Well, he is the Sargon of an ancient middle eastern country

Because they can thats why. what are you the think police. does it trigger you that people can do whatever the fuck they want?

Me too

Bro sounds just like him

Nicholas Powroznick it is him

same, pretty random eh

@Layne Ledger sargon's a pretty stupid name

ikr

I almost thought I was just hearing things.

same, i was so confused the whole video saying "I think i know this guy"

is it him or not? I cant figure this out

It's him. On his channel page, right under the subscribe button, he has this channel along with two others under the name "my other channels".

+ZURATAMA1324 Oh but if I went 'round sayin' I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away.

Zeredek BLOODY PEASANT!!!

+admrob Looks like work to me.

+admrob Looks like a lot of work.

+Corbin .Sterno Even so, forging is a lot of fun to do. After some time, the filing becomes meditative and it makes you very calm; same with hammering if you're working with iron or steel. Plus there's nothing more satisfying than taking a hand-forged object (knife, sword, pair of scissors, you name it) and tempering it. The sizzling and bubbling that happens when the hot metal comes into contact with the water sounds amazing and it really feels like you've built something fantastic. If you ever get the chance to take forging classes, trust me (you know, a random guy on the internet you don't know), don't pass it up.

you're a time traveller?

@@Seygem they practiced Judaism before Jesus came, and then practiced Christianity after

@@mattelness2027 I'm stuyding the ancient assyrians at the moment as part of my archaeology studies. just interesting to see that you are still around under your old name.

Well surely you ought to know that “Catholic or Christian people” isn’t a good way to put it. Catholics are Christians, the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Not all Christians are Catholics but all Catholics are Christians.

​@Seygem Assyrians as an ethnicity are still around. Ufc fighter Beneil Dariush for example is Assyrian and walks out to his fights with the Assyrian flag

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Yeah they probably had chords on all there power tools nstead of a rechargeable battery!!

@@g-money7652 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierapolis_sawmill water powered

So this is how ancient Egyptians were making weapon.

He explains why though🤣

This week in stupid: SJWs think that iron is the "new bronze"

@@jos_meid LOL

20% "it's cast, not forged" 10% "that's not how you file properly"

kek approves

@@Reub3 If I made one of these swords I would dedicate it to Kek.

Explain?

@@dorkmax7073 oh fuck Ive watched this video for years and didn't realize it's fucking SARGON AÀAAAAAEEEEEEE

Yes hahah

I noticed this right away wtf

He lived around 25,000 years ago. He was the first king of the Akkadian empire in and around Sumeria. He invented roller skates, fake dog shit, and the parking meter.

Yeah i'm sitting here wondering "WAIT, i know that voice, wtf!?"

i think so

yeeeap!

Exacly my thought, plus using t sanding paper you would easily be done in one day!

It's called draw filing.

Isn't draw filing for double cut files,not single cuts?

DavisSgt Well, you might be over my head on those terms. I've only seen round files that were double cut, which are for different sorts of work than this. I just know the angled lines cut into that file work best when drawn against the metal at that angle. That's why they cut them at that particular angle. The file would be most effective if the cuts were straight across at 90 degrees to the work. But then the file would jump and grab the work, knocking bits off roughly rather than the smoother scissor action you get with the angle. The angle of those lines is a compromise between maximum cutting and smoothness, resulting in the maximum overall efficiency of the file.

You can draw file with a file whether it is single or double cut. In my experience, draw filing works better with single cut files

+savage1493 Bronze, I guess :P

+savage1493 Many different styles and methods i guess. planning on doing some forging myself if i ever get a backyard, will probably stick to casting as well.

***** Mainly depends on the time they emulate and the material used yeah.

I bet you make them by scratch the traditional way of grabbing metal heating it and hit it to shape, heat treat and polish.

not necessarily "from scratch" but ive used car springs and large diameter round stock.

Karren Kuddlesberg No, that's just textual diarrhea.

+ScrubLordAnjoo Yeah but people don't know that you cast bronze.

+Ancient Recitations Gotcha. Main reason I started watching this video was because of that XD

+Ancient Recitations the green flame is from the copper burning, you want less air so there is none to react with the copper

Wait, they had a steel file in ancient bronze-age times? how did they file the sword then?

+BSBCHREAF An iron file

+OrkTv I'm curious of this as well.

+OrkTv My bet is on "Misogyny".

The patriarchy embracer

Anita

+Doubt /)

***** Exactly, hammer hardening works really well on bronze.

***** Do you know what hammer hardening is? I don't mean forging.

I wondered why they didn't hammer the edges as well. Maybe time constraints. Hammering the edge is a skill you don't just learn in a few days.

