**The Making of Leviathan: A One Day Build**

This is looking really freaking fantastic oh my god my nephew is one happy young man excellent okay so uh right ah right I want to put the um wrapping on this first right I mean the um yeah and that's a specific thing I'm going to use tape for that so it goes from i'm going to weather this gray once it's on all right I feel like that is the spirit of the of the handle yup and that's about where you want to grip it so now we gotta get a little bit of gray wash on there and that's a gonna bit of black a little bit of white actually it's going to be a lot of white and very little black and a little bit of black that's the tiniest and once we get the black on you see how quickly that's literally that was like one q-tip's worth of black I'm just gonna get this all over here and then peel it back off think i could go just a tiny bit darker on that and so i'm going to get a little more black going in there oh yeah that just totally brings this whole thing back to what i think i am now going to attach the axe head to the axe and I am going to use ca glue to secure the whole thing same here same here excellent.

The last thing the last thing in this and it's looking really good is a black wash a black wash so I'm going to toss out this gray wash we're going to hit it with just a little bit of black acrylic and I'm going to toss in some artists medium and I'm also going to toss in a little bit of water just got a bucket of water for cooling down stuff and it's got dirt and everything i don't care and some of these and first seeds to just kind of pull some details out these final coats of paint they tie everything back together and now I'm gonna get some up here bringing it up and then I'm gonna do the faces of the axe yeah and get it up in there yes now we get it in these details just kind of get this all over yep i want it to be a little bit dirtier all right it's not moving let's get a clear coat on this whole head uh oh right one last thing let's get a little bit of rubbing in the box ladies and gentlemen I present to you Leviathan for Christmas Leviathan for Christmas it's what everybody's getting it's what every little kid wants get your kid a magic axe made by the same people who made the owner i really appreciate you guys joining me for this one day build this has been a really really really really fun one um I used a pine 4x4 and two sheets of Sintra and that's it this might be one of the lowest cost one day builds I've ever done I mean it's pretty straightforward uh I I'm very happy uh merry christmas everybody stay safe and i hope your holidays are awesome or were awesome this is probably airing after the holidays see you guys next time thank you for watching that entire video if you'd like to support us further you can head over to the tested store links are in the comments below and you can buy things like our demerit badges you've heard of merit badges these are the opposite this one here is for measuring once and cutting twice we went back and forth whether to measure once and curse twice because that also happens we went with the cut twice and this is one of my all-time favorites this is when you accidentally release the mysterious blue smoke that makes all electronics work and then they no longer work you can't release that smoke head over to our store get yourself some demerit badges and we will see you next time

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey everybody adam savage here in my cave and it is the christmas season right it might be  after christmas season when you're watching this but right now it is the christmas season  and um you might or might not know this about me in addition to having children i also have some  nephews and nieces uh in the pacific northwest and my nephew wrote to me last week he texted me he's  uh in his mid-teens and he said uh that he had a really great idea for me for a one-day build  he said there's this game it's called god of war and there's an accident called the  leviathan and it's got magical powers and maybe i should build one and then  about 10 minutes later i got a second text from him that said also i want onei love this i love this uh he sent me a picture of the leviathan and i i haven't played god of  war but i did some research supposedly built by the same people that built mjolnir uh thor's  hammer this is awesome this is an awesome one-day build i'm going to do it i'm going to send him  the uh i'm going to send him the x i've also got a commencer present for his sister that will  satisfy of course um but god of war acts that's what's coming up that's today's one day build  um one thing i did was i decided arbitrarily on a size of about 32 inches tall about that  tall and then i photoshopped it that size and printed it out in a kind of a tiled fashionyes so that i i could print one out full size and then just copy it it's going to have a wood  handle and a foam head with some plastic in the middle to give it some rigidity and i'm hoping to  complete the whole thing in about five hours we will see first things first tape together  this uh this uh set of drawings that i have well this is one of those cases where uh  tiling something together is a great way one having a one-to-one copy  it's just it's hard to overestimate just what a powerful thing it is to have a one-to-one sized  copy of a thing you are replicating there's just no way you're gonna get a better  a better building sample than this uh it runs a lot of mistakes off at