Bronze Casting in Viking Age
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- The last weekend, we had the chance to participate Veligrad, the best Great Moravian festival in the Czech Republic. We met a lot of good friends and decided for a fruitful cooperation. This video is the result of it.
In the short footage, you can see how a typical Slavic piece of jewell, lunulae, is born. It was made of brass wire, maybe there were some fragments of silver. Viking Age bronze - rather copper alloy, is rather close to what we understand as brass, as can be read here
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During the process, the crucible was broken, and we were forced to use a modern one. In the future, we will definitely have more of them. After the casting of the lunulae pendant, we also casted a small silver hammer pendant.
Very interesting! What was the casting crucible made of?
First crucuble is made from clay. Second (modern) is made from pressed ceramic pulp.
thanks for the reply :]
Another excellent video guys!
that's so cool. subscribed. do you guys make any uisce beatha, or brennevin? i wonder how long it would take to make nordic black powder (regarding using the potassium nitrate from urine and hardwood ash, the charcoal, and the iron oxide (or sulphur).). do you guys hunt? love the work. be safe.
Keep it going! I love these vids!
That's really cool, nice video!
did you use soapstone for the mold? if so, how did you make the details in it? i would love to try authentic bronze casting during events sometime. I'm already collecting the copper :)
Doing pewter casting in soapstone (mainly 18th century buttons), yeah, looks like it. It´s very good for casing, as it quiet heat resistant and to a degree selflubricating, meaning the details come out very nice. The details are just caved into a mould like that. pretty simple all things considered. To really get them to show well at your first try you need to preheat the mould so the metall cools of slower. For pewter thats even more impoartant as it´s a lot colder, but ist also recomandable for bronze. The metal will flow better and coll of slower, so it cqan get into all those small details (within reason, liquid still has a very high surface tension and does not like to go into small creviced without a lot of pressure behind it, thats also why having a larger spout will improve your castings quality, because there is a bit more material pressing the metal below into the mould). It will also drive out the residual moisture and reduce the risk of your mould cracking. If you want to cast bronze, I do reccomend testing the mould with pewter while making it. They always need some adjustments like adding vents or making some parts a bit thicker. And thats an easy way to test as it´s much easier to melt and as a somewhat higher surface tension, meaning if the pewter goes in well, the bronze definitely will.
The easiest way, for me, to get really good details is using the lost wax method in ceramics
@@robertguildford4793 But with the caveat of it being not historical for many periods and it’s a destructive method, not only destroying the wax master but also the mould.
You guys are great. Thanks for these tutorials/videos. Hail!!
How long did it take before the brass melted?
When will your next videos be coming out? I am already looking forward to it :)
Also: can you please make more outdoor cooking videos?
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Here! :)
I love your videos especially the cooking videos but you have posted in a long time please post again
Hello, we had a break for coronavirus :( There will be another video at the beginning of October. Please hold on.
Marobud thank you
What with the jug they melted the metal in made of? What kinda clay is that? That clay? ... could one use red clay?
what happend to the second viking thumb
The second viking wondered about the first vikings thumb and they did what happened to the first viking on the second viking. Are you the 3rd viking? 😦
Is that flint you are using for the mould
How was the mold itself carved out?
Soap stone is very soft. You can carved it easy with the steel spike
This was very interesting thank you!!
Hello! How did You made Yours bellows? Did You heat up soapstone before pouring bronze into them?
Everythink was made by ours friends form Herjan group. No pre-heat was needefd.
@@marobud_reenactment Thanks! Does Herjan got some online site?
@@filiprajecki1418 Try facebook :)
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But how did you carve the stone?
Really interesting Video!
Great casting Marobud!! keep up the good work, if you have some time one day, jump by my channel and say hey i do alot of casting :)
How much time did it took?
How did you carve the stone for the mold?
Thank you. I was wondering, did you preheat the mold?
Yes we did :)
Very good
What material was the first crucible made of?
it looks like you carved a rock? wheres the video for that one?
IT Is soapstone. Maybe next time we will shot video about bronze casting
Where I can get that soapstone?
Nice 👍
What was the casting form made of...the stone look a like thing....how have they made the thing in it
It is soapstone. The form is scraped off with a chisel.
soapstone? like...soap?
It´s very soft stone. I do not know how to get you closer. In Czech it is "mastek" (talc?)
Don't worry soapstone is the common term for it in English
Marobud where did you get the axe you used in your viking age backpack video?
How did they make Char cloth in the Viking age?
by charring some cloth????but seriously...If you burn the end of a piece of natural cloth (hemp, linen, nettle, etc) or rope, the blackened end acts as 'charcloth'. Similarly, they could have used charred punk (rotten wood). Of course, there were no Altoids tins then!
I make it in a clay vessel with a dough seal over light heat, same as making home made artist's charcoals.
Can i know where you comeing from ?
Czech Republic
Charcloth gab’s zu der Zeit wohl eher nicht…😜
is the mould soap stone?
yes
@@marobud_reenactment nice, a short video but very instructive.
@@EmilReiko Thank you :)
@@marobud_reenactment is the modern crucible ceramic or graphite, and how well did it fare on standing directly on coals?