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Great video learning a lot please can i have a link to were you get aluminium oxide powder 15micron

Do you ech both sides at same time or 15min one side turn over 15min that side? Please

Really love your channel. I was wondering do you have a method of hitting a specific sori measurement? When you quench in water do you have a pre-set curve to get the amount of sori that you want or do you just pre curve it to get a really deep sori? I am trying to get one that is at 1" or slightly over. Also do you plan on getting more W2 to sell? I hope so, that is some really good steel. I hope that you return to your channel with more videos. I have really learned a lot from this channel and I hope that you finish this shinogi zukuri project.

Sub the blade with egg white, let it dry, then clay it up. The protein acts like glue and carbonises during the heatup

I have only made a couple of tsuka's so far but i used the cheap woodworking chisels from harbor freight and sharpened the crap out of them. It ultimately works and you can get decent results but it's a HUGE pain and takes forever. I really appreciate this video a ton

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This was an excellent video. Thank you!

I spent 7 years in Japan learning from the best I’ve been making katanas and samurai swords for 30 years I must say your work is amazing well done and I do have access to any Japanese stones you may need

Great content very informative, your videos have helped me tremendously thank you. I did have a few questions if this gets to you I hope you can help. What size are the box tongs you used when forging your swords, and what type of pipe did you use for your sword tempering in oil rig. I noticed you cut out a section to heat the oil inside of the pipe did you weld a bottom plate. Again thank you so much for your video excellent quality!

Just water, no salt ?

Any W2 Left ? saw that it is out of stock on both ebay and amazon

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Hello! What is the reason of the oxidation before the refractory apply? ❤thanks

Will you be restocking these? amazon and ebay says you are out!

I am curious are you alternating on the sandpaper and waterstones because you are missing some "in-between" grit sizes on the stones or? This is fascinating because I actually polished my best friend who sadly died in 2019's sword which was a real hand forged and folded differentially tempered katana, and I ended up using ferric chloride ( which was handy because we were both working around learning to make jewelry from his mother and her BF who were master jewelers at the time, so ferrich cholride and sand paper of all diff extremly fine grits was available... I did it with sanding sticks and paper and a buffer but I wasnt happy witht he hamon and didnt understand you can use Lemon Juice to etch the bljade once its polished etc etc... this is a greta technique! I am going to have to build myself a sanding drum like you have! Thanks for the awesome video!

thank you so much for sharing your valuable information and teaching us these things! You are awesome!

New Jerusalem a place to make things.

Not that I could *remotely* afford one ... how do you get one of your masterpieces? (And do you do Medieval-style swords? I'm more of a Knight than a Ninja to be honest...) - Anyway looks amazing, you're obviously exceptionally talented & knowledgeable.

I have tried your "clay mix" recipe. I cannot keep the clay from drying too fast and cracking. I have tried thinner mix and thicker mix. I've tried drying it in the forge, outside of the forge outdoors and drying it indoors. Nothing that I try keeps it from cracking. Any advice?

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I've purchased 3 and they are high quality bar stock I really love this steel

Will you ever try forging a straight blade and quenching it to the final shape?

Yeah, but how did that one sword master manage to create a hamon with a perfect dragon image in it?

Great content, How heavy is your anvil?

Can’t you just use a polarised lens which removes reflections since reflected light is always polarised. Since any material would be a lattice structure and light reflected is electrons jumping to a higher state of energy then falling back to its position releasing heat and light, since the lattice structure aligns the atoms the light each one re-emits is the same polarity. Just fun fact for ya

I’d have a wooden template made up to lin the blade up with two points of contact so you don’t need to eyeball it, just slide the blade up to the template and butt it up to the wood and it should hold firmly, identically placed

Where is next video sir🙏🙏🙏

3:35 sorry this clay, can reuse?

Brilliant, thank you for the knowledge drop!

hi, i got the part where u use furnace cement as it has high heat ressistant. but what does the iron oxide do?

How did you convex the stones?

Lol hey! I use 3 in 1 oil aa well as paper! Really good work brutha and good explanations

Could u add a download for the Spreadsheet Please? or show a more detailed explanation of the formulas?? Ty. Have a Blessed Day!😃😃😃

Beautiful blades. Can you make a video on how you wrapped the handles from start to finish please? I’m trying to do one but I’m having major amounts of trouble making the finished knot on the butt cap of the handle. Thanks.

Rare to see someone make a real water quenched hamon. Now everyone makes fake curve damascus katanas and it pains me to see them just beat the curve in with a hammer instead of clay quenching like it should be done to call a katana and no a look-like katana.

What an amazing craftmanship, love to see the amount of love and effort that goes into the swords. The fact you make these for your kids makes it even better! Results are looking incredible!! ✌

Can you recommend a place or website for buying Japanese knife sharpening stones?

مرحبا صديقي كم عرض وسماكة نصل هذا السيف؟

Please create a playlist of your katana forging. I usually watch these vids to help me sleep.

A hacksaw in the right hands could rip through scale and small dents.

This is pretty much the method I came up with while doing my wakizashi. Your shinogis came out way crisper and more uniform though. I still had to readjust them with a file, but as long as they are crisp and symmetrical in the final product, I'm happy. Both shinogis and yokotes are nice and crisp. Do you have any method to get the profile and distal taper nice and uniform? I just did it by eye. Also, any method to forge the ridge on the spine (mune)? I just leave it flat and file it, but I saw Ilya Alexeyev seems to forge it in, which makes me think it was done traditionally, but I find that it makes the whole forging far more difficult with any method I can think of.

Also very nice work on this series I am very impressed thank you for sharing your experience with us all.

For those whom are not familiar when you are working in a black or almost black heat it is planishing. This is done with very light hammer blows and can be done cold but I personally do not recommend it. I like to normalize and then anneal after this process to relieve any additional stress from the planishing. I hope this helps someone else godbless and good health.

заготовка изначально как была кривая, так такая же осталась. нет искривления при закалке.

Stellar video! Watching you work is extremely helpful, thank you so much for this!

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After watching that I think I need quenching too.

Awesome vid? Where by chance did you find that badass anvil?

hello, thank you for this video. I am a beginner amateur knife maker. I am always surprised not to see you annealing your blade before working them with a black stand or especially with a file. (raise the blade to temperature and cool very slowly in vermiculite) do the 3 normalization phases act as annealing and will make the steel easier to work with later? or we never anneal a katana. thanks in advance Demasÿ david from Belgium

hello from Belgium, already a very interesting and even very relaxing video. a quick question, why do you use the rounded side of your file from time to time? Does it make the file work more aggressive? THANKS