the passand yeahso each time i'm going to do the print i'm literally just selecting a portion printing  that and then overlapping heavily to do another one and then overlapping overlapping overlap  it's like um poor men's tiling and i still maintain that it's ridiculous there's not a great  piece of software for this but we work with what we've got and it's great when the drawing you're  working from has a lot of detail in it because it gives you a lot of registration to play with  uh once i'm finished with this i will probably cut it out yeah probably cut it into two pieces  all right now here is where it's a little confusing because i didn't bridge acrossoh yeah easy i got the cloth here to match up that's a great oneoh also this end is gonna be really really fun oh wow i really didn't give myself a lot of  room to move there did i oh yeah i cut that one just a little too close in my printing but i see  the bottom of the yeah there we go that's what i was looking for this technique of doing up up  and looking underneath that's actually how in betweeners how animators often in between  between uh animation drawings flip flip flip yep okay so that's how big it's gonna be oh  yeah merry christmas nothing says merry christmas like a war axe that's what i always say taping up  the back so it's nice and uh monolithic yes that is my favorite word it's true we will cut thisthe hard part of this build actually i feel like it's going to be the wooden  handle i want to get that right so there is my leviathan templateawesome now i am going to cut the handle i think out of here out of this piece  of pine 4x4 the question is can i get it out of this piece of pine 4x4 and it looks like  i can it looks like i'm going to have some knots but actually if i stay up here that's pretty clean  yeah that's actually not bad at all all right i've done a pencil sketch of thisof the leviathan handle andi'm going to transfer it to sharpie so i don't lose okay now i'm going to cut this out  on my bandsaw and i'm going to leave myself up here at the head of the axe i'm going to leave  myself a bunch of extra material so that i can grab onto this while i'm working on it because  i'm going to need to do a lot of shaving and carving and all sorts of that kind of businessall right it's already starting to feel like something um but now it's time so and i did  a thing i like to do on builds like this i used the bandsaw on an angle to just soften  the corners that just gives me a little more guidance about where i want this to go but if  you look at it here against the template i think you'll see that we're in pretty good shape yeah  that's pretty darn close uh right i want to shave some stuff off of here i'm gonna be  shaping this like a prop maker not like a carpenter so you may be surprised at  some of the techniques i'm about to use i also don't know if you remember  many months ago i was pulling out my grinder to use it and i pulled it out spun it up just to test  it and then as it spun down it um kicked off its little tightening wheel and that tightening wheel  was flying somewhere in the shop and i didn't find it in that one day build i actually had to  find another one um i found it this morning how about that all right so this is gonna be  a bunch of grinding i think i'm gonna get a mask cause i'm about to make a lot of dustwhen people are making actual rifle butts or axe handlesthere are how do i say this i'm gonna start so most of the time online when  i see people who start with a template like this and then go to sand it into the round  if this is the cross section of the piece of wood we're talking about what i see is people doing  rounding like like this and they leave these big wide flat expanses it is something i most  particularly see in um boba fett and tuscan raider rifle butts um which there are some  flat-ish areas of some of those gun butts historically there's less than you think  and specifically for an axe handle it's really important as you're as you're coming in  not to leave too much of a flat you really want to you want it to feel round you want to be keep  checking and continue to check to feel for that roundness that's what's gonna make it feel like  like a tool just a little note all right back to the mask back to the grind and by the way these  um heavy-duty flap wheels for the grinder just they move with so much wood so fast this place  i've just been doing another carpentry thing so my whole life is dust right now here we go  uh one note they can uh i got a little cut in my left index finger from this they uh they  take a lot of meat out of the wood just be aware that they'll take a lot of meat out of you tooumsofrombyedobe i was going to stain it early i got to make the uh i got to make the space here  for the axe right there's this it comes down to heredo  i would tell you stuff about chisels right nowoh but i'm making this up as i go along i'm not very good with these things so i'm just kind of  feeling it out um i'm doing a classic chisel thing of hammering in you know from each edgeand this chisel is pretty sharp i'm aware because i sharpened it myselfand once i have this edge fence and it really is like a fencenow i go in and i chisel up to that linei love cutting cross grain with a sharp chisel man that is a lovely sound  it's a crunchy and delicious sound retaining a kind of a border here just  check what i was hoping to do and then going in and pulling out the middle part and i don't  have to be aesthetically great about this middle part