How to Make an Axe from 200 Year Old Iron
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Had a piece of wrought iron from the 1800's laying around.
So I thought I should make an axe out of it :)
Enjoy!
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For your skills and all the beautiful axes you make, you really have too few subscribers. Excellent work, thank you!
Thanks! Im just happy I have nice people like yourself checking in :)
Completely agree, very underated changed here. Even inspired me to give forging an axe a go next week
That's a really nice made axe with great balance. Thank you for taking time to build, film, edit and post this video.
The way you move steel with your hammer is ridiculously precise, some of the best I’ve seen I’d say.
Thank you very much!
Beautiful work good sir, thank you for sharing. 👏👏👏
Beautiful axe and great video.
I love the fact that you're always paying attention to shape.
Thank you!
Brilliant work, very cool axe!
Absolutely fantastic, love the shape on the ax head..
Super cool. I really wanna give this style of axe a try myself!
Beautifully made, thank you for sharing
Incredible work, Nils!
beautiful bold iron axe i ever seen
Spring steel... Bruce Springsteel?! 🤣
I'll be here all week. Thanks for comin out.
Yes. Spring steel. Typically from a leaf spring off an old truck. Now get out.
Sure wish I could get one here in Canada. Love this fellas work
I have shipped to Canada before
I love axes!!! ^w^ Greetings Nils! :P
I got the go-ahead from the wife to snag an axe from you when they're available! Aplungen looks amazing. Keep up the great work brother!
Thank you! If you want a notification when I have axes available, you should join the email list and/or the facebook group
@ I'm on it ;)
Grandioso!!!! Gran Trabajo!!!!
Absolutely beautiful work!
Thanks you very much!
I’ve been waiting for your uploads and damn your the best when it comes to axes
Thank you! Glad to be back. My goal is to try uploading a full lenght video once a month
Amazing skills ❤
Another amazing beauty of an axe!!!
Thank you!
Well done great work
Thank you!
Awesome stuff 👏
so cool.
definitely thumbs up
Enjoyed the video! I didn't see you using any flux on either the wrap or billet insert. Did you just do that off camera?
Yeah the flux was off camera
I'm curious. Why wouldn't you, instead of cutting out a groove for the high carbon steel just forge weld the steel as a complete middle layer within the iron? Like a sandwich forge weld? Wouldn't that be easier to begin with as well as provide the entire axe better strength? That's just what my brain first went to. I honestly have no idea. I assume because bending the iron and steel that much after forging would risk undoing the forge weld??
MACHADEROZO 🤫🤫👍👍
Subbed. Love that axe.
Thank you!
Actual “wrought iron?” Does that stuff actually “work” easier than the modern stuff?
Quanto custa um machado sou fã de machado
Sei un fenomeno 💪🏻🙌🏻
Som alltid magiskt hantverk och väldigt fin yxa.
😎 👍🏼
This is ado you sell any of your work?
All Iron is around 4 billion years old
So what's the difference if it's made from a day old iron??🙄
I see. It is very easy to make a beautiful axe.
Or is it?...
Anyway, on a more serious note: cheers!
Depends what you compare it to I guess. For me it is very difficult, and I make axes full time.
@ I was trying to be funny and to pay a compliment. You seem to have all ideas in place and to master a considerable amount of dexterity in the way you perform the transformation of iron into axes. Truly impressive. Cheers.
Thank you!
Its always interesting watching you make axes because you make them completely different than everyone else. Your techniques are nowhere else to be found.
This iron is not 200yr old...it's 1.8Bn years old. As a matter of fact, all the iron on earth is that age.
Bit of a clickbaity title to a nice video.
Yeah. The iron is from a 1800’s waggon axel. Hence the title. But I hear you. You are correct.
Still catching up on all of your vids but I have to say that this has to be my favorite thus far. The history nerd in me just loves seeing old metal be reworked and given a new life of utility!
