Clip point, curved sax? www.vikingage.org/wiki/images/b/bb/Seax_Blades.jpg Part 2 Video: ruclips.net/video/ww1kP6RryrA/видео.html I've been using a backup camera because the $1000 lens on my Panasonic G5 broke. The sponsorship seen in this video will help replace that lens seven times quicker than otherwise possible. Thank you, sponsor, and thank you for watching and understanding. Now, go get your seax on!
Green Beetle when you grind the rough round twisted bars into a long square bar before your second second forge weld, you are exposing the pattern. The amount that gets exposed on the second grind to square or flat stock exposes more.
Love your videos. So oddly satisfying to watch metal being shaped. Could you try making a knife out of paperclips? I have seen uncoated ones before, and you could probably find some on eBay. It would probably have some cool swirly patterns.
@@GreenBeetle I don't remember the names of his power hammers exactly, he did go over them in another video, is he holding out on us saying he has both power hammer and press entirely upper body powered? That sly dog
i dont know why, but you are the best knife making RUclipsr on this Platform, you are so creative and i like that about you. so please keep on doing what you do :D
It’s also important to note that the American Bowie stole its design primarily from the David Bowie... with a few examples from the era showing some subtle elements from the Iggy Pop.
I think part of the charm to you're channel is that you don't know what you're doing... it makes for a great creative atmosphere and some great entertainment ✌🏻👌🏻
I think to myself, "what better way to prepare for bed then by relaxing with some Green Beetle." Well it turned into a joyous mistake as I'm now laughing at some puns.
Wrought iron tends to flux itself through silica, but I've been looking at how flux gets into the grain structure of the metal creating minute weak points. I learned about it on Black Bear Forge's channel when he went to a forge meet. Interested in your take on it.
I saw you used a kiss block in the press at one point, and it looks like you would probably benefit by investing some time in making more kiss blocks of various sizes to help you towards the final form of any given project.
@@remcovanvliet3018 You're probably not old enough :-D It's a terrible pun on Yakety Sax, a novelty saxophone instrumental performed by Boots Randolph in the 60's.
Just bought a shirt. I don't imagine it much helps with the camera, but I dig your channel. Watching your videos gave me the incentive to make a couple more knives this year and even give a sword a shot. Great content!
Another great bit of craftsmanship an production. The trick with tall high billets is be very gentle and square. As you know bananas cannot be easily corrected without separation. Just concentrate on covering the whole billet with accuarte blows and it will soon become manageable size. For me at least, just takes 4 times as long!
With all respect to Alec, he talks to much, doesn't have good camera angles and personally, he's too spoiled, i can't relate to him at all, Steve works out of his garage and finally got a press, I can relate to that
Generic Artist Exactly. He completely lost me during the Viking sword. 10 episodes on nothing but engraving. Yeah nice looking end piece but fuck, 10 episodes of engraving? No thanks
You’re smart enough to know that wrought iron is riddled with inclusions well before you started forging it ,that’s one of the things we knife makers know and except as the natural beauty Fine job sir ✌️
That first knife is gorgeous!! Alec Steele has experimented with twisting Damascus quite a lot. Ironically he discovered you can get the best results from rounding the bar before twisting (leave the 2 ends square and mark them so you know which side is which). Then square them back up afterwards using the marked ends to help line everything up. That way you have less chance of cold shuts and small pickets of slag. I'm just a beginner...... that has watched a tonne of RUclips so clearly an expert..... NOT!!! If you want to find the video, I think it's the last blade he started to make when he had his intern, Alec the Viking. I hope this helps
Great video... love the way you are always experimenting and trying different steels and different methods to see what works and what doesn't.... Maybe one day I'll get the space to be able to try forging, but till then, I'll just enjoy living vicariously through others, hahaha.... Love the clone clip, been trying to learn new editing techniques, almost watch as much for that as i do the knife making... hope all is well, take it easy...
a bit off topic but i see a loooot of people struggle with the arc welding side of this. as someone who has been a welder fabricator for almost 15 years i highly recommend purchasing a stick welder from Harbor Freight and using 3/32 7018 rods. may seen a bit much for something you only need glued together for a few minutes until you finish your forge welding process but that setup will last you a long time and certainly wont limit you to only welding billets together. the downside to the cheap mig welders and running the gassless wire in my opinion is that there just isnt enough juice in those little machines to do even a half decent job. ive been following your videos for a long time and i love them by them way!!!!
