Forging a Finnish Style Axe: A Journey into the History of Nordic Blacksmithing
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- In this video I try to forge a Finnish style collared axe.
I really enjoyed the experience and learned a lot during the filming of this video.
Enjoy!
/Nils
CONTENTS OF THIS VIDEO
00:00 - Forging the Collar
01:12 - Bending the Collar
02:09 - Forging the Blade
04:55 - Up to this point
05:45 - Welding the edge
06:32 - Fitting the blade & collar
07:05 - Welding the collar & blade
08:15 - What I've learn't
08:45 - Grinding
08:55 - Finishing touches
10:25 - Heat treating
11:15 - sharpening
11:35 - Making the handle
12:55 - Final words & some history
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Hey Thank you so much for watching the video!
Some things that are important to mention:
The edge steel is SS2090
I also did NOT well on the poll of the axe. Historically they were usually welded on, on more "modern" versions they are not. I went somewhere in between on that point. I have done that in the past and its a very hard weld in my opinion.
Thanks again for watching!
Brutal as always nils ögren thanks for sharing with us. That looks like a very hard axe to forge you always make such beautiful pieces great work. One of these days i will be able to afford one of your axes for my blade collection be safe and take care.
Wau!! Hieno kirves👍 olet helkkarin taitava ja mahtavaa että pidät perinnettä yllä👌👌👌. This is Finish language.
Same in eglish: wow !! Nice axe👍 you are darn skilfull and exelent that you keep tradition aliwe 👌👌👌.
Terveiset Suomesta 😎👊🇫🇮
Дякую за відео. Це дійсно хороший досвід. Такого способу ковки топора не зустрічав. Було цікаво і приємно дивитися.
Really nice job. Thanks for sharing 👍
That's awesome work! That turned out really nice. Thank you for taking time to film, build, edit and post this video.
That was a great build 👍. Enjoyed watching the whole process, also enjoyed hearing about the history of your country and this style of axe. Regards from Down Under.
It turned out great. I really appreciate the way you do your videos. I hope you are doing well and thanks again!
Mate that's truly inspiring work fantastic job well done 👏
Outstanding. That is a beauty of a Finnish style axe. Thanks for sharing.
That was very interesting to see. Regards from South Africa.
Thanks from Finland! Have to make one after seeing your video!
Excellent work, love the step by step. The Finnish collar is one of my favorites! Dave @ Kingdom Armory - bra jobbat fortsätt så, och Tack!
Very nice Axe! Thanks to video! 🪓🎅🏻👍🏻🇫🇮
Well done it looks really faithful to the traditional finnish axes.
I really like the history aspect of your builds. It makes them even more interesting. Keep up the great work!
Thank you very much!
Wow
That is first rate
Well done
Absolutely my FAVORITE axe pattern
Nice job, I've enjoyed watching your video.
Great video as always, I really enjoyed it!
Thats great to hear! Thank you :)
Love it, hoping to try some of these techniques.
Great work. The axe is beautiful. Enjoyed your video and your narration at the end. Keep up the good work. Cheers from Québec
thank you very much!
Great history lesson and axe
Dusen tak!! Glad to see a fellow Seeds 😁 doing what love watching in craftsmanship and blacksmithing !!
Sense I'm 30% Swedish, I love to see My Swedish Brethren, on CZcams.
Tak!! And SKOLL!!
I am a more recent subscriber, and a Smith as well . Still being relatively new to the craft I mainly do Bowie knives, but I want to get into axes. This particular video was of interest to me, because I am first generation Finn in America, both my folks came from the old country, and I have visited several times. I do have a decent amount of , older finish knives and other weaponry but I would love to make one of these for myself. Thank you for the inspiration and I will continue watching!
I have been anticipating this video for quite some time now. Awesome build, and a fantastic job! I would LOVE to add this axe to my collection
Thank you Luke!
@ are you putting it up for sale or going to keep it? I sold a beautiful wrapped eye felling axe out of 4142 with an 80crv2 edge and I miss it all the time
awesome stuff dude, really enjoyed this one 👍
Thank you!
Thanks for the free tips and ideas!
Oh Thank you so much!
What a looker, and really impressive forging.
Thank you!
Vi har finnarna till att tacka för det mesta!
another excellent video
Very nice work. I attempted a Finnish collared axe once. I went about it a bit differently and mine was a bit smaller. Yours turned out much better too. Well done, keep up the good work!
Thank you very much!
Very interestingly shaped axe I like it Dude! TFS, GB :)
fantastic!
Great work. Scott in Southern Oregon, USA
Nice build!
Riktigt fin yxa!
