Hands down one of my favorites in the challenge. Your choices of build are always the most interesting compared to us boring bladesmiths and our sharp edges 😂 i was considering making a bisento at first but the child in me wanted a katana 😂
Now that was a entertaining build! And yeah I gotta agree with you on the originality. Half the guys in the challenge made a katana I knew that was gonna happen but nothing wrong with that. Nice to see something outside the box and you nailed it! I’m kinda hoping the next challenge if I make it is the apocalypse as I feel a Viking challenge will be narrowed down to 3 items as well. (Axe, Sean ,sword) . Anyways I’d love to fight a bear with that weapon😂
THIS is what I was talking about "make something that is NOT a katana, wakizashi or tanto! Be creative!". Thanks a lot Phil for making something original and (my god!) freaking cool!!! You didn't disappointing me brother! Love the whole video and the weapon (don't ask me to remember the name of it :P). And honestly, this is I guess the most hardcore forging project you could chose- phenomenal skill BRO!
I guess you could have made a few of the spikes with screw tips instead of using visible screws. Seeing dust, stain rags, and flames scares the bejesus out of me. That weapon would definitely catch a ghost.
Stopped watching after I heard "centimeters" damned Europeans and your backwards measurements. Over here we all know that deer are as tall as a bicycle and weigh as much as 800 hamburgers. It's not that hard. Awesome work man. Really cool idea 💪🏻
Just a suggestion for another option, instead of screws into blind holes, a brass nail with the head on the wood side, peened down on the metal side would have done the job ellegantly.
I really liked where you were going until the damn screws, using hardware screws wasn’t the problem it was leaving them with that commercial black finish just looks awful and stands out. Bit of advice for future projects is if using hardware like that stick them in your forge for a min to burn off the commercial finish or use a torch to do then dunk them immediately into oil which will color them somewhat better to match blacksmith work
Really interesting entry to the challenge. Loved the forging process where the business end looked like a red hot steel octopus. This must have been a ton of hammer time. Those "beauty shots" were excellent entertainment. Awesome result, great job!
Man oh man! From the pictures alone I figured you'll have my vote but this video definitely hammered it home. Fantastic build and fantastic video, I thoroughly enjoyed every second of it 🙌
Really cool. I was hoping someone woukd make this or a ornamental naginata. No offense to anyone but katana is boring af. Never understood the obsession with katana it was the samurai weakest weapon on the battlefield.
i love it, that engraving i would of messed up the screws a spot of weld on each one to hide they are screws all worth the extra mile as its so dam cool, hope you dont mid the tips, as you give me plenty in your videos 😊😊 ps lol the lettice 😂😂 you got my vote simon
Mad props for originality, you get my vote in the challenge Also I get what you're saying about Tyrell, he just casually busts out a legendary caliber silver Damascus sword for this challenge, no big deal. For him
Phil this is a wicked piece. I certainly wouldn't want to be caught on the wrong end of that. you nailed it. I also enjoyed learning about your background in jiu-jitsu. P.S. you have my vote
That was absolutely brilliant, it boggles my mind to think this was an actually thing used on people, what a bad ass thing it is. Your getting my vote buddy
ok ok but just from the image who the f would want to be not just 1 but possible hundreds of these things being swung around. christ even the guy's allies would be endangered by it but it would make single guy to guy fighters worry about just being hit with tips and barbs. the problem with it is once stuck in and the guy isn't hurt enough or dead you'll lose it most likely.
