The Viking Challenge - 10th Century Wootz Viking Sword

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Күн бұрын

The KZfaq Viking Challenge!!! Join me as I forge my very first Viking style sword! For this build I tried to stay as historically accurate as possible. I was aiming for a 10th century style sword and sheath.
The blade is 27 inches and 34 inches overall. The sword by itself weighs in at 2.7 lbs / 1.23 Kg
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00:00 Forging Ingot
02:51 Forging Bevels
04:47 Rough Grinding
05:40 Grinding Fuller
07:15 Quench
09:49 Finish Grinding
11:50 Lower Guard
13:00 Handle
13:29 Upper Guard
14:10 Pommel Cap
16:52 Handle Assembly
17:22 Scabbard
20:36 Scabbard Wrap
24:05 Chopping Stuff
25:35 Final Images

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@6point8esspcee68 Ай бұрын

Not many people can use a sword, but even less are able to make one. Beautiful work.

@jessedunn6169 Ай бұрын

I could use one, I can build one but not to this level great job. And starting from wootz

@travistackett797 Ай бұрын

I’ve used machetes a lot. Similar principle but not the same. I also make knives but haven’t made anything bigger than a wakizashi yet. Your craftsmanship looks beautiful. You might (probably) never need a sword but you have a good one if you do. Just practice with a dull version if you practice and remember “the pointy end goes into the enemy “ as well as the sharp edges!🤣👍🏻

@TheArtofCraftsmanship Ай бұрын

Nice work! Also, congrats on hitting a 10k plus home run with this vid. Always feels good when YT pushes your video, and you deserve it.

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! It is extremely nice! How much attention this video has gotten blows my mind lol

@TyrellKnifeworks Ай бұрын

Great build! I came out great!

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

Thanks Denis!

@landroveraddict2457 13 күн бұрын

You have an amazing set of skills, fantastic sword.

@sleazy1drache Ай бұрын

Beautiful! Incredible craftmanship. Thanks for sharing the process with us.

@NickeSw Ай бұрын

Really beautiful sword! One of the best in this challenge 🤩

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

Thank you! I appreciate that!

@jameswest685 Ай бұрын

Sweet! Best yet of 6, good luck. Hope judges consider video likeability.

@FiliiMartis 19 күн бұрын

The setup for grinding the fuller is nice. But the way you hammered it in the blade before was art. And yea, the blade had a nice ring to it. 👍

@besslenbladeworks 18 күн бұрын

Thank you! I really liked the SGA for the fuller. I will keep that one to use in the future. I have had a lot of practice hammering in bevels lol my true love is forging Japanese blades!

@blackbatt2002 Ай бұрын

It is so very beautiful!

@Joemonster111 Ай бұрын

Looks incredible man! You’ve got yourself a new subscriber

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

Thank you!!

@hervehenry5863 Ай бұрын

Magnifique travail !!!! Félicitations 👍👍

@zolose1014 Ай бұрын

beautiful piece of art

@dimmasvaerd Ай бұрын

Beautiful sword. Love the details in the metalwork. Also loved seeing the leatherwork. I haven't seen many bladesmiths make their own scabbards.

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

Thanks you!! Yeah not the most fun making the scabbard but I couldnt have a sharp 2.5 foot blade laying around lol!

@moose_hunter7834 Ай бұрын

brilliant and inspiring. great documentary on your process.

@OGfrenchy1986 Ай бұрын

Nice work brother! You got my blade beat! 👊

@Arnfast66 Ай бұрын

That turned out awesome!

@jimtaylor6663 Ай бұрын

Beautiful!

@stevendepauw3742 Ай бұрын

Great work :)

@Wildgoatknives Ай бұрын

Looks great mate! Well done

@lukelofgren4108 Ай бұрын

Turned out awesome!

@southerndime333 Ай бұрын

beautiful

@neilcastro836 Ай бұрын

Beautiful sword specially that you made it of wootz. Well made well done.

@jamesperkins9833 Ай бұрын

Beautiful build!

@jerrieyum Ай бұрын

Beautiful 🤩 and wootz is considered historically correct Damascus. Great job 👏🏾.😊

@HeavyForge Ай бұрын

Excellent work bro!! That sword looks fantastic as well as the patterning!🔥⚔️

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

Thanks Spencer!!

@mgrenell Ай бұрын

Nice! Subbed

@jmbstudio6873 Ай бұрын

Nice job.

@kaivirkkala3213 Ай бұрын

The tip of the blade is very authentic to a viking sword, many swords made in modern times are a bit too narrow or pointy. The only thing I would have done a bit different would be the tip of the scabbard should have a bronze plating. But otherwise it is an absolut masterpice 😊.

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

Thank you! Yeah it did need something more at the top of the scabbard....

@outlawbladesandleather Ай бұрын

Great job Brother! I love that you included the scabbard. That was the right thing to do 👍. Good luck

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

Thank you! I really tried to take your advice from a previous video and apply it on this one (Switching between frames faster and not staying on one thing too long). It helped out considerably I think!

@outlawbladesandleather Ай бұрын

@@besslenbladeworks you know, I’m sitting here thinking what the heck is he talking about 😂. Then my brain finally woke up and was “oh yeah, I did give you some advice”. You did great man. I watched the entire vid, no skipping…didn’t need to because you held my interest the entire time. Seriously, you made a beautiful complete package. I think you have a shot at placing but that is not up to me. So many awesome builds this round so the judges have their work cut out for them. I have my favorites picked so we will see how close I get. God Bless and stay cool 😎

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

@@outlawbladesandleatherthank you! That is great to hear that it held your attention! 25 min is quite a bit for a video lol funny part is, I had well over 300 hours of footage 😂 difficult at times to decide what gets cut out. The wire braids I did at least 3 times each.... Placing would be great! But there are some other fantastic builds. Then also idk how I can even compete against Denis Tyrell lol his mosaic was stunning!