The forge weld pattern is absolutely beautiful on that smaller "clip point bowie/seax?" The handle looks a bit difficult to gauge positions in use as a fighting knife, though. Might be an awesome kitchen knife, however. Still an attractive knife. I guess the usability in certain situations would depend one the user's hand strength. Can't wait to see part 2. Thanks for sharing.
Maybe, there's the need to add more borax, clean the thing neatly to prevent that burnt steel go into the pack, and press more gently to avoid the gaps forming and layers coming off I saw damascus steel knives creators apply borax very generously to come up with perfect blades in just one go
The development of the pattern weld from Celtic through to the end of development in 1066 in England . Pattern welding shows great artistry of the smiths of the day . Blacksmith of the same period has the same , the Celtic fire basket of a chieftain in the British museum and the Sutton hoo pattern welded sword show that smiths then are so highly skilled . Wrought iron has a great pattern ...
I've been following your channel for a while and the knives your making are getting even better for ever video. A real style and very inspiring. I'm still cutting my teeth with bought blades but hope to progress to making my own some day in the distant future. Very nice ;)
Fascinating... and I LOVE flying by the seat of my pants MUCH more fun even if the results are sometimes volatile :) Thanks for sharing and I'm VERY curious to see what happens next
Your wrought iron looked fine. I cannot see the gaps you're talking about, only slag inclusions (the black dots and dashes). Maybe there are gaps that I just can't see from here, but would hate to see good iron thrown out.
I just can't help myself: "creative positioning" is an immense help with sex. I note that the smith who seemed to have the best success with wrought iron was Rowan Taylor, who had a coke fired forge and was OCD about keeping it hot. The only real answer in your case would be more trips to the forge and shorter press and hammer runs. You're doing very well with it, but with the amount of grinding away you seem to be doing, maybe you should start with bars the size of a Toyota Camry.
Hi Green Beetle, question: is there a great market out there for all these Bushcraft knives I see on RUclips that's made? Cause, it seems to me that's the only blade that everyone wants to make? Why???
Great video! I must have missed something...when did you get the press? Did you make one or buy one? If you bought, which one? I have kinda been looking. Thanks
Trying to blend a super low carbon to a high carbon is just asking for problems(just sayin). You need to not mess with the material so much during your initial welding. Get it to temp... press it with thought and reheat and repeat. Letting the material cool below welding temp and getting it squished even a little sideways will make the grain structure slip....hence...Delamination
I can think of 2 decent reasons 1 being that decarborization would be an issue at that high of a temperature the other is that canister damascus is normally used in order to create an interesting patern in the blade which would be hidden if the canister was not removed.
With modern materials technology the only significant thing wraught iron adds is aesthetic value(somthing which I think can be worth it if done correctly).
Wait, doesn’t the seax predate back to the Anglo Saxons? The “seax” being the weapon they were known for. Jim Bowie designed the “bowie” knife. That was early 1800s. How was the design stolen from the Bowie? Or did I misunderstand?
Don't mind the people complaining about the advertisement. The vast majority of us understand that bills must be paid, that a 30 second plug pays those bills, and that it is the price we viewers pay to watch the content for free. So if plugging a Viking game is what you gotta do to achieve your goals for your channel, put food on your table, or just plain get you some extra cheddar to buy something fun, then carry on, Sir.
Barry Snell ty for understanding. RUclips ad revenue barely covers the cost of keeping the channel going and does nothing to replace equipment. Sponsors appreciated. Patreon supporters loved 👍.
Clip point, curved sax? www.vikingage.org/wiki/images/b/bb/Seax_Blades.jpg
Part 2 Video: ruclips.net/video/ww1kP6RryrA/видео.html
I've been using a backup camera because the $1000 lens on my Panasonic G5 broke. The sponsorship seen in this video will help replace that lens seven times quicker than otherwise possible. Thank you, sponsor, and thank you for watching and understanding. Now, go get your seax on!
Green Beetle when you grind the rough round twisted bars into a long square bar before your second second forge weld, you are exposing the pattern.
