Carter Cutlery Japan Tour 2010 - Best Japanese Bladesmith Visit (part 2)

[@notthenutter]

Tremendous video. I could watch this sort of thing all day.

[@hatcherknives2579]

Amazing footage! Thanks, Murray!

[@tiedemann8225]

Like Mr. Makin Shooties say`s under here, I am so Agree with him. This is amazing to watch this man work so fast, and precise..

[@coffeenciggy]

Fascinating!!!

[@toothpik00]

Very interesting video. Have you ever been to the Shiro Kunimitsu sword smiths in Japan, Carter?

[@DCLNick]

Having made guitars and observed the movement of wood once worked, I often wondered whether these forged blades benefitted from 'seasoning', beyond the usual tempering process...3 or 4 months of rest in order to recover from the stress of forging feels about right, but this is the first time I've seen such a thing described :)

[@giuliogemino6407]

Have you ever been to Maniago, Italia? It's an interesting town in Italy that is all about cutlery manufacturing by century...

[@KrisSays]

Very cool! Domo arigato gozaimasu!

[@jedirifleman]

Just curious as to why you didn't do the filming with Mr.Sakemoto in his shop where you learned the trade (if I understand your story correctly) rather than looking for Mr. Shiraki and his shop? Are they 2 completely different style bladesmiths?

[@fowad27]

How do they get that characteristic wobbly line shown on the blades at 9:07? Why is it used instead of a straight line?

[@daw162]

@DillonRHall In the era when steel needed to have impurites hammered out of it, it was a sign of cleaner (and thus stronger) steel. It's much more likely that a true damascus type folded steel these days would be less good than a modern tool steel that was kept in tact and handled by an experienced blacksmith and not folded. Kamaji / wrought iron is often folded, but it welds so well that it probably has little effect on strength to do that. Good grades are already very pure.

[@straightOutTheJar]

@fowad27 Oh, cool! I didn't think it was aesthetic. I though the waviness was a result of the grinding process to make the folded steel super strong and sharp.

[@straightOutTheJar]

@fowad27 I would guess that the wavy pattern on those blades makes for a stronger cutting edge...The same can be seen in Katanas I assume...

[@fowad27]

@DillonRHall Actually, I saw this very interesting documentary that touches upon the subject. /watch?v=rwQqtf86qOc They achieve the effect by painting the blade with clay, heating it, then quenching the blade in water.