Your voice is fine, it reminds me of someone commentating on a test match (that's Cricket for all you Johnny foreigners out there!-) More importantly, there's no irritating background noise, just the music of hammer on anvil, and good closeup shots to illustrate technique. I've learned more about smithing in a few minuets than I have from most of the other you tube smiths out there. I guess it's all about personal preference at the end of the day, but don't you think that we're so bombarded by the sensational over-emphasised and dramatic kinds of voices that would be more at home doing a voiceover for some commercial or news bulletin, that we almost expect too much of ourselves to be able to emulate the degree of enthusiasm that would take? Worse still are the robotic voices which possess all the warmth and humanity of an elevator or a cash dispenser! Perhaps it's just me, but I like the bare facts, without any unnecessary flannel, and delivered in a voice which encourages me to have a go, and if I make a pigs ear of it, just pop it back in the fire and try again, what's the rush? So Thanks a lot Rowan for your reassuringly calm, urbane, and level headed approach. Please don't change, and ruin the individuality of your channel! I wouldn't have bothered listening to the end if you had sounded like all the rest. Just keep a stiff upper lip, and defend your wicket every time you come in to bat, and you'll knock your competition for six! Also if you can keep the content at this level, you'll still be at the crease when all your critics are in the showers, getting themselves all soapy, if you take my meaning?-) All the best, you are now +1 subscriber, cheers!
+Vinyl And Video Games Thanks mate :) I must say that if I don't need the tongs immediately I tend to buy them in. These however are reproduction tongs for historical displays.
I find it very pleasing watchig you smith, the hammer blows are so exakt on point, and you really go in to detail without saying to much about it just enoughe. Going to go throw the rest of your vids now. /un aspiring blacksmith
+Eldormen Thank you :) I am glad that you like the format too! Hammer skills take practice but once you have them it is a bit like riding a bike lol. It is very important for your hammer to land exactly where you want it to and at the correct angle.
16 sided polygon is a Hexadecagon (Six Ten) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecagon "A happy little sixteen-side-ygon right over here." says the Bob Ross of the Smithy.
+IHasWubstep Glad I can help and thanks for enjoying them :) Everybody seems to make frenetic videos to stop people from clicking off whereas I'll just make them take the time they take.
Hexadecagon is a 16 sided parallelogram, according to my search engine of choice... A 16 facet 3d object would thus be a hexadecahedron, which would be an awesome word to encourage the thoroughly inebriated to use conversationally
+berrieds yup :) that's the one. I did figure it would be something like that but didn't know if it would be decahexagon or hexadecagon. Obviously my google was the other side of the room at the time.
I think a 16 faced shape is called a polyhedron. I think. Also I don't think Vikings used an anvil with a bik-horn so bending over the edge was probably more authentic if think about it as I believe Vikings used large pieces of granite and such for anvils. Steal was too expensive for them to make a large anvil out of.
You are correct, they used stone anvils a lot during that period - which is where the legend of the sword in the stone comes from. They did use small anvils about the size of a large hammer as well and those quite often did have a bick on them, but it would only have been useful for small work. For larger items they would have used an independent bick which was bent at 90 degrees and stuck in a stump.
+Vinyl And Video Games Nope, for a start I'm over in the U.K. I have done my training and am now working for myself. Not part of any societies or associations at the moment.
+the oncoming storm I trained alongside rowan and he is probably the best blacksmith I know and likely to be one of the very best in the country before long. Plus he's generally fun to be around :)
+the oncoming storm +ctantep The Maestermyr finds was one of my sources, + a bunch from York and Birka. I can't really share pics of my sources on here, sadly, because of copyright stuff. Mike (ctantep) is one of my best buddies and we have a lot of fun together. I do wish he wouldn't over-exaggerate though!
+menace965 I tend to do the narration in one long session as I'm watching the video so I just kind of went off on a tangent rather than stopping to google it, lol.
I really appreciate the work you do with the camera. It lends a ton to understanding the work you do. Cheers and thanks for the videos, +RowanTaylor!
