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Hey FZ, was wondering if you would be willing to share your crucible recipe. Prefab crucibles are too expensive to be disposable and are known for cracking at high temps such as are needed for crucible steel and if that happens during the heating process I could lose my steel. Yet yours seem to hold together perfectly and withstand the high temperatures. Been tinkering with knife making for a little while now for my hunting and fishing buddies and myself but wanted to delve into crucible steel to make a couple of sets of field knives for my buddies and I for hunting and fishing out of wootz. I would really appreciate any help or advice or recipes I was also wondering; in your testing, what is the average Rockwell hardness on these blades and do you think they would be suitable for workshop tools. If so I'm asking because I would like to make myself some marking knives, plane blades, and chisels for the workshop as well but not sure if this type of steel would be suitable. I use my chisels quite aggressively, and my planes on end grain for shooting which is hard on those fine edges and require me rehoning my Edge quite often when using on hardwoods like ironwood and hard maple. Do you think this still would hold up to shop tools?

Beautiful sword! Your a master of your craft sir! I do a little blade smithing myself and I must say you make it look way easier than it is. Keep up the good work!

@@jerichojoe307 I think he has a video explaining how he does it I just can't remember which one

It's a sword, I assure you. Its definitely a sword

@@arawiri its not a sword its a shirasaya katana A sword has a guard while shirasaya katan has no guard at all

@@au4686 shirasaya katana is a type of sword. It's not a katana btw, no curve, no differential hardening. It's a ninjato.

It's both.

@@cheetodorito7403 there is no such thing as a ninjato. Ninjatos only exist in movies and tourists shops. Furthermore, shirasaya is not a type of katana, but rather a sword mounting tool to store different kinds of swords (nihonto) such katana, wakizashi or tanto. This most likely resembles a shikomizue, albeid a short one.

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Amen! Geometry is what makes a Japanese style blade what it is. There are a lot of really big kitchen knives being made on KZfaq and the makers are calling these things katana or tanto or whatever.

аутентичность - ноль, что в названии железки , что в окладе .

@@ttaaavv35 а вы что хотели, чтобы меч изготовили, по всем традициям и технологиям японцев? В конце концов, это всего лишь сувенирный меч, а не оружие для убийства

@@user-gk9yx5kj4i если китайцы собирают мерседес по своей технологии , то и называют его типа- "нихунбао", но внешнее сходство с мерсом есть, - мысль понятна? а если хотите сувенир то выточите его себе из ветки дерева.

@@user-gk9yx5kj4i да по традициям щас в японии одна мастерская делает, но какая то приемственность должна же быть, а то теперь что не высри будем называть мечом и катаной. Про ножны и ручку я молчу, тут автор молодец. Но катана это хранилище души, это произведение искуства.

Why glass and Granite

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Oui je suis d’accord

это от слова чудоковатая? то есть не нормальная? тогда согласен

He’s also not a certified master smith, he did not make it with Japanese iron sand in the traditional forging process, he did not carve out a drip/debris channel in the scabbard, the tsuba is not existent, he glued the tang into the tsuka, he did not Clay temper the Katana for differential heat treatment, and he designed the scabbard, tsuba, and tsuka himself rather than sending it out to a master to be completed. Point is, there’s a number of reasons it’s not a katana, beyond just the size.

@@jb3760 True, but since I like his craft, I wasn't wanting to be so harsh. He's not as bad as some crafters/forgers these days with creations. 😅

@@jb3760 believe it or not, none of that actually matters. I believe a real katana (nihonto) is only classified as such by Japanese law if 3 conditions are met: 1. If the blade is of tamahagane 2. If the blade was forged in a forge with an appropriate shrine 3. The sword was made as a piece of art rather than a weapon and thus must be seen as 'beautiful'

Exactly what i thought too, when I ended of see this video. The work is breathtaking regardless, but the size make it more a wakizashi than a katana.

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You are professional

@@user-kf5hi8vf6y are you talking to me?

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True

True but it’s still cool

Wakizashi’s are curved tho

@@MJlover-pp5ygnot true

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Yes used. You can see the previous videos.

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A video on how we make our crucibles is on our Patreon

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