FORGING A TYPE C VIKING AXE

[@harrisonmega7918]

Would love to learn to forge, am moving to norway so maybe ill buy a cabin in the woods and live out my dreams there in the winter😂

[@FinalRequiem619]

I hope he’s loving his dream 🥹

[@LiamJPenn]

Killed it as usual! Well done

Thanks man!

[@jb8086]

Absolutely beautiful job on what is one of my personal favorite types. I enjoy making axes more than anything and the goal for me is to one day get close to the quality of your axes. Really appreciate the videos.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts! If you want to share your pics, contact me via instagram!

[@StanErvin-yo9vl]

​@ Your inside corner building is magnificent!

[@hughcupples1279]

Very nice bow tie axe... really liked the bearded modification 👍 beautiful piece of work, cheers Hugh

[@charliesabre4328]

Hi there, have you though potentially about using a D shaped axe eye for your historical inspired builds?

[@stephenjohnson6841]

Wow! What an awesome axe! The wood grain of that handle is gorgeous! I really enjoy your videos. Thanks again Nils!

[@Dwarvenchef]

Beautiful axe... need one...

[@dosken7820]

Wow men, love your work, congratulations from Colombia

Thank you!!

[@daveyhall4599]

Your observations @ the end are greatly enjoyed

Thank you kindly!

[@darrylstone8156]

Amazing work, that is my favourite looking axe.

[@mountaingoat4124]

Greetings from Australia, I enjoyed watching the video and I have to say this is a work of art. I have bought several hand-forged laminated knife blades from Sweden, Finland and Norway and enjoyed making handles for them and use them for hunting and other activities. The closest I have to a forged axe is the Gransfors Bruks small forest axe but not a proper hand forged like the one you make. Maybe one day I will buy one from you. Cheers

[@davidkohliphotography]

Great job! I absolutely love this axe!! Great approach on the Type C axe! ⚡️⚡️

Thank you so much!

[@steveforsing13]

@Will you ever offer these on your website? I for one would buy it.

[@NotonlyWood]

Great Outcome! I love it and your touchmark is pretty cool👌

[@moonshinerphd9523]

Great job Nils, I really enjoyed watching!

[@clintrose6376]

Love your videos you're a ture Craftsman keep up the awesome work from Colorado 🇺🇸

[@valhalla3367]

Absolutely awesome

[@RedBeardOps]

Excellent Axe sir! Great forging. Subed for sure, can't wait to see more, man. Have a great weekend!

Thank you very much!

[@survivalhick6125]

Beautiful craftsmanship. An amazing piece and I love that design. Doing some design for the handle would be perfect in my opinion. But overall, just terrific

[@brianfalls5038]

Very nice job on the axe Nils! Well done sir!!!!

[@gregmetzler6828]

Nils, fantastic job! I particularly liked your description at the end.

Thank you very much!

[@thomaspoulsen1958]

Great axe and great job.

[@maxwr7558]

This one looks great Nils!! Great job, as expected. Im sure the Dane axe is going to be awesome!! I miss the beard though...

Thought no one would notice :) it will grow back soon, dont worry!

[@Valherak]

Nice one ! As always. Congrats!

[@menarg1549]

I do enjoy seeing you make axes, i'd also love to see you make other weapons, like maces, daggers or maybe just a more elaborate axe with maybe some leatherwork or carvings or something, decorated perhaps.

[@timearll266]

Beautiful work! fun to watch!

[@kjgas6945]

Very beautiful work son👍👍🤠🤠🎯🎯

[@ColtonWilson3000]

Great video, like this style of axe. Thanks for posting.

Thanks for watching+

[@antoniobaos2371]

Good work!!

[@davidfletcher6703]

You do awesome work Nils, Ave

[@davidlargen6945]

Very nice axe

[@peteremerson4150]

Very nice work. thanks for the video!

[@yvindhaugen2917]

Amazing work!

[@nightwalker5278]

Absolutely stunning, a work of art and a pleasure to watch. thanks for sharing ATB

[@Bjork-holt]

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

[@brianfuller7691]

That's really nice.

[@racspartan1]

Awesome work.

[@i4gotchai4gotcha57]

At 5:58 you're cutting away unwanted material. Is it easier so than inserting immediately the beard without that protruding part?

[@BluelightSoul]

Fantastiskt hantverk!

Tack!

[@kentuckytrapper780]

Nice man, really nice. Great job.

[@stephenball724]

Nils Great video Thanks for the inspiration just starting out I hope to one day make an ax as quality as that one.

Thank you very much!

[@elfodd35]

Very nice.

