Blacksmithing - Forging a Norweigian Hewing Axe
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- čas přidán 22. 04. 2021
- Forging a Norweigian Hewing axe.
This is my first attempt at forging one of these giant axes. I recently bought a book from Norway that shows how they were made and what methods were commonly used.
All in all I am very pleased with the end result.
Norway is near and dear to me. Great great grandfather came to Sweden from Norway and bought the farm where I grew up over 100 years ago. Now the same farm will be the home for me and my family in the future.
Hope you enjoyed the video!
/Nils
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Some day I will make one! It looks so nice, and I bet it will cut wood like butter with all that weight behind it!
Hey fellas, can I request a Damascus collab between you two? Huge fan of both your chans. Would piece to see what you an jointly come up with.
@@joshschneider9766 Why Damascus?
@@javanbybee4822 yeah crucible steel
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Yah!! you know you’ve made it in life when the thunder bear comments on your channel.
I have been looking for one like this for years. That is a magnificent looking axe. Well done sir!
Dude! We've missed you! Glad you're back! Hope you and yours are safe and well. Another great video!
Thanks!
You’ve created a really great axe, thoroughly enjoyed watching the whole process. The new power hammer is working a treat, I’m sure it’ll be saving you a lot of hard work by hand. Regards from Down Under.
Thank you very much! The hammer is very enjoyable to use!
Great work! I really like your approach to this with the forge welding. Makes perfect sense and preserved the eye.
Torches blazed and sacred chants were praised
As they start to cry, hands held to the sky
In the night, the fires are burning bright
The ritual has begun, Satan's work is done
Awesome work, Nils. How's your weather there?
Most excellent !
Great looking axe. Was fun seeing your process.
A great work , thats what we call experience !
Amazing work as always man. Just....WOW.
These kind of videos are very relaxing and satisfying to watch
Beautiful...!
Beautifully crafted! A+
Amazing! Thanks for sharing!
Tack!
Looks amazing Nils!
You are so talented, that is a work of art! Beautiful!
Nils, thats beautiful.
Awessome job man!
Awesomeness 👍
Love this axe and video!
Thanks alot! I habe alot more axe videos if that might interest you!
Awesome informational educational video experience Y'alls God Bless Ya 🙏
You make it look so easy! As always a job well done.
Thank you very much! It was quite the challenge
Marvelous! I'm just getting started in all this. These videos really help.
Many thanks!
Love watching your processes
Thank you so much!
@ was cool getting to hear you on the Axe and Iron podcast too. Love hearing about people who have skills talking about what they know and how they got there. Very cool. 👍
HIGHLY COOL!!!
Brilliant work as always! You make those forge welds look easy!
Thank you!
Man, you're a beast. See a lot of power in your process. Amazing to watch.
Thank you so much!
Brutal. Snyggt jobbat,
Tack!
You make this look fun :)
It is fun+
I love the little notes that pop in saying what you're doing. Helps explain the process and make it so its not just "some dude hits metal with a hammer for 15 minutes". I hope doing that kind of editing isn't too difficult or stressful to include.
I just wish I had some more space to set up a forge. A cramped little shed full of stuff we don't know what to do with does not make for a good workspace, let alone a workspace involving fire.
Thanks for the feedback!
Love the video, love the Iron Maiden flag in the background. Up the Irons
Excellent axe!
Thank you :)
Exquisite...!
Always beautiful axes and extra beautiful handle and the wood gains made it look centered with the grain everything great.
Thanks I'm going towards 4th year and only a happy hobbyists that hasn't master the forge welds but came close until I found hairline cracking perhaps I'm judging to hard.Rebuiing my ribbon burner so double room and longer hopefully holding more heat might help.
Thanks for inspiring 🙏
Awesome stuff mate 😎🔥⚒️👌
Thanks man!
Very nice job👏
Thank you!
Nice work mate, definitely on my bucket list to make a hewing axe.
Thanks! Its quite the experience!
The weld though...beautiful
Великолепная работа !
Looks good
Thank you!
I see that you got some new tools, cool :D
Yes!
The hand finish the mammer finished look is great for me much better than polished grind
Great work 👏
Trevlig video och jättefin yxa! Snyggt jobbat Nils 🙂
Tack!