The amount that gets exposed on the second grind to square or flat stock exposes more.
Love your videos. So oddly satisfying to watch metal being shaped. Could you try making a knife out of paperclips? I have seen uncoated ones before, and you could probably find some on eBay. It would probably have some cool swirly patterns.
Sometimes we need to get work done.
Is there a link where you sell knives?
Paintball9927 I don’t make very many for sale right now. You can email me.
4:45 I can confirm Steve has not a press but instead is using his triceps to pull the press dyes down moving the metal
Jacob Fox that is correct! 💪
@@GreenBeetle I don't remember the names of his power hammers exactly, he did go over them in another video, is he holding out on us saying he has both power hammer and press entirely upper body powered? That sly dog
i dont know why, but you are the best knife making RUclipsr on this Platform, you are so creative and i like that about you. so please keep on doing what you do :D
"how are seax made, daddy?"
"well son, when a mummy knife and a daddy knife like each other very much..."
Absolutely SEAXY!
Seaxolutely
It’s also important to note that the American Bowie stole its design primarily from the David Bowie... with a few examples from the era showing some subtle elements from the Iggy Pop.
its refreshing to hear the truth come out.
lol u troll
😂😂
It's good that you show and detail your mistakes. Learning what not to do is easily as important as learning what to do.
The Monkeys were a huge influence in the Beatles. A lot of people don’t talk about that.
The Ancients knew this way before we did.
I think part of the charm to you're channel is that you don't know what you're doing... it makes for a great creative atmosphere and some great entertainment ✌🏻👌🏻
It's the most entertaining knifemaking channel, also kinda therapeutic xD
Please keep on grinding.
I think to myself, "what better way to prepare for bed then by relaxing with some Green Beetle." Well it turned into a joyous mistake as I'm now laughing at some puns.
Wrought iron tends to flux itself through silica, but I've been looking at how flux gets into the grain structure of the metal creating minute weak points. I learned about it on Black Bear Forge's channel when he went to a forge meet. Interested in your take on it.
Two things I'm about: Green Beetle videos, and being jealous of people with coaliron presses. Finally I can do both at the same time!
Great, a new video is the best start for a Saturday!
I saw you used a kiss block in the press at one point, and it looks like you would probably benefit by investing some time in making more kiss blocks of various sizes to help you towards the final form of any given project.
Look at you with the fancy tools! I remember when it was all yellow plastic handled hammers and the beat up vulcan(?) anvil.
Make the handle from yak horn and golf tees. You’d have a yak and tee seax
Oh, nooooooo! So bad I had to give it a thumb up ;-)
I must admit I'm suffering from r/whooosh syndrome with this one...
@@remcovanvliet3018 You're probably not old enough :-D It's a terrible pun on Yakety Sax, a novelty saxophone instrumental performed by Boots Randolph in the 60's.
Benny Hill music...
don't apologize for ads. were happy you got the offers in and your channel has other forms of income.
keep on doing it man!
It’s like you go from chemist to artist while being an athlete the whole time.
Just bought a shirt. I don't imagine it much helps with the camera, but I dig your channel. Watching your videos gave me the incentive to make a couple more knives this year and even give a sword a shot. Great content!
Another great bit of craftsmanship an production. The trick with tall high billets is be very gentle and square. As you know bananas cannot be easily corrected without separation. Just concentrate on covering the whole billet with accuarte blows and it will soon become manageable size. For me at least, just takes 4 times as long!
Ty
Once again, a fantastic video, and once again proving why I prefer you over Alec. Fantastic looking knife. I look forward to seeing part 2
With all respect to Alec, he talks to much, doesn't have good camera angles and personally, he's too spoiled, i can't relate to him at all, Steve works out of his garage and finally got a press, I can relate to that
Generic Artist Exactly. He completely lost me during the Viking sword. 10 episodes on nothing but engraving. Yeah nice looking end piece but fuck, 10 episodes of engraving? No thanks
You’re smart enough to know that wrought iron is riddled with inclusions well before you started forging it ,that’s one of the things we knife makers know and except as the natural beauty
Fine job sir ✌️
I have Insomnia but if I watch your vids late at night I'll pass out, your voice is so calming and the forge is so soothing, thanks dude
That first knife is gorgeous!! Alec Steele has experimented with twisting Damascus quite a lot. Ironically he discovered you can get the best results from rounding the bar before twisting (leave the 2 ends square and mark them so you know which side is which). Then square them back up afterwards using the marked ends to help line everything up. That way you have less chance of cold shuts and small pickets of slag.
