FORGING A SWEDISH COLLARED AXE

In this video i try to forge a traditional Swedish collared axe, also called "Swedish Eye". It was one of the toughest projects i have ever made. alot harder than i first thought. I really hope you enjoy the video and get inspired to try forge one!
Thanks for watching!
/Nils
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[@jackdawg4579]

Made my first tomahawk yesterday. Forged from a solid billet of 5160 by hand, punched eye. Won't be doing that too often! Lot of hammer work.

[@OKBushcraft]

Your skill level is more than impressive. I'm grateful I found your channel a few weeks ago. Looking forward to the next project.

Thank you very much!

[@johnkelly7264]

Respect to your wife and yourself..taking care of others' lives and keeping us from going stir crazy in the lockdown with great content, right after your wedding.... that's dedication all round!.

Thank you!

[@aaronolson1378]

Huge respect for your humbleness. Typically these types of videos that people put out comes from individuals that are far not ignorant and overconfident for their own good. It's clear you understand the meaning of that we are students in any craft we take on until the end of our days. It must be our Scandinavian nature 😀

[@yossiderecheven6322]

A very interesting and fascinating way to make an ax, thanks to you I learn a lot about blacksmiths and ways to create tools made of steel, I enjoyed watching the video.

Thank you very much!

[@danandreinicoara1872]

QALITY and tradițion from Sweden give me a verry nice remember about Hukswarna Mora knife and now a verry nice ,C.Axe...wanderful good job,thanks for SHOW!!

[@kensmapleleafretirement]

That was very cool. Great job. That really was a great video. I hope you get a million views...

[@akashasausuke5249]

Absolutely amazing, great job. I'm looking forward to getting my first Finnish axe very soon.

[@moonshinerphd9523]

Great job Nils, enjoy watching your videos!

[@manuelwebe]

Outstanding. Beautiful axe. Thanks for sharing.

[@Mrlloydcr]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience, it is currently difficult to find a blacksmith teacher, but thanks to people like you you can try to learn yourself. I wish you to develop your channel. All self-taught success!

Thank you!

[@pukinpaja1974]

Very beatifull traditionel axe! Thanks to the video! 🎅🏻🪓🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮

Thank!

[@gunslingersymphony5015]

I'm currently catching up on all of your axe forging videos. This one is by far my favorite. I will be forging one of these one day. Thank you very much for being entertaining and instructional.

[@cyrillevogler4065]

i love all the axes you make and really hope you keep on making them. love your channel

[@robertkoontz7865]

I liked that you summarized the project after completing the project. Thanks B.K.

Thank you, i try doing that in every video!

[@brianfalls5038]

Great job on that axe Nils! I can't even imagine how long it took you to make that axe. That was one huge chunk of metal there. Well done!

[@noone3734]

I'm glad you talked about it at the end, because I wouldn't have thought you had trouble otherwise.

[@horseblinderson4747]

Looks great.

[@Fu-manchoo]

Awesome job once again. Keep it up. Well done

[@RickSolid1]

Wow! This was incredible. The whole time I was nervous, all that forge welding is very easy to screw up, you did great. You pushed yourself into new skills and were honest about mistakes made. You keep posting and I’ll watch and like every one of them. ~USA, Pennsylvania.

Thank you so much!

[@petardragoev7106]

I think that axe came out fantastic! Your videos are great and you have really inspired me to try my hand at forging a collader axe - I've been meaning to for a long time but until very recently there weren't a lot ot videos or information about the process, so your videos are a great help! Keep up the good work!

Thank you very much!

[@hannemannironworks1651]

Very cool Nils thank you for sharing I really enjoyed the video!

Thank you!

[@bigfootbeliever6985]

even though collared axe (both swedish and Finnish, and i think the swedish style is quite a bit bigger than the Finnish style) are quite small and light for a axe, they are incredibly durable! lasting you years and years of chopping and cutting. but like you said, they are a pain in the ass to make but in the end you're have a incredibly durable and functional piece of art!

[@timidb]

collared axes, at least Finnish ones aren't very lightweight but durable they sure are i once found one that's approximately 110 years old while digging in my yard. beat it with a hammer to get rid of the biggest chunks of rust, put a handle on it and it was a perfectly functional axe

[@CliKnight]

That is a Beautiful Piece. Any axeman worth his salt,would be honored to have such a fine axe..

[@louislarose4023]

Beautiful Axe ! Job Well done !

[@TheOldaz1]

Beautiful result for a very difficult process, well done.

Thank you!

[@fern6114]

Great skills and patience, keep on smithing

[@manishburade1162]

Hardworking man 👍 nice work,

[@user-mt1re1pc3g]

Красивая работа👍 Приятно было смотреть🤗

[@thomasstrandh]

Nice work Nils 💪👏

[@thomaspoulsen1958]

Snygg yxa, fascinerande och härligt hantverk.

