it before it cools down you can always re heat it and quench it again, normalizing is key to a successful quench though
Well to tale you the onest truth I'd prefer a sword making video the old way, the way the Japanese made they'r swords,it's more interesting. Not how the Americans use all fantasy presses and modern technology, all this gets away from how people made there own tools in life. Americans have gotten away from the old ways, maybe it's time to bring back these older ways and view how people from around the world made there tools. It would be nice to see again how the Japanese continue to make their swords the same way for many centuries and still do.
The blade texture is simply mesmerising. Not even mentioning the craftsmanship. Overall, this neat and humble design plus the skills resulted in a beautiful sword. Which is waiting for its saya of course.
I wish I could go back in time with a modern sword made with modern technology and steel and like, idk, put it in a field outside a town and come back to learn stories of an indestructible sword forged by the gods found stuck in the ground in a field
This was really dope. I recently got into forging about a year ago because of the show, and im really fascinated by it. Love to see a bunch of random materials turn into a beautiful blade. Turned out really nice. Almost as if Hattori Hanzo made it himself lol.
so young yet so skilled. Everything done meticulously and with thought and speed. This Katana blade is a beauty to look at and Hatori Hanzo will be proud. I salute you Hans, from Australia.
Magnificent😍 as a woman who has no interest in blades, watching the work that goes into making this definitely makes me appreciate swords. Incredible👏🏽
@ 6:25Bro please be careful! don’t wear loose gloves near anything ocilating with enough force to pull your hands into it Even a belt sander on a flat edge has enough force to de-glove the skin off your hand if you get pulled into it. You make a living with your hands don’t put them at risk mate
Such beautiful expert work! The entire process is fascinating to watch, and the end result is amazing! I'm so impressed! 😲🤩 And to think all of that began with a few paperclips! Mind is blown! 🤯
Outstanding work. The attention to the geometry of the blade, particularly the kissaki and the yokote line are up there with the very best, truly a cut above when compared to other UA-cam katana videos, this is clearly the work of someone who actually understands the construction of the katana. My only gripe is actually with the ray skin on the tsuka, it appears you’ve used stingray “leather” I.e. shagreen/tanned rayskin. Traditionally it would be the much harder, rougher, untanned raw rayskin that needs to be soaked and dried around the tsuka. Other than that, faultless sword. Beautiful.
1st off beautiful blade. 2nd you're edge geometry is what is causing the blade to chunk the watermelon , take some off the toff and it will flow easier through. I own a 17th and 16th century Samari swords. The edge geometry is everything. Like i said well done beautiful blade.
I'm watching this person make an awesome real Damascus katana, while I'm currently 3D printing an kinda okayish katana that I want to do a Damascus pattern on the blade via hydro-dipping. It'll be my first prop.
Beautiful Katana and you did an excellent job making it and the Scabbard!!!! I enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up 💙Slava Ukraini!! #StopRussia Heroyam Slava💛
The attention to detail is excellent. I wonder how many drill bits it would take for something like that. I also enjoyed how I could see you doing the wrap and weave on the handle I never knew how it was done before people always speed up during the weave.
Imagine any collector in the far future. (Collector) What's this master piece of a blade made of. The finest steel or metal? Looks to amazing to be normal steel. (Owner) Paperclips...... (Collector) paperclips? (Owner) 📎 🖇 📎 🖇 📎 🖇 📎 🖇
I Love the Authenticity of your work! You forged everything out beautifully and true to most of the Japanese tradition. Very Beautiful Thank you for not wasting 20 mins of our life. Love the editing also no speed ups lets us see Everything!.......12 out of 10!!!
First of all: Great work, nice editing. I really enjoyed the video but there are 2 flaws with your title. 1 major flaw and 1 minor: The major: At first I thought, "Yes, he knows how to make a Katana... A katana blade is forged straight and bent into its traditional curve by partial hardening (having the spine in clay to isolate it from the heat)... and then you ended up with no curve (at least no curve I could see). Unfortunately, this is not a katana then, but a chokutō. With chokutō meaning "straight sword". Still a traditional Japanese style of sword that predates its successor, the katana. The Minor: The term Damascus is incorrectly used in the modern forging world. Damascus steel was the western way of saying "wootz". Westerners first saw it in the Damascus region and have called it Damascus steel ever since. But this Damascus Steel, the Wootz, has a very special but mostly lost composition. What we now call Damascus is better described as "pattern welded alloys". This takes nothing away from your great craftsmanship and you ended up with a very nice chokutō made from pattern welded alloys...
