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A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

SniperWoreConverse posted:

how were these made, seriously. They're beautiful.

I want to melt down my beer cans and steal scrap copper and make this how do I do it

You use a really, really sharp chisel to make a sort of dovetailed cutaway in the steel in the shape you want, lay a sheet of silver (or brass or whatever) cut in that shape over the outline, and hammer the poo poo out of it until it swages in. then polish. it takes for loving ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaTwmcuCqtg

if you value your time more than you value it looking amazing for thousands of years you can also just paint on a resist and electroplate it, because you live in the 21st century. not recommended for your battle sword

A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 21:29 on Oct 24, 2017

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