I tried to forge a viking seax with a mosaic tile weld blade

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Fire Creek Forge

Fire Creek Forge

Күн бұрын

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@brennanxyz
@brennanxyz 7 ай бұрын
The fact that you post everything is hugely inspiring to me. You're a masterful steelsmith and watching the occasional failures is satisfying
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Glad to hear it. That is life sometimes
@anb2456
@anb2456 7 ай бұрын
I don't think they are failures. He is experimenting
@brysonalden5414
@brysonalden5414 7 ай бұрын
I learned a lot from all the problems you faced and dealt with. Mr. Murphy was clearly hanging out in your shop, because I can't imagine much more going wrong. Thanks for the reminder not to buy steel on eBay!
@AustinMuellerHandmade
@AustinMuellerHandmade 7 ай бұрын
I was really excited to see how this was gonna turn out, but this was cool to see the process anyways.
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Yeah man
@guitarhoarder5426
@guitarhoarder5426 7 ай бұрын
Seeing the mistakes is just as entertaining as the successes!
@dirtfarmer7472
@dirtfarmer7472 7 ай бұрын
You used to talk about what you were doing, not now that’s OK we can see what happens. It’s never a lost effort, you’re always learning. Thank you Sir for this opportunity to learn.
@paykore45
@paykore45 7 ай бұрын
Sometimes when he's either not feeling well, or if he just needs to put out content on his channel he won't accompany the video with a voice over. Doesn't happen too often, but it does happen.
@dirtfarmer7472
@dirtfarmer7472 7 ай бұрын
@@paykore45 That’s fine with me, just different, I’ve watched enough of his videos to understand what he’s doing.
@DONJUILIO
@DONJUILIO 7 ай бұрын
I hate that it happened to you, but I'm glad you showed us.
@jeffbrown4382
@jeffbrown4382 7 ай бұрын
This was a cup of tea away from being a shurap video, and I mean this as a great compliment. I like watching you forge.
@BCM1959
@BCM1959 7 ай бұрын
I would wonder if every project came out perfect... Still better than I could do. You do such clean work and it's a pleasure to watch.
@skoitch
@skoitch 7 ай бұрын
Love the dust bag on your height gauge! I’m lucky to have a clean room for mine!
@ManOf1ThousandHats
@ManOf1ThousandHats 4 ай бұрын
A bad day in the forge beats a good day in the office, still sucks when nuthin' goes your way.
@r3ngokuking
@r3ngokuking 7 ай бұрын
Man, the frustration was all over your face on the etch. We've all been there.
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
For sure
@matthewf1979
@matthewf1979 7 ай бұрын
I 100% see where you were going with the pattern. Please try it again! Probably would want to add an extra 50% more steel off the bat. Those patterns just get eaten up by scale in a hurry.
@andyfields4464
@andyfields4464 3 ай бұрын
Can't see this staying together
@donnyflippo2781
@donnyflippo2781 7 ай бұрын
Good video, You cutting the steel in half by pushing your hands toward the band saw blade, wow, brace soul you are. Stay safe
@b2bogster
@b2bogster 7 ай бұрын
Learning is dang tough sometimes! Love what you do. Can't wait to see what you do next.
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Yeah it can be for sure! Thanks for watching!
@Michael-m2b3k
@Michael-m2b3k 4 ай бұрын
This is awesome !!! I love this stuff !!! I can't wait to see the final results !!! Good luck!!!
@Kuznica_Maria_Leonid
@Kuznica_Maria_Leonid 7 ай бұрын
“Even an adult, experienced monkey sometimes unsuccessfully jumps from a tree” (c) China Best regards from Russia
@keithpreston1841
@keithpreston1841 7 ай бұрын
Loved the ASMR approach.
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@wiley979
@wiley979 7 ай бұрын
Thank you for showing us this. With the prices of materials being so high. The alternate sourced like Ebay, Amazon and the like aren't always reliable. Personally, I'll be giving the bearings I just ordered a quick dip in ferric to help weed out any non 52100 that slip in.
@KevinJohnson-gr4to
@KevinJohnson-gr4to 7 ай бұрын
Wonder if anyone has ever tried building up welding beads (all one direction, or crisscross), just welding beads and beads, until they had enough material to make a Damascus blade?
