So I have been out of sorts as of late and I have been feeling wore out from working on customer blades and just trying to be happy about what I do.
So I decided to do my first, what I want to call a true Japanese katana using no mechanical means at all.
So here is the first in a series of videos on the forging of my first Oroshigane / Tamahagane Katana the billet was made for me by Ilya of the Baltimore Knife Works thanks Ilya
Forging the Sunobe
https://youtu.be/XbYwVvc9g_A
Forging the Nakago
https://youtu.be/YtkFOLJVmcQ
Forging the Mune
Part 1 https://youtu.be/2iFweAXn0Tk
Part 2 https://youtu.be/JTCZCPc3bj0
Part 3 https://youtu.be/hQbmxIweYY4
Part 4 https://youtu.be/6v-bBIjIirE