Making a Norwegian Seax Knife Blade | Knife Making

[@VonGlierBlacksmithing]

Thanks for watching!

[@Grenthor_The_Mighty]

gorgeous, man. appreciate the in depth explanations and no fuss editing.

[@VonGlierBlacksmithing]

Much appreciated!

[@leocandido879]

Great video, love the history. Keep up the cool work

[@VonGlierBlacksmithing]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@APs.Custom.knives]

Very very cool process. One thing though.... GLOVES MAN GLOVES lol

[@VonGlierBlacksmithing]

Thanks! Depending on what I'm working on, yes I wear gloves.

[@APs.Custom.knives]

@VonGlierBlacksmithing I was just being silly cause of all the charcoal on your hands. Very educational and interesting project migrating carbon like that was awesome. I would be curious on what the HRC would be in that material alone.

[@giodavid991]

Nice one, finally something different from the boring anglo-saxon broken backs. This one looks very merovingian to me, a kurzsax from mid VI to early VII century. In conteniental Europe patterns welding on seaxes isn't really a thing, but should exist one example out there in some museum. Hope you won't get too fancy with the handle, as they usually were made of bone or wood, with not many decorative elements, aside from some big langobard examples with nice bronze exagonal bolsters

[@VonGlierBlacksmithing]

Thanks

[@NateWebb0483]

Good morning. I just finished the video, and enjoyed it. Your editing was straightforward and easy to follow, and your voiceover was very clear. I appreciate your use of carburized material in the body and the cutting edge. Do you have any experience using a more period base material? I would love to be able to use bloomery iron in my blades, but generally use wrought iron as as close an approximation as I have readily available, which I find to be a far closer analog to bloomery material than mild steel. Also, I have found the WI to have a really awesome pattern in the twist. Very well done :) In Service, Nathan Hartman, OL

[@dridahook7284]

Very good video and information . Makes you appreciate how skilled people where in the so-called medieval time. Even using machines, belt sanders, digital furnaces, welders ,electriciry, power hammers, fancy fluxs etc etc..even with all this its difficult....modern people cant do anything without machines Also files are mentioned in a few sagas, in references to making blades. Could you tell me what type of edge geometry the final blade has please?,

[@VonGlierBlacksmithing]

The seax that I made had a flat grind. Most blades in period wound up with a convex edge because of the way they were sharpened. I suspect when they were first made that they also had a flat grind, but they took on a convex shape through use.