These look like a great design. Between these three tools you have most of the functions of a much larger anvil with a fraction of the cost and increased portability.
When the EMP hits, he will be the literally Cutting Edge Elite Technology. I am designing my forge now, and seeing this made me rethink my power hammer.
Rune, thank you for keeping your videos so clean without having ads running in the middle, it makes them feel more personal! Looking forward to your next adventure that you bring us on. AisforRebel Colorado, USA
I like the simplicity of this. It seems like it would work just as well as a big standard anvil would for most tasks. The wedge anvil there would be perfectly sufficient for forging swords and axes and other tools, the long horn anvil would be great for detailing, and the smaller square anvil with a small horn would suffice for smaller detail work such as torcs, armbands, rings, etc. This seems a perfectly servicable setup when paired with a basic wood table for filework and a grinding station.
I love how you finish the 3rd anvil by using the first two, also how you carve the sheath for your knives using the blade you've just forged. INTEGRITY!
It's called a Treadle hammer and they are very simple to make, I made one back when I was 12 years old and its worked really well for about twenty years.
These are so cool, the perfect thing for taking on Viking expeditions to repair weapons and tools and make necessary new ones. I was thinking for years what would a person without resources use for an anvil? If nothing else a large smooth rock, but if you’re in a position to improvise then using a large splitting axe or wedge, a hammer partially buried in the ground or in a stump or your camp axe deeply embedded into a stump or log will do.
Truly amazing work. I was so inspired by these desigs and the viking history that i decided to base a nation on it for a fantasy book and used these anvils as a concept of using little metal but making amazing tools and weapons.
@ 5:08 to those non-blacksmiths, this technique of working the material back into itself, making it fatter, is called "upsetting." For plenty of reasons, this isn't very easy to do. Needing to keep the piece aligned, constantly squaring the face again to continue the upset, selective heating, there's a lot going on And to get from that bar of leaf spring at 5:00 to the (mostly) final size at 5:45 would have taken a lot... and I mean a LOT of time and effort to upset that much material. Even to non-blacksmiths, this man's skill is very apparent, but to those of us who are more familiar with what he's doing, it's outstanding.
I’m a history major although I haven’t been active in the last few years. I wondered what the Cornish would have called Vikings because I knew there was at least raiding that far west. I found a reference to brief Cornish/Briton cooperation with the Vikings before Cnut took the Southwest in 1017ish.
Can't stop to adore your creativity. I thought the tongs were brilliant - but damn, that "power"-hammer! Pure genius. Thank you for a great amount of great ideas. Keep up the good work,mate! \o/
Ummmm-yes his videos are great but the "power hammer" you admire has been around for a couple of hundred years . Look up Treadle hammers and Oliver Hammers. You'll find an amazing assortment of plans to fit any budget..
I m french. My english is not really good. But i realy love your vodeo ,the time and the work for do a video like this. A big thanks for allllllllll the technique you give to make anvils knifs.................. you are an exemple for me!!!! ✌💪💪💪💪💪
Obrigado pelo vídeo. Realmente, detalha o processo de fabricação das bigornas!!! Saudações do Brasil... Thanks for the video. Actually, it details the manufacturing process of the anvils !!! Greetings from Brazil...
Could you please do a video about your peddle driven power hammer. I would love to know how you built that and the engineering behind it. Because it looks awesome.
Thanks. No that is not possible. I have made a video only about the treadle hammer - link in the video description. You can see that video and then make similar your self.
