Albion Swords: Leaf Blade: www.albion-swords.com/bareblades.htm Weathering the leaf blade blank: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o5yGjNN5yairaGg.html Sword furniture build: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/o6mdlLdj0s7FZ4k.html

Adam Savage carrying a sword while riding a one-wheel is the most San Francisco thing I can think of.

I made a number of scabbards for broadswords a number of years ago - when the build was close to done I started coating the blade with graphite the sliding it in. This showed where it was rubbing most on the way in and where we needed to shave away a little more without overdoing areas that didn't need it. Hope this helps!

I laughed out loud hearing Adam talk about staring at the sword at night. Such a uniquely Adam thing to say that so casually

That (going home rather than pushing on) was the essence of experience and craftspersonship. Not in doing things perfectly, as everyone will always make mistakes, but in knowing yourself well enough to stop before you do.

Hey Adam, next time you make a sheath you should get together with Todd Cutler from Todd's Workshop! He makes historical recreations of weapons. He has an incredible wealth of knowledge and I would love to see the two of you together!

I Friggin' love Sword Phase!

a router plane would have done wonders on the inside of this. Router planes are a very interesting hand tool too.

And now, with adam telling me the story, this is the wierdest interaction i've ever had with the song "Brandy". Thank you.

This was absolutely one of the more satisfying builds for me to watch that you have ever done. Thank you so much good sir, you are such an enviable craftsman.

It's not a phase 😄 All swords, all the time is just the best way to live! I love the childlike glee whenever you pick up the sword it's just a joy to watch, thanks for doing this build Adam! Edit: apparently I can't spell...

I finished a wood sword for my niece today. I used a playlist of all the Tested sword videos as inspiration. Peter Lyon, the Hero Sword, and scabbard builds were great sources for tips and cherry-picking design ideas. Thanks for the help and for being a voice in the background these last two months.

The Brandy anecdote reminds me of the time, recently, that I came to the realization that "Patty your land turns" was actually "Patio Lanterns". Outwardly realizing that fact while among a group of people made for a good laugh for all of us.

Beautiful sheath. And to see one done properly and not just a little bit of felt and leather but an actual wood scabbard is freaking amazing Great work Adam

56 seconds up and it appears in my youtube recomend, excellent service youtube

Mr. Savage, your style brings joy to my life. Thank you.

Back in the eighties there used to be a fellow that I frequently saw walking in the Capital Hill area of Seattle, or practicing with it in a local park. I think it was a two hander and he had it sheathed on his back. Always saw him by his self, never saw anyone hassling him, it was just the individualist kind of thing seen in some Seattle neighborhoods at the time, like the chewing gum wall, the statues of a group of people waiting for a trolley that people would dress up for winter, events, and such, and the troll under the Hwy 99 bridge clutching a VW Beatle.

LOVE the Decemberists

I like how this thoughtful sentence about gaining experience through repetitive processing ended with "when you build weird shit!"!

So satisfying watching him wrap the scabbard in leather

That CA Glue shot made me feel many, complicated things as a fellow maker. Utterly satisfying.

I hope Peter sees these videos and they make him happy the skills are making you so happy.

Build looks fantastic! I know wasn't the objective of the build, but i'd love to see Adam's interpretation of a functional back-sheath.

I learned the hard way that chiseling out a scabbard for a lightsaber katana, ended up buying a set of bent neck chisels which makes my life a lot easier ( and then I fashioned a jig together and just routed it out because the scabbards were sitting on my bench for about 6 months ignored. Absolutely wonderful to see Adam go through the same process haha. Chiseling is definitely a totally consuming process like that.

Didn't know Adam likes The Decemberists. I love listening to their music while I'm welding!

Thank you for the story about the song brandy, of course it came on Spotify 5 minutes before the start of this video

I feel a deep kinship with that Brandy guy. That's exactly the kind of humor I've been know to engage in from time to time.

If there were ever a zombie apocalypse this is the man you want helping you. Love watching Adam work.

Something about swords really speak to a primal part of my brain. Holding one has never not felt great.

How Adam has not lost multiple fingers using all those machines over decades is beyond me. A skill unto itself.

I'm still blown away by Adam's attention to detail.. i guess i just had in my head "he's hollywood" and never did anything in great detail.. still amazed by his work, but never realized it till becoming a member here to tested... kudos my friend.. and i hope i can call you a friend.. 👏🏼

Love the music during the contact cement sequence!

Awesome that you just went with hand tools. I love modern technology to make work faster and easier, but hand tools.... So satisfying. Cheers!

