the blade shouldn't get stuck, that could indeed caus bad injuries. The reason why I don't use my carving knive is caus: I got to sharpen it all the time, the blade's to short and the blade doesnt bend. Caus of that you couldn't do the techniques at 14:25. I know that some dedicated, special knives and planers exist, but they are expensive and rare. For beginners gloves + box cutter knife is realistic.

@@TheShieldery Mora knives are pretty good for carving and relatively cheap

@@TheShieldery One simple carving knife is absolutely enough. You don´t need all the fancy tools. But I will reiterate, DO NOT USE A BOX CUTTER FOR CARVING. While I respect your work, in this point I am disagreeing completly and calling out dangerous practice. I have had acciedents with that in the past. Work saftey will telly you off for doing it. The blade is not made for carving, and I am lucky to have gotten away with just a nasty flesh wound back then. Depending on the blades, when they break and you slip it can easily aputate a finger, or mess up the tendons all over your hand. Gove or no glove. DOn´t mess around, and get a 20-40 euro carving knive. Saveing that little monery isn´t worth the risk of life long disability. Box cutters are meant to be used at minimal extension, and when used wrong can be hilariously dangerous.

uf, that sounds disappointing. Bone glue is quite bad and not authentic though. Mayby that draged the moisture out of the rawhide over time? In addition: how where the boards cut? Where they core planks?

thanks for the Kompliment! ffffffffffffuuuu; I hope 2:20 was the only time?

thanks! Added it to my which list! :)

it's a matter of taste, really. I got that kind of drill and yes, it would have been an idea. But the nails where only very little conical at the end, so it wouldn't have made much of a difference ;) .

Thanks! wicker shields look very interesting. I'm gonna put them on the list on Shield-videos. It's quite long, but I don't forget :) .

Thanks! I pay 120€ per year to soundstrip in order to not have to do that XD. Except the final tune everything is from Cody Martin. Last one is "Vikings" from Adam Saban. To be honest I don't know wether they are available to public.

Thanks! Yeah, they are allready on my Crafting-video-list :)))

thanks! I got a spoke shave, but you usually need two hands to holde it and therefor need a propper way to keep the wood in place. In addition it's quite chunky. A boxcutter knive is just much more inconvenient. I got a tiny one hand planer which has a razor blade as planer knife, I'd recommend that :))) .

when I hit 600€/month on patreon, I'm in. XD

allready started :)

Dimicator allready did that, the link to his channel is in the description :) .

​@@TheShielderydo you remember the title of that video? I can't find it.

@@cerocero2817 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jM2Fd6eVtr2lZIU.html pls like this answhere in order for me to see that I could comment the link

@@TheShieldery Thank you, I can see the link.

Thanks! I bought the timber from a privat person two towns away that air dryed them outside for 5 years. Or at least that's what he said. It should be correct I think; they felt appropriate. Greenboards usually deform quite a lot while drying. but with radial split planks it might work. If you let them dry for a couple of weeks after glueing them together bevore attatching the grip and the rawhide, of course. Deffinitly worth a try. Unfortunatly I wouldn't know how to get them though XD

@@TheShieldery yeah, you’d definitely need to pay more attention to the grain of the timber if you used it green. Radially split boards would have the grain at closer to 90° to the face of the board, similar to what’s known as quarter sawn in milled timber, which is considered the most stable. Face sawn boards, with the grain more parallel to the face, will move a lot more when drying.

Haha I feel that one 😄

Thanks! I want to sell the shields and crafting them with authentic tools would double the price and not change the final result. that's why it wouldn't make sense :( . If I hit 600€/month on Patreon, I would do it though XD.

@@TheShieldery Makes sense, I forget some of you brave souls rely on your skills to earn. Thanks for the prompt reply.

@@thepagan5432 Your welcome; thank's for the honest comment! :) I am allready shooting my next video in which I at least show, how it could have been done with the authentic tools; I will show one shot in which I use the electric planer and then another one with the normal wood planer and so on :)

I got none XD . But yes, that would have made a huge difference.

Thanks! Regarding authentic ones, I'd say viking shields are not that difficult to make, IF you don't get into trouble with low quality wood or rawhide. Approx 20-30 houres per piece, in approx 3 weeks. Yes, I would. If I sell those two and get orders for more, for sure :)

Yes, I do. You can find my contact information on my website which is linked in the videos description. Are you european (I'm german)? If your from Amerika, the shipping coul get veeeery expensive :(.

we don't have enough sources for a clear answere. But caus every other shield in history had a painted edge, the viking shields most likely also where painted. It could be though that the rim was decorated with a different pattern.

I'd go with medium old ones. Usually 5 to 8 boards got used on 70-90 cm broad shields, that makes an average 10-18 cm broad plank. Caus they where radial split the whole tree needs to be 26 - 42 cm in diameter (caus you got to remove the center). You can guess yourself how old a fir tree needs to be in skandinavia do get that thick; I'd say 30-50 years :)

Casein Glue :)

here's the source: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ndR8qZB9msnIoY0.html no idea wether i can link another video in the comments. pls like/answhere for me to know wether you recieved it :)

@@TheShieldery ahh yes, the link worked, sorry for the confusion, I meant where did you buy it? I’ve hard a hard time finding a place to buy it for my own shields.

