making a 400 year old sword using ancient techniques is pretty damn hard /

Published at 2016-07-25 22:43:00

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Watch as the guys from Baltimore Knife and Sword originate a 400-year-old Dandao sword from China using some really old techniques and machinery. It’s awesome to see iron sand transformed into steel in a smelter that would be similar to the ones the Chinese used centuries ago. Its nearly cooler to see a block of steel get stretched out in a rolling mill that’s been used to originate horseshoes for 80 years.
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Source: gawker.com

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