Building A Viking House (pt.1) Making Simple Work Benches 

And so the journey begins... thank you for bringing us along

Nice introduction to get started with building your Viking house. 😃 Interesting drill never seen before and beautiful hand-forged tools. I'm already enjoying it and am so looking forward to the next episode. Thank you for sharing this beautiful video with relaxing music!  Feedback Mensen zoeken ook naar

Can't wait to see the finished house. This is calming in a chaotic world.

Exciting! A new beginning! Heart and soul,....brain and brawn,....goes into each piece as you become more and more a part of the house. The hand making of things puts just a little bit of you in everything,...even in these work benches. I can tell that prior to working on anything that you do, much thought goes into each piece, to make it as authentic and functional as possible Thank you, RAMUNI, for the immersive experience that your filming and editing gives us. You are truly an artist in all that you do.

That auger is absolutely gorgeous and such a simple looking tool! Im loving this series and can't wait to see the finished house!!! ❤

Great video brother..love seeing period tools in use . Can't wait to see this project come to life.

Love where you are going with this Build Project - as the son of a carpenter myself - I'm really enjoying the concepts and reality of how to build from scratch with basic tools. I never saw that type of drill before - and would love one of my own. I do wood working, with and without power - and honestly - I like making stuff without power tools much more. Would be even more appropriate for me to try this with more "viking-age" tools and see what I can do as well. Thanks for such great inspiration.

One down, many more to go! Great starting video!

I have been doing wood craft all my life both modern and antique, I have just learned something I did not know thank you so much!

Excited to see what you do on this project.

Awesome information for those looking to do reenactment or building off grid only using hand tools.

Man, am i siked for this! That auger is a sensational tool!

honestly, I love this type of thing and both your knowledge and passion are amazing, I also admittedly understand using some modern stuff due to the land or other such reasons that may come up in future videos. keep it up, mate.

Great explanation, fascinating to see the tools and working by hand. 👍🏻

So the fun begins! Curious about the oak? Is Scandinavia abundant with oak? This is going to be fascinating! Thank you

Love this working on getting a house so I can have a workshop and not just hope for the best outside.

Now THIS is a series for me!!!

Thank you very much dear friend for the wonderful video🌲🙏🌲 Have a great weekend🌳

That was so relaxing that I immediately watched it through a second time! 😄 Love the spoon auger and the shavehorse! Do you use a little wax or something to lubricate the auger's friction point near the chest brace? I agree the Vikings must have had something like a shavehorse. We know they had drawknives, and I can't see how anyone can use a drawknife without some very sturdy way to hold the workpiece and brace the force of their body against it. Most likely it's a survivorship issue - the drawknife being iron means it's expensive enough to look after and keep safe. A shavehorse would likely be considered easier to replace. I imagine when they eventually wore out or broke down beyond repair, the wood would be repurposed into something else, or simply burnt as firewood. And even if it was just abandoned in a field, it'd rot away and we'd be unlikely to find any evidence of it a thousand years later. Good work on the benches too, they look like they'll do the job nicely! A low bench can also come in handy, like the Romans used. You can place one knee on the workpiece to hold it down to saw. Or sit astride it to hammer and chisel out a mortise. I'm not sure if it would come in handy here though? It's fantastic to see that you're already beginning work on the house! Can't wait to see the next installment! All the best my friend!

Thanks again for a amazing video. Went to the Ribe Vikingecenter last Monday an what an amazing site. Love the woodworking they are doing recreating the ringfort houses.

Beautiful video, thanks for posting this.

Super nice my friend... Keep it up! 🙂

Have you looked in to the so called roman workbench? These are far older and wider spread then te roman empire... They where used far into the middle ages. Often pines where used (in holes) to sprop work from moving. I Have seen sugestions of the use of wedges as well as the use of Y branches (ash for instance) in the same way metal hold fasts are used on a "modern" workbench. The problem with workbenches and shavinghorses is that they are made of wood, and that they decay. Also it would be the first thing to go in tomthe fire if you are low on fire wood. They would have been a cumbersome object and not something to travel with. It is my theory as a woodworker that in the viking age the workbench and the shavinghorse would have been seen easy enouth to make on location that theybwould have been left behind if traveling more than a short distance (eg. within the vilage).

Look into the "Low Roman Workbench" primarily researched by Christopher Schwartz. Evidence of it exists from Pompeii to Roman Germany and use all the way to the last 100 years in Estonia. While there's no concrete evidence of it being used in VA Scandinavia, I think that it is unreasonable to say it didn't exist in some form, especially for the tools used (aka Mastermyr find, etc).

Cool video!

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I always look forward to your videos with a fresh cup of brew! They are relaxing. Thank you.

Love the spoon drill. Did you make it or buy from a smith?

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That was a fantastic build. I like your bodger too. That groove in the middle looks useful! Did you learn to speak English in Ireland? I could swear that you have some distinctly Irish pronunciations of several vowel sounds.

Beautiful video and image quality. Are you using another light source as natural sunlight ?

Hello, love your videos. If your area floods sometimes would you consider builing your workshop on stilts?

Looking forward to see how this progresses.

excited to watch your progress! have you read Ingenious Mechanicks?

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Hi friend ! Which kind of wood did you use to craft those benches ? Pinewood ?

After a full week of airsofting, having an anxiety attack due to studies, this, this video was exactly what I needed!

The lack of archaeological evidence for the use of a shaving horse in the Viking Age also annoys me a bit. Unfortunately, clear evidence dates back to the 15th century. If I need to use a shaving horse for something, I replace it with a simple "invention" that I copied from this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P5QVKqw_B-c.html

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