because i'm going to see it it gets coveredcrimes get hit  do do do doall right now i want to transfer this pattern to two pieces of this sintra  and we'll see if i can do such a thing uh i'm going to try and use this regular copy  all right here's how i'm going to transfer oh  here's how i'm going to transfer the pattern take a piece of paper here you got thiscolor printer paper for my laser printer it's pretty weak paper  and i'm pretty yeah i like this if i i went to go draw a pencil line and what i noticed is it split  right around where the pencil went so that's actually how i'm going to make this cut outandcome up here trim those later this is the left side ll all right i've got the patterns uh drawn out here on the sintra this is going to be some of  my main material for this axe i'm going to cut it out on the bandsaw way over there  let me get it in the same shot sure why notdooh i'm gonna shape this right now it's just this very specific cross section  i'm gonna make it more like a piece of hammered metal like thisyeah there you go you can kind of see there i'm trying to eliminate some of the flats  but we'll get a lot of texturing in there later so i'm not that worried about it um  so uh the the leviathan axe is going really welluh i've got the uh two pieces that hold the blade down to the handle the handle is  in great shape i think the dragon at the bottom is super awesome uh i'm gonna make  it a little more accurate a little bit later but for right now it's totally great  um now it's time to cut out the axe and i thought i was gonna make this out of foam but i'm going  to make that of a different kind of foam than i thought i thought i was going to use his eva foam  but in fact now i realize i'm going to use sintra which is a foam but it is a foam pvc  in different countries you might know it as a product called synxit is it's a wonderful material it's uh it's got a very reasonable density it is flexible  and fairly durable and you can shatter it but it's great for cosplaying because it's also super  light and it's easy to work with tools uh it is what i used for these two pieces and you saw me  sand these down on my belt sander earlier what i'm going to end up doing is probably cutting fourmaybe three axe heads totalyeah i'm going to end up cutting out oh heat gun heat gun heat gun heat gun yessorry i didn't mean to get so excited about that but i think i figured out how i'm gonna  how i'm gonna work this and it's gonna be this thick and then i'm gonna do a good  sharpen on the blade i may make it three i may make it three blades there yeah  cool all right um so that requires that requires what you said you had to tie your iron  um i am now going to i'm going to just cut this thing outyeah just like thisthis uh leather covering on my workbench actually provides a pretty for paper a nice uh cutting mat  and i can go very lightso what i'm going to do is i'm going to uh i think tape this to to one of the boards orspray mount it oh you know what no i'm not i'm actually just going to trace it  that's what it's going to do oh so i can all right i'm going to cut these in half  and that will give me four pieces to work from 24.it's a beautiful looking blade i must say it's a lovely looking blade having worked  on a bunch of lord of the rings blades i mean having you know be familiar with those shapes  this is a really nice nice looking nice okay so this is gonna go from therethat's gonna be the part that extends all the way up to there yeah i'm going a little bit farther  so there's my axe a blade there she blows i'm gonna cut this out of two pieces yep yepnow we're going to unpack one of sintra's secret powers one of its awesome secret powers which is  um similar to pvc for a pvc pipe it can easily be heated and formed and so before i even start  to trim this a little bit what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna heat this middle section on both halves here  and then i'm going to use some spring clamps to hold them together or actually probably see them  quick one two um these will be kind of floppy once i'm ready to work with them and then i'm going to  do that get them on there get them situated with each other and then i'll start worrying about how  the other parts fit onto there but oh i i guess i can get rid of it's really great to have a  supply of citron it comes up i think it comes at least half an inch thick 12 millimeters but um  i'm just using quarter inch all right so let's do i'm just labeling what's the inside yep  and i've got my heat gun here it's already starting to soften a little bit  you want to spread the heat as evenly as possible you don't want to get it too oh yeah okay so okay  so i'm gonna keep that going hard to heat two pieces at once but i'm gonna try it  yup yup yup that's working trying to keep the heat moving all the way through  i should have a bit of time because it does have its own insulating properties here  all right so here we go let's do that and that andyep yep it's actually not it's actually working out pretty okayladies and gents you see what i'm saying right so now when i glue this it'll actually have this slot  in the middle and i can also cut this guy pretty close here i can cut this like right there here  is the stuff um the thing that's so great about pvc cement is it's a weld bond so it really doesso let's see thisyeah see that that's great i'm gonna add some pvc glue to this yeah ah come on  all right let's step in therethere we goall right uh i don't have a lot of time by