I suggest following black bear forge’s folded axe video. The way that is done leaves you with an easy forge weld that blends in seamlessly. It’s a little different in the set up than you did. His way you weld the bit of the axe towards the eye together and then work your way up to the edge. Then you leave a bit of the edge unwelded and slide in your high carbon bit and weld.
I'm not usually this early, but nonetheless, keep up the fantastic work, your skills are always fantastic to see in use. Thanks for keeping up the content, and good luck through quarantine.
I've tried to make one similarly (only worked with thinner carbon steel on the middle), I think the heat is too cold. What I found with this personally, is that the thinner material in the eye tends to burn out first, thus even if it manages to weld, it ruins the eye and burns it quite thin before the edge/wedge. Have to use a different technique with thicker material on the eye to fold or have to punch the eye out.
Looks really good my man, I just this weekend gone did a practice forge weld to prepare to make one of these, I think the weld took after many heats and a lot of flying scale 😁 Good luck with the move, looking forward to the first video in Canada!
Not shy with flux, not common with utube blacksmiths so I try keeping it to a minimum. I’ll try your method, just seemed to glue together. Nice result, how long in real time give or take?
I don't see any powder at the ten minute mark, but do you mean at 5:00? If so, that's flux - when welding two surfaces, you want to ensure that they are as clean as possible and free from impurities like iron oxide to prevent inclusions of those that make the weld weaker, and the flux basically shields the metal from reacting with the surrounding air and creating those impurities :)
Strange as it may seem lighter blows tend to meld the metal together better. Once its firmly welded and one piece thats time to go to town! I don’t know exactly why, but in my limited experience it works almost every time!
Propane burns much cleaner, coal burns hotter and can actually damage your material. Coal is also very dirty when it burns and requires constant addition of fuel. I would use propane just because it's so much cleaner but coal works just fine.
Depends on what and how you wanna do it really. Coal is dirty, smells and if you don't have proper ventilation it won't be very pleasant. However depending where you can get it's cheap and will cost less than propane. It's good for small things like hooks, knife blades, stuff like that and tasks where you only wanna heat up a certain part of something. Depending on what type of forge you have though you can also heat up bigger pieces of steel, though it will require a well built forge with good airflow and the means to maintain a very hot fire. Gas forges are more expensive to run but are a lot cleaner. They are good for heating multiple pieces of steel at once. You can heat up larger and longer pieces. They require less maintenance. And they will of course do pretty much everything that a coal forge can. It really depends what sort of place you have available for forging and what kind of work you wanna do. One isn't better than the other, it's just about what you want to do with it.
@@MakeNCreate yeah that's what a thought I think I would rather have a propane forge because coal is bad to work with due to the toxic fumes and the coal can overheat the steel and melt it
I really don't mind the repetition with the projects, so long as you don't just have the same sort repeated without interruption too many times; maybe every couple/ few videos revisit a project like that, and you can cheat people's interest by doing something similar enough to practice but with a slightly different take more often as well (ie a different shape wrapped eye axe/ tomahawk, or a different blade shape knife with the same feature you want to practice) without people catching on. I want to see you get it "right" too; maybe just a bit more care/ time spent with the back end of the bit insert, either during welding or with preshaping it; maybe start with the eye wrap material a bit thicker so you don't have to worry about getting things too thin at the back of the bit? Have an abrupt taper on the back end of the bit insert to try and avoid cold shuts, or with the heavier eye material weld the back of the eye first and insert a tapered bit? Bunch of ways you could go assuming I'm reading it correctly. Also that might just be the biggest file I've ever seen, that you were cutting off of. Dang!
This is crearly one of the best "makers" channel on youtube!! congratulations mate!!
Thank you!
I suggest following black bear forge’s folded axe video. The way that is done leaves you with an easy forge weld that blends in seamlessly. It’s a little different in the set up than you did. His way you weld the bit of the axe towards the eye together and then work your way up to the edge. Then you leave a bit of the edge unwelded and slide in your high carbon bit and weld.
Forge weld was clean. Liked the light effect at the time of forge welding. Red hot axe glowing in dark was awesome.👍👍👍👍
Glad you liked it :)
Great job! Despite the youth, the presence of considerable experience is always pleasing. Well done! 👍
Nice piece. Thank you for taking the time. To hammer this out by hand. Inspiration for me to one day create my own.
I'm not usually this early, but nonetheless, keep up the fantastic work, your skills are always fantastic to see in use. Thanks for keeping up the content, and good luck through quarantine.
Thank you very much! You too :)
I've tried to make one similarly (only worked with thinner carbon steel on the middle), I think the heat is too cold. What I found with this personally, is that the thinner material in the eye tends to burn out first, thus even if it manages to weld, it ruins the eye and burns it quite thin before the edge/wedge. Have to use a different technique with thicker material on the eye to fold or have to punch the eye out.
Yay!!! Been wanting to see another one of these done:)
Good I did it then. Thank you!
Make a bearded viking hatchet similar to this 🤘
I will!
@@MakeNCreate Or make a Swedish lug axe or a Connecticut pattern axe!
This design is really beautiful. You seem very close to success. I'm impatient to see it!
thank you! I'll be trying again for sure!
good work bro .
Крутые видео , продолжай в том же духе 👍👍👍
You're kind of inspiring me to want to make one of my own. Though, maybe after the next practice axe you make I'll give it a whirl
very pretty axe
seriously i like that hammer sound🙂🙂🙂
Very nice, sense a bit of Tomahawk in there! Could be a whole lot of fun!
