Crafting Thorin Oakenshields Oakenshield from Oak wood
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Join me on an epic crafting adventure as I bring to life Thorin Oakenshield's legendary Oakenshield! Using authentic oak wood and steel, I’ll guide you through each step of the process: from wood carving to a bit of steel work to artificial aging (and hiding mistakes....), that make this shield truly unique. Whether you're a fan of 'The Hobbit' or a crafting enthusiast, this video is packed with tips and techniques - as well as how to fix mistakes - to inspire your own creations. If you love fantasy craftsmanship, this is a must-watch! Be sure to comment with your thoughts and subscribe for more creative content!
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"You see Ivan, when you put spikes at the back you shall never retreat because of fear of impaling your comrades!"
Great work as always, especially saving that penetration and adding the branch!
Looks good though id imagine if you did happen to fight an orc with it the whole thing would disintegrate into sawdust, splinters and superglue flakes 😂
XD YES!!! I thought about making a 30 seconds voice over to explain how wrong the design of this shield is in general. Why would anyone put the sharp metal parts on the back end?!?!?!? It's also top heavy as fuck. (Oak) wood also would never split in the way as you can see it on the front end on the movies piece. The piece of wood would basically break apart after round two caus of it's structure. An average side board with 2cm thickness would be better then a piece of a trunk.....
But it's fantasy and I like how it looks, so I didn't want to spend time talking about how unlogical it is.
@@TheShieldery My headcannon is that "Oakenshield" is a "translation" choice by Tolkien, in that it's not actually Oak, but a fantasy wood that only exists in Middle Earth.
@@gibbering_mouther Oh Dang; now that's a plot twist. I can't find anything about that in the lord of the rings fandom page though. On the other hand stuff like that would be typical for Tolkin.
@@gibbering_mouther On the other hand Tolkin copied Thorin pretty much from the germanic Edda (?) Saga; in that context Oaken Wood would be more logical. Especially caus "Thorin" derives from the Norse god "Thor"..... Are you sure that Tolkin meant a middle-earth-wood?
A true dwarven craftsman.
Thanks for the little Compliment; Guess I'll dig a hole now XDDD
@@TheShieldery Licensing issues aside, it would have been perfect if you'd have had Diggy Diggy Hole playing in your shop while making this XD
I admire you're ability to stay positive even when the project creates huge problems. Nice work!
Wow , each time I watch your videos I end up dreaming about creating shields ❤👏🏻👏🏻 nice work .
Good job rescuing it after you've turned it into swiss cheese
If you want to know how much contact area there is between two irregular pieces of wood, You can use carbon copy paper or heavily chalk up one side, and then wiggle it a lit while pressing on the other piece. it marks the high spots for you.
That only shows where the surfaces touch, but not weather they are 1mm or 1cm apart from each other ;) .
@@TheShieldery yes that is the idea, it shows the parts that touch, so you shave the high spots down and try again and more surface will touch, keep doing it until you get most of the surface's touching evenly, then glue it up
That looks heavy as heck, but as always cool, nice deviation from your normal projects.
New for me but makes a lot of sense for a primitive do it yourselfer !
Another great video you've made here! you did a really great job dealing with the issues when they reared their heads!
i recently started making a shield using your videos as inspiration and instruction and i want to thank you for being an inspiration! thank you, looking forward to your forthcoming videos!
Mix saw dust with wood glue or clear epoxy. I've done some repairs that I cannot even tell where they are anymore
Fantastic piece of work! Great job!
You might get an appreciation for why they did not use oak for making shields. Poplar, or willow has the flexibility not to split along the grain, and are much lighter.
How much does that Okenshield weigh?
Love the background music! Very satisfying to see it all come together, and thank you for showing your mistakes too 😅
Try a solvent based resin and fine saw dust instead of super glue and saw dust. You will find it easier to sand. For larger gaps i use bondo wood filler it hardens very quickly and stays hard .Love your work!
06:58 don’t worry, very easy to make a mistake when building! Fortunately when it comes to props disguising your mistakes is possible. “Hiding the crimes” as prop builder, model maker and effects artist the legendary Adam Savage calls it! 😂
You can tell you're in Germany when the Edding comes out!
