Run by Artist blacksmith Will Holland FWCB. The aim We started creating videos here on RU-vid in order to share blacksmithing tips, tricks, guides and tutorials with all of you and to demonstrate how the team create and craft some of their bespoke projects, Share what goes on behind the scenes and give an insight in to how they make some interesting items. Expect new videos added weekly and feel free to make suggestions for projects and videos.
This was a nice little video explanation, I'm a hobbyist knife maker and was looking at converting a pneumatic log splitter into a forge press but I've recently seen these and wondered what the minimum size I would need for my knives (At most my billets are only 2" thick but I'm clueless regarding what I'd need), all the best from here in Yorkshire matey.
The amount of good information, the clarity in delivering it, the quality of the job and ideas poured into, this channel should have 30X more subscribers.
The first roman pilum throw is to remove the shield and stop the charge. The second pilum throw's purpose is to kill or seriously injure the enemy, making clean up with the gladius easy work. There I go again, another day thinking of the glory of Rome.
Or better yet, the pilum does as fully intended and penetrates not only the shield but also the person holding it with a foot or so of metal thanks to the long head.
You will get better performance in the crossbow if you use stag horn or a moose horn crown to make the nut out of instead of a metal one, because the lightness of the roller nut makes for a fast release, and thus adds a small amount more power to the cast of the bolt. A steel insert within the horn nut provides the hard material for the sear so it doesn't wear out. A simple shortcut for making the insert is to drill and tape a hole through the nut and used 5/16" threaded epoxied in place instead of the steel wedges hide glued in as found in authentic medieval bows. I've made medieval crossbows for years, and the 1490's ornate bone inlaid light hunting crossbows are my favorite because of their detailed inlay and curvey shape of the tiller (stock).
I own a crossbow only I didn’t make it I bought it but it isn’t in my house it’s in my brother’s house! I showed this video to him hoping he’d make one but I’d think he’d buy one!
Fun fact later in history people invented two chamber blacksmiths bellows that require the same amount of materials. But are more technological easier to use and allow for continuous airflow.
Once I tried to pick up a chisel. Unfortunately it was still hot and for the next days everything I touched with the two fingers felt like smooth plastic. Though it gave me good oportunities for pranks including "too hot" food.
That music reminds me of every irish pub I've ever been to, especially in Dublin - they all have some dreadful band set up in a corner banging out awful noise like that.
