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Watching in movies several knights, fighting with their swords, must have stimulated you to own a sword or make it on your own. Though you can buy the sword from the market, you most probably would like to know as to how to make a sword at home. There are a variety of options regarding sword making which you should opt, keeping in view convenience and cost. You should go for such option which may prove to be of great ease and make you feel proud of a sword you make on your own. 

Do not start in haste and randomly to make a sword as it has got to make you repent latter on in case you fail to accomplish the project of making sword independently. If you are determined and sure of making the sword successfully, you should embark on a project, expected to help you make a sword efficiently. 
     
As making of sword is the job of blacksmith who professionally happens to be efficient enough in giving all types of metal bars a shape of sword spontaneously, your decision to make a sword rather needs a diligence and a seriousness on your part while seeking to make a sword independently.

There are many options regarding sword making which you can go for, such as hard iron sword, wood sword, aluminum sword and stainless steel sword. Making a sword requires several factors to be kept uppermost in mind such as size of sword, its shape and metal composition. With the introduction of several innovative technologies and extraordinary metal compositions, wide range of metal bars can be used to make an extraordinary light weighted sword. The ready made metal bars ease the sword making to a great extent.  

Before moving ahead in making a sword you should get yourself equipped with some specific tools. Just after getting yourself equipped with the required tools, you should arrange indispensable metal bar as well, needed to be used to make a sword of your own choice. Lets learn how to make a sword independently.

• Arrange at least a 6” metal bar, heat it in a forge and beat with a hammer or anvil to cause a desired shape of sword. The sword will be shaped only after repeated heating and beating of metal bar.
• Despite creating a desired shape of sword blade, your target to make sword is yet not complete. The metal on being repeatedly heated and hammered losses all of its strength and flexibility. And keeping in view a natural brittleness of metal, you are needed to  make it strong and flexible.
• In order to provide flexibility, strength and hardness to the blade of sword, heat the sword blade and let it cool slowly by wrapping it with some heat absorbing material. It is called a annealing process, making blade of sword flexible and hard, a special quality of sword.
• Your sword still being soft and flexible is required to be made hard. Heat the sword at a high a temperature and put it immediately into the water tank. Such a sudden transfer of sword from high temperature into cold water has got to provide your sword with desired hardness. Though you’ve finished the process to make a sword approximately, a hidden brittle is yet to be removed.
• In order to eliminate brittleness from sword blade, heat it again, but at lower temperature. Do the same process again which you did in order to harden the sword previously by heating the sword blade at very low temperature and putting it into cold water repeatedly. This process is very conspicuous to be executed in order to maintain sword’s required hardness, develop over it a strong sharp edges and maintain its exceptional flexibility, the extraordinary qualities of a good sword.

Although you’ve successfully completed the job to make a sword successfully with your strenuous efforts, it is yet not a sword without pummel the guard and hilt. After fitting additional parts on sword blade, you are now ready with a sword.