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Always enjoy your projects and knowledge of the trade, love the content of your project board
Absolute beauty of a piece! Way to forge ahead through the failures to make an even better product than the original!
WOW Will, the audio in some spots is horrible!!! Lol Thanks for piecing this together tho, seems like it turned out to be "Medusa killing" quality after all!! Haha
you will probably find your lost footage in a couple of weeks in some misnamed file on the wrong drive
I think your Square Space intros have to be some of the best quality intros on YouTube!! 😂
Lol, British looking teeth…I hope you sell all of them, they are buetiful and worth every penny. There is so much work put into these.
I just admire the shameless geniously dull transitions into sponsored segments.
Another great item for your portfolio Will! Sorry to hear about the loss of you video material. That kind of thing always sucks.
Loved this build!
I like that you still blacksmith. (Whereas your old partner … yeah, not so much.)
Great job! That thing is truly inspiring!
I've always admired and been impressed by your skill on the grinder. Could or would it be poss' to only grind an inch thick, three inch wide, piece of metal into a blade without forging. I'd love to see the outcome…
Aside from the changes you mentioned, i.e. shorter tang, plungline… , couldnt you have normalized the whole blade and reharden it. Or is the grain structure to "deformed" allready ? I guess the question is can you reharden the steel as often as you want, when you watch out for not having too much oxidation I guess?
At what point a long dagger becomes a short sword?
Hurray for when oops happens.. it makes great YouTube video.
That is wickedly beautiful.
Your little dog stealing the show with only a few seconds screen time haha, good work mate
…rough grinding your bowels… auch. NICE work, young man 👍👍🌞👍👍
I am metallurgically interested and wonder; around half way through the video you say you have ruined it, part of the blade has gone soft… could you not annneal the whole thing and quench it over??? To my knowledge and understanding, the phase transformations happening in steel during heat treatment, annealing and quenching are all re-doable, and thus should yield a good blade, as long as there are no cracks formed.
sword eaters when they are buying a new sword to eat:
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I've been watching your show since she started it I've actually been watching you since you were with Alex Steele and on your own show this loss of footage thing happens way too often. You got to figure out what's happening what's going wrong and how it's How how these deletions are occurring. Because a problem will defined is half solved. In the meantime there are a lot of programs out there that can recover lost images and videos from whatever hard drive you're using. And if you're saving to SD card without some kind of a hard drive back up and I'm going to say that also is is probably a mistake.
And a little bit later we had the description of a thing that you tried but you could make it look right so you abandon the project.. this could have been another chapter in a series of videos of the Journey of this particular thing and I would not have minded seeing it. And I'll tell you why there are a lot of guys out there who do videos like this and they delete the parts that they messed up they don't talk about the mistakes really you don't get to see their mistakes you don't get to see how they got to where they were when they made that mistake so that you can identify it if you're working in the same field and know what it looks like when it's happening to you. That's that's one way that the videos are useful the other thing is failure is a huge part of every success! Failure teaches us things. We had mistakes to learn from because we make mistakes. Plain and simple and the best lessons the best information the best wisdom is born out of making mistakes. It's how we handle those mistakes that is so important. And as a as a fellow Christian I've noticed it in our world today when people make mistakes they blame somebody else they shift responsibilities someplace else they deny they were ever involved and they often come back and say it wasn't a mistake it wasn't against the law it wasn't something wrong that's just someone else's perspective and what they did was absolutely acceptable and there's nothing wrong with it whatsoever. When you have a mistake and you own it and you go back to the drawing board even or you find a way to fix it or you decide against that particular feature for the reasons that you have all the while accepting your decisions and the consequences of your decisions, that's an example that we don't have enough of. It would add content to your video stream and I would seem more of your videos than just maybe when every couple of months it would increase your followers and be greatly appreciated where these examples are absolutely incredibly needed. I know you're one of those guys that goes through and reads your comments from time to time I really hope you see this one and I really hope you take these words to heart. And thanks especially for all the stuff on your chalkboard 🙂 greatly refreshing and hugely appreciated
I'm going to grab it you one more time. And this is a serious one you may no longer call yourself a YouTube content provider until you get serious about dedicating the same work initiative and dedication that you do and you're still working to your video content creation. Blacksmithing is the main thing. I get it. But it's beginning to feel, especially in this particular video, like the videography of the job it's just an afterthought! Oh by the way I happen to film some stuff on my iPhone I happen to make some actual videos with this good camera I actually happened to have hired a videographer and just by happenstance we happen to have some video content for you today because we didn't accidentally delete it or we didn't accidentally forget to actually bother to feel video tape anything because we were redoing stuff and we did not actually bother to figure out how to successfully save and preserve all video product that we manufacture as we're doing the main thing which is blacksmithing. So here's our afterthought content that we thought you might enjoy like a regifted Christmas present of something that you gave to somebody five years ago. Thanks a lot! When you start wearing two hats and prioritize the video creation as much as the metal work and realize that both aspects of your job impress your clients increase your viewership and also honors God then you can start calling yourself a video content provider. But I feel like I'm getting leftovers here. I'm impressed with the work and I'm delighted to see content and I will continue to watch everything you post! But dang it this feels like leftovers. And I'm nobody I'm not actually somebody important. I can't throw any money your way. I'm poor. But I enjoy your videos except for when I feel like all the cool things already happened and you just happened to have the camera turned on for these few clips and you decided you could make some content out of it
Amazing work🔥🔪⚒️
I want to see videos on the two small knives that you talked about that you're taking to the Atlanta Knife Show especially the second one that you had 15 inches on I would love to see that process. Video content that you're you're not offering it and I hate just hearing about it it would have been great to see it done
i like that ur build dont need like 30 month to finish in a video ^^
Can't wait to see you at Blade, Will! You've been a big source of inspiration for me these past several years.
Best transition into the ad read yet.
Love the transition to ad break!!
Absolutely love watching your videos. Beautiful work!
why don't you put some foam down on the floor or a table when you're doing something like painting on the super blue. It's the point you always drop the thing because you're concentrating so hard!
Thanks Will. 👍😁
Going from strength to strength will. Your work and your videos are a pleasure to watch
could you do something with your audio I can barley hear you.
That’s a sweet piece hope I have the chance to see it this weekend
Was that 1/150k of an inch, or 1/50th of an inch? Seriously, I don't know why Americans say all those numbers instead of just using the metric system and saying 0.2 mil'? It's so clear, and easy to understand and say, over a fraction.
That handle construction is just awesome – it's like a blacksmith's knife elevated to a whole new level, and just cool as hell.
I only watch for the segues. LOL jk
I would march right into Mordor with that blade.
Stunning work. Everything you make I would covet. Morgul.
You should copper wire wrap the handle. Aesthetically it would really pop, and functionality it would remove any hot spots on the handle during use. Amazing piece!
Really cool video. Love your work. As a suggestion, give Brownell Ox-pho blue a try when you cold blu a piece. It finishes more evenly and gives a nicer finish more easily.
Great project and great video, thank you Will