The ironware I made shines

Chapter 99 Removing Impurities
Ge Xiaohua closed his eyes and meditated, remembering every detail of the Eight-faced Han Sword in his heart, and suddenly opened his eyes. Under the close-up of the camera, the eyes seemed to be shining. With some special effects added in the later stage, it is estimated that it will be similar to Monkey King.

Just like the last time he made a weapon, after Ge Xiaohua designed the shape, specifications, details, etc. of the sword, he would throw the drawings into the furnace. It was actually a sense of ritual, but it also made the ironware unique.

The production of the Eight-faced Han Sword takes repeated folding and forging. It takes a lot of time and energy to forge iron into hundreds of steels. In order to achieve the best quality of this Eight-faced Han Sword, Ge Xiaohua did not use it. The air hammer is forged purely by the big hammer, small hammer, and violent hammer.

In one day, what you see is folding, hammering, and knocking. After repeated cycles, the filming team is a little tired of aesthetics, let alone the audience, but these shooting pictures will not be presented in full, and the boring pictures will be edited out. Some essence.

After one day's filming, Ge Xiaohua may have to fight for another day tomorrow, so he explained the situation to Guo Caixia in advance.

"Xiaohua, what did you build? It looks like a bronze sword?"

"The Eight-faced Han Sword was originally made of bronze swords. Because of the material, the bronze cannot be made too long, so it was completely replaced by the iron sword. Folding and knocking repeatedly, it will be like this for the next few days.”

"How many more days will we beat?"

"Yes, manual beating is time-consuming and labor-intensive. If the requirements are not met, the next step cannot be carried out."

"any request?"

"The purity of fine steel depends on experience."

"Is there a standard?"

"No, it all depends on one's eyesight."

Ge Xiaohua's words made Guo Caixia fall into deep thought. If Ge Xiaohua kept beating and didn't proceed to the next step, what would happen to the subsequent shooting?Won't the whole team stay here all the time to shoot the beating scenes?
What Ge Xiaohua said next made Guo Caixia even more speechless.

"Sister Caixia, do you know that the famous sword in the legend takes several years to forge. Do you know the snake-slaying sword of Han Gaozu Liu Bang? It is the Eight-faced Han Sword, also known as Chixiao Sword."

"A few years..." Guo Caixia appeared to be in a state of dementia. She didn't speak for a long time, but was interrupted by the cameraman Xiao Zhou.

"Sister Guo, are you still filming tomorrow?"

"Shoot, why not shoot!"

The next day, Ge Xiaohua was still folding and forging. Even the cameraman who was shooting felt bored and almost fell asleep. Especially the blacksmith was extremely hot. It was hard to imagine that Ge Xiaohua could bear it. Not only could he endure loneliness, but also The quality of the body is so strong. After folding and exercising all day yesterday, and repeating the same work today, Ge Xiaohua can still burst out with such passion.

"Isn't his arm sore? Why didn't he use a mechanical hammer? Doesn't he have an air hammer?" Guo Caixia had great doubts. Is this the backward forging technology or the most advanced?As a layman, I have no idea what the Eight-faced Han Sword and the so-called Four-faced Han Sword are.

It was another day of forging. At night, Ge Xiaohua called it a day, and so did the filming team. Guo Caixia didn't ask Ge Xiaohua, because she knew that Ge Xiaohua had said at the beginning of filming that he could not interfere with his normal life, which also included forging work.

What's more, it is said that Ouyang Group has reached a strategic partnership with West Guizhou TV Station and has become the biggest sponsor of the TV station. It not only named "Extraordinary Blacksmith", but also named the most popular news program of West Guizhou TV Station at present, so as a pull Ge Xiaohua, a major sponsor, even the head of the station has to give some face.

For three whole days, Ge Xiaohua repeated the forging, and every time he struck the iron material, the impurities would be reduced by one point.

When Ge Xiaohua felt that the piece of iron on his body had become a hundred-smelting steel or even a thousand-smelting steel, he would stop forging.

"It's done!" Ge Xiaohua saw that the model of the sword body was gradually formed, and the surface was forged countless times to form patterns, which showed that his efforts had paid off.

"Closer! Close-up!" Guo Caixia commanded the No. 3 camera team to shoot the semi-finished iron sword of the anvil.

The next work was more complicated, Ge Xiaohua needed to calm down, and it was a bit late after checking the time, so he went to rest, leaving a room full of people looking at each other.

The next day, Ge Xiaohua polished and quenched the sword body. This is the most important thing. A belt sander is used for grinding. If a traditional whetstone is used, the efficiency will be much lower, and it will take several days to polish, which is even more wasteful. Time, and the custom-made belt machine is not inferior to the stone whetstone, and sometimes it is even better, so in order to improve efficiency, it is normal to use machinery, and the fire is shining. Ge Xiaohua wears gloves and goggles Grinding, with a high degree of concentration, because it takes a long time to polish eight surfaces, so the grinding took almost 2 days, including quenching. During the quenching process, Ge Xiaohua was extremely careful.

Because grinding after quenching has the risk of annealing, Ge Xiaohua always prepares a basin of cold spring water when grinding, so that he can cool down at any time during grinding, so as to prevent annealing.

Grinding is a job that tests patience, especially the Eight-Faced Han Sword, which requires more polishing, and there is no room for distraction.

Ge Xiaohua was making the Eight-Faced Han Sword, and the filming team recorded all the process. Only then did the cameraman who knew the whole process understand how hard it is for traditional blacksmiths to forge iron, and they developed admiration for the profession of blacksmithing.

Ge Xiaohua basically completed the main part of the sword body, and polished it to the best state. Then, for the production of the scabbard and hilt, Ge Xiaohua used blue high-quality fir. Using this kind of wood can make the whole temperament of the sword Ascension, carving, inlaying, and decoration, Ge Xiaohua is mainly based on a simple style, without too many bells and whistles, and the design language from the beginning is simple!
It took a week for Ge Xiaohua to forge the first Eight-faced Han Sword in his life.

"Wow, rare!"

"Congratulations on successfully creating a Blu-ray Eight-faced Han Sword."

"Get 30 points of ingenuity."

With Ge Xiaohua successfully creating a Blu-ray eight-faced Han sword, the filming also came to an end. It took a full week just to create a Han sword. The store has been filmed for 10 days, and these images will be handed over to post-processing. When it will be launched, it may be uncertain, but the first issue should appear in the form of this documentary, and the interaction is not very strong. Can it meet the requirements of the TV station? , maybe, the first season of "Blacksmith" will die just like that?No one can say for sure, everything is based on the ratings as a reference standard.

(End of this chapter)