New sub very well done with the welds
Excellent video brother, really enjoyed watching it. You are such an awesome blacksmith and your work just gets better and better. It would be a privilege to watch someone using that axe to build a log cabin and shaping the log joints etc.
Thank you so much! Well you might be in luck, this axe is actually going to a youtuber, specialzing in building log cabins :)
@ that's awesome, I hope you will post a link to the video when it happens
Awesome design! Personally id use 40" handle Because I'd be standing on the log itself and swinging along the side like a pendulum. I am friends with the Amish in Pennsylvania. They hand forged their tools. I asked once while ago in dutch, "
waar komt het ontwerp vandaan?" this elder woodworker simply said Duitsland. so basically they stuck to 17th century axe head designs from Germany. Some adzes, hewing broad axes, felling axes, scoring axes remained unchanged since then. The broad axe he used was very long and weighted 7 pounds. He said it was easier to let it swing into the scored slots instead of fighting the weight both directions while the log was elevated. They built very substantial foundations for barns, homes and stables. smallest hewed beams i saw over there was 6 inches. biggest was 12x12 (!!) He was 73 when we worked together!
You should forge a norweigan felling axe, a Wira pattern or a Varmland pattern axe.
That is a really good idea, thank you!
You're the master of forge welding. I would love to see you forge a Francisca pattern.
Thank you very much!
As always, very pleasant and pretty darn relaxing to watch your videos! And you make some fine pieces too! :)
You could try and make a Viking-variant of an Seax, use different types of wood, some other metal/copper pieces and maybe moose or reindeer-horn to incorporate in the hilts like a traditional Sami-knife or such? :)
Hamra på och skål!
Thank you very much, and thanks for the suggestions!
Great work! Someday I'll have my own blacksmith shop and I'll be free of my neighbors! I will forge day and night. Thanks' for sharing.
I hope you mean "free of my neighbors" in a peacefull way. If thats the case, good luck and enjoy every minute of it, especially in the beginnning!
@ Yes, of course, peaceful. I can't have a blacksmith shop because the neighbors are already unhappy with my noise of restorations. Good luck to you!
The way you cut the excess off makes me want to investigate the potential for using a press as a hot cut tool. Inspirational.
Yeah I've been thinking about that aswell!
@ definitely record it if ya do :)
Good job bro..
Thank you!
All l can say is that if art & skill had a child, it would be this 🪓!
Thank you so much!
What a cool laftebiller
Nagyon ügyes vagy👍❇
Not a Smith, but Wowsa...
Great Job, Thnxxx for Sharing
Excellent. Brother Torbjörn likes it too. Lots of ways to skin a cat. I would have forged it in one piece but I totally understand why you chose to skin this cat in that manner. In the end? The cat skin looks great!
Yeah this way is from a norweigian book on traditional forging. So one could say that its quite historicaly accurate. But as you say there are more than one way to skin a cat. Usually they used to tale old axes and then cut of the blade and theb weld on a big blade . Quite interesting, thanks for watching!
@ outstanding history! I am a older Texas rancher. I have history, but it’s at places like the Alamo or San Jacinto. Knowing the history, I see you chose the best means to skin this cat! Large welds can be tricky. Excellent work!
Looks like it's a pretty heavy baby ! ;)
It needs to be but typically they're used from a bent over position to cant logs.
I love you videos and watch them with my dad and I was wondering if a Swedish youtuber "Erik Grankvist" bought or was given this very same axe.
I beleive I saw your makers mark on a very similar hewing axe from the video and all the details match perfectly.
Thank you.
Yes this is the axe that he now owns.
@ Awesome, thank you so much for your time.
Great video man, also the format is so very nice! btw, is that the forge press you built?
Thanks! Yes thats the one i nuilt last year
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Snyggt jobbat!
Min treåring sätt i mitt knä och tittade med mig, och varje gång du använde hammaren skanderade han "Banka! Banka! Banka!" i takt med slagen. 😁
Haha, en blivande smed ?
@ Vi får väl se...
The wooden handle shape is overly curvy and short. The axe is perfect.
이런도끼가 있어야 캠핑갈 맛나는데...!!!
i bet 2stroke Stuffing would appreciate one of those axes for his log cabin build. maybe he could make you something in return.
I loved the exe
Jätte bra.
Do you prefer forge welding compared to regular welding? And why?
Im just curious about the difference.
5:50 I was not expecting that.
This is really cool...