@joshschneider9766
@joshschneider9766 7 ай бұрын
interesting idea. i would imagine it would depend on what filler you use
@Tenoct91
@Tenoct91 7 ай бұрын
Call this one, Spot 😁
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Haha, totally
@joshschneider9766
@joshschneider9766 7 ай бұрын
i bet if you collaborate with a machinist you could mill very detailed pockets into solid stock and then back fill them with a contrasting powder and forge weld. ill bet you could even heat it to welding heats in a ceramics kiln and beat the crap out of it too. I feel like this technical concept has a lot of merit.
@JacobE-23
@JacobE-23 7 ай бұрын
Seen something like this done on a reproduction wulfbert (probably spelt that wrong). Sword was forged, the lettering was cnc cut into it, then rought iron was used to fill them in. Gave a real nice contrast and made a beautiful sword!
@joshschneider9766
@joshschneider9766 7 ай бұрын
@@JacobE-23 sounds awesome I always did think the pattern welding potential between smiths and machinists was very high.
@AngloSaxon1
@AngloSaxon1 4 күн бұрын
Of all the Viking weapons you could have made, you made an Anglo Saxon one.
@clarklindquist8137
@clarklindquist8137 5 ай бұрын
Hope ya will try it out again, even if it didn't turn out right, its a learning experience. Hope ya try it again. I love your videos, ya share when things don't go as planned too. Thst helps all of us know we arent alone when things don't quite go our way
@TalRohan
@TalRohan 7 ай бұрын
I had a horrible feeling one of those non 52100 bearings was going to balls it up somehow. IT had promise though the rest of the patterning looked good although the bearings stuffed up the crosses by not compressing much at all...Did you get your money back from the bearing supplier atleast Ah thats a rotten shame but all power to your ability to make it work. Perhaps a shop knife of shame box where useable knives go to be used for horrible things you wouldn't want to use a good one for. Again well done for finishing it ..those weird bearings could do some interesting damascus if you knew they were in there from the start Well done and thanks for sharing.
@TheOGfrenchy
@TheOGfrenchy 7 ай бұрын
Still awesome you posted the video and made a blade!!! Get back up on the horse and FORGE ON!!! 👊
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Thank you
@MASI_forging
@MASI_forging 7 ай бұрын
Your work is always impress 👏👏
@christianborghi7544
@christianborghi7544 7 ай бұрын
I know how you feel , I made a mosaic katana and one of the first welds didn’t take , unfortunately it didn’t show up until it came out of the etch , $200+ down the drain and over 120hrs maybe more
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Yeah it's a big bummer when an extensive project fails!
@hulkthedane7542
@hulkthedane7542 7 ай бұрын
Quite an amount of adversity on this one. Good to see, that you still make a video of the process. I wish you better luck next time - hopefully your supplier of bearings labels hus products better, so that you can at least avoid that hurdle. ☀️💪👍💪☀️.
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
haha, yep it was sort of doomed from the beginning. I bought 52100 bearings, and they were packaged and labeled as such, and most of the were 52100 obviously. Somehow some others got mixed in before I got them... but oh well.
@hulkthedane7542
@hulkthedane7542 7 ай бұрын
@@FireCreekForge you are such a high spirited man. I tip my har for you 👍
@hulkthedane7542
@hulkthedane7542 7 ай бұрын
....hat....... Stupid autocorrect.
@paullmight42
@paullmight42 7 ай бұрын
there was some angst behind those throws haha...
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Haha, little steel test
@jonathanking3676
@jonathanking3676 5 ай бұрын
I feel your pain, been there.
@beb32225
@beb32225 7 ай бұрын
the video is true to the adage "if you don't have anything good to say then don't say anything at all".....also you need an exorcism for the gremlins in your shop...
@ryanblystone5153
@ryanblystone5153 7 ай бұрын
Thank you
@Vikingwerk
@Vikingwerk 7 ай бұрын
Well that had to be frustrating.
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Yep it was
@philsturgill3435
@philsturgill3435 7 ай бұрын
Looks more like a warncliff or sheep foot blade to me, but I’m no expert.
@anonymous-tn6ij
@anonymous-tn6ij 7 ай бұрын
So liquid molten hot steel would have no separations or the laminations so if you wanna weld steel, you have to get it super hot can’t be pounding on any dark red steel and hoping to laminate it
@joelraplee3223
@joelraplee3223 3 ай бұрын
Good night nurse.... secure that O2 bottle!
@est19791
@est19791 7 ай бұрын
What rod do you use for welding the blanks?