I guarantee you he knows about Damascus but just used it in the tittle anyway because that's what gets the clicks. Wootz was amazing for its time but we have much better metal alloys in modern times like 1095 and D2. Its worth noting that wootz was the best for a good 2000 years though.
I guess I should come out and clarify that the blade is a san mai construction, the material in the middle is 1095, the clip material is mild steel and does not participate in the actual cutting. But it can increase the overall willfulness of the blade. 2:55
And don't forget that this is a pattern welding and not a damascus
@@Pprokop87 people have been calling this Damascus since the 70s
@@dr.futtbutt898pattern welding is not damascus. It looks diferent and is made in a diferent way
@@Pprokop87no shit but that doesn't mean anybody cares people have been using that word for wrong for 50 yrs
@@Pprokop87I'm aware I'm just saying everyone is using the wrong word for it anyway
Imagine forging a katana in the feudal period without modern tools, they were truly badass
True pros in Japan do it like in feudal times. But u imagine what is the price for such ones.
Millions
El problema de la forja tradicional es que las katanas resultantes eran literalmente una basura por su acero súper quebradizo gracias a su excesiva concentración en carbono
@@jospahitposting7132 los samurais al leer esto 🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@brianginex4834 jajaja y ojalá lo lean la herrería actual arregla todos los problemas de una katana tradicional
Thank you for not speeding everything up so fast, it gives us a much better idea as to how long projects like this take to complete.
I will never speed up a video in the future. that's lazy
Yeah. About 25 minutes 😅
@@HansKnives how much it took to complete?
yeap 23 mins ! im ready to start now
pleasantly relieved when i saw the high carbon come out. seen a bunch of videos where they try to trick you into thinking they used a bunch of nails or welding rod to make a complete knife. very nice work.
still a pile of shit tho
I like how the edge steel layered in gave the look of the old way of hardening the blade by the use of clay, the iconic katana waves.
I don't understand why the comments are being so pedantic. It's ok to just make something cool to look at with zero function. We typically call it "art".
watching the hammer squish the metal like butter is mesmerizing
Watch out, now that Clippy is a sword, he'll get revenge on those that shut him off...haha
@@jeffrey88888 i named this sword "clippy"
@@gazubax6711 *Disturbia by Rhianna intensifies*
you know how good a guy's skill is when he makes it look easy.
A magnificent creation! Do you ever have the feeling that you were born 1,000 years too late? Thank you for sharing again. 👍🏻
Wow! Thanks for your encouragement.🍻
But paperclips didn't exist 1000 years ago.....😅
The quench has to be the scariest part in the forging process. If you get a warp you have such a short amount of time to correct it, and if you hear a ping, it’s over, gotta restart from scratch
What does the ping mean?
@@johnnyfaint7114 It means a stress fracture formed in the blade, so it's liable to break. You can't really just reheat and reforge it most of the time, you just have to cut your losses and start over
If you get a warp and are unable to fix it before it cools down you can always re heat it and quench it again, normalizing is key to a successful quench though
@@thegamingjelly1719 from scratch?!
Well to tale you the onest truth I'd prefer a sword making video the old way, the way the Japanese made they'r swords,it's more interesting. Not how the Americans use all fantasy presses and modern technology, all this gets away from how people made there own tools in life. Americans have gotten away from the old ways, maybe it's time to bring back these older ways and view how people from around the world made there tools. It would be nice to see again how the Japanese continue to make their swords the same way for many centuries and still do.
The blade texture is simply mesmerising. Not even mentioning the craftsmanship.
Overall, this neat and humble design plus the skills resulted in a beautiful sword. Which is waiting for its saya of course.
Una espada increíble tendría que probar la dureza del material usado, pero como viene de un experto forjador le doy 20 puntos😊 un hermoso trabajo 👍
This is the best forging video I've come across on UA-cam, loved seeing each step in depth. Thank you so much.
I wish I could go back in time with a modern sword made with modern technology and steel and like, idk, put it in a field outside a town and come back to learn stories of an indestructible sword forged by the gods found stuck in the ground in a field
The fact you actually made a sanmai forging made the video worth watching, nice work!
