Your yard looks like golf course quality 👍🏼

It is obvious that you know what you are doing.....no wasted motion, precise technique....great video!

Which do you prefer to make more Torbjorn? Art or tools? In many ways, it's all art really! Have a blessed day!

Another Great video! I always enjoy watching your stuff.

Excellent. Thank you for sharing! I used to think that craftsmanship was on the decline, but channels such as yours prove to me that it is merely harder to find through all of the riff-raff and cat videos.

Lovely work. Thanks for sharing. All the best Mat

Man, I'm so glad when I see a new video from you come in. I think I've saved just about every video you've made. if you haven't already, please make a video of all of the tools on your wall. I want to make everything you have for both the power hammer side and the manual hammer side. I know your busy with regular work and family, that's why it's a special day when a new video comes from you. Cheers, friend.

Great project! I thoroughly enjoy your approach to a project and the systematic follow through to completion. your work just flows so neatly toward the finish. Thank you for your effort to educate us.................Ross

Holy crap that steel is tough.

there is something relaxing about seeing your videos

Sir, excellent video. Thank you.

Fantastic. Respect from Italy!!!

Experience is the mother of science. Nice video; ty Sir for sharing

Good Job - darn nice shop!

Such a beautiful forge

That's cool. Angle grinder is the way to go on that task.

Everything you do just feels like all the proportions and the process is weighed with judgement but calm artistry. Love all your videos!

Your lawn is immaculate. It looks like you mowed, vacuumed, starched, pressed, and buffed it before you made that can of vermiculite outside. :)

Thank for another great video!

Oooo maybe an Viking axe is coming hahaha great project torbjörn

He is a excellent craftsman, very experienced

That really is a tough steel, seems to stay hotter, longer from friction alone! I know this is an older video, but I still enjoy it all the same!

I thoroughly enjoy both the content and quality of your production. I'll be keeping an eye on your channel ;). Tack!

I made my wood burning forge from my bored well water tank i cut in half, bolted on 4 metal legs. It now appears as a DIY barbecue grill in the making. Its all I had in scrap to get started. Hopefully by the end of Jan I will have it completed and up and running:) Torbjorn, hanks for you inspiration.

Great video. All respect to your skills.

You do a great job! If I could do half as good I would be very happy.

You can tell the H3 steel was hard as even the power hammer was sweating 😂 👍

Love the videos please keep them coming

Love your videos. I know nothing about blacksmithing, and probably never will know much, but your videos are kind of relaxing, and cool to see how things are made by hand. Your videos are similar to Primitive Technologies, but with metal.

Каждый уважающий себя кузнец делает свой инструмент сам. Классная работа. Молодец 👍👍

This is great! I've been trying to make one out of 4140 and it is hard work!

I LOVE my Granfors Brux! What a piece of gear!! Love your work too man! You inspire me. ...although I do NOT have any experience lol

I didn't now what a “drift” was, and I didn't want to look it up before watching the video. I like the challenge of working it out as it comes along :-) First I thought “axe head”, then “a knife” and finally aaaaah! That makes perfect sense.

I absolutely love watching your channel, you make the coolest stuff ever. Would love to learn how to be a blacksmith from you

Gorgeous!

Awesome work ,great tool

My grandfather was a blacksmith,he was the last blacksmith for Camden County New Jersey, I always found working with metal a lot of fun I can stick weld pretty good but always found working with metal a lot of fun maybe it's in the genes

Love your videos!

6:30 now THAT'S an anvil!

Beautiful video

The precision of your work never fails to impress, nice job.

Good job as usual

Wonderful job!! I wish that I had the chance to learn blacksmithing when I was younger. Now all I can do is watch videos of men like yourself doing the things that I wish I could do.

love your powerhamer

Nice video, Torbjorn - as usual. Cheers, Mark

Excellent work as usual sir.

Beautiful Hatchet and axe drift. Thanks for sharing knowledge. I too want to start smithing axe, hatchet wood splitting muals. I guess the first thing is to learn smithing by making ones own tools? All the Very Best!

Torbjorn,hi.Competent forging,thank you for filming and posting this. If i may,when you'll be forging an axe that you'll be finishing,i'd suggest using stock not so square(before slitting). As a general rule,the poll of an axe gives one a good idea of the starting stock's dimentions. Most commonly the Thickness would not exceed 3/4"(with the height of stock 2"+) That assures that the finished head of the tool does not loosen on the haft easily. Many of the axes(and other tools)where this,the Height of an eye is insufficient(relative the mass of head),have a tendency to loosen on their haft,as they exert the undue pressure on the wood fibers. Hope that you won't mind this gratuitous,unsolicited advice!Much respect,and the very best of forging to you!

Beautiful

Hello. Merci. Enrichissant. Se passer des postes à souder est un chemin nouveau à explorer ? Les maîtres sans passent volontier pour l âme d'un sabre... Merci encore pour votre partage.

Another awesome video! Does it change the hardness of the tool over time to be used against the hot iron? Does the tool eventually "anneal" and does it ever need rehardening?

amazing bruther

@torbjornahman Thanks for this great video! One question, though. Why do you preheat the metal before welding?