[@salimesalime6503]

Well done

[@johnjude2685]

Good build, I think the lugs only going down looks fine, nice build. Clear hickory is my favorite for my grandpa said hickory is the best ( his favorite). Sir a fine video

Hickory is a great choice. However, hickory does not grow naturaly in Sweden, Ash however does and was something that they used back in the days, alongside birch and other woods.

[@shotgun3248]

What kind of forge do you use Coal or gas

[@richstone2627]

Nice work.

[@lancemillward2462]

looks beautiful .subscribed

[@auxtrem]

Amazing!!!

[@okacid]

Ønsker meg akkurat ei sånn øks. Perfekt til tømring. Great job👍💪

[@nicktyger5718]

I absolutely love your videos. Also where do people get those wire brushes

[@cyrillevogler4065]

i am forging axes now and i am looking at your videos for inspiration and i love them

Thats awesome! Best feeling ever, when you can help inspire others to make axes and tools!

[@cyrillevogler4065]

@ do you sell your axes to people?

[@skatetompa]

Så snygg yxa! 🪓🙏

[@fedezmorello203]

Hi nils, you can tell me please when the type c axes are available to sell on website?

Hopefully in the begining of 2021

[@fedezmorello203]

@ okay thanx

[@jens-eriklangstrand1689]

Wonderful! Say, these are weapon-axes, or for all kind of uses? And - no borax?? And let me know - your power-hammer, is it DIY?

[@TheOldaz1]

Nice job, interesting process with all the forge welding and pre-assembling the cutting edge. What is the main use of this type of axe? Thank you.

[@joshschneider9766]

Tree felling, hewing, general cabin making work overall. Its a very useful axe type.

[@joshschneider9766]

Its commonly called a bearded axe. If you search Google I'm sure there's many articles and videos about Scandinavian wood workers using them

[@king82382]

Can you do bearded axe but double edge?

[@georgemauropoulos2461]

Hello nice videos nice channel!! may be a strange question because I just started getting interested to forging so i wonder what is the white powder you put to the iron when you weld it? Thanks

Its called "flux" or "borax"

[@billmackenzie-cardy7072]

I’m happy to find you,r side you,r prnousiation is very good wen you say luges But my grandson wishes you do one in Swedish as he is not so good at English. Tack Bill

[@guywilson2394]

Really good looking axe I'd like to own one.

[@atelier_nilsson]

Nice!

Thanks!

[@LFHiden]

do you sell axe-eye drifts here in sweden? :) what would the cost be at aprox do you think?

[@BonsaiBlacksmith]

Question, was it period to forge weld a taco for the beard piece separately or would the whole beard just be high carbon steel?

The idea was that carbon steel was alot more expensive than iron. So they did not use more than they needed.

[@jakul5]

weren't viking axes pressure fit without wedges?

No. Im sure there were some like that. Who knows. However most of the finds that i heard of, had wedged eyes.

[@mickeberg1234]

Oj, otroligt snyggt

[@TurnierRustung]

Hey Nils, nice work. One thing I would say is that it has a very modern eye. Eyes in the period had more sort of rounded rectangular eyes rather than the narrow oval style. There are some examples in the mastermyr book. The handles also didn't have as much shaping as you have given it and were approximately the length of the user's arm from armpit to hand. Otherwise, you're still not committing the big cardinal sins of recreating viking axes, and it looks good :) Adam Gutowski on facebook has some good examples. A really good smith from Poland

Yeah i know! I say it very often "my take on" . Ill probably make a drift like that some day, however its only based on the historical finds. Its not my intention to claim that its made like the original finds. Thanks for pointing it out, you have a keen eye ;)

[@TurnierRustung]

@ of course. You're honest about what you make and it's nice to see :)

Tbh i really like modern eyes.

[@TurnierRustung]

@ you can get a very nice friction fit with no need for even a wedge with the period ones :) I have quite a few that are friction fitted. Worth a go if you want to try a new method

[@metalbarrendirk9572]

Great job you did congrats. Are your axes just for decoration or can they be used for working?

[@anthonystrunk5360]

Beautiful axe! Great job as always!

[@julianopires5085]

Very Nice..

[@bmbray2403]

Nice 😎🍻

[@WiseKaaa]

Good job!!! Which steel grades are used in axe forging?

[@scottleft3672]

The brown color comes from heartwood, the prefered section of wood.

[@adroaldoribeiro4529]

That thing looked tough on the anvil. Is this high carbon steel?

