I'd like to see you create the ugliest but still usable axe you can come up with and let @torbjornahman do the same - then ugliest wins.. ;))

qual madeira é usada para fazer este cabo.?

Very nice. I was late to see this.

Is this a project someone with little experience can take in a day, or is this a job for a more experienced smith?

Great video, I just subscribed. Looks difficult. Well thought out work.

You make it look easy the sign of a very skilled person thanks for sharing 👍

If you read a book called Hatchers Notebook, you find an account of how the US got judging steel by colour catastrophically wrong & made Springfield rifles, which were prone to shattering, at this time the British were apparently alone in forging their rifles from alloy steel creating guns which were tough without requiring careful heat treatment & the Germans were using case hardened mild steel for the same component. PS your spoken English is excellent.

What is the reason that the blade has such a sharp slope on this axe?

Gostei muito do Machado

Работа с молотком классная, техника отличная!

This is inspiring me to build my own forge.

Я живу в России ,смотрю твои видео...ты классный кузнец! У нас в России тоже есть хорошие кузнецы...удачи тебе в делах!

Нигде невидно добавки флюса при сварке' или вы не добавляете при сварке флюс?

Очень хорошая вещ'а у кого были такие топоры не разу не видел' как его можно использовать?

hey man awesome work, im just starting out and would love a hammer like that. Even if i dont get that one Ill for sure try my hand to make one after this video

Don’t know anything about forging. I was wondering why you welded the eye instead of punching it through. Was it to make the Damascus pattern show better around the eye?

Where do I find who won the hammer?

excellent commentary on forge welding

Its so amazing to think about how back then, this technique of forge welding smaller pieces of harder or better steel into the critical points was born out of pure necessity, just because good quality steel was a rare and expensive good and they didnt wanna waste it. It really makes me appreciate how nowadays, we always have everything so readily available and no one even thinks twice about that

Hehehehe "peen"

Thank you for posting this video, every other video I have seen on hand-forging hammers is mostly the Brian Brazil method or has a really rough finish to it. It was nice to see detailed finishing techniques with your method.

I decided to do some viking era carving on my axe handle- gotta say hickory is damn tough stuff to carve!

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When i did this there was a gap between the axe head and the beard. Is there a fix for this?

I can't stop watching your videos. I love your work and guidance.

Thank you for making such well edited and instructional videos. I especially appreciate videos that show that you can make things with basic tooling instead of going to the power hammer and making me feel poor. I'd love to have that hammer, almost as much as I want to make one myself! Thank you for sharing your skill and helping others start their journeys at the anvil.

I could really use a hammer like that. I just got my great grandfathers for running again and my current hammer is old and splintering

I have been traumatised with this technique, because when i was about to close up the edge steel to the axe head with the vice. My whole weld just snapped open. It happened twice

Gör gärna ett hjärta och lika kommentaren som vinner för då får dem en notifikation 👍

This is exactly what i want to make as my first axe. Forge gets here tomorrow

Love handmade tool making. Nice work!!

Enjoying the catch up on your video's Ive always enjoyed using a draw knife. I first picked one up when I was 16 and that was to hang an axe. Ive always had one since then. I want to make some different styles and see how I go with them thanks for sharing

Subscribed for the soothing Swedish accent and hammer sounds.

Nice. Real nice.

Mr Nils ,my nick name is Red, and I would like be a part as a regular viewer of this opportunity for getting a hammer like that,thanks for the offer.😊

Hand saw cut was so bad 😅😅

The hammer is just a striker nothing less! You still have to know how to forge anything you make don’t listen to these people that think it is not real smithing they probably have never made scroll a hammer or anything else just a big mouth!

Dunder Mifflin 👍🏼

That is some good work, and it's very cool that you have a Tormek. Love mine.

I learnt when I was a kid from a very old guy who had worked on the yorkshire coal fields. He knew how to use a power hammer and when he was working it was his main tool for making fixing and straightening everything you need for a coal mine but he said for him it took some of the soul out of it. it depersonalised the process because he used jigs and all manner of gadgets with the hammer. His love of blacksmithing was in making things by hand that couldnt be made on a power hammer. . scroll work for gates and weather vanes tools and so on, he didnt even use a fly press. He taught me the same process's but I must admit now I have health problems perhaps a power hammer would help but its an expensive item and more than that expensive to run. I too feel like it would take away from what I can do now rather than add to it, even if I can do more. I suppose my main difficulty is drawing out, I use a lot of wrought iron so buying the right size stock isn't a thing either. I'm also just building a gas forge to see if using one is easier for me than a hand crank blower and charcoal or coal IOt's all difficult to answer because I like the way I do things now and don't really want to change them but to some extent in order to carry on I will need to change things......Some of the change is spurred by illness and some by losing the use of my workshop for nearly four years

That would be a brilliant hammer to own and use for its intended purpose. I’m beginning forging, I’ve welded up a coke forge last week and used a hair dryer for bellows! Works quite well actually. I got a hand me down anvil from my neighbour and it’s a beast, just need to make proper tongs and a proper hammer, that would be a brilliant hammer for a beginner! Thanks for a great video to show how the ordinary person can make brilliant things without owning a power hammer, that gives me a lot of confidence to keep swinging my old hammer for now. Thanks Nils

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Love your work. You are inspiring me to get back to smithing myself.

Love the video. I'm just starting out with blacksmithing myself and eventually I'd love to try and make a hammer of my own.

Another great video ,sharing the knowledge is caring for the knowledge .

The final product here is stunning. Totally agree on the reinforced edge by reverse taco method. Well done sir

Hey man, i would love to start forging, but things are expensive, and that beautiful hammer would mean the world to me Thank you for considering

Amazing work, very novice friendly. I love that you use the color of the steel to tell when to do what, no telling us what temp to heat the steel to as if we are all metallurgists.

I would like to bare that cross in rememberance of Jesus when he bore his cross.....and that is a lovely piece

Beautiful hammer ⚒️