I love my GB hatchet and my SA Wetterlings axe!!

very enjoyable as always, making a hest treating oven is actually fairly simple and cheap if one would be useful for you

Man, that stuff is tough!

you videos are top notch. :D

I could certainly make a wooden handle fit that eye. Concept proved. Well done, and well done indeed. Yes, maybe it should be a little fatter but that depends on whether you are forging a hatchet or a full-size axe. I can hardly wait to see you forge at least a hatchet.

At 7:22 I though he was mocking the power hammer lol

Thanks, Great Video! Learned a lot about that H13. Noticed you brushing the slag a lot but didn't see much coming off? That hex handle seemed almost perfect like you started with hex. Beautiful test run with it!! Look forward to seeing you work on some axes. Thanks Much! ~PJ

great vid

Subscribed. Nice work!

What is the size of the power hammer used for the forging of the H13? Fortunately for me, I have the choice of a 50 or a 90 pound self contained hammer to purchase in the next month or 2. I'm having a hard time choosing.Any thoughts Torbjorn?

I've had good experience annealing h13 just putting is back in the fire and letting it go out. going home for the night and I usually draw file as I have more files and time than belt grinders.thanx, -mike from Kalapooia forge-

Thanks for videoing this necessary tool for wood splitting heads. I been looking for how to make this axe drift. Your video are so helpful. How how do you charge for a Scandinavian Forest Axe head type? Keep up the great videos Trobjorn.

super good video. The steel *H13* it is like what kind of Hardox steel. Hardox100, -200-, -300-, -400-, -500-? do you use H13 when you do the cutting part of an axe?

todo lo que haces parece fácil pero la experiencia que tiene usted así lo hace ver

May we expect an axe-making video in the near future? Great videos!

Ótimo trabalho parabéns

i dont know y but i love this video watching it again man😀

Thank you.

Love the channel ,nice lawn keep up the good work , i justed subbed

Просто музыка для ушей и глаз!!! Мастер!!!

thx for this

I see you wear a respirator when welding. I strongly recommend you also wear it when handling vermiculite, that is almost as bad as asbestos in regards to irritating particulates.

You said that the H13 steel was hard to work. What kind of steel would you use if you were to hand forge it. Would spring steel from a coil spring work? I always enjoy your videos

Thanks Torbjörn for your wonderful works. I ask you please to put a protective filter from the welding lights because they are also very bad for the eyes for those who stare at them on the PC screen.

TORBJORN READY TO WORK! (I just had to do it.)

nice video. ;) your big power hammer has a bad oil seal? i noticed oil drops caching fire on the hot tool.

may we look forward to a axe forging video?

Did you choose the H13 for a reason? Or was it something you had around the shop?Love your videos, keep them coming!!!

You mentioned that the profile was a little smaller than expected. Would you increase the size of parent stock if you were doing another? How about 38mm or 1-1/2?Thank you for a great video. As I have mentioned before, there are many of us that appreciate your efforts and learn by watching you do your thing. Hope to meet you one day.Ron

Great!! So will you be selling axe heads any time soon? By the way, thumbs up for using protective gear.

I prefer a drift with a wider chisel base and a thicker top diameter, it leaves the cheeks a little thicker and gives it a wider eye, witch also makes it easier to build the handle, the handle is stronger near the head, and it splits better even if it's not a splitting style head

I have what may seem like a rookie question. Why all the PPE? I've hit some steel, and it doesn't seem like such a necessity. What am I missing? Gases? I get eye protection because of shrapnel, but the respirator?

Are your Swedish Pattern Crosspeen hammers Hultefors brand, I have a 2.2# Looks very similar

Dude, I love your channel. I actually want to star forging and I´m only 15

I've worked with metal before at my university, with the milling machine and all that stuff, as well as the general sawing, welding, etc. Meanwhile this looks far more fun with more artistic freedom, so I'm really interested to try this someday, but power hammer aside, does it need A LOT of strength to shape the steel with the hammer? I wonder if us ladies can do blacksmithing too...

Many Many Thanx ! I just wish I had a power hammer ! Again Thanxxxxxxx !

What brand and model trousers are you wearing in this video?

Здравствуйте можно у вас заказать пробойник для топора и молотка?

Will any kind of hardenable steel work? Or does it have to be a certain kind (e.g. like the H13 you used)?

h13 is really good to use with hot steel but really expensive right? how much cost your billet and where can i take, thank you

Not that I'm claiming to know everything about crafting of the metallurgical arts, but the only thing I saw wrong with your test piece was it's a little off kilter. By that I mean in the process of working it, it turned. Not enough to really notice unless you have a perfectionists eye, which I do do to my OCD. Other than that I think it looks pretty good in all reality.

interesting power hammer. someday maybe. what is the company that made it?

Trevlig sida! Gör du slagsidan mjukare för att den inte ska spricka?

I was curious what the weight of your anvil is? Also I Love watching your content!! ✊⚒️

är det uddeholmsstål? vad kan du rekommendera för stål som är lätt att få tag i till att göra vanliga hammare, jag har hört att drivaxlar till lastbilar och bilar ska kunna funka? Mvh

where do you get stock that large?

Hi, Really lovely work. I'd be interested in buying one of these, Is that a possibility? Thanks and great video.