Tack!

[@NKG416]

best axe forging channel

Wow, thank you very much!

[@Erik1970Viking]

awesome work again ... congrats to your fine axe. I like your video and also your comment about forging ..

Thank you very much!

[@karlovujec8401]

Great job mate 👌🏻

[@Btines01]

Thanks for the video! I would like to see your interpretation of a wood whittling knife. Many great returns with your videos!

[@patrickdean9797]

i think that axe is better than any axe you can buy at a store and it will probably last longer too as a tool it is perfect

[@Kyurnmakes]

Back at it already! Hope married life is great!

The best!

[@DynastyUK]

Love it! I'd like some small commentary while the video is playing on what you're doing :) Enjoyed it very much! :D

[@nemofanfans2071]

Quality axes.

[@ReasonAboveEverything]

Looks a very similar to a standard finnish axe. Looking great.

[@user-cc1th8nt1x]

Nice 👍 job..

[@p.dejong4160]

This week i asked Mr Øgren to make me one, cant wait to get it!

[@Krigsblakk9]

Absolutely amazing! Your work is impressive, sir. Good job! How many for this one, when I want it? Thanks and greetings from the Czech republic.

[@Erikreaver]

What a wonderful looking axe, I love the shape of it, and you make me want to try and make a collared axe too. I've forged a handful of axes now and I learned to very much enjoy forgewelding steel bits in. Also I tried on two axes splitting the steel wedge, and not the body of the axe, essentially wrapping the axe bit around the body, rather than other way around. It is rather fun to do and either you can forge it nice and flat, but I quite like the look of the very edge of the axe being a little thicker than the body. It makes for a nice and light axe with a resillient body, kind of like the Petersen type M3 "dane axes"! As for the poll/hammer bit, have you considered tying it to the axe with a piece of wire? It holds it enough to get the weld on, and then it either melts off or you can just brush it away, the very stubborn pieces can be filed away with a few strokes of a file. As for the socket, I would consider forgewelding it over a mandrel or a drift, mayhaps pre-heated a little bit so it doesn't steal away heat from the workpiece. Beautiful axes! I'll continue to watch your channel!

[@Killianwsh]

thank you for taking the time to make , share, and teach! I am personally not a Smith yet, but watching your video a couple questions came to mind. The first being is there a reason you didn't weld on the hammer face to the plate before forming the eye? It would seem easier to strike the pair with force if you didn't have to worry about deforming the eye with every blow. The second was: might it be possible to form the lower portion of the eye by pinching them to gather while they were still a bit thicker (welding them by striking them from one side to the other and pinching off a little piece of metal in the process, instead of overlapping and striking from from front to back of the eye)? If done when the whole head was hot enough & wrapped initially around some manner of eye "form", couldn't you simply continue that "pinching" weld up into the curve of the neck of the ax closing that hole you mentioned in the video & leaving you with just the slight pinch marks to smooth out against the eye form? Sorry bout the long comment. I'm not trying to "back seat Smith" lol I'm just curious as I don't know anything about your art and trying to learn. :) I liked and subscribed K

[@mikeinthewoods2193]

Snyggt🤯😃

[@Ongard...AA1]

Great

[@Auxxua]

When you forge weld the piece, do you use any kind of eye protection? I mean like sunglasses or such, because it hurts my eyes just to watch that bright piece of metal.

I wear eye protectio, but with regular glass. The camera distprts the light a little bit.

[@GiovanniGuida-ek9dv]

Bravo grande lavoro mi piacerebbe possedere una di queste scuri

[@260160nl]

What's the reasoning behind your double wedging? Elongation of the cheeks so that the cutting bit extends further from the eye? Or did you utilize three different alloys (soft - medium tougness - very hard) being the wedge sandwiched in between bit and head 'medium toughness'? Did you use silver steel 1.2210 / 115CrV3 for the cutting bid?

[@Hell-Chang]

특이하게 만드네. 하지만 멋지다. Cool !

[@paulschambach9059]

Awesome work. But I am asking myself why you welded the cutting edge to a piece of steel before welding it to the axe. Did they do it back in the days to safe even more high carbon material?

[@dejavu666wampas9]

That’s an awesome anvil you have there. Great work. Thanks. Hope you wear ear protection when hammering, otherwise you’ll lose that frequency over time. Or it’ll turn into tinnitus, like I have. You don’t want that.

I wear peltor ear protection every day. No worries

[@dejavu666wampas9]

@ Awesome. I worry about you, man. You’re too talented for the world to lose.

Thanks! I used to be a musician so I already got some taste of damage to the ears. Im extra carefull now

[@sethmullins8346]

You need to grind the mushroomed up parts of tools like your hot cut or whatever that is. It's dangerous. If one of those chips off when you strike it, it can fly like a literal bullet and give you a very bad day. My dad has had a piece of a wood splitting wedge in his leg for like 30 years because it got hit at a weird angle and the mushroomed head of it broke and sent chunks into his thigh. It was so deep that the doctors deemed it too risky to remove. Take care, Nils.