Your voice is just fine. It's a good instructional voice. Thanks for the knowledge.
Had a good laugh at the voice thing. You're like the English Bob Ross
Your voice is fine, it reminds me of someone commentating on a test match (that's Cricket for all you Johnny foreigners out there!-)
More importantly, there's no irritating background noise, just the music of hammer on anvil, and good closeup shots to illustrate technique.
I've learned more about smithing in a few minuets than I have from most of the other you tube smiths out there. I guess it's all about personal preference at the end of the day, but don't you think that we're so bombarded by the sensational over-emphasised and dramatic kinds of voices that would be more at home doing a voiceover for some commercial or news bulletin, that we almost expect too much of ourselves to be able to emulate the degree of enthusiasm that would take? Worse still are the robotic voices which possess all the warmth and humanity of an elevator or a cash dispenser! Perhaps it's just me, but I like the bare facts, without any unnecessary flannel, and delivered in a voice which encourages me to have a go, and if I make a pigs ear of it, just pop it back in the fire and try again, what's the rush? So Thanks a lot Rowan for your reassuringly calm, urbane, and level headed approach. Please don't change, and ruin the individuality of your channel! I wouldn't have bothered listening to the end if you had sounded like all the rest. Just keep a stiff upper lip, and defend your wicket every time you come in to bat, and you'll knock your competition for six! Also if you can keep the content at this level, you'll still be at the crease when all your critics are in the showers, getting themselves all soapy, if you take my meaning?-) All the best, you are now +1 subscriber, cheers!
Thats a great job man. I really like that plate/locking mechanism.
Very nice reminds me of when I took up the task of forging all my tongs, Really nice stuff great job
+Vinyl And Video Games Thanks mate :) I must say that if I don't need the tongs immediately I tend to buy them in. These however are reproduction tongs for historical displays.
16 sides - hexadecagon is the word you were looking for ;
I love the look of these.
I find it very pleasing watchig you smith, the hammer blows are so exakt on point, and you really go in to detail without saying to much about it just enoughe. Going to go throw the rest of your vids now. /un aspiring blacksmith
+Eldormen Thank you :) I am glad that you like the format too! Hammer skills take practice but once you have them it is a bit like riding a bike lol. It is very important for your hammer to land exactly where you want it to and at the correct angle.
16 sided polygon is a Hexadecagon (Six Ten) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecagon
"A happy little sixteen-side-ygon right over here." says the Bob Ross of the Smithy.
Your videos help me relieve stress for whatever reason. The content is soothing and inspiring. Keep up the work mate! :)
+IHasWubstep Glad I can help and thanks for enjoying them :) Everybody seems to make frenetic videos to stop people from clicking off whereas I'll just make them take the time they take.
as always soothing to watch, good job laddie .
+driveheronman Thanks mate :)
Great job Rowan! Such great quality
+knives&stuff Thanks mate :) Production Quality is going up again after my birthday ;)
great video cant wait till the next!
+Hot Iron Art Thanks mate :)
10:46 Different strokes for different folks :)
you sir, deserves more subscribers! keep on forging! ;D
+viktor rygielski Very kind of you to say, thank you very much :) Working on it!
+viktor rygielski He's earned one from me today ;-)
Great stuff
Your voice sounds thoughtful and considering , no worries mate.
Viking Anglo-Saxon stuff is cool.
+John Ratko Yes! That and 18th century ironwork is my favourite!
Nice. I'm still trying to get my tongs finished. I'm working on a firewood rack at this time.
Hexadecagon is a 16 sided parallelogram, according to my search engine of choice... A 16 facet 3d object would thus be a hexadecahedron, which would be an awesome word to encourage the thoroughly inebriated to use conversationally
What tongs do you recommend for someone without tongs at all? I would like to start forging in my garage.
nice work
I need to get my some steel for this, then I need to get my friends to come over to make it!
Great!
really good, high quality videos!
keen up the good work, and you will definitely get many more subscribers :D
+Daniel Thu Thank you :) I will do my best! Getting more camera kit for my birthday so production values will go up some more!
