Blacksmithing - Forging a bearded axe
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I show how I make a bearded axe (viking style).
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Most KZhead vids are a waste of time, but every now and again I see something that makes me think, “holy crap, that was AWESOME!” Your vid was incredible...you are both an artist and a craftsman...seeing your work wants me to become a blacksmith. Or a Viking. Or maybe both. Thanks for sharing your talent...best thing I’ve seen in awhile.
Wow, thanks!
with a name like ferrier, blacksmithing, or hoof care for horses make sense. (I'm a Kathleen Ferrier completist).
Awesome! From a cube of steel and a chunk of ash, to a masterpiece!
Thank you!!
Torbjörn Åhman You're my favourite blacksmith on youtube.
Cool!
Subscribed. What is the price of a piece such as this? What to do if you put a dent in it??!
Not sure what to charge for one. Not selling any just yet. Dent? You re-grind it!
I love that you don't even hear distant traffic sounds
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Only a year after I first watched this, and on my third or fourth watch, have I noticed the soft, pleasant music in the latter half of the video. My enjoyment has gone up immensely, because the music helps add a little atmosphere, without being obnoxious or overpowering. I love it.
Thanks!
You are a true artist of the forge, Torbjorn, thanks for sharing your work to produce a bearded axe better than any our Viking ancestors owned. Your shop and assortment of tools is amazing. I hope you are making a good living over there in the motherland.
:) Thank you!
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Beautiful craftsmanship. I think this is my favorite of all your videos so far!
Sweet. Thank you!!!
You're welcome! :)
Agreed gorgeous axe, this video made me smile.
me too. very inspiring. :)
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Love it when you can hear the sound of the hammering machine starting up - it sounds like anticipating music and you just know some cool hammering action is coming
Love that you’re using a traditional Viking style axe eye shape 👏🏻
Next episodes: - hewing logs - building a dragon ship - Torbjörn goes raiding ?
He is getting more Viking with each video.
Ha ha. Watch out! :)
Now I'm hyped for "How to build a boat" video! Dont dissapoint me or i'll whine in comments :)
Shields!
yessssss need a shield
Such a pleasure in this web-tech world ... Thanks for continuing making those marvels and sharing with the rest of us
Thank you very much!!
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this programme is worthy of another viewing. the blacksmith is the king of all craftsmen
The Legendary Viking Warror, Torbjorn the Berserkr! I never get tired of watching this video.
As someone who has no use for an axe, I want an axe.
Totally natural reaction! Nothing to worry about. :)
If and when I manage to try my hand at blacksmithing this'll be at the top of my list!
Flaccid Platypus every man has a use for an axe, u just havent found yours yet.... and besides. It's a freaking axe. axes get shit done. thats what they do.
There's always use for an axe.
killing, woodcutting, just kidding about the killing :PP
Great editing with the nature scenes and then the gentle music. Exactly what was needed to keep me interested! Fantastic handiwork too!
I like how when he's making the handle, he uses the long, traditional process of using the axe to carve it down, and then just pulls out his industrial grinder to finish it up.
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@@user-oq2to3ww4b I totally agree.
I’ve watched this a few times and I never tire of ur skills and final product which is a work of beauty!
Thank you Mike!
This makes the 5th time I've watched this axe build. Absolutely a beautiful piece.
Cool! Thanks
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Just beautiful! The rawness, the precision, the spring steel edge, the carved Ash handle. Since I can’t make it myself I’d love to buy or trade!
Truly a work of art. A pleasure to watch an artist and craftsman. I would love to have such an axe.
To begin with i was wondering why you were using mild steel, so glad I kept watching to see you add the hardenable steel. Beautiful piece of craftsmanship
A pleasure to watch you work. Thanks!
My favorite build so far. I love that beard.
I love the peculiar combination of old and modern tools in your workshop. Excellent job!
I've watched this over & over just can't get enough. What a workmanship, what an axe. Just beautiful....
Great!
Excellent. Love the forge welded bit on that beaut. Went old school on the handle. Literally hewing it out of that log section with another axe. Very cool.
Thanks Michael!
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Michael Morrow Stone Axe forges Steel.
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YOU ARE THE BEST BLACKSMITH I HAVE SEEN. YOU MAKE ME REALISE HOW FAR I AM FROM BEING A GOOD BLACKSMITH. AWESOME WORK AS ALWAYS
Outstanding workmanship!! Perfect blade angle and perfect shape of the handle to let the blade slice while chopping! Thank you for sharing your techniques, they were fascinating!
Best video I've watched on KZhead. It's very relaxing and satisfying, the music and forest shots made me feel calm. Great vid.
Every honor of the guy, you're really a magician ! ! !
Beautiful axe, anyone would be proud to own one, but he is blessed that can also build one.
9:54 the addition of steel 23:17 looks very perfect thank's
This is a work of art as well as being an essential tool.
