Wonderful craftsmanship! Tomorrow I'm going to try making a scythe peening anvil because I have a mission to cut down long grasses in a couple of months time. My teenage daughter is apprenticing with a local blacksmith. She is doing very well. Thank you so much for your inspiring, teaching video. Many blessings and nice juicy watermelons to you! ~Wenndi

I love your videos man. The calmness and the clicks and clanks of metal are like ASMR to me.

Blacksmith, chef, gardener, toolsmith, woodworker, and magician. You, Sir, are truly multitalented.

I'm a pretty inexperienced smith, and I haven't seen a lot of blacksmithing, either on the Internet or elsewhere. But yours is some of the best I've had the pleasure to witness, due more than anything else to how methodically and meticulously go about your work. Very well done, sir, and thank you for your dedication to the craft.

awesome. I like that "magic trick" to light up the forge. very good video Torbjörn

Amazing craftmanship and now also magic when lightning the forge ;)

Tons of pride in your work. The polishing of the anvils work surface really showed that.

Omg you have reminded me about my grand grand father who taught me to sharpen the scythe with the same tools... many years ago!

Really love your videos, man. I've been in the hospital for a few days and I've gone back through and binge watched a ton of your stuff. Very inspiring!

Wow! You're so inspiring! Thank you so much for sharing this treasure with us!

A whole specific anvil just for peening it. Man they took their wheat knives super seriously alright. Pretty darn cool to see

My grandfather began teaching me about steel one summer as a kid when I asked him why he beat the scythes blade on the anvil. Thank you.

The most beautiful forging i've ever seen, congratulations. Good job.

I can watch this guy all day long it's very relaxing

The ever novel pleasure, a strange wistfulness we all have, for honest effort and the use of such in kind. It seems to me that there will always be people who wish only to observe in reverent silence, and there will always be those like this channel to reciprocate. To quote Tolkein, "It is no bad thing to celebrate a simple life."

Your attention to detail on everything you do is top notch

I used to harvest hay for the calves and trim the grass of the gardens with a practically identical scythe, when I was a boy. I worked with a honing steel in my back pocket and adjusted the thickness of the scythe blade on a common anvil, so as not to get thick, from filing and filing it ... All this in Viamão, state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, in the 60s.

It's strangely hypnotising to watch the white hot metal move and flow beneath the power hammer's strikes.

My dad had a scythe at the cottage for the tall grass. I learned how to use it and once you have the handles set, learn the arc and keeping the blade sharp it was an easy, low effort way to cut the grass.

Wow! I thought I had seen all your projects but I was wrong and look what you have done...! What a master of your craft you are! I wish I was a young man and apprentice in so many different crafts such as yours, and sword and knife 🔪, pottery, pastry chef, and glass blower. And many more. When I was a kid we weren’t given choices like kids have today. I didn’t even know a man could be a pastry chef or Iron smith or heck a guitar maker. We were geared for industry, and women for the kitchen...I fought working in a factory and hit the world! Saw so much but decided on Medicine. No not a doctor....no, I became a Registered Nurse for 40 odd years. I’m retired now. Watching you and others blow my mind with your skill...so I shall shut-up and watch again and again. Thank you sir! Bless you all!

i loved the video and i liked how you magically made the forge start up.

I remember reading about this technique. Probably in the 1970 Last Whole Earth Catalogue. Always wondered just how it was actually used. Only took about 45 years to find out. At any rate,a puzzle finally shown. Thanks for that.

As a chef, I love this guy. Any dude who respects the blade enough to carry a steel with him out in the yard gets my respect.

I really enjoy watching your videos and learn a lot from them. In particular, I like that no background music is heard; only the sound of metal being shaped and entire process it undergoes. Refreshing and inspiring, indeed!

WOW, that was so great. I just bought a scythe 60 with a 24 blade. Looking forward to using

When your forging skill reach a certain level, you can start a fire magically!

It is wonderful to make something for ourselves. A well-equipped workshop is an advantage. Thanks for the video.

Love the lighting of the forge humor.

Your videos continue to get better and better!

4:50 I love to see how the hammer bounces on the anvil. thats a good quality anvil.

funny, that watermelon snack interlude. After a busy day of forging, nothing is more relaxing that scything a few square yards of grass.

What a joy watching a professional.

No music, no blather, nothing precious...I think these videos should be required viewing for students (of all ages), because even though they would be watching another screen, they would see elemental truth in timeless human activities.