***** It's not that hard. You can mess up, but that's not very visible while you still get the partial benefit.

I was thinking the exact same thing! I'm guessing it was the man putting on the course not wanting to have the students risk it. Like you said, it's not that hard, but I'm also guessing most of these people are great craftsmen.

I didn't know the difference thanks!

And you don't cast real swords unless you want them to break.

@@brightonbegole5459 Bud that's not how bronze works. You'd be correct if you were talking about iron or steel. Not bronze.

@@rustyshackleford1465 Interesting. Can you share a source? I could well be wrong, I'm no metallurgist, but I'd like a source to know for sure.

@@brightonbegole5459 Well technically people preferred to work-harden the edge of bronze weapons via cold hammering, so it would hold an edge better, but that's different from forging which involves getting the material hot then cooling it as is done with to harden steel actually weakens bronze. Here's a reddit thread if you're interested. www.reddit.com/r/SWORDS/comments/dmihco/why_is_bronze_cast_and_not_forged/

he also didn't work harden the blade. which is fine for a wall hanger. but leaves it to soft and will dull quickly when using it to cut anything. over all a nice video and looks like he had a good time making it.

+Jerry D It was supposed to be sharpened like they did in the bronze age.

+Larry Power so far every sword axe or edged implement we have found so far from the bronze have been what is called work hardened. what that means is bronze become harder when compressed. the way you do this is, in this case, take the sword when cold and put in on the anvil and hammer it. it is best to only hammer the edge as this leaves the core softer and better able to flex and or bend so as to not be brittle and break. it only takes a few minutes do do this. you do have to be careful not to over work the bronze or it will develop cracks. copper is the same. only it starts out softer and doesn't become as hard. steel is tempered and heat treated, bronze and copper are work hardened. with that said this is a great video, very informative, fun to watch, and leaving out the hardening process is understandable since he is not making a tool for use.

Jerry D Ok, I see... Thanks for the info mate.

+Roo ! I would say just before filing the blade at 8:00. In my opinion it can save a lot of work removing the tiny holes.

+Manfredini Asylum i think so, must be his other channel

+Drew Rushton That's pretty cool :v

What`s his, other, channel?

cheers

Sounds just like him doesn't it?

+Tony Zou this guy gets it

+Tony Zou I'd go for the Omnissiah. P.S. But if this had to be dedicated to a deity from an actual religion I'd go with Mímir instead. ^^

+Tony Zou SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

+Elround4 I'd say Bishamonten because I'm a weeaboo

Crom laughs at Khorne

That's exactly what i thought when I heard it

MrC0MPUT3R it's his other channel. Ha

Hello fellow warden

This was well before steel and knights its not weird. It's imo better. No need for pommel

the original ones had a big removable wooden pommel

"I understood that reference!!!" - Captain America

The youtuber sargon of akkad

@@eduardopupucon The Joke ----> Thine Head

+Sophia Eris (HiddenTara) Don't tell Layman!

+Ancient Recitations I won't *Wink*

+Ancient Recitations fuck the rapier, sabre is the best!

Then again the rapier and sabre are no katanas. Long live the bamboo-cutter from the proud nation of white privilege.

The Emo Emu white Asian privilege?

great!sad you didn't get to use the Zwei against the intuder

@@monodimensionalbeing7996 I wish... but with the laws in Romania I would've quickly been sentenced. Also, since I posted this 6 years ago, I gave away the curved sword (Dacian Falx, not turkish, my bad) as a gift to my wife's parents, so now I don't own a sword anymore :(

I spent 3 months of my apprenticeship trying to chisel and file a perfect cube in certain dimensions. Could be the most stressful thing I've ever done in my life

***** I found oil and just having a piece of mild steel to rub the stone on helps stop it getting clogged, A smaller bit of copper works really well for getting the pinned bits out of a file if you run it along the cutting edges. You're right about the conditioning thing though, carbide and diamond cutting tools are the only exceptions I've come across.

***** I meant cutting tools for machining, The only diamond abrasive I've used is lapping film on stellite so not on copper.

i know right, is that him?

Because it is Sargon's channel.

pretty sure this is what sargon did before political videos love his new vids but wish he would come back to some stuff like this sometimes

He still does this channel, just on the side

He has said it on few occasions that he would prefer to do historical content instead of political, but feels obligated to do political content for now.

It is.

theWolvesbane oh

+kaarl m lol wasn't that obvious? :p

***** KZfaqr

@kite man agreed, all i wanted was a video of a bronze sword

+avicenna you missed it, He called it Adolph.

Mate. Have you seen season 6 it's epic

@DarkEternal6 What do you *mean* it's fictional?! It's real life man! ...well O.K., it's inspired by the War of the Roses.

