Forging the World's Sharpest 'Stone' Hatchet: Inspired by PREY

I partnered with @20thcenturystudios to create the stone hatchet from PREY! Add PREY on Blu-ray, DVD and 4K UHD to your movie collection!
In this video, I'm attempting to create the world's sharpest 'stone' hatchet, drawing inspiration from the film Prey. As it turns out, working with actual stone isn't my strength, so I switched to steel, aiming to give it a stone-like appearance.
For the material, I used a wedge, possibly intended for splitting stones itself, but on the inside it was a bit more delaminated than expected. However, it ended up working great. I then used hickory for the handle and added leather and ropes to complete the design.
In the end, I'm very happy with how it turned out. Using a rope to throw the hatchet makes it a lot of fun because you don't have to walk to pick it up every time. Although it does make spinning the hatchet a bit harder, at least with this one I made. It might be worth trying on other styles of axes and hatchets to see how it works because it's really enjoyable.
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0:00 Stone?
0:51 Blade Forging
3:47 Heat Treatment and Finishing
5:53 Handle
8:59 Final Result and Test
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[@BlackBeardProjects]

I partnered with @20thcenturystudios to create the stone hatchet from PREY! Add PREY on Blu-ray, DVD and 4K UHD to your movie collection!

[@skymailpisemnet]

5:55 отверстие в ручке сделать лазером?!

[@joshmajor8662]

Congrats man!!! Not sure how this qualifies as “Hollywood” quality but I guess multimillion dollar company’s don’t mind halfassed jobs haha 😂 Prey was awesome!!! THIS…… well you made a hatchet shaped object I guess Lol 😂🤦‍♂️

[@zabirzabeer2041]

Wow...

[@josephcormier5974]

Well you tried to do it in stone but it wasn't your medium but when you turned to steel then you shine this came out awesome thank you for sharing this six stars brother

[@Raven_Leblanc]

I love the finish and shape of the hatchet head, very well done! Love watching your work.

[@BlackBeardProjects]

Thank you very much!

[@bretthanes337]

Love the stone tumbler! Very clever.

[@celestialanomaly8374]

I like that you attempted something different, you went outside your comfort zone. Stone is incredibly difficult because it's brittle. The hatchet came out really well, I like the nomadic look. Well done. 👌

[@northwales1000]

???????

[@LittleGreyWolfForge]

It was steel bro

[@TimStevens32]

I love to see you do more weapons from movies and tv shows

[@saikawanderer9166]

Only one note to make, the wrap around the blade would hold better and be more historical if rawhide was used. The way it shrinks when when then dried is wonderful

[@Zenergist]

This is so impressive. Fantastic work !

[@Mike-kr9ys]

Loved the homemade tumbler! What a great idea. Nice project - thanks for sharing with us.

[@AlphonsoFrett-xz6pi]

Beautiful thanks for sharing

[@toddtrierweiler958]

Wouldn't that be a Tomahawk

[@isaacpahima1792]

Love that movie, great build

[@nathanieljames7462]

I genuinely thought you were going to make a bigger chisel lol

[@ratroddiesels1981]

great video clever rock tumbler

[@dyermker250]

Brilliant artistic genius.

[@donald4624]

Thank you, that was fun to watch.

[@Ensensu2]

Fun fact about celts (pronounced 'selt'), like this axe is here, the head is secured so that the sides don't even touch, but the top and bottom wedge into the wood as the head is used, so the more you chop with it, the the stronger the haft wedges itself into the wood. However, celt heads were also rectangular, so while you didn't 'need' to keep the material a triangle for the celt to work, the stylistical choice was interesting.

[@inventiveowl395]

The bucket in a lathe got me good xdd

[@richardgilbourne1933]

Superb work awesome looking T hawk

[@vinceianni4026]

Good job mister beautifully done

[@IgnisMan]

I love the Design, well done 🤜🤛👍

[@thealicemonster9217]

When doing a handle in the style of the Celt axe you should leave the sides wide. Having the stone or metal contact the sides of the handle can cause splitting in the wood.

[@scottpilcher473]

that movie IS BRILLIANT. Nice axe , man . Thanks for sharing 👍

[@maxdeane1092]

A real master craftsman

[@B_Uttered_Sausage]

That delamination is crazy

[@nathkrupa3463]

Great work sir 👏 😊😊

[@Smyge196]

Great job once again! Nice to see that you use a hand guard on the angle grinder. Not many blacksmiths these days!

[@volkangunyeli]

Perfect job master 👌🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙌🏻

[@harriehausenman8623]

Wow! So beautiful and creative work - bravo! 🤗 This should have millions of views 😃 What a great hommage to the movie and also the craftsmanship.

[@tjguzik]

o men... no music added.. only pure work good work :)

[@flyod26]

You really made the steel look like stone, greta job! Great Video!

[@MASI_forging]

Great work dude 😉😉

[@Serenity_Dee]

Yeah, knapping a cutting tool is not something you can just learn to do in an afternoon on your own. But kudos for trying! And Prey is an astoundingly good movie, arguably the best in the franchise yet. I watched it one night and was so blown away I watched it with the Comanche-language audio track the very next morning.