I'm just a beginner...... that has watched a tonne of RUclips so clearly an expert..... NOT!!! If you want to find the video, I think it's the last blade he started to make when he had his intern, Alec the Viking. I hope this helps
That's a great looking knife, can't wait for the second one!!
Great video... love the way you are always experimenting and trying different steels and different methods to see what works and what doesn't.... Maybe one day I'll get the space to be able to try forging, but till then, I'll just enjoy living vicariously through others, hahaha.... Love the clone clip, been trying to learn new editing techniques, almost watch as much for that as i do the knife making... hope all is well, take it easy...
I found that wrought twists better then it drifts. I made a ring with it. Looks great when you etch it.
i hate youtube commercials but that one was incorporated greatly haha
a bit off topic but i see a loooot of people struggle with the arc welding side of this. as someone who has been a welder fabricator for almost 15 years i highly recommend purchasing a stick welder from Harbor Freight and using 3/32 7018 rods. may seen a bit much for something you only need glued together for a few minutes until you finish your forge welding process but that setup will last you a long time and certainly wont limit you to only welding billets together. the downside to the cheap mig welders and running the gassless wire in my opinion is that there just isnt enough juice in those little machines to do even a half decent job. ive been following your videos for a long time and i love them by them way!!!!
how much money do i need to donate to ensure you never do a Vikings ad again?
Circa Forge enough for a new camera lens -$1k
why did you have to tease me so damn hard with that cliff hanger!!! Lol love your work
Nice sense of humor, there.
Thank you for going over how to say "seax". I've always wondered.
The forge weld pattern is absolutely beautiful on that smaller "clip point bowie/seax?" The handle looks a bit difficult to gauge positions in use as a fighting knife, though.
Might be an awesome kitchen knife, however. Still an attractive knife. I guess the usability in certain situations would depend one the user's hand strength. Can't wait to see part 2. Thanks for sharing.
Who knew making seax with a Green Beetle was so relaxing..?
its been a dream of mine to be able to forge a sword,
your videos are more than entertainment for me
I like your humour mate, great work and a great video!
Maybe, there's the need to add more borax, clean the thing neatly to prevent that burnt steel go into the pack, and press more gently to avoid the gaps forming and layers coming off
I saw damascus steel knives creators apply borax very generously to come up with perfect blades in just one go
What a beautiful knife with what a damn beautiful handle
Bloodwood - I'd never heard of it. polished up real, real nice.
The first one is beautiful looking. Hope the second one turns out just as good.
The development of the pattern weld from Celtic through to the end of development in 1066 in England . Pattern welding shows great artistry of the smiths of the day . Blacksmith of the same period has the same , the Celtic fire basket of a chieftain in the British museum and the Sutton hoo pattern welded sword show that smiths then are so highly skilled . Wrought iron has a great pattern ...
very nice pattern! cant wait for the video!
I've been following your channel for a while and the knives your making are getting even better for ever video. A real style and very inspiring. I'm still cutting my teeth with bought blades but hope to progress to making my own some day in the distant future. Very nice ;)
Love it and your new things you tried, pass my thanks on to the beetle clones too
i love this channel so much
Let’s talk about Seax, baby.
I’ve never seen a 👍 so loaded with sarcasm in my life.
Very beautiful blade and the handle is as well it matches so well with that bade!!!
Enjoyed and gave a Thumbs Up also
Wow talk about just the tip with that ending there lol well good video thought
Gorgeous knife!! When your bench vice slips, I worry for your safety. Be safe. Cheers.
That may be the best in-vid advertisement I’ve ever seen
Great great work once again!!
Sweet press you have and great looking knife.
You're terrible with that cliffhanger! LoL
I'd love to see you and Alec Steele work on something together.
Hey! Love your vídeos!! Here is a tip: try to heat de iron till starts sparkling
these frequent videos. youre spoiling us!
I want to try it!!! Got to hunt down some more wrought iron....