I can watch this over and over again....such a beautiful axe, well done..you are a master of your craft.
I love this, I will build several hand axes and Tommy Hawks this winter,Got to add a ribbon burner and do like the way you started with mild steel and added the spring steel Thanks you again Sir
Bruh its tomahawk. Tf is a tommy hawk?
Tommy hawks ,is a name invented by Buffalo Bill Cody ,we natives never called them that the white European people are great at making little cute names for such items
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Im planning on making an axe too, what steel would work for a project like this? of what steel does he use?
Its really nice to see all the positivity on this channel.
You have the skills of a true craftsman!!!
I love how you work ! Greetings from Romania.
I was not expecting an actual forge, I thought it was another restoration video. Good job
Thanks!
Excellent proportions with a handle that doesn't look goofy because it's way to large! Awesome job and a pleasure to watch being made!
Amazing. That is a beautifully crafted tool and some serious skill and craftsmanship.
GPKNIVES yes but I want all hand made. Too much machinery for me.
I was thinking the same thing. Always great watching these videos and projects get done, so incredibly refined.
Wow....awesome....one of the last men on this planet with the know how to forge and create a hatchet......Top👍👍👍👍
Alec steele.....
I never tire of watching your videos ,great axe
That's really, really beautiful work. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Holy hell it takes this much effort even with modern tools and understandings. I can only imagine what it must've been like in the olden days
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There are only a couple major differences... A, the steel from which it started (a big factor if one were starting from ore, but that wasn't usually the case). B, the blower fan on the forge (not a huge deal with a good bellows set up), C, the power hammer (Extremely convenient, though not necessary, and D, a belt sander (again, convenient, though not necessary). All things considered, you just witnessed how it was done with a few minimal shortcuts due to modern convenience. Effort, yes--then, and now. Skill? Definitely. Talent and dedication? Without question. To the smith... Well done, Brother. Well done.
i was thinking the exact same thing... its amazing how refined his work is with hand tools.
There were waterbased power hammers in late medieval europe.
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Hard work pays off.
its hard VORK pays off, or AARDVARK pays off
Heyour meking a cheekin oot of a feader.
Awesome axe! I am really enjoying watching your techniques. I have been struggling with getting the harden able bit to seat well. Your process of notching it prior to forge welding it together is genius. I think I’ll go give that a try.
this guy is so good. he really deserves more subs
We own it to ourselves to never let skills such as these be forgotten ......
That hardened spring insert was a very cool idea.
It was a common practice back then. I believe Vikings were the first to do so.
This whole video is therapeutic for the soul
I understand now why you dont put many knife making video's on here. Everyone makes knives. I really enjoy watching you build these beautiful and useable tools. Good job Sir.
its Amazing how a cube off steel can become something so beautiful
Your beautiful ;)
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Bloody genius! I watched it to the end. I was a Blacksmiths apprentice in Scotland and i used to do things like this. But the shaft was something i never managed. Well done you.Takes me back a bit! ( but why the thumbs down? Jealous Blacksmiths?)
One simple word: fantastic! What a skill, man.
Torbjörn! Ready to work! Absolutely beautiful craftsmanship.
Beautiful axe, thanks for showing the process from start to finish
What a beautiful piece of work ! 👍👍👍👍👍 Great video. Lots of detail on all the steps of the forging and finish. Thank you so much. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
You put so much love in your work !! i really enjoyed watching you sir .
Beautiful design and workmanship. Old school excellence!!!!!
Not that you will see this. My god there are so many comments! I respect your craftsmanship. You do amazing work and I think you are an top notch artist. Please keep pumping videos out, I enjoy them immensely. Thank you for sharing some of your life with the rest of us.
I read them all :) Thank you so much!
Not so much an axe as a very beautifully-functional work of art. In this age of price first, quality second this was such a treat to watch. And not a trace of ego anywhere. Top Class, Sir. Thank You.
I like it to watch your videos, especially the silence! No senseless talking , just "the show". I wish, i would have the space to do the same at home. Sadly i have NOT... Keep it up!
That is some of the best blacksmithing work I have seen in a very long time, Actually, since my father work, and he worked for the LIRR and was the chief inspector on all fright and passenger cars when they had a problem, He worked the yard in Long Island City, and could make any part needed when they could not get one delivered, This Gye is really Good! I Love the spring steel you put in as that head as it is the hardness of that blade and will not chip or bend, perfect, I am amazed. God Bless and Thank You!
Thanks Joseph!
@@torbjornahman it is true, your good
That is such a beautiful axe. I want one so bad. Just like that. I love the forge marks and hammering marks it is just so beautiful.
Thanks!
Honestly this type of axe, arc that cuts is the best for me. It just rolls on the wood, it does not stick into it. Really enjoyable if you are "weak".
