Optimus Prime's Sword -Transformers: The Last Knight - MAN AT ARMS
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Matt and Kerri, also known as the Stag and the Baltimore Knights, are creating the largest and most elaborate sword project on "Man at Arms: Reforged," sponsored by Transformers: The Last Knight film featuring a different portrayal of Optimus Prime. The blade, made from tool steel, requires intricate steps like forging, milling, and heat-treating before being assembled with detailed overlays and painted to create a battle-worn appearance, making it the most complex sword ever built on the show.
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- The sword being created on "Man at Arms: Reforged" is the most elaborate and largest project attempted, involving intricate details such as a guard made of 20 pieces for the pommel and 140 scales on the handle.
- The construction process of the sword includes a meticulous series of steps such as forging, hammering, milling, welding, heat-treating, tempering, and polishing, resulting in the assembly of the largest and most complex sword ever built on the show.
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Recent questions
What is "Man at Arms: Reforged" about?
A YouTube series where weapons are built.
What is the movie "Transformers: The Last Knight" about?
A film revealing secrets of the past.
Who is Optimus Prime in "Transformers: The Last Knight"?
A character wielding an 18-foot sword.
How is the sword on "Man at Arms: Reforged" created?
Through forging, hammering, and milling.
What makes the sword on "Man at Arms: Reforged" unique?
It is the most elaborate and largest project attempted.
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Summary
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"Transformers Sponsor Episode: Building Elaborate Sword"
- Matt and Kerri, known as the Stag and the Baltimore Knights, are building weapons on "Man at Arms: Reforged."
- The episode is sponsored by Transformers: The Last Knight, a film revealing secrets of the past.
- Optimus Prime is no longer a noble hero in the movie, wielding an 18-foot sword, one of the largest in film history.
- The sword being created on the show is the most elaborate and largest project attempted.
- The blade is made from tool steel, forged, hammered, and milled to create two halves that will be joined.
- The sword's guard is intricate, with 20 pieces making up the pommel and 140 scales on the handle.
- The blade sections are cut, formed, and welded together, with detailed overlays added for decoration.
- The tang, serving as the sword's armature, is double-sided and calculated using a compass and a printed image.
- The blade is heat-treated, tempered, and straightened before being shaped and polished to a smooth finish.
- The cross guard is forged from a large round stock, punched with a center hole, milled, and detailed with hammer and chisel work.
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"Man at Arms crafts intricate sword"
- Pieces were created to lock onto the guard, central pieces were cut out of half-inch material, l-shaped land jets were made to be mounted on the central bar, overlays were added to cover the central pieces, and runes were engraved on the sword blade using a dremel tool.
- The parts were painted red or blue, distressed to appear battle-worn, and assembled into the largest and most complex sword ever built on Man at Arms, with hundreds of pieces involved in the construction.
