Filipino Master Makes Legendary Blade from Literal Trash 

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I am a Filipino and a Blade Smith in Canada. It is awesome that you covered this topic!

In the Philippines, the most common material for blade is what we call "molye" (spring steel), almost all knives/swords made by local blacksmiths are forged from these. If not molye, they usually forge blades out of bearing or chainsaw guide bar. In my collection, my favorite was made from a rail bar from a train track. What's interesting is that each region and ethnic group have their own styles, they differ in materials, form and blade profiles. So, any traditional blade enthusiast can easily determine from which ethnic group or region the blade came from, sometimes they can even determine who forged it. In my region which is also in Luzon, traditional blades often have carabao horn hilts (the albino horns are prettier, but rare), then the ferrules and pommels are made of brass or aluminum, usually with engravings. Thanks for featuring this often-overlooked tradition! Even Filipinos don't know much about them.

That bolo is incredibly beautiful!! As someone who grew up farming, bolo is almost as important as slippers when going out to farm or up the mountain.

I always love foreigners who creates historical and cultural content especially if its about the Philippines. I am not just learning but more appreciative of my motherland because of the foreign perspective and experiences while in the Philippines. Mr. Fraser, Maraming Maraming Salamat and Mabuhay!

Pinoy here. This is cool. Now go to Batangas so you can also create a video on one of - if not the - iconic blades that is known globally as Filipino - the Balisong. Add that to your collection.

The best documentary style videos on youtube!

Awesome video! I’ve been a long time blade enthusiast, from my time in the scouts and grew exponentially during my military service. I recently just moved to the Philippines from the US and my love for blades have expanded. I’ve recently been invited to learn sword making by a renowned bladesmith and military martial arts instructor and I’m very excited for this journey.

I noticed that a question you asked wasn't really answered. "Why the Philippines has so many different types of swords/blades.". Once upon a time, the Philippines wasn't one cohesive country, but instead was made up of multiple tribes, each with its own traditions, religion and language (upwards of 700 distinct languages - incorrectly labeled "dialects"). Some parts of the country are close to China, others Indonesia, etc. This led to each tribe, or region, coming up with blade styles and shapes that mimicked that of the blades of their trading partners. Some blade designs though were totally original, by virtue of the job the blade was used for. Some tribes were warlike and so they mostly made weapons, while others were agrarian societies and made utilitarian blades for hacking and clearing brush to turn jungles into fields. As the tribes were unified over the generations and got to be known collectively as "Filipinos" each region still preferred their own blade designs hence the rich diversity of blades that come from one small country.

what's fascinating is that they've transformed the pig pen into their blacksmithing workshop, that's why we Filipino's can literally adapt to any environment we are in specially when in dire times just what those bolo's symbolizes. It became our signature weapon since most of the Filipino's back then were rice farmers and they all have bolo's for their farming. When the war came, we didn't have much weapons to be used and we just have our bolo's and it became our national symbol when the "Himagsikan" times were happening.

I was stationed in the PI for two years 89-91. Bladesmithing is merely one of many crafts they are masters of.

Thank you for the feature of the Philippines. There is a resurgence of blade making in the Philippines do to interest abroad and local government pushes. I'm an English teacher in the south Philippines and I mainly do woodwork and foamcraft for theater and cosplay props. The weapons they make are more like tools and decorations for us in the country. Preserving the blademaking craft is both for pride and for the tourist economy niche. Also, I love Toni's cutting form, a true craftsman and not a swordsman. 😂

awesome craftsmanship, not everyone can be a blacksmith love this guys. i think mostly the swords used from the movie braveheart is made in the Philippines.

Thanks bro !! Proud to be Pinoy !! ❤🎉

I love these videos. The expertise and the simple materials make it like art.

Great video! Love the effort put into the historical aspect and the helpful animations! ❤

Thanks for the video! As a collector of SE Asian blades I was looking forward to this one since I saw the preview. That’s a lovely bolo, beautifully made. Important to preserve local blade making traditions in the face of cheap imported knives. JP Blades is a great account to follow BTW. Happy New Year!

Awesome craftsmanship. These folks deserve ear protection!

Thank you for sharing our heritage

ty for this kind featuring my fil bros .. love how u explained every how they do blades .. ❤

I have one. My brother brought it back with him when he was stationed in the Marines in the Philippines back in the seventies. It also has a wood sheath.

Nice content my friend, and thank you for featuring our Filipino culture 🙏❤👍

....... Sir! Good and bLessed day from here in Manila Philippines!....... Thank You so much for featuring in your blogg content our own sword making heritage!....... Again Sir! Thanks and more content and subscribers to your blogg sites!....... God bLess and protect you in your travels while making more relevant blogg content!.......