Incredible
Lovely
Very nice, you’ve done a great job of that axe, a real professional build!! Regards from Down Under.
Lovely work :D Have thought about making something "weird"? Like an Irish Sparth or a Franziska (throwing axe)? :D
Beautiful. Forge On. God Bless.
One of these days i will be able to afford to buy one of your axes you have such good craftsmanship. And yeah eventually i will attempt to forge one myself but it won't be the same even if i do so exactly the same as you teach all of us. Thank you nils ögren for sharing your wisdom with us and godbless you.
Thanks! Blessings
I enjoy watching your work, Merry Christmas and God bless!
Beautiful..
Another great axe forging video!! Thank you!
Excellent video.
You are excellent 🎉
Vackert hantverk 👍🏻
Amazing 👌👌
Beautiful axes
The forbidden Cola...
🔥Awesome🤙🏽
C O O L !!!
Good job !
stunning work mate!!
Vackert! Blev riktigt nice med efter sitt lilla bad.
Awesome! I found a stick of iron out in the woods here it is 10 feet long and 2 inches in diameter, very heavy!😅 LOL but I hauled it home and want to make some stuff with it but I’m not sure what type of steel it is. It must be close to a hundred years old I figure and was part of a makeshift shelter someone had from several years ago. Probably a hobo camp I think. There is a piece of railroad iron there as well about ten feet long but I will have to take my horse back there to drag that out.😁👍🏽🐴
Directed here from Black Bear forge. Fantastic work!
I have no idea how you do what you do, so for me it was like watching magic happen, thank you that was fun to watch.
Beautiful work, Nils. Very well done 🔥⚒️🙏👍
6:27 lies
Lol
Please explain me how to buy?
This one I am keeping :) made it to practise :) every axe I make on youtube(with a few exceptions) are me trying out something I normaly dont. But! I do have a similar modell that I will start making in January /Nils
@ will u sell the one you make in january to me ? name your price !!
Great! Is your first job?
What do you mean? Like first time forging an axe?
@No, sorry for my english but i'm not english. I mean if you do it to earn money like a first job.
Simply lovely, as always!
Така ми са иска да съм до теб като работиш тези брадви,харесва ми.
Actually I have tried at least 4 times to make a similar folded axe and wrecked it each time. The line between the lugs and the eye are overly stressed and crack. Do you have any suggestions?
I always use soft material for the body when making weapped eyes. Also, dont forge it to thin before wrapping it.
When you are drifting it, dont force the drift in too much, it can crack it open. Instead, put it in and then forge the eye bigger by using that extra material and spread it out. Those are some suggestions that I try to think about
First?
Yes!
@ I’m the man. I knew it. You are also the man nils! Thanks for the educational entertainment!
No, he has made many axes before. 🤪
Bra jobbat 😊👍🏻👍🏻
Tackar!
I never noticed how the top edge corners of your anvil transition from a sharp corner to a rounded corner towards the horn.
Thats right! Its intended, always good to have different edges in my opinion
@ It makes sense. I just have never noticed it.
Technically, the iron's at least 4.5+ billion yrs old, not 2 centuries. The only difference is that it's latest transformation happened in this very video, with a high degree of skill and artistry. 😋
Lol. Yeah you could say that. What I meant was that it was from an old waggon axel from th 1800’s.
Thanks for watching ;)
@ Always a pleasure to see genuine skill at work. Gratitude. 👍😄
@ BTW, tidbit of astrophysics: most elements in the periodic table release far more energy during atomic fusion than what's needed to fuse them ... but Iron is the most noteworthy exception, because it costs more to fuse it than it releases. For that reason, it's nicknamed the "Starkiller" element, because all but the largest stars die violently once their fusion progression reaches iron production, which poses a fatal energy deficit.
I found you because black bear forge gave you a shout out, you do excellent work. Glad he told me about you.
Thank you! and a big warm thanks to John!