We travel to Sweden to make a high quality butterfly knife for use in Bushcraft. A step by step guide under the tutor of Lars- a renowned blacksmith for 30 years http://www.azbushcraft.com
@Brandulfrsmed Ah, I see. I think that you're right about the exotic factor giving Japanese swords its high status in popular culture. In fact, I read that after Japan began trading with the West, some samurai began to wear western style plate armor to foil the katana's relatively weak penetration! The reverse is happening here in Asia; Western style swords (especially the Gladius, after Gladiator) is all the rage. I guess people like something different :)
@synal Spot on yet again! The iron ore in Japan was/is rather impure vs. the northern European counterpart. The ore from Sweden was highly prized as was the ore from Spain. The way iron was made back in those times pre and post Viking age as well as the Japanese way would yield a mass like a hard sponge, full of voids and so forth. "Folding" was done by both peoples as a means to clean and homogenize the final product, iron and steel alike. It takes quite a bit of work to make a sword that way!
@Brandulfrsmed That's very interesting. Is it true that the main reason the Japanese folded their steel many times was because they needed to even out the impurities due to Japan's naturally bad steel?
i just love this kind of lifestyle BUSCHCRAFT<3
milotist 4 days ago
Can u link me to the place in sweden to do this =)
RancidSka1 5 days ago
imagine they´d fall all down at the same time
MrKnifeandfork 1 week ago
Very Interesting A+
LordMidianNE 1 week ago
thank you for the video
juliannevillecorrea 3 weeks ago
The title is misleading. I was expecting Sarah Palin.
Spart248 1 month ago
@megalizardfreak
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kidcornchip 1 month ago
@Brandulfrsmed Ah, I see. I think that you're right about the exotic factor giving Japanese swords its high status in popular culture. In fact, I read that after Japan began trading with the West, some samurai began to wear western style plate armor to foil the katana's relatively weak penetration! The reverse is happening here in Asia; Western style swords (especially the Gladius, after Gladiator) is all the rage. I guess people like something different :)
synal 2 months ago
@synal Spot on yet again! The iron ore in Japan was/is rather impure vs. the northern European counterpart. The ore from Sweden was highly prized as was the ore from Spain. The way iron was made back in those times pre and post Viking age as well as the Japanese way would yield a mass like a hard sponge, full of voids and so forth. "Folding" was done by both peoples as a means to clean and homogenize the final product, iron and steel alike. It takes quite a bit of work to make a sword that way!
Brandulfrsmed 2 months ago
@Brandulfrsmed That's very interesting. Is it true that the main reason the Japanese folded their steel many times was because they needed to even out the impurities due to Japan's naturally bad steel?
synal 2 months ago