Love that axe. I enjoy the lil nature strolls during normalizing.
Magnificent work. Congratulations on the excellent piece created from an iron clay. Success and prosperity always.
A little dash of vision, a little dash of talent and and skill, a few drops of patience, a dollop of metal, and a sliver of wood. Presto! An axe. Well done!
Shane Roper Where's the peanut butter
A recipe for skill, effort and reward, hey. A great remark mate
Este hombre es un genio, literalmente es un artista..
Beautifully done, I've always wanted a bearded axe but have yet to run across one. Most of my axes are antique repurposed axes that I have had to rehang. After I watched your video I might have to make it one of the things I forge. Again thank you for your videos. Someday I would love to travel and meet some of my favorite youtubers. Your at the top of my list.
Thanks Blake!
Now that’s what I call craftsmanship and thank you once again for not playing any stupid music in your video
Absolutely beautiful, thank you for sharing!
A thing of beauty, forged with passion.
Trabalho magnifico. Parabéns pela excelente peça criada a partir de uma barro de ferro. Sucesso e prosperidade sempre.
I've said forge welding several times and over.Did a fair job of rivets for my last forge weld that failed.But I'll try again Sir. It's a beautiful axe you built,A super beautiful tool. Thanks for the teaching Sir
Love this guy's tools!! And good close ups of what's going on too!....that anvil is a BEAST...HOLY COW!!!
my german anvil has 320kg :D
@@JonnyNestea Fat praising... people now days and their plus sized anvils.
Congratulations from Brazil ! You are an artist ---- a very fine sense of aesthetic !
Thanks for sharing! What you have done is very impressive! I salute you sir!
I recently saw one of your videos on Facebook and followed your page because I thought it was so interesting. You have great craftsmanship and really got me interested in the craft. You've inspired me to start getting into smithing. Love your work, thank you for sharing.
That's awesome! Thanks
Klasse Arbeit -Respekt!
Your work is very nice. Your axe is very strong and sharp.
Just beautiful! You are such an amazing craftsman and artist! 🫶👊🤝
Beautiful build it really inspires others to want to do the same thing. Take care
Thank you for sharing your knowledge man !!!
Excellent craftsmanship. I like that automated hammering device you have. Definitely saves the elbow. Loved your video! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks Bob!
I love that this guy shows you the whole process. Im not tryna discredit anybody else but I like these complete forges better. I'm not a huge fan of the blacksmiths who forge a bar and then cut and grind it into shape
Truly a thing of beauty & a thing of utility.
You're fun to watch, guy. Thanks for the upload!
Nice axe! And beautiful video work as always. I don't know if it's just the quiet finn in me.. When I rather listen to hammers and birds singing in the background, instead of dubbed how-to-videos on youtube. Keep up the good work, and I'll keep watching them! :D Hälsningar från Österbotten
Tack Kenneth!
I wouldn't say it's just the quiet Finn in you,. I'm an Aussie and often someone yammering on drives me bonkers. Sure, the insights and info is useful but more often than not I'm like "mate, shut the hell up and let me hear the work" lol. This is precisely why my 3 favourite channels are this one, Almazan Kitchen (Serbians cooking outdoors) and Dorian Bracht (Japanese joinery). G'day from Australia.
Thank you Vaul!! :)
Torbjörn Åhman I wish I could be student of a steel master like you! Excellent job! 🙋👍👍
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that was really amazing to watch! beautiful axe!!!
Esta forja do machado éteu terceiro trabalho seu que eu vejo,voce tem muito talento na forja continue nos prestigiando com suas obras de arte.um forte abraço. Sucesso tudo de bom!
Remind me of my situation, 4-5 hours of handforging, 2 hours of hand grinding and smoothing, hardening and temper, 10 hours for the knife handle :D
and someone offers you 20 dollars for it...............................one mans tool is another mans trash................ when the hammer drops the craftsman holds the stage
forging: 5 hours grinding: 2:30 hours making the handle: too long
Sorry, nothing like it. The problem with you club guys and your precious creations.
Tom Jones ???????
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finally a bearded axe that's not just a cut down American axe
I can't stop watching this video again and again.
Fascinating process of fabrication, thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed watching the making of the handle just as much as I enjoyed watching the making of the axe head.
Beautiful work. God bless you. Thanks. HAVE A NICE DAY....
A great job you made of this project. That spring steel for the cutting - edge of the Bearded Axe was brilliant idea and real scary sharp, made short easy work of chopping up that log on the ground there at the end. Awesome Skill as well cutting and shaping the axe handle, also a nice snug fit. Magnifique!!!!!
This is the perfect video before I go to bed I will not take my medication tonight.
You are great at making stuff and good at crafting
Thank you!
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@@wyatts.5326 really????? He just sharpened the axe and is going to slaughter so.e chickens for dinner. Its called humor. Lol lol lol