Why would someone need to say it? There we no knights in this time period?

+TheTrueM3ga yeah, you didn't parry with them, you parry with your shield.

+TheTrueM3ga Lindybeige has a coupple of videos about these kinds of sword. If you want his oppinion on it.

+TheTrueM3ga The handle is indented so your hand has some support, and plus, the ricasso typically wasn't sharpened anyway because you're supposed to strike closer to the tip of the weapon. Besides, I don't think you could easily make a crossguard strong enough to be useful out of bronze. Even the swords were very easy to bend.

avicenna I personally think that his kind of weapon was more of a cutting or hacking weapon since it looks pretty top heavy. And that bronze easily bends.

Nicklas Källman I think both cuts and thrusts were used. At least the shape of the blade seems to indicate so; and while I know next to nothing about Celtic swordsmanship I do know that there are examples of similar bronze age swords there were used for both cuts and thrusts. See, for example, the Kylix art on the wikipedia page for Hoplite that depicts a guy in an underhand stance that clearly wouldn't work for a cut.

+evil-doer It is a file, mate. And for the first time I hear that you'd use it lengthwise in an application like this, Sargon did it well. In matter of fact, I have never dragged a file lengthwise (I assume you mean as in coaxially) nor have I seen anyone do it. The optimal way is under an angle, that way you can still cover the curvature (keeping proper leverage on the file the way Sargon did) of the blade and grab more surface with it.

***** You don't need to, the pattern is criss-crossed, but it is optimal (except if you really need extremely accurate an reliable leverage). I am almost convinced they do the file blade smoothing routine only to torture people, as you can do it with coarser sandpaper and some electric watt power ;-) You can do it with hardened tool and spring steel, so I see no reason why you couldn't with bronze.

+Tribune of The Plebs Thats the whole point of why I mentioned this. He was working a stage he said took a very long time, it was bulk removal. I would think that criss cross sliding method he was using would have taken 3-4x as long..

evil-doer Ah, now I understand what you meant, not drag the file coaxially (not hold the file lengthwise) but drag it in one motion across the blade. leaning into it. Yeah, it is odd that he didn't do that or indeed slap some sandpaper on the angle grinder and go with it (you do need to be a little bit practiced in that, a sturdy and consistent grip, otherwise it will slide and vibrate and probably ruin the blade; which may be why he didn't do it - not something you want to do for the first time or anything too much important, LOL).

+Tribune of The Plebs Again, it was a bulk removable stage.. there was deep pockets that needed the rest to be taken off around it. Normally you go as rough as possible until its level, then change technique or tool.

suraj bhat Yes

+Ar Tir Honestly I don't know what you think of that channel, but I prefer this one. Less political bullshit, more history.

History and politics today are more closely linked than you may realise, no matter what the age, humans are humans and we face the same old human problems. A clever person looks to history for a higher understanding of modern politics.

Mr_Glibb I don't think that's true. Looking back at a simpler time doesn't always yield answers about today's very complicated political atmosphere, although that is of course reliant on how far back you go. I am not saying we should forget our history, it is after all a foundation we build upon to create a cultural heritage and identity. I guess what I am saying is that we should always aspire to solve our problems with contemporary solutions, and not dwell in the past.

Pajgubb3 I believe human problems are always rooted in human desires and conflicts, something that, while the subject of conflict may change, the base emotions driving it don't. If you can understand these basic human instincts and emotions you can resolve most conflicts amicably and those you can't, you generally get a better idea of the cause of conflict by understanding what causes them. Why do people steal for example, because they want resources. It doesn't matter if the resource being stolen is money or meat, the drive is the same. Why do people wage war, well for many reasons but all throughout history wars have been at their heart driven by emotion, typically the feelings of each side for the other. While these conflicts are fleeting and their reasons vary dramatically and shift with human knowlege, the driving force is constant and unchanging.

Mr_Glibb I agree with you to some extent, although I feel you undermined your own agrument a little bit. If the constant cause for conflict throughout history is emotion, why look back at history to solve current conflicts, if that only shows what masked the emotions to begin with? Why look back when the cause is always the same? I disagree with your example on theft however. People steal for different reason, one person steals because he wants nicer things(maybe by selling stolen items or by simply taking ownership of them), however another person steals because he cannot afford food and thus steals to ensure his very survival, the drivng force between the 2 thieves is not the same. I agree that human emotion is going to remain pretty much the same for a very long time. We are not yet ready to comprehend the problems of today without reacting emotionally. This is why I think we should solve our problems with contemporary solutions instead of looking back at what people thought in the past, as they didn't have the information we have today.