Like what the famous Filipino weapon blade specialist says *IT WILL KEEEEEL!!!* - _Doug Marcaida_

Ty for taking this beautiful culture of swords as Filipino

this channel should have more subscribers

In the mountains province of Philippines it’s natural to carry this kind of sword in every day when you left the house always carry it in the hip going to the mountains to work

Galing. Nag research po talaga 👍👍👍👍👍

seriously this is so cool.. if they ever offer a class how to be a blacksmith i would attend.. and also nice content Andrew, this is really interesting

Filipinos have different design of Blades weaponry as the Filipinos are of diverse Cultures in Itself. It's a Regional type of Blades weaponry. Tagalog, Cebuanos, Islam Mindanaos, Sulu, Ilocanos and more. Filipinos are very fond of Blades...😊

I'm a Filipino bro, that's awsome, just bougt two sword earlier. A sumurai from Batangas, but as I look the sword in the house I,m not fully satisfied, maybe go for real Katana, spicifically the Riajin Katana in Giesha store in Mandaluyong Philippines, the first real katana store in the Philippines.

Great video as usual, I'm glad i found you through Sonny while you were launching this channel, amazing content! You'll make it big!

Great storytelling and documentary! Looking forward for more of these!

Not only is making those awesome blades considered as a "recycling" (well, Filipinos just don't want to waste a good material, if it ain't broke, we'll just fix it), the creation is also cheap and a very wonderful craft. We just had one shop crop up in our local neighborhood, where customers give the "panday" (local smiths) the material (usually a molye or just about any long metal that was once part of a jeep) and were forged into a new blade. Cost just about 20 dollars, even less if you more materials.

thank you for your appreciation in filipino blades

I love your every documentary there's a lot of lesson that we need to learn the historical of your topic is very awesome you deserve a million subscribers ❤

Before i watch you in best ever food review by sonny. Now I'm watching your own channel. Goodluck and more videos to come. Proud Filipino here mabuhay ❤

Thanks for promoting the artistic blacksmith of Philippines. i wish they use this weapons in games and movies.

this is so awesome. love this!

We are honored that you make a documentary about the traditional Filipino culture in making swords or bolo

Dope! I love your channel. Your production value keeps getting better ❤ Happy New Years Andrew!

Rizal is the national hero but Boni is pretty badass too

Thats so cool, thank you for show casing filipino blades, Im honestly happy seeimg our blades get some attention since its underrated

Nice sr god bless Philippines

I love this type of vlog. Simple , Direct, Cultural and with Sensible content. Thanks Mate 😎🇳🇿🇵🇭❤- New Subscriber

Grew up with different kinds of bolos in the philippines, when I got here in the US, I was surprised by the number of americans collecting and owning bolos from the philippines. Amazing. Thanks for covering this.

Wow, great presentation. Seldom to see this kind of vlogs. Hope the staffs are given good bonus for this. Well done! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

While others are admiring the story and content, I'm here admiring the video productions. It's so good and cinematic!

My mom bought me a knife in Denmark but it broke after 2 weeks... We have a knife for years now (local one Philippine made) and we use it from cooking to gardening 😅 it's still alive lol

I remember that one of the swords that was used in LoTR was made in Pangasinan

Thank you for featuring PH blacksmith❤

Thank you for this. I LOVE THIS!

Happy to see your videos ...i live in the Philippines but still had few knowledge about my culture and the diversity of country. I added your channel to my favorite list... More videos pls...❤

I would love to own that bolo!!!!!!

Wow! Awesome video Andrew and team! 10/10 for this one guys. Very interesting to see the historical notes aswell Cheers 👍🇦🇺

So proud that filipinos known as a warriors using a own blade and the best Sword or bolo makers. Thats a treasure how filipinos stand during those spaniard invasion using their super Bolo as andres using too👌

Nice video! Well researched and very professionally done. I didn't know we still have sword-makers around the country and it makes me want to have one built by those experts. A blade either from the Lord of the Rings, ASOIAF (Game of Thrones), The Witcher or just a plain old bolo knife. This made me proud to be a Filipino, thanks for sharing this. Keep it up!

Seeing this blacksmith are rare in the Philippines bc of short mastery i wish the blacksmith would grow bc those blacksmith are also our part of tradition

Thanks for appreciating our Filipino Bolo

Love your work, Andrew.

Best content. Im a filipino ...now i know why pilipino to many style of swords keep it up

That is awesome!!!! Thank you for sharing the history!!!

I keep coming back, you made Great documentary brother.

In Aklan, particularly in my hometown Libacao. We also have the same and we call it "Talibong."

the video quality is amazing. great video :))

I like the grip angle on the handle and how it encourages comfortable wrist movement during extension.

Would like to see Filipino 45 cal in Danao, Balisong blades in Batangas, Kalayaan island Municipality, Palawan and Bangkarera outrigger racing. Keep up the great work!

