In this video, we will melt rusty springs into wootz steel. Then we will show the forging of the wakizashi sword. A lot of work was done for this project, we made a bigger crucible than ever before.

Old steel tools can often be repurposed into new blades through careful forging. In this project, a rusted iron saw is heated in a forge and reshaped into a katana-style sword. The process begins by ...

It can take more than a year to make a single razor-sharp katana. In Japan, business is booming for the few remaining smiths who know how to do it. At Nippon Genshosha, a sword workshop on Japan’s ...