Predators of the North: Forging the Viking Bearded Axe

[@bkohn]

🐙Great video! You are always so creative with the visual effects. Your poor table took a beating at the end of this one! 🐙

[@RainyDayForge]

Thanks! I wasn't totally motivated to film my Viking challenge videos but a viewer, on a live, inspired the idea of a creature living in my swarf bucket. I had my motivation, learn Blender (free) to add more complex video effects. My last 4 videos have an element teasing this. (I need to make a short about it.)

[@TheOGfrenchy]

lol nice video effects!!! Love to know and see people redeem themselves!!! Love the fact that you weren’t happy the first time around and went for another go also for welding an insert is a really cool way to do it!!! Great content, brother!

[@RainyDayForge]

Definitely! I saw Darcy Quapp, a fellow Canadian maker use a long piece of steel for his bit and I thought it was genius! Mild to mild is a difficult weld but milt steel to tool steel is easier. Thanks for compliments!

[@MikeCrocker]

Hahaha that intro was hilarious

[@RainyDayForge]

Thanks man! I appreciate it!

[@ArturoFCPA]

Good luck on the challenge!

[@RainyDayForge]

Yeahhh!! Thank you!

[@neildissanayake7942]

I'm honoured to call this lad my friend. Justin, you're so talented! But you knew that, from the many times you've saved me from the failures of my own half-baked projects 😂 so cool to come across this on YT; I had no idea you were making such interesting content around the forge. Sub'd, but mate, garage beer soon!!

[@RainyDayForge]

Ah dude! Thanks for the compliments and for subbing. I met up with DC and we were chatting about you. 🍻

[@neildissanayake7942]

@@RainyDayForge hope he's doing well, mate! Keep crushin' this YT thing, looking forward to your future uploads!

[@chris1549]

I dig this build, it's absolutely beautiful

[@RainyDayForge]

Thanks!!!

[@Jokerkles]

NOOOOOOOOO!!!! Not the Raspberry Bubly again!!! YOU HEATHEN!!! (lol) And what'd that poor spaghetti squash to do deserve that? lol looks pretty good to me, all things considered, though it could be sharper lol and I like the Celtic knotwork on the handle, too. That's a nice touch

[@RainyDayForge]

Thanks!!! Screw the Bubly! lol. Last time I went through half a box of them! Thanks for leaving a comment. The spaghetti squash, I grew last Summer. I'm surprised how well they keep! I have a few more but I'll be eating them. :)

[@Jokerkles]

We threw out a dozen or so that had gone bad about three years ago for the calves to chew on, and between those and the different squash we planted in the garden, we wound up with over 1400lbs of squash in the house the following winter lol we were giving it away, hiding it in random people's vehicles, using them for target practice, and feeding the calves in the pen to the point where they'd just roll it out under the fence because they were sick of them, too lol I'd stopped counting volunteer squash plants at 150 that summer, and we likely had double that when we found the rest hiding in the millet and oats in the pen lol

[@RainyDayForge]

@@Jokerkles 🤣🤣🤣 that a lot of squash! 🐄 We gave away quite a bit of it too.

[@bobgore1962]

Beautiful Axe, and awesome video, my brother! 😎👍🏻🔨🔥🪓

[@RainyDayForge]

Thanks Mr. Hard Core!

[@davidelliott8324]

Thanks for the fun video! Great job on the axe, you just keep improving. I hope the algorithm gifts you with the views you deserve for all the effort you put in.

[@RainyDayForge]

Ah man! David, I appreciate your comment. I put a lot of time into making the axe and the Seax and then a sank a bunch of time learning Blender for the animations. How do make the algorithm work for me? 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@davidelliott8324]

I wish I knew bud. Your production value is way up there for a young channel. I can think of a few other channels that blew up overnight in the same timeframe. Hard to figure how the machine overlords classify us consumers. But if it's merely blind chance for a channel to make it big, I sincerely hope you do. Good luck brother!

[@RainyDayForge]

Overloards??? I must pray. 🙏🏼 🤣 have a good weekend. Thanks again

[@The1Norseman]

Nice axe :D The intro gave me a good laugh :D there is two things I would say to this for the future :D 1: use steel wedge that crosses the wood on for better hold, 2nd : I see a gap on the back of the head if you see on the video at the 10:49 mark. Under much use.....that could fail and splitt the head I think.

[@RainyDayForge]

Good eye! There are some welds that didn't 100% take. Under normal non-youtube circumstances, things would be cleaned up and fixed to 100%. But, in this case, my priority was making the video.

[@RainyDayForge]

Thanks for watching! And I'm glad that you liked the intro.

[@The1Norseman]

@@RainyDayForge yea I can see that lol there is not everything that can be done on a video that is short :D but it was good :D

[@Monkey-d2p]

That handle is a bit short for a Viking axe

[@RainyDayForge]

I never thought of looking to see if they had a preferred length. I see benefits from a longer handle length and vice-versa, with a shorter length.

[@Monkey-d2p]

@@RainyDayForge its a good interpretation, but battle axe handles werent shaped much like wood splitting handles. Shadiversity and scholagladitoria might have some more information on historical weapons for u to check if u decide to make a more historically accurate piec

[@RainyDayForge]

@@Monkey-d2p Thanks Monkey! I'll check them out.

[@kennycavanaugh5191]

Nice axe but no one cares if it can chop plastic 😂. Chop some wood or cut down a tree or something ffs it's a axe. Although the slicing of the gourd was kinda neat for a axe but still cut something a axe is supposed to cut 😮

[@RainyDayForge]

You're right. I have a forest near me but it's a shared space within the city. I cut a bunch of small ones but my wife was filming and the clips were janky.

[@RainyDayForge]

In her defence, I was rushing her and asking for help, I told her "just hit record." I needed a Snickers.

[@davidelliott8324]

And the op needed a clue... take that negativity somewhere else. It's not a felling or splitting axe. Awesome job on the axe and the video, testing included. Thanks for your time shared with us.