that i mean hang on i want to get this  uh pvc glue sets super quickly super quickly so i'm going to want to kind ofgo fast here maybe i'll do this side first and then i'll do the other side let's maybe i'll  try that let's try one side at a time yeah that way it's a weld bond so it makes the  two pieces one it is there are weld bonds are some of my favorite glues specifically because  they uh they're such a positive jointyeah it can hold youdo the same thing over herehopefully yeah i think that actually wasn't that badgreat that's wonderful all right so on the left side here i have uh sanded down the pvc until it  meets the uh handle here actually i got to take a little bit more right hereright backthat's it just using my uh disc sander as it's spinning down that's all i really needed  and then the left one is going to sit here like this and it is going toyeah it's going to have to break out some upholstery tacks for this  so i'll cut that and then glue that and then i'll do the other side all right i've  cut this one to size it's going to go right here and i think i can officially glue itokay and go hereif i have to fill in some stuff later i will but i don't think i will damn that is looking good  yeah this is this is a super fun project this is i knew this would be super fun  yeah oh i think the other one might go on really nicely  let's see well that was a really good positive grab but there you have it  all right so let's get the other one going um one of the other things about sintra or scinex  that's so nice is because it machines so easily just using the soft part of your belt sander  is great for long kind of gentle transitions like this one and it's about to sit right here  come saw yup and i'm yeah i'm really getting pleased with thisand all of a sudden we have what looks very much and very respectably  like the leviathan kind of so i have i need to do all of this stuff i can do with a hot knife uh  a a wood burner um but this little coin here i really like i think i have something close to that  somewhere around here if i could remember where i stored it um i used it with some  british coins british policeman buttons that i used at the base of rabbit's truncheonyeah for you're the rabbit on the bbc i made the hero weapon for that show  um i think i figured it out i found a couple of pirate doubloons  uh from a treasure chest i built for savage builds and i think i'm going to utilize theseyeah i think i'm going to use a forstner bit drill a little hole okay i want to  see something really cool now we've got axe head axe head like this and this thing still  pops right off oh yeah no it's cool oh so cool okay um let's see here i'm gonna i'm gonna uh  mill these down a bit into a slightly smaller circle give me a couple minutes i'm just gonna um  i'm going to use a bucket of water to keep these cool and i'm going to use a pair of smooth jaw  pliers uh uh channel locks to hold on to it and i'm just going to  use this thing to go all the way around and it's just going to yeah  it's roughly around the circle actually it being a little rough works for theaesthetic these machine pretty easily i think they're just a alloy of zincyeah those are great now these split the difference between yeah that's great  um so i'm gonna get a forstner bit that's pretty close oh right i also have these detents here  in the side of the handle and i'm also going to put those in and i've marked them  actually already and i'm going to use three i'm going to use thismy uhoh and now oh yeah i'm really this built i don't want to jinx it i'm just happy with how it's going  i'm having so much fun i delayed going home called my wife and said i gotta  spend a couple more hours dialing this accident cause i'm really happy with itwell there you have the coin coin slot uh and the three detents i also have some um large  rivets which go here and here and here and here and those i'm actually going to use carpet tacksi'm really pleased with how this is i keep saying that i'm pleased with how this is going and please  with how this is going yes we can assume i think for the record that i like what i do  with all the tooth on the uh sintra and on the coin once i join these they're just  never gonna let go that's really nice about them okay now some carpet attackswe'll get that we'll hit that with a little  crazy glue afterwards just to make sure it's really securei'm cutting these at an angle so i still have somewhat of a  of a point on them i don't really need that much but you know every little bit helpsoh yeah i don't even need the hammer for that i can just push them ineasy glue this is the scary stuff just going to put a little dotuh i am going to hit the handle which is now 95 complete with uhyeah 95 complete i'm gonna hit it with um some scotch brite just to make everything  to bring it all to a smoother kind of persuasion yeahi think this will make it take the paint betterwonderful wonderful i thinki think it's good so now i'm going to uh do a couple thingsright it's time to sharpen the axe that is a big deal so the axe has  an edge and the edge is about thereand so okay so we're going to cut that's going to be our sharpened  edge and we're going to do the same thing over here but a much moremuch moresharpening a blade like this i'm using the same techniques as i would for grinding an  actual blade it's just moving material a lot faster than it would if it was steeli'm just going to even out some of the inconsistencies  with this finger sander excuse me nail sanderonce i