Not a lie but my father and I made a dagger out of an iron bar. So when the iron is heated carbon is added making it "steal." Added a hand grip, this is among the weird projects I do (another being the homemade airsoft gun.)
I want to get a longer piece of thin iron and make a biggoron sword replica!
And if anyone is wondering how we got the metal red hot, well we used a welding torch. My dad would get the metal red hot, then place the metal on the anvil where I would smack that shit (IMO a tiring job.) There's also ways of cooling the metal to prevent from excessive flexibility and brittleness. First we heated it red hot then dipped it in water which cooled it very quickly making the metal brittle. Second you take the steel and get it red hot then slowly cool it down (really slowly) using some rags, insulation, and sand.