[@DynastyUK]

when you put the splint thing in to hold the axehead in place, does the split go to the top of the axe or through the axe head? :)

The wedge goes down aprox half throught the head

[@DynastyUK]

@ Ah good to know! Thanks for the reply! :)

[@steve_wa]

Hi Nils, commenting on an old video so you may well not see this but I am interested to know if the “lugs” you refer to have an official name? I cannot find anything in print or online. Maybe they should be called “eyelids” given they are right next to and part of the eye 😊

Lugs are the common word for them. Personally I call them ”ears” because they kinda looks like ears ;)

[@steve_wa]

Nice, I’ll call them ears as well. Keep up the great videos. Thanks

[@Fornixx]

Great video! What are the dimensions and thickness of the piece of steel you start out with?

20x 4 x 1,5 cm

[@rymdiz9776]

Hur gör man egentligen när man svetsar? När jag försökte göra det så smälte yxbladet.

Väller säger vi på Svenska. Fömodligen har du värmt för högt. Det gäller att verkligen hålla koll på tempen, strax innan smältpunkt funkar att välla

[@rymdiz9776]

@ Tack! går det att göra utan flussmedel?

Ja men det är mycket enklare med.

[@vladimirkovacevic1656]

i love type c axe

[@georgegriffiths2235]

what wood is the handle

Ash

[@bigoldgrizzly]

Blacksmiths back then, would I suspect, have been keen to make the job easier and the use of multiple forge welds certainly cuts down on the effort involved. It is also more conservative in terms of forge fuel and the iron and steel, which were commodities hard won from the ore. These days metals are very much cheaper and taken for granted.

[@junttivision7743]

Vacker yxa👍

[@damienbrown497]

I want to buy this one!

[@adhamalqasem1513]

أعمالك جميلة

[@Larry1983_]

Very fascinating. How many working hours does it take to make the axe?

It takes me roughly 3 days, i do other stuff during that time aswell, so its hard to count the hours

[@Larry1983_]

Nils Ögren thanks Nils. Enjoying the content and the progression of your venture. Just putting ideas out there but how about forging a helmet.

[@caseyclark5392]

14 people aint got no soul. This was an amazing build.

[@joeshaunmeredith790]

How much would that axe cost?? Do you sell them??

I take buissness via email, [e-mail]

[@luigiviking3667]

price for a Viking axe like that

[@sebbe4571]

Looks like an axe used in the series Vikings

[@KingSebbz]

Sjuuukt vacker yxa!! Kan du inte göra en video där du går igenom dina mest använda verktyg, hur de används och vad man kan få tag på dem? Skulle vilja börja själv men vet inte vart jag ska börja!😅

Tack för tipset, mycket bra förslag! Ska se om jag kan göra en video om det!

[@lancemillward2462]

collaboration to make overstrike guard, axe hanger and sheath

[@fabsmaster]

インターネット購入はできますか？

[@joakimzetterstrom3839]

Jag köpte ett exakt likadant städ som ditt i förrgår! Nohab storlek 18, 89 kg! Kul att se att du använder ett sånt 😊👍

Älskar det. Vet vart det står ett exakt likadant till. Blev precis med ett kohlswa som jag gör iordning. Vad kostade det?

[@joakimzetterstrom3839]

2500kr fick jag ge. Har stått i ett hörn av en mekanisk verkstad och kanter samt bana är helt i nyskick, bortsett från lite ytrost. 😊 så jag är jättenöjd👌

[@joakimzetterstrom3839]

Hoppas det blir video på restaureringen av ditt kohlswa-städ då?😊

Det blir det!

[@harrycognard447]

What do you mean by "Type C"?

There is a typeology of the old viking axes. Search for "viking axe typeology" on google to see them

[@harrycognard447]

@ Thanks for your kindess! Have a great day!

[@vadimblin]

Is it just me or does the transition between the iron and the steel blade looks more rough then usual this time?

Over all or a specific time in the video?

[@vadimblin]

@ over all... It might be just my imagination

[@luigiviking3667]

can u make a crossbow

[@patrioticconstitutionalist735]

I bet quarantine isn't so bad at your house lol

[@richardsmith70]

Saw you on someone's else's channel did comment

[@petterbroberg5978]

Hej Nils! Superkul att jag upptäckte en ny å duktig svensk smed på youtube:) jag är nog igång själv om 10-15 månader förhoppningsvis med smide så riktigt kul med inspiration från dig:) Min fråga är var du designade och beställde din smed stämpel? Eller har du gjort den?? Mvh Petter broberg!

Tjena! Designade den själv. Beställde den sedan från "jerametalart" på instagram.

[@petterbroberg5978]

Ok! Tack så mkt för snabbt svar👊! Ha det fint:)

[@picklehanma8029]

I’m working on my Viking axe I’d love to meet up and we can test them together

Sure thing!

[@eskilkjs8169]

7:43 wake up alarm

[@toran451]

mom : my son maybe have hard study me at 6 AM : **this video**

[@sjvche7675]

No Borax?

Lots of borax, it didnt end up in the video due to the angle