@@southpawskutatoi Aaaah; ok. (In germany) I buy them either from "Provellus or, caus I got to craft higher quantities, from "Lederfabrik renz". You get half a cow of rawhide for 200 € and that's enough for 3-4 viking shields. In generall ebay or "kleinanzeigen" might be worth a try. :)

@@southpawskutatoi " daslederhaus " also has good raw hide and might ship on a larger scale.

if you are willing to buy it for 700€ instead of 450€, I will od it with pleasure. Otherwise it wouldn't payoff.

@@TheShieldery I'd pay that premium for a shield made with original tools.

A mixture of terpentine, linseedoil varnish and 1 or two other things. It's completl water resistant. You can look it up on kremer pigemnte, link in description :)

@@TheShieldery Thank you so much!

When splitting a log? Yes, then wood knots are a problem, caus it interrupts the growing direction and therefore the splitting. But as you probably noticed, parts of the log tend to split of directly before the knot, caus the connection between the knot itself and the wood that has grown around it is quite weak. When you only take a small intersection of the log, called a plank, this weakness persists. But the advantage that it interrupts the wooden growth doesn't come to play any more, caus it always points basically in the same direction as the possible splitting.

@@TheShieldery thank you for your answer.

yes. they where very good woodworkers. There is a reason why their boats and churches are so famous :))))))) . They wheren't used on shields though, as you can see in the sources.

Hi, I linked my sources in the videos description. Reading them made me very sure ;) .

@@TheShieldery ah i didn't notice those

Thanks for the offer, but I allready got one and don't use it allready. You can join me on patreon though; new camera will be 640€; any help is appreciated....

they don't bend that good though. You can't use them close to the surface as I did while fixing the crack

​@@TheShieldery A bevel down normal chisel can take that cut. I think the box knife can break suddenly when bending is the worry and fly ino you somewhere. But what I reacted to most myself was the electric planer, those are very dangerous used wrong and they should be used carefully. I nowdays dont use them anymore a small handplane is great for that kind of work.

Knapp; Bayrisch 🍻

@@TheShieldery jetzt weiss ich wieso es ähnlicher klang 😂

One is still available and for sail ;) . And yes, I also do comissions but I will stop with that in the next month(s).

@@TheShieldery well I would love to talk more about it for sure man how can I get your contacts?

@@zacharyralfs473 my E-mail adress is: andre.schaetz@yahoo.de ;)

Thanks for your honest feedback :)))) ! I didn't betray the title, I explained reasonable why it wouldn't match the videos main theme ;) . In addition I never claimed to make it ONLY with the authentic materials. The original materials are "only" the vast majority I used though. The material is the same, only the processing differs and with core planks it doesn't make much of a difference. I'd give it a solide 90% the same (caus core plank). About the paragraph starting with: "In detail, ..." nope; if the result is the same the process doesn't matter. In the end I want to sell those shields. The ones from the video are at 450€. If I'd make one with authentic tools we are at 750€ minimum and they'd look the same. Would you honestly pay that? I also never claimed to use authentic tools. About the paragraph starting with: "Something else to keep in mind is that not all fir is ..." I also got to disagree with that, they also had to work with what they had and a broad range of wood qualities was given: Bad wood => fire wood / coals; medium wood => .... ; excellent wood => .... ; Especially in Skandinavia the forrests in the viking age where not particularly larger or smaller then today, more naturaly yes, but all in all not better or worse wood quality wise. In this videos Case I didn't use mass-harvested stuff. I bought the wood from a private person 70 km away from my place. The fir planks are quite uneven with differing growth length periods and ... organic... knot holes. They also where naturaly dried. Making bloomery steel would be an entire different video and just would be to much for the viking shield theme, as well as producing the correct copper alloy (which I considered in therms of casting a metal handle terminal [like the one from Sandby on Ödland] which you can see in the sources). Again thanks for your honest oppinion. Those assumptions give me interesting feedback as video producer :)))) .

@@TheShieldery No problem. Frankly, I think you're wrong on all points. As I explained clearly (I thought) I don't have a problem with your process at all, just the misleading title. The product is somewhere between a true replica and a plywood shield and that's fine. If that's a market that exists, it's great that you're providing for it. Regarding the authenticity of the materials though: The difference between medieval Scandinavian timber finds and extant timber stands has been studied at length in Norway. The quality of pine used for viking ships and stave churches (they call it "hard pine" but it's not its own species, just desirable specimens of the most common pine) is practically extinct. There is a huge difference between the forests of then and now. They very effectively selectively removed what they considered the best bits, so just the dregs remain. Can you make a good banana milkshake with a rotten banana? Probably not, so if you use timber that a viking craftsman would have discarded, it's not going to be representative. Of course, this isn't a problem that you can easily fix, but that doesn't affect whether or not the material you're using is an original material, just whether it's feasible for you to use original materials. As for sawing vs splitting and to a lesser extent, using power tools, this does change the materials that you're using: Clay is a building material. Bricks are also a building material. Bricks are made of clay, but they are not clay. Likewise, a plank is not a tree. If you're using the wrong type of plank, it's not the same building material, even if they came from the same tree. There's an old saying "A man must make his own arrows". With this in mind, I wouldn't pay 4€ for a shield! I appreciate you sharing tips though. If I were ever to make one or more "viking shields", I expect I'd make some of the same compromises, since I too am averse to lead poisoning and don't feel like selectively breeding a hundreds of years old tree for the purpose. ;)

it is a viking shield. The stuttgarter Psalter ones all look domed.