Great video, highlights superior skill and craftsmanship, as well as traditional method. Thank you for sharing. I learned so much! I aspire to achieve this level of accomplishment.
Hope this doesn't come across as creepy coming from another guy, but you have a very pleasant voice. I find your videos to be calming as well as interesting. Love your work.
I'm very new to blacksmithing but love watching it. So sorry if this is a "no shit" moment but I have never seen someone split the iron for the steel edge insert. I've only ever seen it folded in two then inserted so this is new and refreshing.
When I was walking around Minneapolis not too long ago I went under one of the bridges over the Mississippi and there was a bit of a history exhibit that had some pieces of one of the earlier bridges, built in the early 1870s, and I saw that they were wrought iron and thought of you. Very much bigger pieces than you could make on your anvil though.
Gosh, I would have loved to have seen those! Wrought is just so lovely to work with. I do tend to hoard it when I come across it, lol. I believe that the Eiffel tower is made of wrought iron as well, but I may be wrong
Very good question - I'm actually going to do an asymmetrically welded eye as I have seen evidence for that method being used with Trade axes. I do intend to do a split welded eye for a Daneaxe though at some point.
Really love your videos detailing tool and axe making, inspires me to try them out! how did you know the metell was wrought iron? is there a way to test the metal, or where you told they where wrought iron when you aquired them?
Thanks mate :) You can tell wrought because of the grain in it - it looks like plywood (see the image of the punched eye at the beginning of the video). If it is pre-1860 it will most definitely be wrought.
I don't understand how any forge ends up with that much clinker. Jaw dropping. Does it have to do with the type of coal you're using? Bitumous coal is the most common around my area. I would need to be running my forge for 10 times as long to get a clinker that size.
I give them all to my dad and he'll use it on garden paths to keep the mud down. It's pretty much all you can do with them. Back in the day they used to go into making construction material but not any more.
great work man thanks for sharing your videos and knowledge I would like to know if you could sale your axes and if you could how much would be a price that it would be like for a fine axe if you would sale it OK thanks keep up the good work
I'm surprised you don't have peices of steel that are already beveled so you can cut off the exact length and weld it into a tools edge and not waste as much material and time on every edge you do this way.
a clinker is a rock like chunk that forms in the bottom of coal forges, they come from impurities in the coal and from scale from the metal. slag and scale is oxidized iron that forms when the metal is hot (like really hot... red, orange and yellow hot) it often falls off the metal in little flakes.
