Making a FOLDING SWORD Prototype 

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Maybe make it shorter and simpler. Make a n unsegmented solid blade with a liner lock.

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for the 2.0 version you should steam the veneer to make it more pliable and make the spring sections longer to lower the tension needed to close the blade as for the handle I would go with approximately 20 mm x 35mm x length. hope some of this may be of help to you.

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Right? I’m kinda surprised it fit’s in the handle because it looks like it shouldn’t 😄

Yeah, looks awesome, but I can't help but think about tent poles...

Thanks! I can relate 😄 i probably flipped this thing open and closed a good 50 times while filming cause it’s so satisfying 😄

oh yeah 100%. I mentioned in another comment but how these are legally classified are definitely up-in-the-air, definitely "Not-A-Flamethrower" type situation, but if they do turn out to be technically and legally mass producible I would 100% get one. Seem safer than a butterfly knife, longer too which means if you ever did need to use it for defense you'd be even safer, it locks in place, smaller than a handgun, etc. (plus, as you mention, high-tier cool-factor)

​@@robonator2945if someone pulled out the dishonored sword in front of me, I'm just accepting my fate at that point. I don't care about my skills, I'm fucked.

​@@Ijustusethistocommentstuff true, but wolves and bears don't care about cool factor. (at least I hope not, we do *_not_* need bears to start getting any ideas and start stealing chainsaws from woodsmen) On a more serious note, if this qualifies as a sword rather than a knife then, even if the legislation would say that it is a 'gravity knife', that legislation probably wouldn't have a clause against 'gravity-swords'. That means that in areas with strict gun-laws it could be a literal life saver if you go out hiking or something and come across wild animals. I mean it's small enough to fit into a pocket yet gives you several feet of lethal range, ability to block/shield, deploys quickly, etc. If you can't own a gun for one reason or another that could *_very_* easily save your life. (assuming it was sharp enough, rigid enough, durable enough, etc. which, given the amount of care put into hardening it & whatnot, I imagine is the intent) Like I said the *_exact_* legality of this is a bit up in the air, it'd depend on what qualifies as a 'gravity-assisted opening', where the line is drawn between knife and sword, *_potentially_* even weird multi-century old exemption clauses like 'a man may only carry a weapon for self defense if it exceeds 2 feet in total length' that were added because back in 1823 criminals would carry improvised bone daggers or something and that scared people, etc. but, assuming it's at least reasonably legal enough, it could be a genuinely quite practical tool for a lot of people. (hell I'd probably keep one with me even if I had a gun, and no not just to dual wield although I'd be lying if I said that wasn't part of it)

@@robonator2945Bear with chainsaw: the next Dark Souls boss

Thanks! That would be cool 😄

Thanks 🙌

That makes sense, I didn’t think about the cooling curve but rather the outcome with hardness. Thanks! 🙏

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wouldn't just letting the Veneer soak in water for a while before bending it work as well?

​@@Fredorandoyes, but it may end up too wet to glue properly. Steam bending it allows you to bend it, have it "memorize" a new shape, and then dry, allowing the epoxy to work better. Source: a carpenter (me)

yeah the way he did it looks like shit

I’ll have a look, thanks!

Thanks! 🙌

Thank you for watching! I’ll have to check your swords out for some inspiration on the next design 😄👍🏻

@@NjordArtisan would love to be of help! My designs are public domain, I would love to see people carry swords again!

Thanks! This one turned out rather crude but I’ll try to make the next one fancy 😄

Ah okay so it did exactly cool like a katana. I was only thinking about hardness and not the clay working as insulation on a katana quench. Makes sense, thanks!

@@NjordArtisan I'm glad I can share some information with someone so much more skilled than I am. And it is cool that you interact with so many of the comments.

@@DH-xw6jp thanks! I don’t know if I’m more skilled but rather determined 😄 I’m glad so many people are interested in my videos, so I try my best to reply to as many as I can 🙌

Thanks for watching! The mistakes are half the fun of making 😄

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Thanks, that’s cool to hear! Hope you’ll get a workshop soon 🙌

Thanks a lot for the tips, I’ll give those a try! And thanks for watching 🙏

Thanks! I’m glad you liked it 🙌

Thanks a lot!! 🙌

I’ll check that out, thanks!

Reason for the bending of the katana is the way they harden the Katana, with this sort of mud? they put on the think part, so it doesnt get as hot -> doesnt harden as much

@@DedMorez The clay is responsible for the differential hardening allowing it to shape in a specific pattern but because there wasn't enough spine material to hold the hard edge in place it warped in this case

@@xyzo9545 yes i know :D but he did harden it at once... no differential hardening... when steels gets harder, it does get longer, so it seems like the back and is harder then the edge...