I love you work, I'm a trans woman in the United States and I have been blacksmithing since I was 5 (I'm 38 now) I was taught by my grandfather. My wife and I lost everything 5 years ago and your videos as well smith's like Torbjörn have helped me through I hope to have a forge again soon but we are still don't have a home. Your content helps me so much thank you so much. Sincerely Kasey
That's very nice of you to say, thank you! Hope everything works out for you!
Snyggt yxsmide!👌
Varför har jag missat dig på youtube?!
Nåja, nu har jag hittat dig.🙂
Great job. 👏🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I absolutely bombed trying this many years ago.
prawdziwy mistrz wielki szacun
Very beautiful job. Forge On. God Bless.
Thank you Jared!
@ your very welcome.
I love collared axes! Billnäs is a household name here
I quite like that technique you do where you weld the front of the collar on as a separate piece like you did with your scandinavian hewing axe. It turns out very nice looking. I think it looks simpler than trying to fold the collar over swedish style, and gives the axe "more meat" in that area. But it's more difficult to weld?
You made a beautiful axe , no question about that!
thank you Kurt!
Very interested in the dish you talk about at the end of the video, what is in the dish?? Thanks love the videos!
I love how you kept the drop and The Fudge in video.
fudge? like the candy?
@ A nicer, but also the sweeter way in English to say Faan! :)
Fin yxa😊👍🏻👍🏻
Great video! Just make my first ax last weekend. Figured a tomahawk was a good starter, also a good way to learn forge welding. Maybe you could do a video on one?
Been thinking about it. I just know very little about them
True Artist, wonderful craftsmanship and linguist (you speak English well).
Many thanks!
Skulle gärna se en ny video om ässjan, hur den håller upp, vilka inställningar du har mm.
Deserve big like 👍
Very nice video! I enjoyed the way you made the construction. Definitely some very good power hammer control there. Do you think it would be practical to forge weld on a butt plate (and historically accurate?).
Yes, as i mentioned in my comment. The poll was historically welded on to the plate. I cheated a little bit ;)
@ I have tried doing it. The weld was very challenging and like you mentioned you need way more steel for it. Takes at least 6 heats. Very nice work!
Kellokoski ,old fashion .. collar protecting wooden part
This is by far my favorite video of yours. Your attention to detail is amazing and you made this look like it was easy. Beautiful axe by the way. Question, does the integrity of the handle weaken as it tapers through the eye being so thin? Amazing job!!!
Thank you! Notto my kowledge. Now it was a bit smaller in the top than I intended, but some of the very old hewingaxes has very small eyes. My friend Nick erb know alot on the topic, @40axes on instagram
No, it does not weaken it. In fact, the long eye provides a lot of extra friction holding the head on, and helps distribute the force of impact over a longer length. A lot of early Pennsylvania Dutch hewing axes were made the same way, and this comes from the same tool making tradition. I have heard that making eyes in this was was a originally a reaction to a lack of highly elastic handle woods (such as oak and ash) in Northern Europe--and that easy access to imported hickory is part of why the style diminished in importance in the 1900's. I would love to have access to more access to information on this flow of knowledge and tradition in Northern Europe--anybody have any suggestions?
👍💪 duktigt gjord
Always looked at those axes and asked myself "how the heck do you even begin to forge that?". Now I know 😂
Nils👍👍🤞🤞
Kitos! I've been searching for a Billnas axe head for the better part of two decades. Thing is...I'm a Finn in Canada -they exist here but they remain at other peoples cottages. I guess the question is...do you make these solely for your channel or would one be availible to aquire? Cheers from B.C. (Canada)
Nils I meant to ask a long time ago what steels you used for this axe. I'm going to make my first attempt at a collared axe much like this one but more of a carpenters axe bit. The collar and blade will be made of wrought iron, the poll will be a separate piece of railroad clip and the edge will be 80crv2. It will be quite the process but it will be one I keep and hand down to my children
In this case it was just mild steel for the body and collar. And the edge I think was ss2090 spring steel. If I remember correctly
Мастер!!!
Are there any books on the history of these axes (that are accessible to an English speaker) that you would recommend? Thanks!
Finnish to English usually translates pretty well
I don't think there even are books on Billnäs or Kellokoski in Finnish
2:34 I am a child 😂😂
👍👍👍🍻🍻🍻
интересная конструкция топора
Jetzt haben die wieder soviel mit dem Satellit geröngt, das ich mir dieses Video nicht bis zum Schluss ansehen kann.
What I wouldn't do to be doing this rather than my current job.
it was a long time till it looked like an axe
I love that handle. What is that Finnish? 🤣🤣 No really... Is that paint?
Its stain! Check my woodstaining video :)
An example of disturbing fine finnish axe. Det samma på svenska.
That is a little better but still seems to long . However I have never done this so take it with a grain of salt and toss it over your left shoulder
The best