I'm a journeyman smith, or so my teacher calls me, and it's almost disheartening to see such excellent craftsmanship from more experienced smiths, then I remember that someday down the line I'll be capable of similar if not greater works if I fully commit to the trade.
Watching you do this...speaks volumes about the skill of the swordsmith who made the original...without being able to weld up his billets, and then worked them with no power hammer or grinders.
i enjoyed every second of this video. i can only feel a huge respect for those ancient bladesmiths who didnt have the priviledge of working with electric powered machinery.
The pattern you got in the core from those alternating twists is absolutely gorgeous. Absolutely stunning work.......probably the best recreation of the Sutton Hoo Spatha I've seen.
Thank you, but there are just two other replicas of the Sutton Hii Burial Mound 17 spatha, one by Hector Cole, exposed in the Sutton Hoo museum near Ipswich and one made by my college Jack Powing as far as i know.
My god, the sword of my dreams, I just adore the Gladius and Spatha so much. And watching this work of art being birthed is just amazing. So cool. A pity I'll never be able to afford such a wonder, heh.
Excellent work! I became enthralled in watching the process. If you get a chance could you please estimate the amount of hours put into something like this? That's the only thing I'm missing to truly appreciate the efforts you made. :D Thanks for sharing!
What would you charge for a similar sword? I've been looking for a few years, and I like yours better than any I've found. Awesome craftsmanship, and a beautiful piece of work!!
With the outer layer did you cut a channel or grind a slot before you hammered in the core? I'm just wondering how it didn't keep popping out when attaching them together
Beautiful work. What culture does this style of blade come from? It has a striking resemblance to some Viking blades I've seen recreated, but the handle looks completely different and the blade seems wider. None the less bravo, do you just make these for a hobby or do you sell them?
It's an anglo-saxon spatha, around 600 AD. found in Sutton Hoo near Ipswich GB. So the original is older than the viking swords, but the vikings used similar forging techniques, just the handle and bladegeometry is different, the forging it'self is the same.
+Michael Carreiro It's not just the tools it is the SKILL and craftsmanship that make the difference.If you gave him only the basic hand tools and nothing powered like how they did it 800-1000 years ago I bet he would still produce masterpieces like this beauty.
True for the most part BUT there are examples where no matter the will or desire its just not in you.Example: I love the guitar,I love its sound and the skill it takes to play one well.I have been trying to play a guitar for the last 22 years BUT no matter my desire or practice I just can NOT master the thing and I sound like shit with one LOL!
+Poparod Cassidy Many thanks for that compliment. I do works in a historical forge too, but just simple ones, like tools, not patternwelded blades and spears, because it' takes to much time to make patternwelded works in a historical forge. I organize a project, to make a patternwelded seax just with historical tools, but it takes a lot of preparation, special because i need friends to work on the ballows and the slatchhammers like 1000 years ago, a lot of organizing, but when i'm ready i will make a video of this crafting process too.
It's never bad to be carefull. Unfortunately the sand-clay soil of Sutton Hoo destroyed the most iron/steel and organic materials, so a reconstruction with just some fittings ad a shadow in the soil as base for the shield for example is not the perfect start. But i think that our craftsmen did a nice job, they cooperated with the National Trust of GB, who is responsable for Sutton Hoo.
Love the work, but in the future I would respectfully suggest toning the music down for your videos or getting rid of it all together. I can watch forging videos on YT for hours, but I could barely finish yours, which is sad, because what you are doing is cool as heck.
The blade is 81,2cm long ad weights 792g. The handle it 11cm long, so longer than the original, the client for this reconstruction has bigger hads than the owner of the original 1300 years ago^^. But a spatha is always a signlehanded sword, and performes very well as singlehanded sword. Longspords developes in the late middle ages, so good 700 years later that this type of sword.
Oha! Kann man bei dir irgendwie in die Lehre gehen? Wo lernt man sowas heute eigentlich noch? Und da sagt man, Da Vinchi oder so'n Zeug ist Kunst. Aber auch nur, wenn man das noch nicht gesehen hat!
Ich habe ein Monat Praktikum in einer Kunstschmiede gemacht und die Basis gelernt, dann beim Gleichen Meister 6 Monate Abendkurse genommen, der Rest autodidaktisch mit Büchern, Dokus und Versuch und Irrtum^^
Riviting the tang later, to compress the handle, was simply the easyest and toughest method. And it still works very well, when the sword is tuned, means that the compression is not to large or small.
Whilst swords were not exclusively for the upper echelons, even modest quality pieces were quite prized. When found in burials they were sometimes even found cradled in the warrior's arms.
No, i have just a small 300g piece of meteorite left. i will use it for a sax blade, completely forged with historical tools, so no machines, but that's a long project^^
funny that people do not no Viking swords come from Germanic tribes way before the Vikings like the Saxon's and do did the longships too the Germanics were doing it hundreds of years even before the Viking age.
