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Thanks Alec and Jamie, so lovely to finally meet you both and work together on this! It was very humbling to see first hand how much passion, energy and dedication you put into your work and I learned so much!
I love this, so often you see projects being done online and they use £20,000 worth of tools and it just seems unatainable, he was using a lot of stuff normal people have, like making that tiny lathe out of a drill
This is awesome, I actually bought some of ThePocketForge's earliest pieces when he first started doing this. He made me a custom pair of tiny Witcher swords, which I still have and enjoy very much. Edit: Btw, it's called a scent stopper pommel because it's shaped like the top lid of some styles of old perfume bottles. When you put the top back on the bottle the scent stops emanating from it, hence scent stopper.
My first (and to-date only) forging project was a 10" claymore letter opener. It was a lot of fun and really a great way to make the craft more accessible to people with limited resources or space.
the thread wrapping of the handle reminds me of the creation of fly-fishing lures and all their custom equipment they use for winding thread around small objects. Great work!
no i imagine someone smithing tiny swords for their spacemarines and at every single game he cuts himself on them by accident only to sigh and say "khorne truly does not care from whence to blood flows..."
This was absolutely amazing to watch, i would definitely watch more of this type again and I plan to show this to my friend that wants to make sharp, pointy things.
8:07 working in aircraft ive had to hand fashion alot of my own little doodads and whatnots, and every time i do it with one chuck drill in a vice and a dotco for sculpting
Making mini swords is really fun. I made an viking era swordt a few years ago from an old small file, so I could harden and temper it, a large nail for crossguard and a 2 piece 3 lobd pommel.. Totally not as nice as this one but really fun to make.
Thus would be an awesome introduction to sword smithing to new smith's. Also lucrative. You can easily sell these verses large ones. As for the drill lathe. I've done that myself to make a replacement firing pin for an antique revolver.
I started making rings to sell at our local street fairs like two years ago, and I still use an electric drill and a dremel for all my work. I only do like 100 rings for each fair, one in the summer and one in autumn, takes about two days to make one, it works a treat
Wow Alex. I am not a big commenter but this is one of your most brilliant videos and you do have many of those. It gives hope to the small scale operators. And that was a niffty patterned blade.🎉 keep up the content Dude.
8:31 Alec, you sound as if you'd never used a drill clamped into the vise as an improvised lathe! I've been doing that for ages. One of my drills had a speed adjustment knob built into the "trigger" so I could regulate RPM with it, my replacement drill when the first one died had speed regulation by the depth of depression of the trigger, so I used a string and a stick and how much I twisted the stick controlled how much the string tightened, thus squeezing the trigger slightly more or less. I also never needed to do anything even remotely precise with it so I could get away with not buying a lathe and overindulging in shameless tinkery instead.
i love the painted nails, im a bigish man and i love nail polish but im so anxious to wear it in public, its great to see a masculine guy wearing nail polish. Thank you the pocket forge
Do what makes you feel happy. It's your body. You wear what you want, whatever makes you feel good. 👍 If that's makeup or nail polish or whatever else, nobody has any right to say you can't.
As said by @kme, do what you wish. I wear nail polish sometimes and I work on the water network and fix Land Rovers for a hobby!! Unfortunately you will get the Neanderthal muppets spouting some masculinity BS. They are usually also the sort that think a woman’s place is in the kitchen.
those small drills look exactly like the ones i used when i used to be an optician! frameless glasses can be made with those as well as fixing snapped screws
Impressive result! Apparently it's called a scent-stopper pommel because some scholars (probably from the XIXth century) thought it looked like the plug of bottle of perfume
This type of thing was my dream as a child, I found something similar as a kid on an old art piece it was covered with mini long swords and halberds and after taking it apart I found all the weapons where real but just miniature.. they where even sharp.... The sword made was exactly like the type of thing I dreamed of as a upgrade to those~
I've been thinking about kanabo: What if a Alec made a smaller, shorter and slimmer version that's entirely steel and welded studs wrapped around a thin lead core? I think it would make for a nice weapon.
I make action figures re weapons, been doing it for years, Leo's swords (done in metal and Pewter) Mikey's Nunchucks (so hard to run the chain so it hangs well) ....Ive done butcher knives and even Raf's Shi( had to mold that one, did it as a sand cast) 3 cm high with handle
thanks for doing this alex, this hit home because when i was younger i would watch you, then go forge mini swords in my barn with a blow torch and a hammer, thanks for your awesome videos
This looks like a great supermarket challenge. I don't know any prices, but I would say take like 10 pounds and in 15 minutes buy anything you want from a supermarket to build a sword out of. Every material in the finished sword needs to be bought from the store (you dont need sand paper, hammers.. but you need wood, steal, glue..). The sword size can be optional :D :D
Alec, you should try making an IRL version of any of the swords or vibroblades featured in KOTOR 1 and 2. Just a simple "modern" single-edged sword would be cool to see.
That's so cool! I made a pair of tiny swords (a buster sword and a masamune) in the metalshop at college in between other tedious tasks (if you've ever had to make a matching pair of hand lapped faces to prove you're capable of wielding a file you'll know the feeling) but they were just solid steel filed to shape
8:32 See, that's the problem with those kinds of things. The very _second_ someone sees that, they'll think about how they don't have a lathe but they sure have a drill and an angle grinder and _where else_ would they try it but home? We are all both fantastically smart apes and not the smartest people.
Proxxon! I love tools from them, they have huge range of 'tiny crafters' power tools :D Aside of drill column there is also a mini lathe. And micromotor that you hold like a slightly bulkier pen ;)
New collaboration idea. Alec Steele, Pocket Forge, and Michaelcthulhu. Each make the same blade, but at different scales. Pocket Forge makes a tiny version, Alec the normal version, and Mike makes the giant version.
The reason it's called a "scent stopper" pommel, is because it's in the shape of the crystal "cork" (not sure how else to call it, english isn't my first language) that was used on parfume bottles
The glass/crystal piece is called the "stopper" for the "scent" bottle. Hence "scent stopper", and reusing the term for a sword part which looks very similar.
I'd LOVE to see you see how small you can make a sword. I'm talking smaller than a ring, like SUPER tiny. Also- wheres the rest of that giant lamp i need to see it completed!!!
Best quote of the year so far... "Were making a schlong sword".😂😂 Guess what schlong means in America? Haha. Awesome work though. I wanna see you guys make a nail and a popsicle stick out of a sword now!
How about doing a knife inspired by the great English firearms makers. Something with plenty of engraving, checked walnut, some beautiful blueing and maybe throw in a tuch of color case hardening.