@breakawaybooks4752
@breakawaybooks4752 7 ай бұрын
Seax's were a product of circumstance when a sword broke. Rather than completely toss it out a large knife was often made from what was left behind, and though I'm not saying that this would be a good idea for a finished commercial product, forging a short sword then breaking it on purpose, and THEN crafting a seax from it would tell this weapon's full story.
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Interesting
@DH-xw6jp
@DH-xw6jp 7 ай бұрын
Not at all. The handle construction is radically different. The seax (or sea ax) has always been a heavy utility knife, not a broken sword.
@Jermz1979
@Jermz1979 7 ай бұрын
​@@DH-xw6jpagreed, it's a theory, but no proof. Most swords of the age had two sides and the seax is a wide knife. Kinda hard to cut a spine for a knife from a double edged sword. The Britains did have broken back long seax's though and it was unique to them. 24-30 inches and is likely where the confusion lies with people thinking they were made from broken swords.
@giodavid991
@giodavid991 7 ай бұрын
This is totally false
@giodavid991
@giodavid991 7 ай бұрын
@@Jermz1979 long saxes are not just an anglo-saxon thing at all. Merovingians, alamannians and langobards had them before and were way more widespread, as well as scandinavian long knives (even though they are not really considered seaxes)
@DJ_Taylor24
@DJ_Taylor24 7 ай бұрын
Odd question but what do you do with all the metal from the canisters you cut off your billets?
@Echowhiskeyone
@Echowhiskeyone 7 ай бұрын
These things happen. That is how we learn. The next one will be better.
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Hard won experience!
@jd.prestage
@jd.prestage 7 ай бұрын
Many of us appreciate you shielding the welding flash
@BassistInATutu
@BassistInATutu 7 ай бұрын
Why? Can't hurt you on a computer. lol
@ghostdog662
@ghostdog662 7 ай бұрын
When it comes time to remove the metal casing you welded, why don't you cut off the ends with your bandsaw?
@jasonharrison25
@jasonharrison25 7 ай бұрын
Hard on the blade. He often cuts them open while they are still hot. Heat will kill the bandsaw blade. Or he has to wait for it to cool and thus loose valuable time. Then there is the scale that will wear down the teeth faster too. Probably cheaper the way he does it
@dominicdwk
@dominicdwk 7 ай бұрын
Impressive process, very involved. I felt your pain. Come back to it again.
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
I had high hopes! good experience either way.
@GibsonCutlery
@GibsonCutlery 7 ай бұрын
Oh man. I can imagine the choice words when you realized what had happened. I'm so sorry man - way to persevere though! Those bearings weren't from one of the "official" suppliers were they? (auction find perhaps?)
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
A company that sells them on eBay.
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
I just cried a little inside..
@GibsonCutlery
@GibsonCutlery 7 ай бұрын
@@FireCreekForge I can image! Stay strong brother. You've stepped everything you do up by a thousand times this year. Bound to be some roadblocks! Hard times make strong men 👍
@TonyLoechte
@TonyLoechte 4 ай бұрын
Don’t worry be happy ❤
@dmadd4643
@dmadd4643 7 ай бұрын
Shame it failed, but I trust you'll...forge ahead. (Ba Dum Tish). BTW - any chance at a raindrop one for a future vid? Always loved that pattern... Either way, keep up the good work!
@Mossyrock6
@Mossyrock6 7 ай бұрын
What boots are you wearing?
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Danner Bull Run
@cgmsg1
@cgmsg1 7 ай бұрын
Well Damn!
@EvilWhiteColonialist
@EvilWhiteColonialist 4 ай бұрын
I noticed you quenched and annealed before you ground to rough shape. Doesn't that make it harder to grind and wear your belts out faster? I'm not knocking, you do great work.
@paykore45
@paykore45 7 ай бұрын
What a curmudgeonly little blade, it really did not want to be, did it?
@telecatsermaster
@telecatsermaster 7 ай бұрын
Sander bite on your thumb knuckle…. Im a welder and i wear my work as well
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Yep, that'll happen!
@michealdelaura1853
@michealdelaura1853 7 ай бұрын
Why don't you do voice over anymore?
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Trying some new things because views and especially new subscribers have been way down over the last 6 months- year.
@GaisaSanktejo
@GaisaSanktejo 7 ай бұрын
@@FireCreekForge blame the ever increasing glut of voiced manga (and other) "real life" tales flooding youtube friend, those of us hardcore watchers will always follow true artists like you
@DH-xw6jp
@DH-xw6jp 7 ай бұрын
​@@GaisaSanktejoare you really blaming comic books for the lower view count of a bladesmith? Really?