This was really dope. I recently got into forging about a year ago because of the show, and im really fascinated by it. Love to see a bunch of random materials turn into a beautiful blade. Turned out really nice. Almost as if Hattori Hanzo made it himself lol.
great reference lol
so young yet so skilled. Everything done meticulously and with thought and speed. This Katana blade is a beauty to look at and Hatori Hanzo will be proud.
I salute you Hans, from Australia.
Magnificent😍 as a woman who has no interest in blades, watching the work that goes into making this definitely makes me appreciate swords. Incredible👏🏽
"it isnt that complex"
bro's idea for the school project:
999 paperclips, you dropped one 0:35
@@Fynancial that's why each hit does 999 damage
Incredible craftsmanship from point to pommel! Any swordsman would be blessed to weild this masterpiece imo. I'm fairly certain, "it would keell"
Plot twist: They are now a paper cutter.
Lol
and being able to cut paper would be a very high mark
I don't think I've ever seen someone make a sword without a single hammer stroke
I mean, there were power hammers/presses and he used hand hammers to fit and finish the hilt. Good enough for me 🤷🏻♂️😅
I love the Damascus pattern and the look of the katana! Great job!
Thank you…..a real joy to watch a creative, skilled craftsman at work…….
Now that Sir is one bad ass blade. Superb craftsmanship. From office supply to out of the world. Awesome.
@ 6:25Bro please be careful! don’t wear loose gloves near anything ocilating with enough force to pull your hands into it Even a belt sander on a flat edge has enough force to de-glove the skin off your hand if you get pulled into it. You make a living with your hands don’t put them at risk mate
Such beautiful expert work!
The entire process is fascinating to watch, and the end result is amazing! I'm so impressed! 😲🤩
And to think all of that began with a few paperclips!
Mind is blown! 🤯
Fantastic skills and a mighty Impressive katana as the final result. Thank you for taking the time to produce the video.
Beautiful! The steel pattern almost looks like wootz!
The video I didn’t know I needed to see….
Saw it was made out of paper clips and had to click in 😂
only a master blacksmith could turn 1000 paperclips into a quality katana. Amazing, great work 😊
The level of craftsmanship is awesome for a UA-cam video ❤
Great job, Han! This one turned out amazing! Too bad it wasn’t for The Samurai Challenge! 😉
Love and hobbies never fade, like this work
Thank you Dennis. I'm always one step slower, or one step faster. Yet the challenge film performed poorly.
Amazing! The time and effort..... Everything from scratch! Now that's love of the craft right there! Great job!
Outstanding work. The attention to the geometry of the blade, particularly the kissaki and the yokote line are up there with the very best, truly a cut above when compared to other UA-cam katana videos, this is clearly the work of someone who actually understands the construction of the katana. My only gripe is actually with the ray skin on the tsuka, it appears you’ve used stingray “leather” I.e. shagreen/tanned rayskin. Traditionally it would be the much harder, rougher, untanned raw rayskin that needs to be soaked and dried around the tsuka. Other than that, faultless sword. Beautiful.
I can just see Clippy from MS Office chiming in here: Looks like you are trying to make a katana...
Beautiful sword Beautifully made good job well done
That was incredible watching. Thank you for that show of art!
Katana is awesome. Well done and fantastic work. Should definitely make more katanas or other swords
But now lets make 1000 paperclips from one katana xD
As a sword collector...I want one..very nice sword..looks great
This was mesmerizing. A truly exquisite video.
Thank you for bringing me this, algorhitm.
Sinceramente una delle katana più belle che ho mai visto costruire da un amatore complimenti 🥋🙏
Give a man a lemon and he makes lemonade. Give a man a paper clip, he makes a katana. Life is simple.
Getting killed by this would be called death by a thousand paper clips 😂
its really cool how we can come to UA-cam and watch stuff be made that would've had stories written about it 1000 years ago
Great job. I generally love edged weapons, but this is just super!
😂
Thats where damascus thats where the boy with damascus is
great, now make an electric car out of ten thousand smartphones
My jaw did drop watching this....absolute perfection.
1st off beautiful blade. 2nd you're edge geometry is what is causing the blade to chunk the watermelon , take some off the toff and it will flow easier through. I own a 17th and 16th century Samari swords. The edge geometry is everything. Like i said well done beautiful blade.
