this guy cut out a notch in the middle of the steel, then pounded each side inward.

[shortylickens]

Why?

 

[lxskllr]

My guess is the edges are harder steel, so the hardened edge will go to the tip.

 

[brianmanahan]

also made the pattern look cool

that's a freaking sweet design when you see the end product

 

[IronWing]

also made the pattern look cool

that's a freaking sweet design when you see the end product

This is why he did it.

 

[lxskllr]

This is why he did it.

Sure about that? Look at the thumbnail image of the video. It's got rails going down both sides of the chain.

 

[gorobei]

lxskllr is correct.

the harder steel used for the edge is pulled around so the tip is the same as the edge. if you ever see an actual japanese katana being formed the base form has the tip cut with the shorter end on the spine. when hammer shaping the edge the squished material makes the blade side longer inducing the curvature. the tanto tip ends up pushing the harder steel around so the spine looks like one straight line.

with the double edge blade on this knife he has to remove the softer steel for the edge steel to pull around and join. while esthetics also factors in, most knife makers arent going to make a pretty blade with a garbage hardness tip.

 

[IronWing]

Well... okay.

 

[zinfamous]

What I have learned from videos like this is that if Skyrim were real-time, then forging all of those daggers to level-up my skills would have taken approximately 2,423 lifetimes.

 

[shortylickens]

What I have learned from videos like this is that if Skyrim were real-time, then forging all of those daggers to level-up my skills would have taken approximately 2,423 lifetimes.

Just so you know, MOST knifemakers take a proper billet of tool steel and make a knife directly from that, using a bandsaw and sometimes a grinder. It consumes remarkably less time and requires less effort on the part of the human.

Red Beard prefers this and in one of his vids he actually talks about tool steel a bit before making his knives.

 

[zinfamous]

Just so you know, MOST knifemakers take a proper billet of tool steel and make a knife directly from that, using a bandsaw and sometimes a grinder. It consumes remarkably less time and requires less effort on the part of the human.

Red Beard prefers this and in one of his vids he actually talks about tool steel a bit before making his knives.

yes, but imagine having to refine raw ore into ingots, then into the billets and all the components needed....as you do in such games.