Could be made as a tomahawk with a different kind of eye. This one is made for permanent attachment. Thank you!
nice
Yess these axes are great
I agree :)
That's a big ole file
Yes it is :)
What is the white powder he pours on the metal pieces?
Nice work
Looks really good my man, I just this weekend gone did a practice forge weld to prepare to make one of these, I think the weld took after many heats and a lot of flying scale 😁
Good luck with the move, looking forward to the first video in Canada!
Thank you very much! best of luck with it :)
Amazing, suscribed
Looks good
Thank you!
Realy love the way the axe is made wish i had a forge to do this stuff
Wheres the new workshop? Also very nice axe
In Quebec. Thank you!
Amazing! When do you think you'll have enough time to have a stable shop? Is it possible?
Stable as In frequent video output? I have a shop now so I should be putting out videos every week from now on hopefully. Thank you.
Not shy with flux, not common with utube blacksmiths so I try keeping it to a minimum. I’ll try your method, just seemed to glue together. Nice result, how long in real time give or take?
You are master
RESPECT
Thank you :)
Long time no see. Welcome back and good work
Thank you!
Amazing as always! Sorry if this is a dumb question but I'm new and still learning but what's that powder that's used at about the ten minute mark?
I don't see any powder at the ten minute mark, but do you mean at 5:00? If so, that's flux - when welding two surfaces, you want to ensure that they are as clean as possible and free from impurities like iron oxide to prevent inclusions of those that make the weld weaker, and the flux basically shields the metal from reacting with the surrounding air and creating those impurities :)
nice ax I have made damask steel several times but not very much ax I think tomorrow I will try to make an ax but I forge on charcoal, coal is better
Good Morning :))
Good evening.
I know nothing about smithing, but for the initial weld at 5:00 would it be easier with a bigger hammer? That is a big chunk you are hitting.
Strange as it may seem lighter blows tend to meld the metal together better. Once its firmly welded and one piece thats time to go to town! I don’t know exactly why, but in my limited experience it works almost every time!
@@paulorchard7960 Thanks for this reply. That makes sense.
You make the video, I show up.
Good deal! Thanks for watching!
Nice
I know it’s sacrilege, but you could run a weld bead along the cracks and have a fine axe
To quote a certain british blacksmith, if it's stupid and it works, it isn't stupid
For a personal tool I don't see an issue with that
@@S8tan7 is this alec steele?
@@none4174 yuuuuuuuuuup 😁
👏👏👏👏👏🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Can you try making a axe with a hammer on the back?
What was the starting stock size?
10x25mm I think. maybe a bit bigger.
What kind of stock do you use?
please make sword in the new video and very nice job
عمل جميل ورائع
What type of coal are you using
You should try to make a sword one day
I will :)
I started crying once that I saw he wasnt going to fix the welds
Wow
When in doubt, throw borax at it
I have a question : is a coal forge better than
A propane forge
Yes a coal forge burns hotter and longer than a propane forge
Propane burns much cleaner, coal burns hotter and can actually damage your material. Coal is also very dirty when it burns and requires constant addition of fuel. I would use propane just because it's so much cleaner but coal works just fine.
Depends on what and how you wanna do it really.
Coal is dirty, smells and if you don't have proper ventilation it won't be very pleasant. However depending where you can get it's cheap and will cost less than propane. It's good for small things like hooks, knife blades, stuff like that and tasks where you only wanna heat up a certain part of something. Depending on what type of forge you have though you can also heat up bigger pieces of steel, though it will require a well built forge with good airflow and the means to maintain a very hot fire.
Gas forges are more expensive to run but are a lot cleaner. They are good for heating multiple pieces of steel at once. You can heat up larger and longer pieces. They require less maintenance. And they will of course do pretty much everything that a coal forge can.
It really depends what sort of place you have available for forging and what kind of work you wanna do. One isn't better than the other, it's just about what you want to do with it.
@@MakeNCreate yeah that's what a thought I think I would rather have a propane forge because coal is bad to work with due to the toxic fumes and the coal can overheat the steel and melt it
Can someone tell me what does he use on 5:03?
det ser sku godt ud en skam du ik er i danmark mere det ville jeg gerne lære
Sou brasileiro e pretendo fazer um projeto igualzinho a esse no meu canal!! Quem for BR pode dar uma olhada!! Absolutely beautifull work mate!!!
Dunno why, but seeing you add that powder to that red hot metal reminds me of this ;)
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11:44 ZA WARUDO ????
Ты же уже делал такой! Смысл одно и то же повторять?!
Very good think i must use it on a BLM
I really don't mind the repetition with the projects, so long as you don't just have the same sort repeated without interruption too many times; maybe every couple/ few videos revisit a project like that, and you can cheat people's interest by doing something similar enough to practice but with a slightly different take more often as well (ie a different shape wrapped eye axe/ tomahawk, or a different blade shape knife with the same feature you want to practice) without people catching on. I want to see you get it "right" too; maybe just a bit more care/ time spent with the back end of the bit insert, either during welding or with preshaping it; maybe start with the eye wrap material a bit thicker so you don't have to worry about getting things too thin at the back of the bit? Have an abrupt taper on the back end of the bit insert to try and avoid cold shuts, or with the heavier eye material weld the back of the eye first and insert a tapered bit? Bunch of ways you could go assuming I'm reading it correctly.
Also that might just be the biggest file I've ever seen, that you were cutting off of. Dang!