Would love to learn to forge, am moving to norway so maybe ill buy a cabin in the woods and live out my dreams there in the winter😂

Killed it as usual! Well done

Absolutely beautiful job on what is one of my personal favorite types. I enjoy making axes more than anything and the goal for me is to one day get close to the quality of your axes. Really appreciate the videos.

Amazing work, that is my favourite looking axe.

Beautiful axe... need one...

Great job Nils, I really enjoyed watching!

Great Outcome! I love it and your touchmark is pretty cool👌

Absolutely awesome

Beautiful work! fun to watch!

Very nice bow tie axe... really liked the bearded modification 👍 beautiful piece of work, cheers Hugh

Very nice Axe thanks for sharing blessings to you and yours 🙏 stay safe

Nils, fantastic job! I particularly liked your description at the end.

Greetings from Australia, I enjoyed watching the video and I have to say this is a work of art. I have bought several hand-forged laminated knife blades from Sweden, Finland and Norway and enjoyed making handles for them and use them for hunting and other activities. The closest I have to a forged axe is the Gransfors Bruks small forest axe but not a proper hand forged like the one you make. Maybe one day I will buy one from you. Cheers

Great axe and great job.

Nice one ! As always. Congrats!

Wow men, love your work, congratulations from Colombia

Nice man, really nice. Great job.

Very nice work. thanks for the video!

Awesome work.

Amazing work!

Wow! What an awesome axe! The wood grain of that handle is gorgeous! I really enjoy your videos. Thanks again Nils!

I do enjoy seeing you make axes, i'd also love to see you make other weapons, like maces, daggers or maybe just a more elaborate axe with maybe some leatherwork or carvings or something, decorated perhaps.

Very nice job on the axe Nils! Well done sir!!!!

Great video, like this style of axe. Thanks for posting.

Love your videos you're a ture Craftsman keep up the awesome work from Colorado 🇺🇸

Good work!!

Your observations @ the end are greatly enjoyed

That's really nice.

You do awesome work Nils, Ave

Amazing!!!

Beautiful craftsmanship. An amazing piece and I love that design. Doing some design for the handle would be perfect in my opinion. But overall, just terrific

Excellent Axe sir! Great forging. Subed for sure, can't wait to see more, man. Have a great weekend!

Nice work.

Ønsker meg akkurat ei sånn øks. Perfekt til tømring. Great job👍💪

Well done

Great job! I absolutely love this axe!! Great approach on the Type C axe! ⚡️⚡️

looks beautiful .subscribed

Very nice axe

Very nice.

Hi there, have you though potentially about using a D shaped axe eye for your historical inspired builds?

Nils Great video Thanks for the inspiration just starting out I hope to one day make an ax as quality as that one.

Very beautiful work son👍👍🤠🤠🎯🎯

Great job you did congrats. Are your axes just for decoration or can they be used for working?

Så snygg yxa! 🪓🙏

Nice 😎🍻

Really good looking axe I'd like to own one.

I absolutely love your videos. Also where do people get those wire brushes

This one looks great Nils!! Great job, as expected. Im sure the Dane axe is going to be awesome!! I miss the beard though...

Very Nice..

Nice!

Fantastiskt hantverk!

Absolutely stunning, a work of art and a pleasure to watch. thanks for sharing ATB

Good build, I think the lugs only going down looks fine, nice build. Clear hickory is my favorite for my grandpa said hickory is the best ( his favorite). Sir a fine video

i love type c axe

Oj, otroligt snyggt

Good job!!! Which steel grades are used in axe forging?

Nice job, interesting process with all the forge welding and pre-assembling the cutting edge. What is the main use of this type of axe? Thank you.

Beautiful axe! Great job as always!

do you sell axe-eye drifts here in sweden? :) what would the cost be at aprox do you think?

That thing looked tough on the anvil. Is this high carbon steel?

Vacker yxa👍

أعمالك جميلة

14 people aint got no soul. This was an amazing build.