This video really drives home the point that the strength of a shield is not in the wood. It's in the canvas/leather cover and glue.
Indeed! This oakenshield would break apart after round two of fighting, even if I didn't carve through it.
@@TheShieldery would a second layer of fabric and glue make a shield stronger, or is most of that resistance to penetratetion coming from the wood and the internal stress put on it by the fabric shells?
@@scottmcdivitt2187 Fabric or rawhide only make the shield stronger after the point when the wood beneath deforms a bit. They can't absorb the energy at first. With very hard, oaken wood this won't make much of a difference. The main Problem of this shield is the way the wood has been cut, caus as you can see cracks happen very fast. A properly sawn side board would be way better then the stump.
@@TheShieldery interesting. The fabric is offering the wood strength when it's in tension? Sort of like a crude medieval fiberglass/carbon fiber ?
Have you ever tried/ heard of anyone trying a shield from tulip poplar? It's a north American wood with a rope like grain structure that's very tough.
Thorin Oakenshield made his shield in the easiest way possible: just pick up a piece of oak.
yes, he did so in battle, but afterwards he made the modifikations I did in this video (correcting errors aside) and continued using it.
Beautiful indeed
Love it!
Always good.
well done
Bro that is awesome
you know what I found what works great for wood is Kutzalll Grinding wheels and rasp files, what the grinding wheels can't get the hand files work wonders, not cheap but well worth the price
Cool as usual. You were missed on Hattin this year) but hope to see you next year maybe
I miss you too! I'll try my best to come next year, or maybe even for the first time to house of Templers (if i remember right).
I do always make a pasture out of saw dust and wood glue to fill in the gaps. Looks good tho!
Which wood glue do you use? Caus with pva it get's quite dark and looks ugly caus the color doesn't match anymore.
@@TheShieldery local bought from the Hornbach Pattex, I dit nog notice it turned out to be darker. But it's a white wood glue
3:04 nothing ramen couldn’t fix
Or Galvanized steel.
wie immer mega geworden, vielleicht könntest du nach jedem video dazu sagen wie viele stunden du damit insgesamt verbracht hast da ich und ich denke damit bin ich nicht alleine des garnicht einschätzen kann wäre nh idee für die nächsten projekte...es freut mich immer mega wenn ein neues video von dir da is hoffentlich kannst du irgendwann davon leben und mehr kontent produzieren🙏ganz liebe grüße bleib wie du bist🤝
Dankeschön! Ohne das Durchschleifen wären es 8-12h gewesen; mit dem ganzen repariereneher 20h ;) .
you are so talentde
Nice work
Als ich das Cutter sah wollte ich fragen ob ich dir ein Schnittmesser zuschicken soll😅
Beavercraft und Kirsch sind inzwischen zur Stelle. 🍻
Also you have earned a shroud for your angle grinder, they plug into your vacuum and cut down on dust immensely.
not for woodworking and you also couldn't set the blade to an angle, what you basically have to do for carving. If there's a solution to that, let me know. But I have never seen a SINGEL edge grinder wood carving video in which some kind of shroud was used :( .
I am turning into an Urukai 😂
Wouldnt you use a drawknife instead of box cutter knife? Its much easier
maybe in some cases, but they are not that good for tight spaces in general.
@@TheShieldery Sometimes they arent, but I'm using them to do most tasks in my shop ;)
you took a fuckup and made it more interesting
Not bad looking.
Shouldve started over
I'm sorry, but I would have been way more impressed and tempted to subscribe if you had done your own take on what his shield looked like in your own creative opinion. I don't know why I'm posting this the way I am. But, I think I just realized that there is no creative freedom anymore. When you said you were going off of the source images, I was genuinely disappointed.
Don't get me wrong, your final product is awesome and way better than what I would be able to do. Cuddos to you for that.
Thanks for your feedback! My own take wouldn't look like the one from the movies at all. It would be a punching shield about which I already made a video, if you are interested in that. Or If I go a step further and choose a more logical, real fighting style, it would be either a buckler, or a Kite shield (video on my channel), depending on the resources for transportation. Either way it would be MY shield and not THORINS shield.....