get the shape right then i'll go in and i'll smooth it out with a higher gritwe are closeall right it's time for the wood burning okay so now i want to draw out exactly  the patterns that are on here i'm just burning through this build um right soall right uh i'm going to get to some painting and somei'm going to get it's on to the aesthetics this place is such a god awful mess i am  going to clean up tomorrow that's what's going to happen here but first we're going to get uh  let me get this guy covered wait  oh i went with light walnut and i wanted a darker one so i'm actually going to have to pull that out  but i'm going to finish with the light light walnut because i started i can't really undo it  not nearly dark enough we're going to go much darker hang on welcome dark walnut  oh right i also want to get some primer on this  uh i'm just going to get the stain on this first thoughyeah see that that's what i'm talking about that's what i'm sayingthat's a statement there we go all right i'm gonna let that soak for a minutein the meantime i'm gonna getsosoi'm just literally rubbing acrylic paint on this with my hand yup oh yeah  all right i'm not gonna give this a clear coat of uh krylon because i like  the protection that it gives and it's also gonna give it a more of a glossyhandle okay uh now i'm gonna do a little bit of a umlike a dark wash onnow i've got some tamiya here uh light gunmetal which i think is gonna be the base for the uhnow i've got a chrome paint i'm going to hit the edges of both blades on both  sides with the chrome paint to be like a kind of a shiny edgeall right i've just weathered the top of it with a little bit ofclear uh sorry watery golf romberg raw amber i've just tossed a little bit of raw umber on  top of that can you tell i really want to get this done tonight kind of going nuts uh okay  so now i'm going to put the the hammerhead on here and i think i'm gonna pre-prep it with  some ca glue so i can put it on permanently but let's just do a test fit for right now  this is looking really freaking fantastic oh my god my nephew is one happy young man excellent  okay so uh right ah right i want to put the um wrapping on this first right i mean the um  yeah and that's a specific thing i'm going to use tape for that so it goes fromi'm going to weather this gray once it's onall right i feel like that is the spirit of the of the handle yup and that's about  where you want to grip it so now we gotta get a little bit of gray wash on there and that'sa gonna bit of black a little bit of white actually it's going to be a lot of white and  very little black and a little bit of black that's the tiniest and once we get the black  on you see how quickly that's literally that was like one q-tip's worth of black  i'm just gonna get this all over here and then peel it back off think i could go just  a tiny bit darker on that and so i'm going to get a little more black going in thereoh yeah that just totally brings this whole thingback to what i think i am now going to attach the axe head  to the axe and i am going to use ca glue to secure the whole thing same heresame hereexcellent the last thing the last thing in this and it's looking really good is a black wash  a black wash so i'm going to toss out this gray wash we're going to hit it with  a black wash and that is how we will get it to that final final business all right  for the black wash we're going to use just a little bit of black acrylic  and i'm going to toss in some artists medium and i'm also going to toss in a little bit of water  just got a bucket of water for cooling down stuff and it's got dirt and  everything i don't care and some of these and first seeds to just kind of pull some detailsoutthese final coats of paint they tie everything back togetherand now i'm gonna get some up here  bring it up and then i'm gonna do the faces of the axe yeah and get it up in there yesnow we get it in these details here just kind of get this all over yepi want it to be a little bit dirtierall right it's not moving let's get a clear coat on this whole headuh oh right one last thing let's get a little bit of rubbing in the box  ladies and gentlemen i present to you leviathan for christmas leviathan for christmas  it's what everybody's getting it's what every little kid wants  get your kid a magic axe made by the same people who made the owneri really appreciate you guys joining me for this one day build  this has been a really really really really fun one um i used a pine 4x4 and two sheets  of sintra and that's it this might be one of the lowest cost one day builds i've ever done i mean  it's pretty straightforward uh i i'm very happy uh merry christmas everybody stay safe and i hope  your holidays are awesome or were awesome this is probably airing after the holidays  see you guys next time thank you for watching that entire video if you'd like to support us further  you can head over to the tested store links are in the comments below and you can buy things like our  demerit badges you've heard of merit badges these are the opposite this one  here is for measuring once and cutting twice we went back and forth whether to  measure once and curse twice because that also happens we went with the cut twice  and this is one of my all-time favorites this is when you accidentally release the mysterious  blue smoke that makes all electronics work and then they no longer work you can't release that  smoke head over to our store get yourself some demerit badges and we will see you next time\n"