Thanks!! 🙌🙌

Ever since I played Dishonored... Which I have been recently informed is over a decade now.

Thanks, that’s exactly the plan for the next video I’ll be filming this weekend 👍🏻

@NjordArtisan heck yeah!

Thanks a lot! Yeah the hidden blades are also something on my mind 😄 i think I have an idea to make something similar work. And thanks for the feedback! I think I‘ll stick to these types of video as the others really didn’t do well. I agree, this one could’ve been longer but deadlines and just doing stuff as a hobby don’t mix too well. Thankfully I’ll start doing YT/knifemaking part time in 2024 so hopefully I can put a lot more effort into the project and presentation of it 🙌 And I’ll be filming the test video this weekend. The third part may take a while tho, I’ll get into that in the video 👍🏻

@@NjordArtisan sounds good. I wish you best of luck for 2024 then and i'm looking forward to what you can come up with.

Some people said that due to the back having less mass and cooling faster the initial bend towards the edge happens and then the back is already too hard to allow it to bend back. I’ll definitely have to keep that in mind for the next version. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙌

I’ll try that, thanks!

Thanks! 🙌

Thanks man! 😄 And thanks for watching, once again 🙏

Thanks! It would be cool if they saw the video 🙌

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Thanks! Good luck with that. The beginning can be tedious but you just gotta keep making videos and focus on improving with each video instead of looking at the views (harder than it sounds, unfortunately)

@@NjordArtisan Thank you so much for the advice!

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Thanks! It’s a lot of fun to just play around with 😄👌🏻

Now I want a fidget toy with the same motion, thanks hahaha

I’ll try that, thanks!

Thanks a lot! It’s basically like a frame locking folding knife but on the outside 😄

Thanks! I just had another look at the technicalities and it’s so loosely formulated that it probably could be defined as such. But with that definition a lot of different pocket knives should be illegal as well 🤷🏼‍♂️🫠

​@@NjordArtisan yeah it's always a pretty big grey area and, honestly, I doubt you'd face any pushback since it's clearly more of a project and not intended to be used as an actual weapon against anyone, but I figured It'd be worth mentioning just in case because the 'grey area' on a lot of laws is far wider than most people realize. Again, I tend to fall into the more pro-freedom individualist camp myself, but regardless of what I personally believe it does still tend to be a grey area. With that said, knife vs sword legislation can vary, so it might be worth checking how (if at all) your jurisdiction distinguishes between a knife and a sword. This is a unique enough idea that I doubt there is a law against gravity-swords, (and if there isn't I *_need_* to know the first jurisdiction to officially include the word 'gravity swords' in their statutes) so if there is some well-defined legal metric for at what point a knife becomes a sword that could help de-grey-area it. If not there are other options like dulling the blade, potentially adding a lock, etc. that could be available, but again I'd personally doubt that they'd really hound you down for an obvious personal project. (although, to be clear, not a lawyer, not legal advice. I don't know your exact jurisdiction so I couldn't give anything concrete even if I was.)

I’ll try that, thanks!!

Mah man 🗿🤝

I’ll try that, thanks!

Thanks 🙌

War doch alles richtig so oder nicht? 🥸

Absolut! Der Akku ist dazu da, die Sägefähigkeit zu verbessern! Sein Fehler, wenn er den Job im ausgeschalteten Zustand nicht macht; von daher 10p an den Endnutzer. @@NjordArtisan

It would make a lot of sense to do so, I agree. The ingame footage just shows that it’s bladed all the way, that’s why I went with it 👍🏻

Thanks!

I’ll try to use bearings on the next version so hopefully that problem won’t occur again but if it does I’ll try that 👌🏻 And thanks for the tip with the veneer, I’ll try that too 🙏

Vielen Dank! 🙌🙌

Thanks I’ll try that 🙌

Thanks!

But where’s the fun in it, if I can’t use it 😄

Pride in making the most game accurate Dishonored blade to date and knowing that it be used if you wanted? Doing both a game-accurate and German-legal version separately does sound like a lot of unnecessary work now that I say it aloud though lol.

@@Scott.E.H let’s see how the next one turns out. I still think if going the route of the ingame mechanism, the blade wouldn’t look as good because both segments would have to be of different height, creating that step I mentioned in the beginning

Thanks! Maybe you’ll even find some of the other planned projects interesting after this one 👍🏻

Great idea with the fuller! I also thought of some kind of rail for that part. Maybe I can figure something out for the next version. I actually have a lav mic but I often forget to bring in as I’ve often had the issue of it disconnecting and then I was left without audio for some video section. And thanks for watching, I’m glad you liked it 🙌

Thanks! 😄

I’ll give that a try, thanks!

I second this Differential heat treatment is all about the rate that something is able to be quenched Edge quenching i think is also an option

I’ll try that, thanks 🙌