Great craftsmanship. I just recently had an 18b longsword with side rings made from a PH blacksmith in Pangasinan. Holy hell it came out amazing. Relatively cheaper too compared to international prices.

Interesting content.

I am very impressed by the craftsman’s ship of those Philippine men they use what they have and give a good blade

We had a bolo from my late grandfather but we lost it. 😢 It was such a beauty. Legit horn handle. Perfect heft. And blade was just razor sharp

those are beautiful blades..

You got a better deal than I did at a Mindanao blacksmith Andrew. And wow, we arrived back in QLD on Saturday 13th Jan, all I had made was a shabby cleaver and a bowie knife, I have to say, although ABP wanted to take a closer look at the customs, I was embarrassed to tell him how much I paid for such subordinate quality.

Nice content. My favorite material is the metal came from bulalakaw

Very cool

Of all the hammering, grinding and sharpening, I never saw a safety glasses. Amazing!

That is history you got there from Philippines Bolo

More of these kind of contents pls.😊

salamat sa pag kilala sa talento ng pinoy.💖💖💖💖💖💪💪💪💪

We also make sword but it's called to Cebu a sundang we called panday thank you for visiting the Philippines bro you represent our culture

Try visiting Carigara, Leyte next time. It's a town full of blacksmiths. And they go wayyyy wayyy back. They have mostly their own signature designs, native to Leyte.

AS EXPERIENCED SOLDIER, WE LOVE A BLEADED WEAPON (BOLO, DAGGER) AND WE KNEW WHAT IS DURABLE ONE OR NOT, MINE HAVE A DAMAGE BECAUSE BULLET HIT IT IN ENCOUNTER. I STARTED AMAZED WHEN I WAS A BOY 9YRS OLD THEN, I SAW MY UNCLE PLAYING HIS BOLO AFTER LONG DAY WORKING ON OUR RICE FARM. WHO HAPPEN HE WAS A PHILIPPINE ARMY AND A PEPTOK VETERAN, I ADMIRED HIM AND ASPIRE TO BE LIKE HIM, MY DREAM CAME TRUE. FOR MORE THAN A TWO DECADE MY BLADE IS ALWAYS WITH ME. I LIKE WHAT THE GUY SAID, " IF YOU MADE IT WITH YOUR HEART, YOU WILL FINISHED WITH A GOOD QUALITY " FOR ME, IF YOU LOVE IT, KEEP IT PRACTICING YOUR STRIKES AND PUT IT IN A SAFE PLACE, WHEN IT IS READY TO USE, USE IT IN REASONABLE SITUATION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEO AND ADVERTICING OUR CULTURE OF BLEADED WEAPON. MABUHAY KA!

Woah I'm a filipino but I didn't know this I'm truly amazed by your content I want to see more of this kind of content ❤

if anyone is interested. i contacted these guys and asked there quench medium as its not stated. its motor oil. if anyone knows anything about blade smith, they will know as fact that motor oil is too thick and leaves whats called a "cold spots", meaning there will be soft spots that run the edge. there is no manual technique to stop the oil reacting with the heat as it will. it also doesn't have the correct mineral content. i asked if water could because instead. yes, water would make the over all build less tough, but its hardness would be right up. so, keep that in mind. what your getting isnt anything like a quality piece, beautiful and well crafted but let down badly in the quench.

WOOOOOHOHOHOHOOOOOHHHH.... DAAAAAAAANGGGGGGGG!!!!!!! THIS IS AWESOMELY LEGENDARYYYYYYYYY

Nice one Andrew ❤❤

soon i will be collecting bolo 💗

I love all your videos, very proffsnl

Hi Andrew! Thank you for sharing our culture with the world. I'm a new subscriber, and the first video I saw was when you were with the Badjao and Tausug tribes. I do hope to see more of this kind of documentary in the future. More power!

Wow. Bro this episode was amazing I liked how you got to meet the blacksmith too made your sword I would have been like a child in a sweet shop if I was there lol. Thanks again for the upload. Happy New year

Wow 🤩

Your documentaries are entertaining.

That blade is beautiful. Deadly beautiful

Thanks for this

i love the shape of that blade, its like an elegant bowie knife. I wish i could get one in the uk but customs have almost made it impossible!

galing nman ,😍🇵🇭

As someone who loves blades i can say it was well made. Bolo is pretty much the jack of all trades if we are talking about usefulness in Philippines since it's easy to carry, lightweight, sturdy, has good handle, easy to maintain (almost no maintenance needed), and can pretty much take anything you do with it.

great video! don't mind the pessimists and negative commenters in here..

Nice video, Andrew. If I don't see you with Sonny, I'll watch your channel for good contents.

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