I love how Pumped Adam gets

Thank you , Adam for this video 🙂 ☺️ 👍🏻👍🏻 !!!

I was testing my Gopro with an automatic Gimbal from the sunroof in my car in Seattle at the end of February 2020 when the song Brandy came on. A week later Covid and the new future happened. I watch that video on occasion as a nostalgic BC (before Covid) moment. That's my Brandy story.

That is an amazing point of balance for that sword, right on the riccaso ❤

I could tell by the sound of his knife on the "lamb's wool" that it was synthetic. Wild.

If nothing else, I'm constantly fascinated with the number of tools you have. Not only do you seem to have one for every job, you know how to use them and when. Great stuff.

Adam running his fingers along a blade always makes my skin crawl a little

34:27 +10/10 on the one-handed technique to open the C-Clamp. -10/10 for leaving a brass-free tip on the scabbard.

I literally love EVRYTHING about this sword and its scabbard. Great work Adam.

*absolutely gorgeous sword*

can i just say again and i'm sure you've heard it a million times per video but thanks again for just letting us hang around all this time. It really does feel like you make accommodations for us to be here. AND it IS oddly meditative!

Beautiful work sir nice adam you are awesome, sir. Thanks for sharing another video

You SHOULD be proud of that sword!

This was awesome, Adam!!! ❤️❤️❤️👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

That sword is awesome. You should be proud .

This is what i needed today more than anything 💥💥💥💥💥

Chisel work is all about patience... you gotta have to have right state of mind for it.

Happiness is a cool sword.

43:30 - I've made some of these for my small squadron of giant guard chickens on my volcano island. Nobody has broken through the defenses yet. Thanks Adam!

Suit of armor, check! Sword, check! Trusty steed, check! 😁👍

Really liked the more chill more chill montage music

I never thought to do that little c-clamp trick at 34:25. Learned something new!

Adam Savage: Bringing OLD meaning to "Open Carry". I can picture you tooling (heh) down the street on that One Wheel, sword in hand, helmet on. Maybe a backpack or satchel on. And then after the cops see you go by one of them says, "Aw-man. Those props he makes look so real."

In 04, my x and myself were in San Francisco in September and passed the studio you talk of. Visited the Presidio, and stood on the Golden gate and the Rock. Lol 😆 Even got sunburnt on the one arm, yes you guessed it, the right arm.

Grace cathedral hill!! One of my favorite songs of all time

Enjoy watching you. Used to make swords and scale vehicles. Just about anything. Got an unknown muscle condition all my fingers are out of place. Miss making stuff but love watching others enjoy it. Thank you for sharing.

Adam I just have to say thank you, you are one of the main reason when I decided to go to college I decided on machine tool technologies and I'm now learning to use CNC machine and I can't be happier so thank you and maybe one do I'll have something cool for you to look at

this sword build is my favorite thing on youtube right now.

That Thumbnail is just so awesome! 💪😘

Adam: "It comes from an intuition you get from building weird shit". Me sitting here whipping medieval arrows: *nods*.

Kudos to you Adam for adapting my suggestion. The capstone looks much better and fits the story of the design much better.

Absolutely gorgeous!

I'm glad the recurring background hum isn't ACTUALLY just me going insane.

Drink whenever Adam says the word "Scabbard" !!

Adam I love the song too! Excellent story!

I'm about to start working on a wooden sword based off of Adam's WETA Workshop build. I was really hoping he had a scabbard video and, well......the man delivers.😊

Super satisfying watching Adam chisel, but I knew he was going to mill it out

That is a magnificent sword. Well done! I'd carry it around to stare at it too. You nailed the Middle Earth aesthetic while making a unique but useable looking weapon. Super cool! I love seeing scabbard builds- people often ignore the scabbard but it's an engineered work of art itself.

Sticking with the movie theme, you should make that sword somehow make a "shhhhink!" sound when you pull it out of the scabbard, haha.

12:04 Here we go again. Never ever ever ever do this, it’s the most important rule by far when using a chisel: never push it towards your other hand like that.

Before you started the build, I was thinking tanned leather with brass fittings was the only way to go. Haha! Great minds think alike. 🤔 😁

Little known fun fact, in ancient times they werent called scabbards, but rather 'ye cutty condom'. Folks back then were cheeky lol

Nothing wrong with being impressed with yourself! I know I was. Inspiring as always, Adam!

I love Adam when he is totally excited about *a thing*. Well, even more than I love Adam any day of the week anyway ;)

I really love that sword Adam!

