Forging a Bearded Axe for Skallagrim 

Wow, it looks amazing! Thank you so much for putting all this time and effort into making the axe, and paying so much attention to detail. The wrought iron makes it special. I've rarely seen anyone work with iron, most bladesmiths use mild steel. Anyway, it was great to see the process, and I'm looking forward to trying it out. :)

I find this more relaxing than any ASMR video.

Great job on that axe. I came here from Skals channel to see how it was made. Not disappointed.

Great axe you made. I enjoyed when you talked about the axe at the end, good to get more insight.

I realy like fitting a axe head onto the handle...I've learned some things from you . Thanks

You’re very talented! I’m glad you decided to stick it out with the forging, it certainly is worth the aggravation and now you learned how. Thanks for sharing!

Very Nice. Just saw the Testing by Skall video today. Really a nice tough axe. Really dual purpose... primary fighting, but very usable for bushcraft.

Not gonna lie...if it was me unboxing that thing I'd giggle like a little girl

very beautiful axe!!!!!

A thing of beauty, no wonder smiths were revered

Coming from skall here! Great work! Can't wait for more!

7:15 Traditional Scandinavian angle grinder from 900 AD.

The rustic aesthetic you got going on with some of your stuff is really great in my opinion. Also saw it performed well in Skallagrim's vid. Cool stuff!

That is some good craftmanship Nils!

Beautiful! As another artist I follow (Bobby Duke) would say..."I want that." Someday...

The Buddy Rich of the forge right here

Great job! That is a great looking axe. Thanks for sharing

Beautiful work, man. It was oddly therapeutic to watch you shape that axe by hand. Thank you.

Beautiful axe. Raw linseed oil is best for saturating the wood. Boiled linseed oil cures to make a coating in the end if that is desired.

I do not forge knives or axes and never look at videos on the subject. I decided to look at yours in this quiet morning before going out of my comfort zone to my forge welding and I am very glad I did. The transformation of the billets in this axe is magic. Truly magical. The video is well made. The work is expertly conducted. I enjoyed every minute of it. Comments in videos are often boring : we do not need to be told what we have seen. Your comments added information we could not have seen in the video. I thank you.

That is a beautiful piece of work.

Man you are one brutal skeggøx maker to use traditional techniques. Also thanks sharing with us and for making this for skallagrim that was very righteous of you.

Absolutely beautiful

this looked way more complicated than I was expecting. Great work!

It's a beautiful axe, well done!

Thanks. I like your comments after the build. Keep posting please.

very nice job and like how you work that is old school style i like it

Gorgeous build!

Quite the marvel, great job!

Very well made

I found your channel because of skallagrim (and it appears that im not the only one) and i cant say how pleased i am to have another cool channel to watch!

My fav axe from a game

Wow! Amazing work! How nice to see a true master at work! Rare sight these days!

Beautiful work!!

Amazing that you successfully pushed your limits! Great craftsmanship!

Beautiful axe, excellent workmanship, Sir! I'd be beyond proud to own such a tool.

Can't wait to see Skall trying to destroy everything around him with that piece of art. Great work.

Lovely work. Love the use of wrought iron instead of mild steel. Do you think you would've gotten some sort of interesting pattern from etching the wrought iron?

I really enjoy watching you work. It's a fascinating process and oddly soothing as well.

Amazing! Glad to have found your channel!

Beautiful.

aaaand subscribed. great piece of practical art you made.

Amazing craftsmanship. You deserve way more subscribers

Beautiful axe!

That is a amazing axe and I like that kind of axe I would like to see how u would make a tomahawk there are a bunch of different ones out there but thanks for all u do I have learned alot from u and black bear forge thanks again

Very awesome! Saw Skallagrim opening the axe you sent him then tried to go to your website, which didn't work for me. But then YT's algorithm did its job for once and recommended the video of you making it!

Glad you stuck with it after some challenges at the start. I enjoy your videos and appreciate you sharing your skill and talent!

Absolutely amazing work brother.

Awesome!! Great job !😉👍🏽😁

the scenery is beautiful, at the end

Hello I enjoyed your video, the Axe looks really beautiful and it´s interesting to see the way you have forged the Axe. Thanks for sharing and that we could find your channel. I needed to subscribe ! Thank you for this all - till next time

I want one! Brilliant!

Well done Nils! Forge welding a wrapped axe can be tricky indeed. But you did a great job.

That is awesome.

Very nice.

What an absolutely gorgeous axe! Well done mate!

I never knew the beard had to be inserted like that. Very interesting.

Very good congratulations

looks great

Super Nice 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Just incredible sir. Thank you.

wow, that is one awesome axe, and probably fast in hand,as slim as theprofile is ... congratulations to this very awesome axe! Well done job !! Cheers, Erik

awesome axe

Amazing!

I love these videos man

Nice work, I enjoyed watching you make that

I just watched the video on Skillagrim

Well done. väldigt bra gjort och väldigt vacker yxa :)

Beautiful work! Looking forward to watching more.

You have awesome skills with metal.

Very fine axe

If you plan on making a lot more shafts you should look into getting, or building, a Täljhäst.

Informative 👍🏼

Wrought iron will outlast mild steel for waayyy longer too Nils ( if you didn’t know this already) 👍

Beautiful axe! Well done!

Beautiful work!

In your previous attempts which step was the most difficult? It took me the most time to learn how to weld the beard to the eye correctly.

It’s a smokn hot forge that will weld wrought iron, would live to see a video on tour gas forge. Beautiful work!

Boiled linseed oil is fine to use, but if you want deeper penetration into the wood you can mix it with white spirits or mineral oil to thin it a bit more!

So much effort!

Amazing work. It’s hard to find a true well made bearded axe. Especially in this style which is my favorite. How much to get one lol

Awesome job,think how hard it was outfit a large Army.

That was AWESOME

Riktigt fin yxa!

Beautiful!

I think you did a great job. Nice work

bad ass axe and man

That axe is gorgeous! Keep up the awesome videos!

I am going to save up for one of these...great work

Master

This axe is epic! Well done!

Beautiful axe.. well done sir!

i just watched skallgrims video then i see yours

pretty sure a basic form of crucible steel was available during the time of the Vikings, but I'm not sure where. Ulfberht swords were made with steel if I'm not mistaken.

Nice Job as usually Nils looks awesome

Nice work.

You should attempt to forge a viking seax knife

nice.. can´t wait to see the test!

I need to know how much that would cost to have one lol

How many tanks of propane did you go through? In Scandinavia is coal cheaper to forge with than propane?