Ой как классно! Я такое наблюдал в детстве в деревне у дедушки! Ностальгия! Красивая работа!

Спасибо за видео. Кузнец - это профессия! Руки золотые у тебя парень и это приятно видеть в наш век.

wow that watermelon he grew is amazing. keep up the good work in your garden !

I haven't mowed with a scythe in years, to peen it I used to use a $9 auto body dolly and a small ball peen hammer with a good flat face. I would find it really hard having to move the scythe around a fixed anvil like that. many ways to skin a cat though! My neighbor was 72 when he taught me. he had three acres of grass he would cut as winter feed 3 times during the summer. It would take him a a weekend to mow and the 3 acres by hand. He had a really old truxk with a PTO. Hi you use a hand anvil along with a small Ball peen hammer to thin the cutting edge down, it's peened down thin enough that it's razor thin. No filing, just stoning to "stand" the blade back up.

Need a tool, make a tool. Very nice video. And believe it or not but from September on, I'll be in an apprenticeship as knife-smith. It was either that or the military. And not because I wouldnt cut it in any other job. I already had a finished apprenticeship. I 'collected' work experience from a lot of different branches. And most of them would have taken me right away. But I always struggled to find my place. That's why I was always interested in being a soldier. Thought it would give me that companionship and place I was looking for. I was really into it. Almost signed the contract. The duty, brothers in arms, order. You know all of that misguided bs about joining the army. Its true so far but it leaves out the unhealthy working conditions with all the lead in the air and your family life doesn't profit either from the situation. But then came my yet-to-be master around with the offer to take me under his wing. I worked for him 2 months, although without payment just to see how it works for me, how we get along etc... And I realized that is what I want to do for a living. Also you far less likely to be shot. I hope everybody who reads this already found his place or is on the right way. It can be a pain in the ass not knowing what the hell you supposed to do you with yourself next year. Or the 50 following. Greetings from Germany and be safe

I LOVE how you just snapped and the forge ignited! I laughed so hard!!

Thank you for taking the time to pass on traditions of old because sometimes the best ways are the old ways and regardless the value of the old ways is precious and in this particular case the style of sharpening is a little bit more difficult but a lot safer and the quality of edge is as fine as any

Bravo majstore,tak se kleplje kosa.pozdrav iz HRV.ZAGORJA

Very nice useful project! Hurricane should hit South Texas today or early tomorrow. The grass will grow quickly after the storm. How many acres can you cut per day and what is the fee? The hospitality is priceless. Su Amigo

You are unquestionably one of my favorite smiths to watch work. All of your lines are so clean! You have a shop to dream of (and I do haha). I enjoy how you show each piece you make being used, and the little glimpses into your world.

Just watching you work removes all the tension and pressure from me

You are going to get me in trouble. I'm should be working!

Holy shit his name is Torbjorn and he forge metals, very relatable to Overwatch!

In this world, people like that are needed, true artisans who recover old trades in danger of extinction or that have already become extinct. Thank you for giving a small opportunity to ancient humanity! if the grass was still cut with a scythe, the world would be better ... ¡Congratulations!

There's just no better tool for mowing than a good old scythe. Fantastic work, as always!

WOW!!! I wonder how snapping fingers can lit up a forge!!!

Tip from a fellow scythe user: peen the blade with a heavier hammer, about 800-900g, using a radiused head or the crosspein if your aim is true. Then sharpen the scythe with a natural whetstone and apply more pressure. The sharpening is done whetting, the peening is just preparing the blade, getting kinks out and keeping it thin. You'll find it will actually cut the grass much easier and require less effort. Also keep the blade as low to the ground through your swing as you can. The closer to the root you cut, the smaller the change of the grass leaves dodging the blade.

Nothing better than a nicely forged tool 👍🏽⚒

I love how you start the fire!

А такие инструменты передовались из поколения в поколение ,и были в каждом деревенском доме

While others are still making swords, you only make weeding sickles, and you don't use a weeder. You have come to peace from war, maybe this is Sweden. You only use stamping to make the steel into a perfect shape, and your craft is simple and fine. I used to think of Tao Yuanming, the earliest idyllic poet in China, from the Swedish architectural style, and now I think of this poet.

not only did i not know to to sharpen one, I had never seen one used before! I am currently in the latter stages of my forge build. I would like to say thank you, you are one of the few KZfaqrs who inspired me to get out there and get it going. You are an inspiration.