5:38 I had this same experience at work with the song "Stop the Cavalry", which is like a Christmas classic in the UK but word for word it's like "Churchill, stop the fighting plz"

ive never noticed how much cleaner adams table it under that pad he normally has in the middle before lol when he completely cleared off the table at the beginning i was shocked lmao

Loving the sword content. I like the traditional sheep's wool lining. But I suspect that that specific bit of wool was cleaned and so lost most of its anti-rust oils, coupled with most of the wool being shaved off as well. However just as some lining to help hold and cushion the sword it would probably work well anyway, as long as the chemicals used are non acidic. Typically you also don't want to store the sword for long periods of time in the scabbard, since it can trap humidity and you won't notice if rust starts to form. Very interesting project and I can tell Adam has been reading his Oakeshott.

You, my friend are in fact the positive part of my brain rendered in body and mind. Thank you for this. It's very hard to stay with it in when your poor and broken for trying. People like us can't stop thinking or trying. It doesn't suit us. AWAYS KEEP TRYING.

Adam, I love your work! thanks for all you have done but what I love the most is your personality, the way you think, see... I'm an ESL teacher from Guyana who lives in Brazil and I too have the same thinking process as you do, it's crazy in our heads so thanks for being yourself, and I hope to see you on VFX reacts again.

I love how much you love that sword :)

Request to the editing team, the pneumatic tools in this were quite loud when I had the volume up enough to hear Adam speak. is there a way to mix the audio so that the louder tools are a little quieter? thank you!

Just brought a viking sword which is a Saxon sword used by the vikings when they raided England back in the day , didn't come with a scabbard so this one day build will be a great help.

As a former HEMA practitioner, I am in love with the balance point on that blade. It gives me a warm fuzzy. Had to hang up my longsword after I got a titanium plate in my spine lol

"Alexa, play Grace Catchedral Hill by The Decemberists" i love you, Adam.

I just went back and listened to "Brandy (You're a fine girl) and this time paid attention to the lyrics, haha. Never realized the what the song was really about, great song!

Just for future reference it's a really good idea to scribe about a 16th of an inch line across the top of the scabbard inside where the lambskin ends so you can tap it into that 16th inch depression. That alleviates the sword accidentally lifting the edges.

I bought this same blade from Albion and built my own sword too! I finished mine last Spring. It's a lovely blade designed by Jody Samson.

Damn satisfying conclusion. I was worried about that split.

Please tell me I'm not the only person who gets anxiety going when he's using the exacto knife when carving the top out a bit lol looks awesome though love the sword and scabbard great work

I imagine that coworker at ILM with the Brandy story to be Norm Macdonald.

Adam: "You can never pull a sword out of your back" Shad: "Allow me to introduce myself"

"It's a tool for making square holes!" he says with delight, before immediately proceeding to make the hole no longer square :)

Nice historical point made in the video. Swords scabbarded on the back are generally ahistorical. Some large swords could be slung on the back for transport, but they would have to be unslung to draw and fight with. Of course there are always exceptions to the rule, but almost universally swords were worn at the waist.

Bless you sir, i am not that patient or willing to pound a chisel for an afternoon. I would have used my laminate router to do the bulk of the cutting and fine tuned it after. I'm sure this option crossed your mind, but your inner craftsman screamed "Hell no! do it right!"

I've been using various hide glues for decades in the historic restoration field, primarily with wood, but also other organics. If you're not going to use up that Titebond liquid hide glue in the next six to nine months or so, I recommend you keep it in the fridge (better yet, the freezer) for a much longer shelf life. Unlike most food expiration dates, definitely DO pay attention to the date on liquid hide glue bottles. When liquid hide glue gets too old, it no longer hardens fully. If you need your chilled/frozen hide glue in a hurry, just drop the bottle in some hot water for a few minutes and it will be ready to go. In my experience, it doesn't suffer from multiple freeze/thaw cycles. My guess is that the long protein chains break down over time, either through enzymes or oxidation, so that when it dries, those broken up protein chains can't do as good a job cross linking and tangling up. For some applications that's not a problem, but you definitely do not want to use past-its-prime liquid hide glue for things like furniture joinery where joint creep is bad. There, you want it nice and fresh. When used fresh, a well fit, well glued joint can last hundreds of years, and still remain reversible for future generations to repair without undue difficulty. As an alternative, dry hide glue has a very long shelf life, and you can hydrate/heat just as much as you need for a particular job. Hot hide glue is it's own thing that also has the advantage of being nearly instant, although it's a bit more of a pain to prep. Altogether, though, hide glue is great stuff!

Adam, that's a piece that was forged by a smith named Jody Samson. He was a wonderful smith, and made several iconic replicas for Albion. Sadly, he passed away a few years ago.