@svkorban Ай бұрын

A great sword

@DathanDroid Ай бұрын

Just found your channel and you did very good work start to finish.fine work.subbed up 1

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

Thank you!

@srw4181 Ай бұрын

Liked it as well! Many new subs you shall have sir. Keep it up!👏

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

Yes no kidding there lol! Thank you!

@B-leafer Ай бұрын

This may sound silly but..I really like the tang on this one. They often make the tang so narrow and thin to me is a design flaw, but popular none the less. Yours is bigger = stronger which gives me the warm fuzzies..lol.

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

I thought the exact same thing lol!

@user-ik3qh4ve5b Ай бұрын

Отличная работа.

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@donnyreyer9741 Ай бұрын

Beautiful only thing I can ask is if you will turn the music down so it's not competitive with hearing what your saying

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

I will keep that in mind for the next one.

@ralizek497 Ай бұрын

Nice work, consider making a tool for your press so you don't have to grind in fullers

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

Yessss I wanted to but did not have any large round stock. 3 or 4 in round would have been perfect.

@johnrevelator1441 Ай бұрын

this thing amazing/ but have no some handworking marks/ i mean looking too modern, close to ideal

@mielzobel Ай бұрын

Very cool sword that is why i love these youtube challenges because i don't think the algorithm would have shown me this video otherwise. If you are going to make and test more swords in the future i want to tell you why we use waterbottles. The concept is that a good cut with a sharp sword(you don't need the extra slicing motion for that btw) will separate the top of the bottle while the bottom idealy stays in place. The problem is that if the bottles get torn apart like the one you showed at the end it is impossile to tell if the sword was dull or the cut bad. I am pretty convinced that the sword is sharp because of the way you sharpend it but for somebody who isn't a blademaker that might not be obvious. What i like to do is have at least one decent cut to proof that the others are user error. I hope you don't take this as criticism because that sword is still a piece of art and sword making and sword wielding are two different skills. Also i am sorry for leaving you such a long comment.

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

No worries man! These challenges are a lot of fun. I dont know that I would have built a sword like this had it not been for the challenge. The sword is for sure sharp, my swings though, I played them in slow mo and basically hit the side of sword on the bottle on the 2nd swing. No I do not take it as criticism. Constructive feedback if anything lol

@justincollins4428 Ай бұрын

OK buddy a little tip that a master Bladesmith Thought me when quenching a blade to prevent warping you need a horizontal Quench tank laid on a flat surface so that when you go to quince you believe it doesn’t matter which end it is but It needs to be level at one end of the Quidditch tank needs to be pointed north or to prevent your blade from warping due to the Earths magnetic field So I also suggest you keep a compass on you for when you quench your blades

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

I have heard this myth before. More importantly, you cannot hold a red hot sword horizontal without introducing warps. At that temp and that thin, it is like a wet noodle.

@ClenioBuilder Ай бұрын

👏👏👏🤜🤛

@paulhoke4978 Ай бұрын

Awesome! Why the water on your anvil when you were forging the bevels? I haven’t seen that before?

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

The water on the anvil is a Japanese forging technique. When the hot steel is hammered on it, it creates steam which explosively blows the scale off of the metal. It works better with a little higher temps but still helps. Sometimes the "explosion" is as loud as a firecracker!

@paulhoke4978 Ай бұрын

@@besslenbladeworks Thanks!!! Now that you mention it, I have heard of that. Thanks for the reply!

@Viktor_Johansson Ай бұрын

Really nice work. The wootz seems to have high hardenability. What do you add to increase it?

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

The recipe for this sword was .1% Mn otherwise it is more of a water quenching steel and do not like water too much hahaa lots of broken blades!

@yomikk001 Ай бұрын

Wonderful Wootz sword, the secret of Vikings. Only 0.1Mn no Vanadium? Always impressed and my goal to start with

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

@@yomikk001 All of my wootz melts include Vanadium. It ranges between .01 and .02%V

@sanclertorjal5609 Ай бұрын

LAKE 👍👍👍👍👍💯💯💯💯💯🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦🇪🇦

@nunomateus243 Ай бұрын

whats wootz?

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

That is almost a loaded question lol so it is an ultra high carbon steel, around 1.5% carbon usually, and the patten is created by the excess carbon which is stored in the form of carbide. Depending on how the ingot is forged, temps and metal manipulation, you will get a different patterns. This was the original "Damascus" as it was made in Damascus, Syria (Up for debate). Pattern welded Damascus subsequently took the name so now we call it wootz or crucible Damascus.

@johnrevelator1441 Ай бұрын

boys that forge sword like this in +-X cen dont use belt grinders for fullering/ personally me try to forge fullers soon

@besslenbladeworks Ай бұрын

You are correct and they should have been forged. I dont have any fullering hammers though and didnt want to make one.

@johnrevelator1441 Ай бұрын

@@besslenbladeworks also I think they do it by team, not by one hands, or use specific fullering tools

@davidsims1329 16 күн бұрын

I would rather have you talking and listen to your music and I’d rather hear the pinging of your hammer or the pinging of your automated press or whatever but music doesn’t make it cool at all

@besslenbladeworks 13 күн бұрын

Thanks for your comment, I will be making these changes for upcoming videos.