One of my favorite bushcraft knives is made of O1. One huge advantage 1095, O1, and A2 has is how easy they are to keep sharp in the field without having to have special sharpening equipment.
you can literally sharpen/maintain any steel you can think of with just a basic ceramic rod. if you’re worried about needing to do major sharpening you just carry a small medium grit diamond stone in your knife sheath. the whole ‘field sharpening on a rock’ thing is a useless concept as you’ll never find a rock suitable for sharpening out naturally. if you have the equipment to sharpen 1095 or O1, you can sharpen something like 14c, vg10, 154cm, 3v, etc. and those steels will also not rust from you looking at them and will actually hold an edge much longer.
Horned Vikings make me unnaturally mad Also 7:14 How to ACTUALLY eat like a Viking. Go outside, Till the fields, Plant the seeds and grow them, Harvest them. Enjoy Since most Scandinavian people at this time were farmers, And damn successful ones
Now I know why Archeologists do find Viking Seax all around the european and north american continent! Despites beeing great, legendary traveling warriors, the blacksmiths couldn't built great Seax - handles. But they found a solution. When a Seax slipped out of the hand of some Viking warrior, chopping firewood (or aged meat and onions), they left it where it was and declared it a gift to the nordic gods. The weapon smith was not happy about this, because he had to forge a new Seax. But due to this repetition the nordic blacksmiths learned to make better handles that do not slip out of the hand while chopping wood. Or meat and onions. Greetings from Germany! P.S.: I love this nice Seax! P.P.S.: Viking helmets had no horns attached.
So I've been binge watching your videos for about a month now, and still haven't seen them all. You guys are epic, and by far my favorite RU-vid channel. Keep it up lads! 👍🏻👍🏻
Quick question: your name is in a different alphabet than elder fuþark. What is it called, and Is that the alphabet used by germanic tribes, or did germans/barbarians also use elder fuþark?
It's a Cold Steel Bushman Bowie, without the socket style handle. I keep saying this, I know the Bushman is cheap but I've had one for about 10 years now and it's a work horse, and the best thing is, at that price I don't mind abusing it, and even after that, I've still had it for about 10 years. Still, DBK is in my opinion the best knife review channel there is and I just with they'd buy one and beat the shit out of it, use it as a spear and so on. ❤
Yep. Not that the vikings didn’t use it as well, but the ”broken back seax” is probably more associated with the vikings, but it’s origins are most likely not Scandinavian.
I have TWO requests for you guys.... Can you review a Kephart style knife? I'd love to see your take on a knife design that's over a hundred years old. Also, I'd like to see y'all do a Winkler knife. A Blue Ridge Hunter, Field Knife, or a Belt Knife. Any would be great.
Thats the first Bowie Knife. Bowie just perfected it. I want a seax knife but my Buck 124 is more practical. Wait. You havent tested one of those yet have you?
It's fun to have super steels in a knife that you can sharpen at home, but if you choose anything hard to sharpen in the field....it'll be very frustrating and it says something about you 🤣
Hello Mikkie and Maarten, Thanks as always. I NEED your help A.S.A.P. guys since your vid on fake AD-10's, I just bought one on Amazon and need to know how to tell in "cm's" if it's real or not. Please!! Sincerely, Randy. 👍👍🙏😇👊
In the name of Odin’s children make a video of best propeller carving knife because it’s always windy in Norway and the 10-16 year olds have nothing better to do.
I must say that Top's version and Harstad version are very very . . . Seaxy. I had to damn it! It's the first time I have ever heard it pronounced SEX . . .
Boys, You need to tint the steak after you take off the grill for at least 10 mins! And I would really like to see you boys start wearing some eye and hand protection, Please.
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Seax's across Europe for 2000 years. An American chap puts a brass finger guard on one - calls it a Bowie..... They're great knives, a smaller one for detailed work and a biggie for the chopping - you could do a lot worse.
This seax blade shape was actually Anglosaxon and didn't came around untill the year 1000. There were Frankish, Vendel and then Norse seaxes with the broken back profile already around the year 600, but didn't widened towards the front of the blade, like the later Anglosaxon ones. The majority of Norse seaxes were either spear point or had a completely straight spine. If you're interested in reviewing a rat tail seax forged and built likewise they were in the Early Middle Age you may like to check out Götz Breitenbücher, for Norse and Scandinavian ones instagram.com/gotz.ironworks/?hl=it and either Owen Bush or Tod's Workshop for Anglosaxon ones. instagram.com/owenbushbladesmith/?hl=it instagram.com/todsworkshop/
Good info there. Basically the long knives or short swords came into use in shield wall warfare, a Roman invention. Long swords were of no use in close combat.
If I may give you guys a little tip about that steak? Pull it earlier, then let it rest 8-10mins.. The steak will still cook itself while it’s resting..
I’m constantly getting in trouble for whacking a chunk off a steak that sitting there resting. The wife’s response is the same every time..get away from that steak it’s resting😂
Their knives got better when they discovered better ways of forging in other countries. Especially Frankish steel was renowned in the ninth and tenth century. But yeah, you've got a point.
@@roel.vinckens This is true. Another thing to concider is that ore found here in Sweden is naturally rich in alloy elements that likely gave tools and weapons made around these parts and edge (no pun intended) compared to simliar items produced elsewhere in europe at the time.
