Get ready to enjoy a three part video on the next page that will cover how to make a Maquahuitl (Aztec Sword) from scratch.
While its utility in a survival situation is limited, it is important that everyone preparing for a survival situation or SHTF moment understand the basics of making their own tools and weapons. It is also important to comprehend how to use hand tools to build and fix things.
This project will show you how to use hand tools, wood, natural paste (glue) and Obsidian blades to make the Macuahuitl.
The construction covers the basics of woodworking as well as how to use a hand saw to build the grooves for the Obsidian blades. It also has practical applications in other wood-related projects.
Check out the next page to see this incredible project come to fruition!
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Joshua Orion Heller
Charles Neil Prestwood Jace Hargrove
Roberto Martinez-Loyo
Thanks for sharing
Felenari Armoury
A very good skill set.
Getting pretty good at it
Gavin Taylor
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You make? I like
Freddy Martinez
Damn right..I’m gonna try …well I made them in my past life
Lol
Yes thank you added Knapping to my skill sets
Yep have made a bunch thank you
Nice work
Obsidian is pretty brittle. Cool blade, but as a bladesmith myself, there’s no way it would compete with anything like 5160 or 1084.
Draw filing is something that can be done by hand. 😉
Todays
Yelvie Gonzales
Let me hit you with it and see how well it holds up.
Go ahead. I wear a plate carrier. It’ll snap. It won’t do much to 5160 or 1084.
Or maybe I’ll block it with my rifle, etc. You know, cause I’m just going to stand there and let you hit me with a sword. That’s how combat works.
Or maybe I’ll just melee with one of my 5160 blades. Sure, you’ll knick the edge, but I can still kill you with a knicked edge. You’ll have a lot harder time with a broken blade.
@Jon, I’ve had good results using A2 and D2 tool steel for barstock removal in knives, and was wondering if you had used them before and what your thoughts might be.
I haven’t used either. D2 especially is nearly impossible to get “perfect” without a heat treat oven and cooling plates, which I don’t have the money to invest into currently. I don’t experiment with steels that I am not 100% positive I can follow the ASM International recommended methods of heat treatment and temper.
I personally stick to 1084, 1084FG if I can find it, 5160, and O1, solely because they are simple to work with and don’t require elaborate equipment to get perfect according to ASM specs.
Why?
Lucas Nelson , John Artman just doesn’t get it.
I get it perfectly.
I also get that obsidian sucks for swords. That’s science.
It lacks toughness and impact resistance needed to make a resilient sword. You miss? Broken. You hit a tree? Gone. Bone? Forget it.
That isn’t opinion, that’s absolute fact, which is why it isn’t being done.
William Kolkhorst
And then the guy that took the time to learn to work metal breaks your “sword” and use your blood to paint his house…
Your neck won’t slow it down much though.
So SHTF and the only materials i have access to are obsidian and plant fiber robe? Where the$#%&!@*would that happen?
what a fuckin joke lol
Cool
Assuming you just happen to have obsidian in your bug out bag
Josie Siler
I thought about doing this, then I decided if I got real desperate my Buck knife would probably work best.
If it gets to the point that there is no steel. And nobody knows how to make steel. Then apes will rule the world
That’s incredible. What a craftsman!
Josie Siler
Get started on yours!! Good Project for you!!!
You could use glass from an old TV, or an aquarium, or a glass table top, or any other thick glass product. (Aside from car windshields and windows)
Shannon Webster
Harrell Wiggins
most aquariums are tempered or acrylic and almost all glass tables are tempered glass so it will not knapp . your best bet is old TV screens and beer bottles
I’m working on making a atlatl it won’t work in hand-to-hand combat but I can get you from a little ways off… once I learn how to use the damn thing !!!lol
Harrell Wiggins Taryll has made a couple and can throw it
throwin ain’t the hard part I got to learn how to hit what I’m aiming at…lol
I’m halfway decent with a bow and arrow
I’m awful with both but I will kick a mufugga in the shin in a heartbeat
#steeltoeboots