What is the powder you sprinkle in the hole and punch lube you use for this axe???
Thats charcoal! I just crush it and powder it in.
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Wooo video production is amazing! Did you start using a new rendering software? Love that animated title scene. Maybe I just haven't noticed before... lol
I started using a new software! I had this really old version of sony vegas before and I finally switched over to DaVinci Resolve. Its free and very enjoyable to use!
@ That and Resolve is a bit faster than a couple of other video rendering Programs as it doesn't utilize Ram Caching (what I equate to a Huge Memory Leak)... which runs a lot smoother on computers that have less than 16gb of ram.
Fin yxa! Det var lite annorlunda form av vällning det där vid 5:50 Vad är det för bok? Skulle va intresserad av ett eget exemplar
Den heter "kunsten att smi" norsk smides bok!
That axe head looked fantastic. Would it work on a longer haft as it kinda reminded me of the Danish battle axe?
Nah its not meant for that at all. Its made for hewing, its very heavy. The daneaxe is superlight!
just wondering why you dont use a striking plate when cutting pieces off your work on top of anvil
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I'm curious how blacksmiths back in the iron age made the eyelet. just a ton more pounding with a chisel? or did they have rudimentary presses, maybe made with stone weights? kinda doubt it, but then again Galen had a recipe for what appears to be surgical steel.
They usually folded the eyes.
Nice! How do you like the new powerhammer after some use?
Absoutly love it!
Hi Nils.....just wondering, as a Dane, why are you using the danish version of Ø as your “signature mark”?
I really love your work, saw some pics of knifes you made, will keep a eye out if you start to sell some one day.
It represents my Norweigian heritage. The crown above is instead of the dotts in the swedish Ö.
I want to become a blacksmith.
Så grym yxa ^^ Har du några frilufsyxor till salu ? Skulle behöva skaffa mig en ny har bara en snickaryxa den är lite för stor att ha med sig..
Tack! Inte just nu, men det kommer mera under året!
Супер👍👍👍
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Man I need a forging press so badly 😢
Its really an amazing tool for the workshop
what are you sprinkling in the drift hole?
Its just charcoal, helps the drift punch to not stick
How many times did you start over ?
Wonderful as always Nils. Can we get the title of that book?
"Kunsten å smi"
I think there is an english translation aswell, not sure what its called
@ good deal man ty as always
Beautiful work, curious why you didn't make the body out of one piece
I did it as they would have made it back in the days. This is a Norweigian techniqur of making axes
@ Now it makes since to me, thnxs for the answer.
Very nice handle design but I think you could have worked more on the blade. 👍
Please Sir ..... Do you or would you sell an Axe like this , that you made ?
Awesome Craftsmanship
Isn’t a hewing axe offset to one side, more of a single side or chisel grind?
It sure can be! It can also be made lefthanded or right handed. It can also come with double bevels
Great work! Just curious why such a short handle? Seems like that one would have a long handle and be used to split firewood easily. But I’m no expert. Just curious
Its not meant for splitting wood. Its ment to be used in building traditional timber houses. So the short handle is for precision and ergonomy while working, thanks for asking
@ ok makes total sense now! Thanks pal
You got it!
Modern technology seems to take a lot of the hard work outta out of the process, would you ever consider using ancient methods to show a different process and explain any challenges along the way?
I guess it depends what you define as modern. My power hammer is over 100 years old, but power hammers have been around since the introduction of the water wheel. I do have videos forging viking era axes, on those I barely use any power tools. I also use folding techniques, as they did back in the iron/viking age. I also talk about the process in the end of video. You can find them here on my channel! hope you like them :) /Nils
I clearly didn’t do any research before I opened my Yap. Thanks for keeping it civil! Cheers 🍻
Should do Mjölnir…
That is one very strange lookin' axe
Unbealivable work with chisel.. rip anvil.. 😢
I feel more sorry about the chisel
Why don't you use a cutting plate?
2 reasons. I havent made one yet for the new anvil. The chisel is quite soft, and the anvil is very hard.
@ Just curious. The ax is fantastic.
Thank you!
Looks great. How kilos is the axe?
And could u pls make a two headed war axe?
Its about 2kg
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Bro do something with that powder. You have it in that nasty Tupperware all open and clumped up like that. Put that shit in a bottle or cover it up. I hate seeing shit like that. I'd be a blacksmith with OCD