Assassins Creed style Hidden Blade?

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MarineBlade96

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I am a young blacksmith looking to tackle one of the most complex and mysterious forms of blade deployment I have ever seen, the Assassins Creed hidden blade.
My friend and I may have found a system that may work; however, it is still in its prototype stages. i am looking for some advice on material for the blade, housing unit, and anyone who is great with engineering this kind of complex system.

My friend and I are going to be making the housing unit out of,I believe, out of 12 gauge steel plating. We are also planing on using springs for the deployment and tension system.

There is one thing that I'm not sure about a few things, how to forge the dagger style blade, should the blade be tempered, and is there a simpler idea for housing?

Any and all advice is welcome.
 
I would say learn a little bit about forging blades and HT and stuff of that nature. From the looks of it its basically a simple dagger shape but daggers arent IMHO a beginners blade to try forging and finishing ofcourse I could be wrong but depending on how well finished you want it doing 4 grinds vise 2 ups the anti.

If you want a effective blade then yes heat treat and temper accordingly.

Try not to send it thru your hand :D
 
JParanee said:
What is this Assassins creed style blade you speak of :)
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It's from the video game series Assassin's Creed. It's a hidden spike attached to a mechanism on the wrist so it can deploy and retract. Kind of like the Predator's but it goes under instead of over.

Good luck making one.
 
benchwarmer380 said:
It's from the video game series Assassin's Creed. It's a hidden spike attached to a mechanism on the wrist so it can deploy and retract. Kind of like the Predator's but it goes under instead of over.

Good luck making one.
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I understand

Sounds like it could be painful
 
It looks like you have to remove one of your fingers for it to function properly.
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Burl Source said:
It looks like you have to remove one of your fingers for it to function properly.
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That was actually part of the story line until the second one when davincii re engineered it lol. I always thought it would be interesting to just take a cheap double action otf and put it on a wrist band then attach a chopstick to the lever and put that on your thumb or something.
 
oh, jeebus.
should the blade be tempered?!
I need another drink.
 
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Browse this forum. There are so many designs and ideas for hidden blades it will make your head swim (they call them xyphoids). They range from simple ones made from ball bearing drawer slides, to complex oversize DAOTF switchblades. There is a ton of great stuff there. If you want a hidden blade, my recommendation is to worry about perfecting the deployment mechanism first. You can always use a cheap aluminum blade at first and then interchange it with a real blade once you have a reliable mechanism. Also, I wouldn't even try to forge a dagger, at my skill level (pretty low). Careful stock removal, with a file guide seems plausible though. If you get that far, heat treat and temper it like any other knife. There is plenty of info on that on this forum. For steel 1080 would be best if you're doing HT yourself.
 
I would look into the design of prosthetic limbs. Engineers have worked out a lot of the design elements you're considering long ago. If somebody can make a prosthetic hand that will function in a complex and natural manner much like a human hand just through subtle nuances in how your extend and pivot your elbow, surely you can come up with a mechanism to extend an OTF knife.
 
I enjoy the idea and it would be cool to show your friends (providing nobody sends the blade through their hand)
I figure it would look something like an oversized OTF deployment, maybe shaped like a flask if possible to contour to the wrist/forearm. The blade can be added afterward but the mechanism is going to be the biggest hurtle. :D good luck
 
There's a fellow named Ammnrra or something like that on YouTube that did a great one of these. Bear in mind this would be illegal pretty much everywhere for civilian carry, open or not.
 
If you can track down adamantium, it would be a worthy steel for this project. Does anyone know the HT recipe for adamantium? I checked Kevin Cashen's site, and it doesn't seem like he's worked with it yet.
 
Reminds me of the old Nazi doctor guy in the movie Marathon Man. He had something pretty much the exact same.

Pretty sweet looking contraption.

IS IT SAFE?
 
Josh Mason said:
Reminds me of the old Nazi doctor guy in the movie Marathon Man. He had something pretty much the exact same.
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Who would have thought Sir Laurence Olivier would bring some "street cred" to yet another Assassin's Creed thread? ;) :D

I love that these threads pop up periodically. "Those who study the past are condemned to see it repeated" (with apologies to Santayana).
 
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