Man at Arms: Forging Swords from Multiple Media

[Coír Draoi Ceítien]

See, there's this channel on YouTube - AWE me - that has several types of videos, but based on the interests of Raven, as seen in several of his topics related to research projects, I'd like to draw attention to Man at Arms, in which a team of blacksmiths actually make real working replicas of various swords and weapons from film, video games, and television. I admit that it may be more suited to my own past interests, considering that it has little historical value - if you're not saturated in the popular media at large, it probably won't hold much interest. Still, it's pretty cool to see them put so much professional work into making it actually real, no matter how impractical it may seem. Anyone interested in the actual forging aspect will probably find this extremely informative.

Here's the complete series so far released, divided by seasons. New episodes are released every other Monday.

Season 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUUGFk1wE5OGC2aiE5jhvE4lvo7I2hYKc

Season 2: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUUGFk1wE5OHxpJzzHKxFWZNTl_jSFVHl

Season 3: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUUGFk1wE5OFzJNb17KKGaTjP6yG6OKE4

[Raven]

This looks like a really cool series. I've seen a vid or so of these pop up in my suggestions before, I think. At any rate, I just glanced at a couple of the episodes (Link's Hylian shield, Orcrist). They seem to do really nice work. May be something I have to explore more.