[@vala8002]

It was pleasure to watch. You are very skilled and the axe is hard to make. I think there is a conseptional flow in the eye design being the bottom is wider than the top. I don't think the handle can be firmly secured because of that.

What do you mean?

[@vala8002]

@ maybe I'm wrong but the top of the eye opening looks smoller than the bottom from where the handle starts.

[@Marcsansum]

fantastic job! What kind of price range are these to make?

[@chrisdaube5435]

Hey Nils That’s so cool. Tell me though, are collared axes usually wedged? As I’ve wondered how the head doesn’t come loose without wedging? Thanks

Depends what it was used for. I have seen examples of both.

[@javanbybee4822]

Chris Daube some axes like this had a 3 wedge design

[@chrisdaube5435]

Oxi Clean Thankyou, but we’re these ever un- wedged? Cheers

[@javanbybee4822]

Chris Daube yes, some did not have wedges due to large amount of surface area that the axe eye had. Hewing axes and broad axes were sometimes not wedges

[@craigpadley3535]

Nice axe, do you use flux on your forge welds ?

[@javanbybee4822]

Could you do a video on how to make a axe drift or one on making a traditional Sami knife, the leuku

[@brettwalker5579]

You should probably clean up the mushrooming on your hot cut tool. Don't want to catch any chips, they are like flying razor blades.

[@adriennefraschetta5391]

I liked the fact you were trying and in my opinion succeeding but the only problem I really had was your filming of it in the beginning, it was very hard to see.

[@yukonc4]

Nils, two questions. First, where did you film the last part. It’s beautiful there! Also, what where your most important tools when you started?

I filmed it outside my home! Id say that the most important tools were: hammer, anvil, forge, anglegrinder and files

[@yukonc4]

Nils Ögren would you say start with a gas forge or coal?

It depends. Gas is easier, but theres something about starting with the basics and then from there finding what you need and what works best for you. I forged with a coal forge the first 2 years then moved on to gas.

[@patrickdean9797]

the hammer part is called the "poll"

[@vadimblin]

You mentioned the little gab.... would it be possible to take a hammer with a longer cross peen part place it on the gap and hit the hammer do blind in the gap? Something like a hot cut tool just without an edge? Probably you would need a second pair of hands to do that but should be possible?

Interesting, ill habe to try next time!

[@vadimblin]

@ I'd love to see that!

[@WiseKaaa]

👍👍👍

[@Gwlyddyn]

Otroligt läckert gjort. Synd att man bor så en egen smedja bara är en våt dröm. :)

Om det finns en vilja, finns det en väg!

[@Gwlyddyn]

@ Så är det absolut. Jag och frugan snackar om att lämna hetsen i Stockholm och då kan man ju se till att det finns möjlighet att fixa.

Låter klokt, om man gillar landet förståss

[@Wedkog]

Skulle vara av intresse om du sålde sådana yxor..

[@vandieselmetalworks4089]

Where can I get work pants like yours?

They are called "blåkläder" if you search for that you will probably find them!

[@vandieselmetalworks4089]

Thank you kindly

[@mada0zani]

Hi there. Already back to work after getting married?

My wife is a nurse, no vacation.

[@mada0zani]

@ she sure is going through tough time now with the current pandemic. I hope you, she and your family are well. Thanks to her for caring for the sick.

Thank you!

[@markgoggin2014]

No wedge?

[@craigpadley3535]

Sorry, you've just answered my question lol.

[@BAD-kq6ec]

It's too bad that you used a radial sawn wood instead of a tangential one to make the ax handle. With tangential, it is much stronger. There were several axes with such a glass and broken ax handles.

[@kucigal8993]

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[@demastust.2277]

Why is it so friggen bright at 14 minutes

Its the sun, aparently we had really nice weather that day

[@user-md2pd8zz8g]

Wow! You r not looking for an easy way....

[@vargr]

Shouldn't you still be enjoying time with your wife?

She works as a nurse. So she's not allowed to take a day off im afraid.

[@vargr]

@ sorry to hear she has no time off.

She even had to work the day after the wedding

[@vadimblin]

@ who the fuq wants someone to work on the next day after the damn wedding?! You just don't do that! It's a wedding! It's not a birthday or something.... that's something special and you need at least one day to enjoy the moment and calm down cause that's nothing you do each day or at least once in a month or even year! If you do it right, you dou it only one time! And I really hope that's the case here! Wish ya all the best! Well ok, some Hollywood celebrities do it once a year but that's a whole different story and a awkward one! What I wanna say is... yeah we have a damn pandemic here and nurses are important to keep people alive and stuff but damn..... one day! At least one day should be a problem!