That banging sound around the 3 minute mark is so cool

Молодец мужик!мне понравилось ваша мастерской.отличная рука.

Very beautiful.Be careful when you work Angle Grinders.Your dust mask rope. 12:24

I've seen many videos but I did not look like this video, This is really nice and useful video

Another great video!! I like the new trick of lighting the forge.

Посмотрел видео до конца ,ждал когда будет нож из косы, но у вы,кузница у тебя хорошая да и кузнец ты не плохой, а вот косарь ты не какой и окосья короткая не под твой рост. А бабку или как у нас называют пятка, можно сделать из рессоры грузового автомобиля применив только болгарку

Странно, но технология в отбивании косы не меняется. Тысячу лет назад так отбивали. Надеюсь, и через тысячу лет будет то же самое.

Thanks for sharing you Personal project and experience.

Incredible mate. Absolutely loved it. I have no doubt that your videos are the best blacksmithing videos KZfaq has to offer.

I live the way you grow those melons great idea I think I’ll try next year! Great job forging

Hi, I'm a first time viewer to your channel and I really enjoyed this video, I subscribed and look forward to watching more, cheers!.

You make the best Blacksmithing videos.

A good hand peened edge will keep that scythe blade ready for work for years to come. Excellent build!

favorite channel on youtube!

Now I'm hungry for watermelon. Many thanks.

I've started loving the likeness of a master I've never liked as he looks at you.👍👍👍

I love your methodical work , clean, organized straight forward. Excellent craftsman.

Love your videos mate. Always interesting projects and beautifully made but also really well shot and edited videos which is a whole other skill and one that not all you tubers possess. Please, keep it up.

Коса не под руку человеку. И точит так как будто в левом кармане пальцы запасные есть. Обух в землю, косою вверх и в перед. Левой рукой взять за кончик косы и обхватить обух подмышкой. Держать так, чтоб обух не соскочил и упереть в грунт. В правую руку камень, локоть прижать к телу!!! чтоб служил центром радиуса и круговыми движениями вымерять так, чтоб пальцами не торкнуться лезвия. Шаг в перед/назад регулировать высоту. А так да, клепальник конечно мастерски сделан. Особенно полировка)))

I can do anything and watch your videos all day long. Mostly I work with a 2nd monitor that is dedicated to your channel. Thanks for being amazing!

Congratulations! That's a beautiful piece!

omg that navil (insert heart eyes) holy crap is so beautiful omg i cant get over it, she is such a sexy anvil!!!!!!

Все хорошо но ручку на косе длиннее надо молодец так держать новые видео лайк однозначно

man, you are awesome! without speaking and there is no need in it! the way how accurate, how precisely you are doing everything (even growing vegetables) gives me a thrill!

The way these videos are shot and edited is beautiful. Very calming and flowing, no distracting or annoying elements, and a story is told smoothly. Apparently, that is hard to do, because I've seen so many bad and annoying videos on KZfaq.

Don't really get what you just made... but it's amazing 👍

excellent at forging but you need a little practise on swinging a scythe.

Your skills as a blacksmith are well know around here, no doubt about it. But you're more, with this kind of video, you're taking us on a replenishing journey, something greater than just good work. Really, thank you for your videos, keep on inspiring us

your work is just beautiful,congratulations.

Hi, good are your videos, which is what you have in the mug. Sand? 7:58 Time New smith Daniel Canon M

Молоточек для отбоя у нас используют полегче .А ещё есть приспособа со специальным бойком.

Excellent video!

Snap - Fire! Awesome.... made me laugh and I really did need something to cheer me up. Thank you Torbjorn, I always love your videos.

Now I'm hungry.

"Babka" do klepania kosy. Ta którą używał mój tata była kwadratowa i troche większa .

Great video! Great work! Great piece of work! True genius!😁🤟👍🛠️🔧

Amazing! Watermelon salad also looks great

Да друг мой, кузнец ты конечно классный, но косарь из тебя никакой, хотя с другой стороны иметь даже один талант, уже большое счастье...

Косить наклонившись не удобно, потому что спина заботит. Нужно ручку для косы делать длиннее.

With all my respect - well done!

I like to look at your work very much. Do not stop, keep creating

Next up: forging a car axle; followed by frame, tires and engine block.

that s epic man

good job, 18 minutes of true technical pleasure

Very nice, sir. Love your workmanship. Thorough, calculated, functional, and artistic at once.