How to forge a medieval halberd
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- I’ve been wanting to make one of these for a long time but couldn’t figure out how to heat treat something this big. For some reason, I hadn’t considered making it out of several pieces and bolting them together, until now.
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That halberd is so cool, the background is so cool and you are so cool
Buncha blades on a long stick is a time-tested and widely-honored idea. Much respect.
Swiss precision, with modern feelings... Me like it.
As a big halberd fan, I like the industrial vibe it has going for it. Reminds me of a late 1300s/early 1400s (might have seen it in some artworks of the time of Hussites or other Bohemians, it's been a minute!) version which is almost like a very simplified pollaxe in construction. As a suggestion for further improvements; you can always have some lagnets down the haft for additional, that thing lagnets do. They can be thinner steel since they're just reinforcement/help secure the head.
And well, it's entirely dependent on what metal bits you have to work with but if you can make the axe head and hook out of a single piece and then put a hole through the haft for slotting the hook part through, that'd help those bits structurally for when you need to really beat on things.
Lovely work, i might have to make one soon, or another billhook polearm, mine was riveted together! found a tool online that should work as a halberd head that will be pefect as i dont have the forging capabilities.
That looks pretty bad ass.
Awesome work! Looks heavy 😂
now make a pole axe! same concept but with a hammer and not a hook.
Where did you buy the wood for the shaft if you don’t mind me asking? I’ve not seen hard wood like that for sale anywhere and I’d love to get some for my own projects
@@coulterbarber6893 It’s a hickory 1x2 I cut down the center and glued together. I bought it at Menards.
Shaft is probably too thick and heavy .
Also this type of weapons require full commitment: you don't swing and then stop it, you swing wildly with all your might and it will crash on the ground if it's not stopped by the target. It's not a sword.
I don't think it's fair to say that halberds are all too heavy to wield effectively 😂
@@opeltheartist That's not what I said at all.
Absolutely not remotely true, lol, you do not "swing polearms wildly." You don't swing any weapon with all your might, you let the weight of the weapon do the work for you. Halberds were made for precision strikes, what do you think the spike on the end is for? Wildly swinging will merely open up your guard to be stabbed by someone else. It does not require very much force to drive an axeblade on a lever that long into someone's body.
@@jaxelt1 except you saw his absolutely shitty swing. The thing is too heavy, if he swings it fast enough he will not be able to stop it' therefore he must not stop it.
You're all armchair warriors
@@TheOneAndOnlySame You are definitely right about the shaft being to wide. I haven’t messed with it since I made the video back in October but when I went and grabbed it that was my first thought. And I will definitely keep the technique in mind. I don’t make them often but I’m sure I will in the future.
Br0 why are you dressed like that?
Some sort of goth Scotsman . This is what I chose to believe.
People are allowed to wear whatever they want, bud 😂
It might be because (and hear me out on this one) dressing like that makes them happy!
Another earth-shattering bit of information for you is that not everyone dresses with the specific intent of pleasing you
@@Negan_smith_did_nothing-wrong but why does it makes them happy? What are the underlying perceptions that make them feel happy about doing that ? 🤔
How do magnets work?
@@TheOneAndOnlySame WHY do you care???