Due a life threatening illness I’ve been unable to forge now for the past 21 months. But during this time I’ve watched your videos and have enjoyed each and every one of them greatly. This one may be my favorite of all of them… your attention to detail and to the quality of your work is obvious. You create functional tools that are also works of art in my eyes. As skilled as you are, you’re also humble and generous with your knowledge, sharing freely with others what many charge thousands of dollars for. You’re the kind of human being who I’ve always respected and appreciated. I’ve tried to pattern my own life in the very same way in the many decades I’ve walked this earth. With my most recent bone scan results I may never be able to stand at my anvil and forge again but I can always watch your videos and feel like I’m right there in the shop with you. Keep doing what you love to do… and I’ll keep watching.

It’s good for my soul to see young men like you keeping the traditions of black smithing alive. It’s truly one of the fine arts.

It is joyous to watch a craftsman with exceptional skills turn the mundane into something functional and beautiful.

As a beginner blacksmith in a small garage shop, this gives me a lot of hope on eventually being able to hand forge an axe. It’s always been my goal to become an axe maker.

This was one of the best tutorials I've seen in a long time for axe making. No fancy tools or techniques, but everything that was used was explained in detail. Thank you from Australia!

As an aspiring blacksmith, this was a great tutorial and seeing you work is truly enlightening. Definitely look forward to seeing more of your stuff to hopefully use in my own practice!

You broke this down in a way that makes it seem really manageable for the home smith. I appreciate how your smithy is a small room and yet you get a lot of things done there!

The old skills are so valuable. A makers channel like yours should have millions of views. I wonder if you have done a kukri, or a messer. What a treat to watch your work.

I love these types of videos where you explain the process while doing the work. What a great looking axe it came to be!

It's real nice to see someone keeping the art alive. Excellent work, you make it look so easy! And Congratulations on your new daughter!

I love the combination of music, video, and voice over. Very soothing! You make it look easy

This type of tool making never gets old.

Beautiful craftsmanship, refreshing to see things forged without industrial machines

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There are lot of forging videos on youtube. Watching them make things with help of machines make us forget how much hard work forging takes. Your video was inspiring and motivating for me, it's hard work but it can be done without any expensive machines.

Great video, I love the blacksmithing videos where the smiths talk about every step; really helps me learn. Also amazed at your precise hammer work.

I really appreciate you going through the process and doing it in a more traditional way. It’s definitely a big change from the normal videos I watch with all the modern techniques and machinery. Keep up the awesome work!

Gotta say, that's a lovely axe. And as far as tutorial videos go, this is very informative. Wish I had the space to learn!

Love it. Seeing the whole thing forged by hand without using power tools is wonderful.

Enjoyable to watch from start to finish. Fantastic instruction. Nothing better than watching a master of his craft work. And with hand tools too! Subbed!

I love how everything was done by hand. Beautiful work!

Beautiful work as always! I appreciate your craft, willingness to share your knowledge, and the kind heart with which you do so. Also, congrats on the birth of your new baby!

Fantastic work. Blacksmithing is one of my secret passions if only I had the shop to make axes in. Thank you for letting me live vicariously through your videos!

Very nicely done. Simple, straightforward and honest. Thank you.

I have to say that your axes are some of the best that I've seen. I really enjoy seeing your handle crafting too. So perfect.

Great tips! Looking forward to more in-depth videos about axe making!

The lugs' construction was amazing. Thank you for sharing.

Can't believe it took so long for me to find your channel, but I love it. Brilliant work, good Sir!

I wish other makers would do videos like this. You got my subscription thanks for taking us along.

Wonderful to see people make these things from scratch. I bought a forest axe made in Scandinavia a couple of decades ago as a present for a friend. Hope he appreciates it

What a work of Art! Beautifully made and with no power tools to boot! Very nice work!

Enjoyed the fully hand made forge/ blacksmith process.

Hot rasping and filing in general are surprisingly effective. Concise and informative, great work!

Amazing work! And thank you for reminding us how important the basics are

I love watching blacksmithing there is a real art to a technique that takes real practice over many failures but when seeing an axe or knife finished is just great amazing work amazing channel

Please keep on doing what you do. Thank you for teaching your skills in such an easy manner!!!

*No BS....No Tricks....No fancy tools or tricky editing...No annoying Musical Overlay....Pure Technique & Information...Clearly and simply demonstrated...One of the better Vids of this process. Thoroughly enjoyed...Thanks for sharing* 🔥🔥

These videos provide a more focused perspective on axe-making that I really enjoy when compared to some of the other blacksmithing KZfaqrs I watch. Keep up the good work! 🎉

Well done! Old school craftsmanship on display 😊

the best thing about it all is that you enjoy it - and I enjoy watching your videos - until I can go back to blacksmithing myself ;)

Your workshop is beautiful, and the axes are dreamy.

I have always had dreams to forge axes in the same method that you did. Great job with your craftsmanship, it truly is an art. Thanks for showing!

As a farrier I really enjoy seeing others forge steel for different purposes. Nice work.

Really love the way you describe your steps, your voice also sounds so relaxed which makes it much easier to keep listening. Keep up the nice work!

Still one of my all time favorite creators to watch! Keep it up!

You’re videos are the reasons I ever started forging.thank you for what you do

I'm more keen to attempt knife/chisel making rather than axes, but this kind of video is always a joy to watch and a source of knowledge! Thank you, and best wishes for the future

My grandad was a blacksmith in VA, I always messed around with making small blades growing up so I really enjoyed this. Makes me wanna try again.

That's a good looking axe. Seeing these manual techniques with forge welding and without grinders or power hammers to me is quite enjoyable to watch.