[@Wangdoodle444]

Lol best in the franchise? That’s a stretch, but to each their own.

[@tomswindler64]

Impressive as always very nice 👍👍👍😎😎😎

[@sidneyriggs9764]

Very cool.

[@MrErik038]

Nice !

[@justinjordan7449]

Great video I would like to see you actually make something out of Stone one day

[@muslimmusaib8205]

Nice bro

[@TheWildboar09]

I would put and glue a wood dowel in the top and bottom of the blade to stop splitting as the blade wedges it’s self into the shaft

[@TheBHoky]

ok. Just bought the blue ray because of your video. I will also try and make one out of Obsidian.

[@andyc750]

good movie that, and like the axe, I have made a knife and sheath along the same lines

[@methlonstorm2027]

working stone takes alot of practise you where trying to take too big a cut. you need to basically chip away at the sides till you get the shape you want still its always good to try new things great vid thanks.

[@user-qu9uq4zp3s]

У вас ВСЕГДА очень интересные проекты!!!! Хотя сначала я подумал что вы будете делать топор из камня!🤗

[@derekgreene3027]

Well done buddy!!! but I gotta ask where's the stone hatchet?

[@dyermker250]

We need need heroes! Thank you.

[@bigG485]

You're a very talented man luv your work brother 💗

[@user-vw4eu5zw7l]

Больше таких видео!

[@davidcahan]

I guess I didn't notice the 'single quote" around stone. What a jip

[@savagediy8077]

Was a good movie! Hey how much would you charge to make a brass kopesh?

[@giceliovasconcelos4071]

Ficou bom heim...😊

[@iondragonx]

I looks great but those leather bindings don't hold anything, they are just there. It probably would be better with a wooden pin to keep the "stone" and handle together and just use the leather to cover it up.

[@benryan5314]

Never seen any one rock tumble on a lathe before. How long did that take?

[@derrickguffey4775]

I would have personally used a masonry wheel to shape the stone hatchet head i know its not how it was done in days past but it would have been easier and a lesser chance of the stone breaking in the way it did.

[@kaungkhantkyaw8320]

ok guys it's cute. And I'm still waiting for Angel blade from 'Supernatural'

[@jeromedangelo7028]

You should try making one of the predator's weapons.

[@luistrevino5959]

The person, who was breaking up the stone for the ax head? Why did he give up on that stone and went to a medal one? Was the stone to good to be the ax head?

[@user-gv4nt9xu8e]

What prevents the axe head from acting as a wedge and splitting the handle upon impact with a target?

[@TheFlclManiac]

The hole should be wide enough so that the axe head's "sides" arent pushing outwards. This way it is straining the wood with the grain. I believe Primitive Technology has a video that explains it well.

[@user-gv4nt9xu8e]

@@TheFlclManiac Thank you, I'll check that out!

[@denvut142]

❤

[@chyldstudios]

Predator has entered the chat ...

[@user-brobdingneg]

Очень любопытный топорик! Никогда таких не видал! 😯 Кидать такой наверное будет лучше всего на тонкой верёвке. Меньше сопротивления окажет при полёте и кинуть можно дальше🤔

[@roastedright]

Obsidian would have been there material of choice for the world's sharpest , still used today on surgical scalpels

[@RisenFromDarkness_1880]

Or flint. Either one.

[@user-qu9uq4zp3s]

Тамогавк получился ОТЛИЧНЫЙ!!!!!👍👍👍 А фильм ПОЛНОЕ ГАВНО!!!! Только первая част "Хищника" крутая!!!!

[@nedimbuyukafsar6434]

👍👍👍

[@josefranciscofontanlobo6428]

Muy buen trabajo, es impresionante. Es como el hacha del film The Prey, Naru esta a la altura de la teniente O'neill o de navegante Ripley.

[@starling84]

после сверла проще было бы прожечь отверстие.

[@hollo6546]

Can a power hammer be that fast?

[@titosteinsgaming9340]

We know the movie as skull

[@stupidocanerosa]

Avresti dovuto provare con la selce o con l'ossidiana. La prima più resistente, la seconda più tagliente ma più fragile. Comunque bella.

[@victorpapaavp]

Nice work my friend! Might I suggest, if you'd like to continue to learn flintknapping skills, maybe make yourself a set of copper boppers? I'm sure you could envision some brilliant and beautiful tools for the proper processing of that lovely piece of chert for next time!

[@djwindkind]

Noice!

[@tinbenderbear3248]

Use the mill dude lol

[@Tammy-un3ql]

👍👍👌👌

[@gabeerspamer3979]

You could’ve made the tool via knapping and grinding, though that’s a much more difficult skill to learn compared to forging.

[@teresacole9102]

could anyone tell is wasent stone but metal

[@nathansmith1085]

Pretty was a really good movie, but I'm a sucker for anything Aliens or Predator

[@Face-less_fell_low.]