Da bekommt man Angst bei dem Umgang mit den Handmaschinen. Schade, sonst ein guter Kanal mit historisch fundierten Hintergründen
Danke! gibs mir; was hab ich falsch gehandelt 🥲
oakenshields oakenshield made of Oak....... no shit really, i thought it was made of walnut
XD Just wanted to say that I tried it with the real materials and not intentionally wanted to half-ass it with easy carvable wood (linden wood 4 example) or making it as a LARP-copy XD.
I AM GROOT
Like no see cos of naming
What do you mean? 😅
The piece of oak you used is truly a massive piece of crap
I'd say it's above average for a dried oak stump caus it was quite straight and had nearly no wood knots. The problem is that dried oak stumps are just quite bad for crafting a shield 😅😅😅
The whole point is tgat he just picked up an oak stump and used it as a shield... fancy crap be damned
not in the movies.
@@TheShieldery oh, then let's fall back on your distorted view...
@@oddoutdoors doesn't the thumbnail directly indicate that I'll copy the movies design? Richard Armitages Idea of Throin keeping the branch and transforming it into a punching shield is still a bit fantasy, but I'd still give it a solid "reasonable" to use the thing that you where named after: an Oakenshield
@@TheShieldery meh, lots of videos use movie clips but tell the book story. Also I'm pretty sure that he's depicted in the movies as using an oak log as a shield. Also that it is a flashback to how he got his name.
@@oddoutdoors We see him with this shield in the movie(s). Just google thorin oakenshields oakenhsield. Everything else is not relevant for this video. :) .
Actual old shields were actually made of many layers of lightweight materials, sometimes even paper. They were usually ringed with some kind of metal, to allow smashing into the enemy, and to prevent splitting. Even animal skins were used. We have a company up here which reproduces these, for historical uses. The Vikings were probably the most backward in their shields, but when they got to the middle east, they wised up fast. Hard metal shields have to high a mass-to-resistance ratio, and cannot be used in hand-to-hand combat. They are used like the Roman military, with hard shells, making turtle attacks and defenses practial. Then the Romans used an easy-to-handle short sword to wipe out the enemy. Vikings also, with lightweight axes at very short ranges. Joshua, who was actually a "killer" according to the bible, assembled a group of "harsh men", aka murderers, killers, robbers, in order to wipe out a batch of nearby enemies, who had been harassing them for decades. I believe that this is just history repeating itself, again, and again. After we run out of fossil fuels, we will go back to that era, again.
Uhhh, then this channel is for you my friend! Check out one of my videos about crafting historical shield replicas :)
I don't agree with some of the other stuff you say:
- "usually ringed with some kind of metal" - nope, only roman Scutii, you'll have a hard time finding metal ringing on shields in the middle ages
- "many layers of lightweight materials" Many layers - yes; light weighted - not necessarily ( the gesso for example is quite heavy)
- please give me a source for the paper, never heard of that and I'd be quite surprised if it was for a shield for combat.
- we had full metal shields called Bucklers form the late medieval ages that definitely where used in combat and duelling.
- the Roman shield fighting methods where maaaayby used in the early middle ages, but not that much later caus armor and weaponry evolved. I won't break that down in detail, but basically the shields got smaller the later you go.
- the bible source you mentioned doesn't give any context of the weaponry or fighting methods they used. I doubt that murderers or killers where skilled enough to form any kind of testudo.
check out my videos about creating the shield replicas, I hope that will help with some of the wrong concepts you described here ;) .
You love to see it, this dude really came in here, said nothing of value, at full volume, with his whole ass chest, and was rewarded immediately for it, well done. 😊
You made a shield that won’t hold up in a fight. Not very good.
ITS a hollowed Out oaken stump with Metal Plates on the Back. That would Not hold Up in any Case.
You really did a bad job. You should have dumped it at the first break through.
Yeah, I should have dumped it. I'd say I made up for it in the end though. I actually like the branch now, it adds more detail. In addition it added more skills to show and learn to the video. I got to admit: If I would have had a second stump on hand, I would have used it for sure XD