I really love watching these. I started blacksmithing a while ago, but i am still stuck at points and hooks, but i am learning and still not giving up

Love the video Nils, love how you showed this process all by hand. Can't wait to see more of your videos.

My son and I are starting our own journey into blacksmithing and this was a great vid! Thank you for posting!

Nils, Thank you for taking the time to share you skill with us. The details you provided are very helpful and very much appreciated. Thank you again for showing us your awesome/beautiful work.

Your videos have quickly become some of my favourite to watch, congrats to whoever gets the axe

Nils, thank you for sharing this wonderful craft and passing this tradition through the generations!

Beautiful work! Thank you for sharing it with us! It must be a great feeling to create something that will probably be passed down for generations and whose craftsmanship will still be enjoyed in 100 years!

This is as clearly explained forging as I've ever seen. Thank you for your instruction! Subscribed!

That is true forging. All done by hand and no machines. Power tools are nice it takes the stress from the elbows which can become damaged over time. Well done, beautiful work.

What an amazing axe! I'm sure it will make a family heirloom for many decades.

Hello Nils, I'm a still a beginner at Blacksmithing and I enjoy your Videos. Having only smithed few pieces myself, they are a great source of Information and teach me in a way I have not experienced by another content creator. Thank you for your useful Videos and keep up your great work! Sincerely, Tommy

This is a nice axe. My grandfather was a blacksmith his whole life. My dad spent his young years pumping the bellows for Basil’s forge.

What a beautiful heritage tool, something a father could pass down to a son or grand son.

It's a pleasure watching you work. The axe turned out beautiful.

Beautiful axe. Simple. Sufficient. Serviceable. 👌

It was good to see you do all the procedures by hand. That is, after all, how blacksmithing has ever been done! Tom in Vermont

This was AWSOME. So talented using all hand tools!

Thank you for showing us how to make an axe by Forge Welding it. I'm a person who really wants to get into blacksmithing/ bladesmithing and this really helped.

Very informative and relaxing. On top of making the axe head, you're still setting up the shots and editing it all as well. Well done!

Beautifull work - always a pleasure watching a real craftsman at work. That forest axe looks just the size I need.

Just getting started and love the "no machine " way of making the ax. Thank you and beautiful work.

I don't enjoy much content, but your content is axe-cellent with its simplicity, and growth over the time, I still enjoy watching the old videos as background noise! And love the current videos with the explanations! When I watch these videos, I want to learn how to forge my own competition throwing axe! But I would prefer to buy one from you. I can only imagine how many strikes have gone into your craft, and it shows! Wishing you all the best for you and your young family Nils Ogren - From Australia!

So many skills shown in an axe video. Tool making 101. Thanks.

Clear instructions and good camera angles, good job!

Awesome to see an axe being made with only hand tools. Great job

Very nice. Love your voice over. It was nice to have simple explanations for the whole process.

First, your axes are absolutely beautiful. Amazing craftsmanship. Secondly, thank you so much for making these videos. They are so educational for amateur blacksmiths like myself. Although I only have a small forge, my goal is to one day make a Billnas style axe by myself. Your videos inspire me. Thank you

Your masterful, although essentially basic, use of steel, wood and fire kindles my earth connection. Nils, thank you for sharing your craft by making this beautiful handmade axe.

Speechless... Such a beatiful axe. Amazed of the craftmanship also.

That axe is tool, I can see it outlast any commercial axe. You are a true artisan sir!

Beautiful. I love the antique look of the metal. Too many people shine the whole thing up, but I prefer this way.

This was a very fun watch. I'm so fascinated in metal working, there's just something hypnotic about it. Gorgeous axe....BRAVO!

That is inspiring. Never thought I would look into smithing, but it's compelling!

Beautifully Done! I love your use of classic techniques and historic patterns for these axe builds!

Impressed with your ability to highlight some key techniques in such a brief video, and I like how precisely you followed your design.

I have followed your videos for a while and greatly appreciate your methods, processes and explanations. Being of Norwegian and Dane ancestry also makes your channel fun. ❤

It's amazing watching the whole process in axe making. Thank you for such a good video.

Very interesting video. Coming from a Norwegian ( the better Vikings) fishing family on the west coast of Canada. I often wondered how the laminated Scandinavian knives etc we used were made. I will keep watching and perhaps one day make my own to carry as I paddle my beautiful 53 year old cedar canvas canoe around B.C. Thanks again Gerry

Watching this video gives me the motivation to finish setting up my own forge and start hammering steel. Its simply amazing how well you illustrate the process of forging. Thank you so much!

Thank you for sharing your knowledge so freely. Always enjoyable to watch a skilled craftsman using there talents.

I truly Love your Videos and their educational sub aspects. You bring me down to earth and help me through hard times. And I have to admit: I just love axes. :D Pls keep going and never stop doing your things you love.

You have amazing combination of craftsmanship and communication skills. Cool video!

This was a fantastic and informative video. My 3 year old son watched with me and he was mesmerized. I look forward to forging something with him in the future. Thanks for the great video

That's a beautiful axe! And thanks for the great video! I enjoy your style and technique, and how you share your skills with the blacksmithing community. Fantastic work.

it's just incredible what you're doing! it's one of my childhood dreams to forge, and you inspire me, i'm not going to give up and i'm going to make it happen. thank you so much! Keep going man !

Thank you, a real pleasure to watch you work.

I really like the way you explain what you are doing. You get your point across without a lot of additional verbiage that just gets in the way.

Amazing tutorial/walkthrough on your hand forge axe process. Amazing, educational and motivational!

Wonderful to watch you make this axe . You make it look so easy.

Very good job Nils! Looking forward to larger axes and the expanded techniques on how to do more like this so I can try in my own forge! Thank you!

Thank you for this video!! Always cool for us who doesn't have power hammer or press to see how to make these by hands