Hey Nils, nice work. One thing I would say is that it has a very modern eye. Eyes in the period had more sort of rounded rectangular eyes rather than the narrow oval style. There are some examples in the mastermyr book. The handles also didn't have as much shaping as you have given it and were approximately the length of the user's arm from armpit to hand. Otherwise, you're still not committing the big cardinal sins of recreating viking axes, and it looks good :) Adam Gutowski on facebook has some good examples. A really good smith from Poland

I want to buy this one!

Blacksmiths back then, would I suspect, have been keen to make the job easier and the use of multiple forge welds certainly cuts down on the effort involved. It is also more conservative in terms of forge fuel and the iron and steel, which were commodities hard won from the ore. These days metals are very much cheaper and taken for granted.

collaboration to make overstrike guard, axe hanger and sheath

Sjuuukt vacker yxa!! Kan du inte göra en video där du går igenom dina mest använda verktyg, hur de används och vad man kan få tag på dem? Skulle vilja börja själv men vet inte vart jag ska börja!😅

Hello nice videos nice channel!! may be a strange question because I just started getting interested to forging so i wonder what is the white powder you put to the iron when you weld it? Thanks

mom : my son maybe have hard study me at 6 AM : **this video**

Wonderful! Say, these are weapon-axes, or for all kind of uses? And - no borax?? And let me know - your power-hammer, is it DIY?

Great video! What are the dimensions and thickness of the piece of steel you start out with?

The brown color comes from heartwood, the prefered section of wood.

Hi Nils, commenting on an old video so you may well not see this but I am interested to know if the “lugs” you refer to have an official name? I cannot find anything in print or online. Maybe they should be called “eyelids” given they are right next to and part of the eye 😊

i am forging axes now and i am looking at your videos for inspiration and i love them

Looks like an axe used in the series Vikings

What kind of forge do you use Coal or gas

I bet quarantine isn't so bad at your house lol

when you put the splint thing in to hold the axehead in place, does the split go to the top of the axe or through the axe head? :)

Jag köpte ett exakt likadant städ som ditt i förrgår! Nohab storlek 18, 89 kg! Kul att se att du använder ett sånt 😊👍

Very fascinating. How many working hours does it take to make the axe?

Can you do bearded axe but double edge?

Hi nils, you can tell me please when the type c axes are available to sell on website?

Question, was it period to forge weld a taco for the beard piece separately or would the whole beard just be high carbon steel?

Hej Nils! Superkul att jag upptäckte en ny å duktig svensk smed på youtube:) jag är nog igång själv om 10-15 månader förhoppningsvis med smide så riktigt kul med inspiration från dig:) Min fråga är var du designade och beställde din smed stämpel? Eller har du gjort den?? Mvh Petter broberg!

Saw you on someone's else's channel did comment

At 5:58 you're cutting away unwanted material. Is it easier so than inserting immediately the beard without that protruding part?

DU ÄR så bra nils i från leo

weren't viking axes pressure fit without wedges?

price for a Viking axe like that

can u make a crossbow

Hur gör man egentligen när man svetsar? När jag försökte göra det så smälte yxbladet.

what wood is the handle

How much would that axe cost?? Do you sell them??

7:43 wake up alarm

Is it just me or does the transition between the iron and the steel blade looks more rough then usual this time?

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Interestingly enough very similar patters have been found in Russia all across the Volga trade route. And Norse axe patterns are very close to Slavic patterns. Even the amulets pattern the axe of Perun are very similar to Norse patterns. Slavic, Baltic and Norse mythology obviously have a common predecessor before the Migration Period. the Russian Rurik dynasty the founders of Kievan Rus' the first Russian state are of Norse origin. The Rurik dynasty is the longest ruling dynasty of the Russian states. They ruled for almost 8 centuries.

What do you mean by "Type C"?

I’m working on my Viking axe I’d love to meet up and we can test them together