It’s really cool looking!! Nice job king green!!👍🤪
Little known secret...most original Bowie's were made in Sheffield. UK.
Fascinating... and I LOVE flying by the seat of my pants
MUCH more fun even if the results are sometimes volatile :)
Thanks for sharing and I'm VERY curious to see what happens next
LOVELY... as always!
Nice new coal ironworks press I see you got there
3 videos in a month, this is great, hopefully you make a video of you making something with a more difficult steel like M390
that cliffhanger tho!!
i'm putting guard and handle on it now, should have a video in 4-5 days.
Your wrought iron looked fine. I cannot see the gaps you're talking about, only slag inclusions (the black dots and dashes). Maybe there are gaps that I just can't see from here, but would hate to see good iron thrown out.
I just can't help myself: "creative positioning" is an immense help with sex. I note that the smith who seemed to have the best success with wrought iron was Rowan Taylor, who had a coke fired forge and was OCD about keeping it hot. The only real answer in your case would be more trips to the forge and shorter press and hammer runs. You're doing very well with it, but with the amount of grinding away you seem to be doing, maybe you should start with bars the size of a Toyota Camry.
Awesome blade !
Beautiful knife.
Beautiful knife! By the way, what's the outro music?
Cool nice work looking forward to the next installment.
I really enjoy your channel! Keep it up!
ur killin me , hahaha
very cool brother. Getting creative
That is a very Beautiful knife
you need to get together with Farmer Derek Klingenberg. he does some really funny stuff and acts a lot like you.
Every viewer has called you name in their mind for ending the video like that X'D
God dam it, it was starting to get good!!
Hi Green Beetle, question: is there a great market out there for all these Bushcraft knives I see on RUclips that's made? Cause, it seems to me that's the only blade that everyone wants to make? Why???
Hey Steve, how’s your elbow feeling lately? Has the forge press done anything to alleviate the joint pain?
Someone got jokes 😂
Thank you! Keep up the good work!
Great video! I must have missed something...when did you get the press? Did you make one or buy one? If you bought, which one? I have kinda been looking. Thanks
I think you may have gotten Seax cut on your thumb, kinda like a carpet burn from a different activity 😀. Only less enjoyable.
0:35 so that was the reason of lesson opening this video ;)
Love the pattern at the end it reminds me of the lines under a blue whales mouth.
Trying to blend a super low carbon to a high carbon is just asking for problems(just sayin). You need to not mess with the material so much during your initial welding. Get it to temp... press it with thought and reheat and repeat. Letting the material cool below welding temp and getting it squished even a little sideways will make the grain structure slip....hence...Delamination
Does the high carbon steel carburize the wrought throughout the heating cycles?
Everybody mugs their plates together. How did they 'tac' iron-steel together way back when?
Educational my friend :) Where you got the press
Cool! I hope the second one works
Wrought needs to be worked pretty much at a welding heat.
have you tried making the canisters from 1095 or 15n20? so you can incorporate the canister into the blade steel?
I can think of 2 decent reasons 1 being that decarborization would be an issue at that high of a temperature the other is that canister damascus is normally used in order to create an interesting patern in the blade which would be hidden if the canister was not removed.
I'm always down for some good seax ^^
Perhaps the Steve clones are working on their air band skills?
Is there any major benefits to using wrought iron? Over some other kind of of metal?
With modern materials technology the only significant thing wraught iron adds is aesthetic value(somthing which I think can be worth it if done correctly).
Wait, doesn’t the seax predate back to the Anglo Saxons? The “seax” being the weapon they were known for. Jim Bowie designed the “bowie” knife. That was early 1800s. How was the design stolen from the Bowie? Or did I misunderstand?
The ancients stole the Seax from the American Bowie LOL!
Don't mind the people complaining about the advertisement. The vast majority of us understand that bills must be paid, that a 30 second plug pays those bills, and that it is the price we viewers pay to watch the content for free. So if plugging a Viking game is what you gotta do to achieve your goals for your channel, put food on your table, or just plain get you some extra cheddar to buy something fun, then carry on, Sir.
Barry Snell ty for understanding. RUclips ad revenue barely covers the cost of keeping the channel going and does nothing to replace equipment. Sponsors appreciated. Patreon supporters loved 👍.
what if you made the twist and then jelly rolled it?