Get over here 😂

[@ClenioBuilder]

👏👏🤜🤛

[@applea-yj5vp]

Keep doing oi

[@darrengriffiths2372]

So you given up on the ston then com fuse dont com

[@titosteinsgaming9340]

It's tomahawk

[@madcapmagician6018]

Please don't give up on making an actual stone axe, you can do it lol , if love to see that 👍

[@gvozdenoutlaw4895]

You missed the point, it's a tomahawk with a stone blade, not a metal blade!

[@edstringer1138]

The secret power to the axe is feminism

[@wickdghost3639]

You cut out the high carbon cutting edge. That's not going to be nearly as sharp as it could be. That's why the rust was sub surface. It was a poor forge welding job when it was made and rusted between the two steels

[@Wangdoodle444]

Cool steel axe. Cannot wait to see the Stone axe lol. A broad cold chisel does best for chipping away at stone to shape it. Prey was mid. Everyone else around her does all of the killing; she finishes off the work her tribesmen did to wear down the predator lol

[@crazyidea83]

You using bad stone .. need silicit for knife or axe

[@kingyames]

Little late on this one lol

[@doriWyo]

I think it was the wrong kind of stone.

[@amazoniancustodian]

1:24 this image makes me uncomfortable

[@stanbinary]

Native American tomahawk...to be exact

[@stanbinary]

@@MOb_mbo6 I agree - I have not been specific enough: plug in google "native american tomahawk", switch to images and you will find a few stone samples proudly displayed in the Smithsonian (which I have seen a few years ago). I believe the sample you can find is a Sioux from South Dakota. Hope this helps.

[@peltiereric6497]

Wrong type of Stone was your problem to start off. Also historically at the time in the film Stone Axes and Blades were being phased out because of contact with Europeans either directly trading with them or looting bodies and camps after conflicts. Also don’t worry about not getting the fundamentals of axe throwing as Amber Midthunder struggled with it too when she tried but in the movie itself it was all special effects and lightweight foam axes that they had in hand during filming

[@AndyFromBeaverton]

Part-time dentist?

[@rrochsr]

very nice craft! but skip the clickbait. I almost stopped watching when I realized that. you do nice stuff so don't fall for the lure of a few extra viewers

[@brainplay8060]

Prey... The cleanest Native Americans ever fight a 8ft tall intelligent alien who has superior technology. Except its by a 5'2" woman with no upper body strength and whose makeup never gets messed up who bests the other bigger, stronger, warriors in her tribe all while slipping in some "white people bad" French traders. But somehow "certain" critics think it's the best of the franchise. On a side note, axes sold to the Natives looked a lot like that originally as many blacksmiths in the area was not very skilled. Some example look much much worse.

[@BoomerMcBoom]

Because throwing a stone tomahawk into a tree NEVER damages the stone AX head. RIDICULOUS. Stopped watching it 5 minutes in. LAUGHABLE Premise.

[@anthony1029]

Cheater, you used power tools.

[@user-je3ry7te6b]

Фильм Добыча -полнейшая чушь, снятая по голливудской повестке, какая на фиг в те времена эмансипация? Метательный, каменный топор на веревке-такое мог придумать только дошкольник в своих фантазиях перед сном, меня вообще поражают люди которые хвалят этот кринж, что у вас в голове? Такое оружие невозможно потому что оно невозможно, какую задачу можно выполнить с помощью этого топора? Камень твердый но хрупкий материал, чтобы его обработать нужно затратить большое количество времени, и вот ты его метнул, он попал не под тем углом, не туда, тупо срикошетил, ударился не острием а плоскостью, веревка опять же зацепилась за сучек, упал на камни, итог топор раскололся вдребезги и пополам, иди тупая девочка делай новый. Каменные топоры не метали!!! Для этого существовали, метательные дубины, бумеранги и боло-боло. И автор ролика занимается откровенной херней, зная что параметрых стали диаметрально отличаются от параметров кремня. Спасибо за внимание.

[@user-ji7du9ty5d]

Prey is very stupid fem movie

[@WilliamEllison]

Stupid Movie to be honest.

[@dieterbletten2494]

So you are lying and clickbaiting?

[@BlackBeardProjects]

Really?! Come on man! I was hoping "Forging" and "Stone" was enough to save myself this kind of comments 😆

[@SchwentnerY0]

maybe u should watch the video to the end and then start commenting.

[@melgillham462]

Dont see any lying or click baiting. And hes not the first to be inspired by a movie or history to do something that mirrors it. Its inspirational the texturing was very creative. It actually resembles stone. I dabble in flint knapping, and forging myself. Its fascinating.

[@melgillham462]

​@@BlackBeardProjectsI think it was awesome. If you decide to, there are some amazing channels on flintknapping and even hunting using stone weapons even knives. One such channel is called "hunt primitive". It's a fascinating subject. Thx for the share and I think you nailed the texturing. 🤝👍

[@inventiveowl395]

So can you read?