How is a viking sword made
MAKING A VIKING SWORD!!! Part 1
please general welcome back to the
workshop it is fantastic to have you
here because I want to embark on another
extremely exciting project another
daunting project we've got our resident
Viking here Alex prepping up some steel
for a couple of big billets at Damascus
I've got steel in the band saw cutting
so that we have handling handles for
those bullets the forge is already
blisteringly hot ready for our first
Forge words of the day on a Viking sword
we're gonna get right to tacking these
billets together
welding them hey Alex are you excited
because you're about to use a power
hammer for the first time
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right it's heating up in the fire for
another heat Alex do you want to give it
a go I do I think you're gonna enjoy
this
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that is piece of steel number 2 forged
out into a long bar and cooling down and
over in the grinding room alex is
already making great progress
he has been grinding the first piece of
Damascus looks like we got our first
piece already and ground up alrighty we
have three stacks of five ready for us
to tack weld together for the second
forge welding operation this is the last
four drilling operation before the
twisting because of course we're doing
some twist Damascus pretty exciting Alex
I thought it'd be a cool idea if you
took charge of one of these villains
please don't mess it up
but what I want you to do is I will need
to do the tack welding with the MIG
welder and as much as possible of the
forging as possible sound good
good to me and that I'll take these you
can take that
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I've got my two billets drawn out it's
now Alex's first ever solo welding heat
he's gonna take it from the 5.4 dropping
it down there we go Alex
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all righty we now have three bars forged
ready for us to cut up and begin
twisting feeling a little cool today
I think it's a little chilly I think I
could do with a jacket certainly not
warm enough definitely not no no no
we're good we can't forget right
no sweat on yours either it is hot today
okely-dokely so these things are drawn
out there on about 29 inches long so we
need to make two cups to make one two
three four five six seven eight nine
pieces so here we go there we go got our
pieces all righty so we're now going to
put a couple of pieces in the fire but
I'm gonna do something different to what
I did the last time I made twist
Damascus the last time I made twist
Damascus I just twisted the square but
that caused a lot of cold cuts that we
then had to grind through in that square
that twists what I want to do this time
is we're gonna take one heat and not
octagonal izing the ends but only
working in the middles we're gonna take
the corners off the portion that we're
gonna twist we're gonna leave its square
so that our Vice and our wrench can get
onto it
but the middle is gonna be octagonal
maybe a little bit round that way
hopefully it twists a little bit neater
are you ready production style forging
here we go
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thank you
back
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well now time for some twisting it's
about to get sweaty in
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here we go I like this is the last one
yeah there we go
aunty clockwise let's open this up
thank you guys here we go one thank you
guys - for tuning in
oh my god is burning me oh there we go
let's count all right Oh
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great walk Alex