@GaisaSanktejo
@GaisaSanktejo 7 ай бұрын
@@DH-xw6jp more like the glut of comic vids flooding KZbins algorithm make finding anything useful or interesting a real chore without deliberately searching for something... I don't know when it started for me, but I've blocked hundreds of revenge tale, comic vid and more channels, but for every one I block, it seems five more appear 😭🤬
@Clydes.Shop78
@Clydes.Shop78 7 ай бұрын
@@FireCreekForge Need some verbal from you. I enjoy hearing your thoughts.
@TobaccoTooling
@TobaccoTooling 7 ай бұрын
Why do you always stick weld stuff? You’d be much better off with the tig process. On the knife steel that is, not the canister.
@rholdphoto
@rholdphoto 7 ай бұрын
If it works for him, it works.
@Александр-ф4ж8ю
@Александр-ф4ж8ю 4 ай бұрын
у автора отличный станочный парк. а вот знаний и навыков ему очень не хватает
@ClenioBuilder
@ClenioBuilder 7 ай бұрын
👏👏👏🤜🤛
@douglascampbell5284
@douglascampbell5284 6 ай бұрын
Now don't crucify me but wouldn't the rust inhibit fusion with the 2 metals between the can and the high carbon steel
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 6 ай бұрын
Not enough to avoid at least some welding
@TeamStevers
@TeamStevers 7 ай бұрын
Disconnect mic from table. Makes sound so bad
@юрийкрасавин-с6ч
@юрийкрасавин-с6ч 7 ай бұрын
Не понял для чего столько геморроя? Сделать дамаск и приварить к нему лезвие, это верх извращения. Не проще сразу сделать дамаск который будет резать?
@arynnightshade7164
@arynnightshade7164 7 ай бұрын
I never understood Christians and the cross thing. It's a torture device. Why would you worship a torture device? Kind of odd if you ask me...
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Good question. But actually we don't worship the cross, we worship the one who died on it.
@YonesUrmo
@YonesUrmo 4 ай бұрын
Ridiculous
@petermoss4824
@petermoss4824 5 ай бұрын
I love watching this stuff on KZbin but. Cutting and grinding metal without gloves on is a really silly idea. Sorry, but I don't care how much experience you have. Real bad way to learn a lesson
@NortheR2301
@NortheR2301 7 ай бұрын
Seriously? A viking seax with a christin cross pattern?
@jacobkoen8994
@jacobkoen8994 7 ай бұрын
Well they did technically “convert to Christianity” eventually.
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Well the Ulfberht sword has crosses on it, so I don't think it's too far out of the realm of possibility. But I'm not claiming to try and make an historical replica or anything.
@minnesotatomcat
@minnesotatomcat 7 ай бұрын
A cross doesn’t necessarily mean Christianity or religion, the nazi swastika symbol was used by many groups of people to signify different things, it was just the nazis that made it notorious.
@DH-xw6jp
@DH-xw6jp 7 ай бұрын
You know they converted, right?
@JohnSmith-gs4lw
@JohnSmith-gs4lw 7 ай бұрын
Weren’t Vikings Godless pagans?
@FireCreekForge
@FireCreekForge 7 ай бұрын
Yep
@catch22fishing65
@catch22fishing65 7 ай бұрын
To be pagan means you have many gods. They had Odin and Thor and Loki and Freya just to name a few. So how can they be godless when they had more gods than the monotheistic religions of today?
@JohnSmith-gs4lw
@JohnSmith-gs4lw 7 ай бұрын
My point was that the cross and a crucifixion had a different meaning to them than it has to Christians.
@catch22fishing65
@catch22fishing65 7 ай бұрын
@@JohnSmith-gs4lw so that makes them godless heathen's? The cross symbol is far older than the Christian religion. They just adopted it. Either way they weren't godless words have meaning.
@JohnSmith-gs4lw
@JohnSmith-gs4lw 7 ай бұрын
I never said crosses weren’t older than the Christian religion. Obviously they crucified Jesus on a cross so it existed before Jesus, if that makes you feel better. I also don’t need to defend your strawman arguments against me; you made that argument, not me. Cheese and rice! Who would have thought Vikings would have such delicate sensibilities? Sorry to offend. Don’t cancel me or anything. Don’t worry, you’re on a Google platform. The only people who catch shade out here are Christians and Jews.
@priest9755
@priest9755 2 ай бұрын
The process was very cool But I won’t lie seeing the initial pattern I thought you were going for the end result pattern was bit of a let down 😔
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