Blacksmithing: Making a Merovingian style warrior axe. 

I miss Rowan. I feel like I learned a ton from his material and wish he was still making content like this.

You're NOT a skinflint! You are thrifty and frugal, AND a damn FINE BLACKSMITH! Thanks for your great videos! Always love what you make.

From a purely visual standpoint, I have to say that this video is fantastically composed.

Lovely work, and a beautiful concept for a project. It's nice to see you working with traditional forms and styles, and I think it makes your work stand out. More Please! :)

The big companies swindle folks into buying the inferior product they put out....but the truth is, to most people ,the stuff like you make, is not avaiable. or one doesn't know how to find it....Beautiful and practical stuff...reminds me of my childhood in NW Spain where the town smith fixed all the agricultural implements, the plows....shoed the cows and the horses/donkies......another universe altogether.....Thank k you for the video sir!!

love the design. We don't give our ancestors enough credit

This just shows 51 jealous veiwers that wished they could forge this axe!!! Great work!!!👍🏻👍🏻

I could watch your videos all day. Your narration reminds me of Attenborough narrating his nature films. Just relaxing as hell

Really lovely piece of work. 10/10 would love one of those axes

I have watched a few of your videos, and I just wanted to tell you I think you are one of the best at this. Your camera angles are great and very clear instruction plus I like your accent keep up the good work and thank-you.

well you've ruined my morning, damn it, I had work to do and got stuck in your videos 😂 really great stuff 👍

Love your thinking aloud style of narration,nice axe as well .

Awesome work please keep posting more videos. From Australia

Great video and I like that low calm tone. Keep up the great work.

I thoroughly enjoy your videos. Very informative.

hey man nice work. I tried to make the folded axe yesterday. I used a railroad spike for my mild steal and burnt it up at the start of the eye when I was wielding. I will try again with some different materials.😢 I was so close. lol

That was very nice video. Didn't like your narration at first, but it grew on me :) Great job!

Like the way it folded into an axe. Nice work.

i am really amazed and very envious! it's a beautiful piece... :)

Great work! It turned out beautiful!

I'm sure I've seen this quite a few times now, truly brilliant video. I'd kill for you to teach me some basics

Great video looks awesome! cant wait till the next video!

Awesome work very pleasant to watch.

Great video and narration. You do fine work and thanks for sharing!

Very nicely done Sir.

Beautiful piece great job mate

80% of the people don't know what they're talking about. your doing fine .

God your transitions man, did you study cinematography or something? love your videos

nice job cool axe the old guys back in the day new there stuff

Great video again! Your quality of video is so good! I have never heard of merovingian style axes, thank you for sharing. I know how difficult this is and you really make it look so easy! Do you just hit the steel very hard? I never get the steel to move so easily, maybe I'm not strong enough :( Watching this at 3 am :)

What a beauty.

now thats what I call nice forging

Whats really cool about this vid is i see you hammering on the poece with a pair of tongs that isnt quiet holding it correctly, and the steel is bouncing. I cant tell you how many times ive done that and just got annoyed when it would happen to me. But you just took it in stride, rolled with it and just kept on.

Not even done watching this video and I have to say wow

that was a lovely piece.

as always dude, gert lush, :D

I love this 💖

Very well explained. I recently made my first folded eye axe, not sure if that’s the proper term, and watching this video has helped me to correct some of the mistakes I made during the forge weld. Is that pure coke or do you use coal? Also, are you a full time blacksmith? If so, are you making a comfortable living? Who and what type of customer buys your work? Do you sell to collectors of middle age steel replicas or to blue collar types in need of reliable tools? Thank you.

Hey Rowan, nice work! I have seen the "tongues" on the poll referred to as a "helmdach"

Would be nice to see the finished product in action, was this mainly a tool or a weapon back in the days? Good job turned out great!

i like the look of the axe head we don't have smiths in the US doing this i think it would do good work over hear in are woods

Another great video. Do you happen to know the reason for the protrusions on the poll? They're rather unique.

I bet it's well capable of doing it's job, was it to reach the heart and brains 😂 good job lad

Hey rowan Ive been a subcriber for a long time and I also wanted to piont out you can draw those sides out by hand by yourself. Aroud 2 minutes in you said if you have a striker you can, well you could without one. you would make a set down on the edge of the anvil and draw it out from there. you may have not thought about it so its fine.

👍👍👍👍👍

How would anyone know anything about your welds without examining the piece?

Nice work sir from salutes from miami

I'm kinda newish to this and I was wondering why you didn't do a differential on it

Sweet!!

How do you know what temperature and how long to temper any given metal? Also, once a metal is "Quenched" in oil, is it possible to heat it again and continue forging or is it game over?

Nice work. Thanks for sharing. Could you share the dimensions of the drift you are using?

Nice Axe old chap

Hi blacksmith 👋⚒

I missed the steel type in the opening, could someone please make a note on what it is?

Those tongues along the pole are called a langet.

I am sorry to have lost track of Rowan. Any word on him?

I think the protrusions are called languets.Frank

When you're not blacksmithing, do you commentate on snooker matches?

I read that your shop is in a trust building...the rent must be brutal!

Rearly have I seen better forge welds than yours. 2018 now missing your videos! Are you ok? Anthony Kent HAWK woodlore knives UK

What is the white powder?

Why'd he leave us?

Could you please speak a bit louder and more clearly in the videos? its some times hard to hear what your saying. otherwise very nice work.

You make quite a few prototypes. Any reason why?

It looks ver Antique to me

Wasn't he the slickster with the French accent and the super hot wife in The Matrix? The Merovingian I mean....

The japanese cover there high carbon steel in straw ash and clay slurry to keep out carbon from the weld when making there stock material for swords why don't western smiths use something like that.

you said "spread the cheeks" at 6:44 lol

0:55 ...dragon?...

Do you ship to the USA

Is you vise cracking

Quedrjr de estar slando

Am I listening to snooker?

Hello do you sell your work ??

It

You exposed yourself ? to who?

wow. the british can make anything sound boring...

Time consuming