You are amazing! Can I suggest a build? Take a standard size sledgehammer head, leave one side of it a hammer and hammer out the other side into the biggest Dane axe you can.
This is an amazing video man! It helped me out a lot! Been making tomahawks but want to start making Viking style axes more traditionally. So this was a really cool video to watch! Love it
A viking man needs a viking axe. Great stuff, dude. Writing from India, planing on making one too out of some mild steel but with an O1 file as the bit instead of a leaf spring.
Seriously though dude, you are a fu@#ing beast. Ive watched a lot of videos of people forging all manner of things and the only times Ive seen metal spread out like that was with power hammers. Unbelievable!
Great axe 👌👍 great video , awesome builds i really like your videos and the style you forging , i mean forging axes and blades in a simple way , keep it going
Cool! I learned a good bit. That's a good confidence building video. In the future, how about some still shots of the finished product? I couldn't really get a good look at it with you waving it around at the end.
If that price of steel came out of your grandpas forge it could be wrought iron in which case could I advise you too clean it up completely and etch it, wrought iron is beautiful when etched
Wow dude. Is your first name Thor? You look like him and you swing a hammer like he does. I'm really impressed with your knowledge and skill. Good work
That was really cool, I've got that itch to dive into blacksmithing bad! and this has simply furthered that itch lol really enjoyed watching your axe smithing ;p
The black near the handle where you put the bevels...is that obtained by just not buffing the axe? I like the rough textured look that comes up almost to the fine edge. Just wondered if its obtained by just not buffing it out.
Holy crap! Now we know what Thor has been doing since the rise of the Christian church in Northern Europe. He spreads that metal like its lead with trusty Mjolnir in hand.
Awesome! It’s easy some guys use a machine hammer but do it yourself it’s fantastic. I want to purchase one of this axe hehehehe. Please how can I have it? Greetings from Brazil!
Where did you get the handles? The local rondezvoue has them, but to expensive for my cheap butt, lol. Also, where to get a cheap drift for Hawks? Thanks!
So glad that I found your channel. Getting into forging as a hobby (another one, I tie flies and fish also) at the young age of seventy one. I built my own charcoal forge and my wife bought a good vintage anvil for me. I noticed that the cut-off tool in your hardy hole resembles an axe head. Would I be able to use a ''cheap'' hatchet and fit the head to the hardy hardy hole or would it not be safe ? If not a good idea, I might have to make one. Thank you. Really enjoy watching you work.
I‘m new to blacksmithing too and use a charcoal forge. If you can forge the axe head poll into a shank to fit the hardy hole it should probably work. My first hardy tool is really crude but does the job.
Sir: You are working towards a " grinding edge" and me to. Question: What is your idea of the thickness of the forge edge as I know we got the best steel inside the blade's surface . I had build a ribbon burner and yesterday got my first forge weld and 6 bodies for Tommy Hawks cut hopefully get a few done in days. Partly due to your teaching Sir and a few others. Thanks
very cool looking axe, allot of hard work went into that dude.I have a question, the flux that you blacksmiths use, is it something you buy or make up yourselves? I was wondering because it must be fairly cheap the way everyone just covers things up with it. enjoy your efforts, thanks for posting.
I know this is kind of off topic... sorry. I have watched your hammer video. I also watch Old School Forge (Chandler Dickinson). I would be interested in one of your hammers. I enjoy watching your videos and thank you for sharing.
Would you make and sell a couple like this and can you make other simple things to order? If I sent pictures of the other items? I've seen alot of these types of videos and have a want but can't make them myself. I'm disabled but want hand forged and you sir seem to make this look easy. If not I understand but again I'm very interested in your work. Great job.
James Hines check me out on Facebook. Names old hickory forge. I’ve pretty much perfected the process for making axes like this and I make batches from time to time.
MrArmystrong85 hard to say. A lot of things can go wrong trying to set a forge weld. Could be too cold. Hitting it too hard. Metal not clean enough. There’s a lot of room for error
Bill C yes. There’s newer models of these axes for sale on my etsy shop. I’ve gotten the process much more refined and the finished products are much better. Should be a link in the description
@@OldHickoryForge hum. will look around. Minds messed up a bit with pain and stuff. I miss things. Will look. I have a friend that would go GAGA over a barbarian axe. A "real" barbarian axe. Not that "chi**" crapola.