I'm watching this person make an awesome real Damascus katana, while I'm currently 3D printing an kinda okayish katana that I want to do a Damascus pattern on the blade via hydro-dipping. It'll be my first prop.
Beautiful Katana and you did an excellent job making it and the Scabbard!!!!
I enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
💙Slava Ukraini!! #StopRussia Heroyam Slava💛
Good Job with the milling machine.. so much more sense and so much faster ..
Less contamination.
Dude your creativity is the best
The etching is a time capsule for future restoration channels.
Truly a Hitori HANSo blade
I did not know the string on the handle was also to keep the handle itself from sliding around when swinging it. Such an awesome design!
That Katana is so cool! I also like the idea of using paperclips...
Giving "death by a thousand cuts" a whole new meaning
Beautiful creation.. ❤
Sat mesmerized the whole time.
Best shape. Best metal. Nuff said.
It’s nice to see the modern tools but I was hoping for the old fashion hammer and anvil? Maybe next time.
Beautiful sword and very detailed video! My only wish would be to see some blade curvature.
The attention to detail is excellent. I wonder how many drill bits it would take for something like that. I also enjoyed how I could see you doing the wrap and weave on the handle I never knew how it was done before people always speed up during the weave.
How do I always end up in this fun side of youtube.
3:25 It looks like it would taste really good❤
This video gives me peace
Came here because of the catchy title. Stayed and listened to the end for the craftsmanship 👌
Wow this is awesome. Great craftsmanship
1 word! STUNNING!
When there's a zombie apocalypse this is the guy you gotta call.
How master's did that without modern tools😮
Awesome job on the Katana.
Imagine any collector in the far future.
(Collector) What's this master piece of a blade made of. The finest steel or metal? Looks to amazing to be normal steel.
(Owner) Paperclips......
(Collector) paperclips?
(Owner) 📎 🖇 📎 🖇 📎 🖇 📎 🖇
Congratulations! You are a true artist!
Looks cool, the material has real shine to it. Swords in stores to buy or look at are amazing, wish Halloween stores had it for real
I want that 😮Fantastic Great work and Patience very Professional .
До чего же красиво!❤
That damascus pattern turned up beautifull
I got a bunch of paperclips from my old retail job. I'd like to try this out one day! Thanks.
Great katakana and awesome video keep you the good work
Excellent work. The KATANA looks so cool. 😍😍 Love all the way you do. 🥰🥰
Thank you so much 😃
Average episode of "Forged in Fire"
Finally Clippys weapon of choice!
1000 paperclips & 6 peices of steel.
This was so satisfying to watch..
A craft worthy of admiration.
I Love the Authenticity of your work! You forged everything out beautifully and true to most of the Japanese tradition. Very Beautiful Thank you for not wasting 20 mins of our life. Love the editing also no speed ups lets us see Everything!.......12 out of 10!!!
Just a awesome looking Katana ,truly one t be proud of
Excellent work!
First of all: Great work, nice editing. I really enjoyed the video
but there are 2 flaws with your title. 1 major flaw and 1 minor:
The major: At first I thought, "Yes, he knows how to make a Katana... A katana blade is forged straight and bent into its traditional curve by partial hardening (having the spine in clay to isolate it from the heat)... and then you ended up with no curve (at least no curve I could see). Unfortunately, this is not a katana then, but a chokutō. With chokutō meaning "straight sword". Still a traditional Japanese style of sword that predates its successor, the katana.
The Minor: The term Damascus is incorrectly used in the modern forging world. Damascus steel was the western way of saying "wootz". Westerners first saw it in the Damascus region and have called it Damascus steel ever since. But this Damascus Steel, the Wootz, has a very special but mostly lost composition. What we now call Damascus is better described as "pattern welded alloys".
This takes nothing away from your great craftsmanship and you ended up with a very nice chokutō made from pattern welded alloys...
Also he dropped one paperclip so its 999 paper clips :p
I guarantee you he knows about Damascus but just used it in the tittle anyway because that's what gets the clicks. Wootz was amazing for its time but we have much better metal alloys in modern times like 1095 and D2. Its worth noting that wootz was the best for a good 2000 years though.
I was expecting a knife made from 1000 paperclips
this is a beautiful sword nice job man
Богатое оснащение мастерской, золотые руки. Но стоит подучиться владеть мечом)
Cleanest handle I've ever seen
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谢谢哈。出差了，才看到