A very functional tool and a beautiful piece of art. I like the way you showed us your mistake at the beginning. It just goes to show that not everything goes to plan. Great video mate. I look forward to seeing more.
It's always a sad time when you see those sparks coming from the burned steel, nice knife mate, always good to see people getting better at making knives.
normally i watch ur vids to relax but this one had me praying u made thru the blade engraving it's a piece of art!! proud to see ur skills getting better with each vid. happy forging!
i'd like to say, i love your channel and its concept, and of course the content, these all add to amazing videos and very cool knifes/tools/other fancy stuff made from junk, keep doin what you do cause its awesome and stay safe doing it
The Saxon. But after 2, 3 generations the "Danes" completely merged with the population from Brittany over Normandy and Ireland all the way to Scotland.
@roel.vinckens Yes, but those were not vikings, nor was there any reason to think they used saex knives. And you miss my point that the knife is most famous for its use by the Anglo-Saxons.
1st forge weld was too hot, 2nd was better because it's not that hot. Also you can try using Iron power to glue the 2 steel, it works better than Borax. I think you should look into the Traditional forge welding of the Japanese to make Ni Mai, 2 layers knives, they explain a lot on not to overheat the 2 metals and using iron powder. Wish you all the best brother.
hello there , yes the first try failed because I almost melted it. I was using new blower that I was not used to it. About the steel powder - I know that people mix it with borax but not by it's own. I think that it will just burn away if I put fine iron powder in the forge. And I don't have access to iron/steel powder where I live. Overall I just need to be more careful with the airflow in my forge :) Thank you for the advices and cheers :)
Great video and great craftsmanship! Probably the planning, making of the knife and the video took a month. Also congrats for the new tools, I think I see some of them for the first time.
Practice makes perfect! 👌💪 Lots of interesting techniques, that was a lot of work! I feel like there's "too much going on" with this knife but that's just my taste. :) Congratulations!
The Russian orc from Orsk (the whole Western world believes that they are elves, and we are Orcs) really likes this Saxon knife (Seax). Brutal, crudely made. These two pieces have become just worthy of being among the orcs) Thx for your job! It's rude so far, but you're on the right way! 🤘😉
تلفیق هنر ،صنعت و سنت وظرافت و سختی را به خوبی میتوان در این کار مشاهده کرد .در فورجینگ اولی گرمای بیش از حد و احتمالا" اکسید زیاد متریال کمی مشکل ساز بود اما پس از آن هر چه دیدم زیبایی بود و زیبایی .بسیار بسیار ماهر هستید دوست عزیز من .سپاسگزارم از خلق این لحظات زیبا و بهتون تبریک میگم بخطر مهارت و هنرتون .
Great workmsnship, especially given your limited tooling, very impressive. The profile is slightly off from a historic perspective for a broken back seax. The break should be another 3-4cm back from the tip, and that should be the thickest part of the blade, with the cross section tapering both towards the tip and the handle.
Thank you and yes you are absolutely right about the shape. I researched a lot of historical examples and I was planning to make it as close as possible , but the bed frame that I used for the body of the blade had holes every 4-5 inches so I was limited of how much material I can use so I don't have hole (or cold shut) in my blade. And at the end it was just not enough. It would have looked much better
Quick question. Have you ever seen Forged in Fire? It's a bladesmithing competition. I think you would do awesome on that show. The artistry on the seax and all of your other blades is absolutely beautiful. If you consider it, I hope you get to compete and show off more of your work on the show.
Omfg u just ceep beting your Own videos that knife is insane idk how u do it u have talent out of this World fucking respekt man👍👍💪 btw do u have a tip to me cuz i have a problem When i have mad my sheads for my knifes the blade gedts this rust kinda look if it stays in the shead do u k why it dose that??