Could the funny shape have to do with the need to manhandle large, spongy chunks of bloom iron?
Did you forgeweld those 2 pieces without a flux?
Mild steel and wraught iron are able to reach high enough temperatures to melt the scale without flux allowing them to be forg welded without flux.
You called it iron, is it truly iron or is it just mild?
+Boone Thompson Just mild. Can't actually remember at which part I called it iron.
+RowanTaylor oops! my mistake, you did call It mild. so sorry.
+Boone Thompson Haha, no worries. I was trying to remember when I had called it iron!
Your 16 sided shape is a hexadecagon or hexakaidecagon if you want.... And keep up the great videos!
+RCotter Hammering Haha, thanks mate :) A couple of you have pointed it out now so I'll use the proper name from now-on!
that elongated coffin shape is a stretched out hexagon
what size of stock is this ?
hexadecagon is a 16 sided shape.. :) (i googled it so cant take the credit.. )
me thinks I shall send some hoof trimmers
In mathematics, a hexadecagon (sometimes called a hexakaidecagon) is a sixteen-sided polygon or 16-gon.
Rhombus. A Rhombus is a flat shape with 4 equal straight sides. Opposite sides are parallel, and opposite angles are equal (it is a Parallelogram).
+Sam Robins thanks mate! I knew the internet would come good! Any idea what something with sixteen sides is called?
+RowanTaylor Did you mean a hexadecagon for a regular 16 sided polygon?
+berrieds yup :) that's the one. I did figure it would be something like that but didn't know if it would be decahexagon or hexadecagon. Obviously my google was the other side of the room at the time.
+RowanTaylor It's a very nifty project anyway, thank you. Nice to see you last videos getting so many views! :D
+berrieds I know! I was very surprised! The hatchet video has had 7000 views!
I think a 16 faced shape is called a polyhedron. I think. Also I don't think Vikings used an anvil with a bik-horn so bending over the edge was probably more authentic if think about it as I believe Vikings used large pieces of granite and such for anvils. Steal was too expensive for them to make a large anvil out of.
You are correct, they used stone anvils a lot during that period - which is where the legend of the sword in the stone comes from. They did use small anvils about the size of a large hammer as well and those quite often did have a bick on them, but it would only have been useful for small work. For larger items they would have used an independent bick which was bent at 90 degrees and stuck in a stump.
Are you part of ABS? I feel you might do alright as a Journey Smith.
+Vinyl And Video Games Nope, for a start I'm over in the U.K. I have done my training and am now working for myself. Not part of any societies or associations at the moment.
Yeah it's a Hexadecagon
this looks familiar!
+ctantep haha, indeed :)
+the oncoming storm
sorry, I seem to have missed something, what?
+the oncoming storm
ah, I see. no, it was a private joke really. I was there in the forge with him on the day he recorded this.
+the oncoming storm
I trained alongside rowan and he is probably the best blacksmith I know and likely to be one of the very best in the country before long.
Plus he's generally fun to be around :)
+the oncoming storm +ctantep The Maestermyr finds was one of my sources, + a bunch from York and Birka. I can't really share pics of my sources on here, sadly, because of copyright stuff. Mike (ctantep) is one of my best buddies and we have a lot of fun together. I do wish he wouldn't over-exaggerate though!
Lozenge shape?
16 sides: hexadecagon or hexakaidecagon.
You make scarf welding look too easy. I always fail once or twice to get the two pieces tacked before i get it right, its so complex.
Someone did come up with hexadecagon, I was just going to say. A mathematician would probably just call it a 16-gon though.
+Cadwaladr Sixteen face-a-gon sounds much better though!
Is the "one of those funny shapes" a lozenge? Nice word, lozenge.
16-sided figure -- hexadecagon
Screw the individual names for the different shapes and just call them polygons.
Hexadecagon.
Google has the answers to your shapes questions
+menace965 I tend to do the narration in one long session as I'm watching the video so I just kind of went off on a tangent rather than stopping to google it, lol.
I thought the sixteenfaceagon was funny
you are doing great bro