Making a Wooden Viking Sword

[@TheFamilyWoodworker]

Hey everybody, thanks very much for watching! If you just want to see the fruit carnage, skip to 9:12!

[@bubbabaerrrbroadcast3072]

Very beautiful well done and I love it

[@TheFamilyWoodworker]

Thank you, sir! It was fun to build,...

[@alanrogers8535]

Viking... Questionable. Beautiful and inspiring... With out a doubt.

[@CursedLink666]

At first I thought all the machinery and powertools were a bit excessive for something simple like a wooden sword, but it took shape REALLY fast with machine perfect precision. That's the industrial age for you, It's certainly faster than a whittling knife and some sandpaper.

[@TheFamilyWoodworker]

Hand carving for things like a perfectly straight fuller would have been a challenge, so I respect all the work original blacksmiths did to make a perfect blade... It was definitely fun to make this thing, and more fun to chop melon!

[@paul-ld9vh]

That's really beautiful and functional. I've been meaning to try something like this (you know, in case of a zombie apocalypse). Thanks for sharing your ideas and talents!

[@TheFamilyWoodworker]

Thanks very much, Paul. It was a lot of fun to actually try this project... still surprised how well the blade edge held up with the Ipe hardwood...

[@wks7696]

Cool!

[@geoffallert1921]

You could say that you can defend yourself against vegans.

[@TheFamilyWoodworker]

Especially the sneaky ones who attack with Tofu... (Thanks for watching our little channel!)

[@geoffallert1921]

😂😂😂@@TheFamilyWoodworker

[@wks7696]

If I were a Viking, I’d use that!

[@TheFamilyWoodworker]

Thanks man! Amazed that the sword kept it's edge after all that chopping...

[@rachidbensaid4665]

تحياتي لك من تطوان المغرب

[@TheFamilyWoodworker]

Thank you, Morocco!

[@ashleyhoward8926]

4:22 Looks More like Tucker McElroy to me. I've news for you though, virtually everyone is a viking anyway. Why do you think big John Cannon was played by Lief Ericsson? He was named after the viking believed to have got there before anyone had even heard of Amerigo Vespucci. Greetings from Whittingham, England.

[@TheFamilyWoodworker]

HA! Memories of the Blues Brothers just washed over me, one of my favorite flicks. Just visited Lanse aux Meadows, Greenland and Iceland with some early Viking settlements. Those early Vikings weren't that tall. Not sure where I got it at 196 CM.

[@ashleyhoward8926]

@@TheFamilyWoodworker Well done. Northumberland uses much Norse terminology to this day, fells, linns all over the landscape & in just two days time it'll be Thorsday. I'm a wood turner, but I've been asked to make a wooden sword for my cousin's grand-daughter in Oz. Thanks for the video. By the way, locally we're surrounded by bronze age settlements & St. John the Baptist church (Edlingham) on the way to the shops is 10th Century & still in use.

[@ernestosamuel-o2i]

it isnt a viking sword this is a half katana bro

[@TheFamilyWoodworker]

Okay!

[@UweKeim]

Fruit Ninja 🍌 🍎 🍉

[@TheFamilyWoodworker]

Exactly... I think I did this project so I could see if a wooden sword would actually destroy a melon! Too much fun. Thanks for watching!