It's true, the first found "patternwelded" sword is celtic around 250 BC found in south Germany. The torsionsdamask followed around 250 AD, first used by germanic warriors, then by the romans. And when you watch early pieces like Nydam or Iljerup Adal (around 400 AD) it just truned you crazy, the most complex swordblades ever made in history.
The norse raiders who went viking (a verb before it was a noun) did not have mortal enemies. They were raiders, traders, and merchants. They didn't hold grudges (usually). Although they were chronicled to avenge the deaths of their greatest heroes. The Franks actually gave land to the Viking, Rollo (who was not Ragnar Lodbrok's brother in actual history), in exchange for help in defending against future Norse raiders. With the blessing of King Charles, Rollo established a Norse kingdom in that land where Norse and Frankish cultures merged, though the Norsemen took on more Frankish culture than vice versa. The region was called Normandy (Norseman Duchy/Northman Duchy/Norman Duchy). Follow?
No, the Ulhberth swords are later, Sutton Hoo burial 17 is dated around 616 AD, Ulfberth comes later. But the archeologist made some analyses of the material, and the alloy profile shows that the steel used for the original was frankish.
But how am i supposed to screw off the pommel when i want to throw it on my enemy in order to smite him? (And screw on a f**ng amber if i missed him and never found it again...)
+Sheep_Ewe I know these sources, illustraing trowing the pommel, but that's Xv century, this spatha is from the early VII century,, so no massiv pommel to trow it :-P
ASBL Lucilinburhuc I realy love all Your work, wery few are at Your skill. I work as a blacksmith so i think i understand most of those steps and i can only say that it gives Your work even more respect, thaey are all true masterpieces.
If the newspaper used in the cutting test at the end of the video is anything to go by, then he's German and therefore is incapable of understanding humour.
HAHA the ever preset tin of Danish sugar cookies .That for some reason NEVER has cookies in them . They are always full of something else like sewing kits ,nails , etc !!!
How much steel do yiu actually use, at least half of the raw steel volume gets turned into slate right, or is it like 66 percent? Yea. I'll stick with crappy garage blades frim large concrete saw blades, and that crap.. I'm unworthy😯 but do not have kiln, powe H, real anvil, or tongs, or even oil tank...Just angle grinder and welder.
The original handle was also made from bone, horn and bronze, so of course there was not much left, the handle is an interpretation of similar sowrds, with better conserved handles during this time. Source: -M. Carver: Sutton Hoo, a seventh-century princely burial and its context (2005).
Short hadles are typical for spathae, we still don't know sure how they were hold, the original has just 76mm handle, the replica here is larger with 98mm. But it works to hold the sword, and use it. We did already a lot of cutting test with that sword.
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I'm a journeyman smith, or so my teacher calls me, and it's almost disheartening to see such excellent craftsmanship from more experienced smiths, then I remember that someday down the line I'll be capable of similar if not greater works if I fully commit to the trade.
Watching you do this...speaks volumes about the skill of the swordsmith who made the original...without being able to weld up his billets, and then worked them with no power hammer or grinders.
I agree absolutely, our blacksmith forges also with historical tools, but just smaller pieces, because he has not a dozend of apretises to help^^
Felix Dzerjinsky yeah, no joke, and when finishing by hand the closer/more accurate the forged blank is, the better
Felix Dzerjinsky looked like he set the weld by hand though. geez I need to get a new forge built...
Felix Dzerjinsky exactly
Would Anglo-Saxon or Viking Age smiths have access to water wheel powered tools?
The music whilst seeing you hammer away is pure gold. Makes it feel like the start of something epic. Keep up the good work!
That was just great to watch! Thank you for doing your craft, and your art.
Stunning pattern! I've never seen anything like that before, real special and beautiful blade.
The handle is one of the best i've seen, and the recreation of the blade is perfect. Awesome stuff.
Awsome work thanks for show the whole process priceless
i enjoyed every second of this video. i can only feel a huge respect for those ancient bladesmiths who didnt have the priviledge of working with electric powered machinery.
The pattern you got in the core from those alternating twists is absolutely gorgeous. Absolutely stunning work.......probably the best recreation of the Sutton Hoo Spatha I've seen.
Thank you, but there are just two other replicas of the Sutton Hii Burial Mound 17 spatha, one by Hector Cole, exposed in the Sutton Hoo museum near Ipswich and one made by my college Jack Powing as far as i know.
@@Kyian Scott Lankton made the first one. It is excellent... no weld flaws.
you sir are a wonderful craftsman very impressive.
My god, the sword of my dreams, I just adore the Gladius and Spatha so much. And watching this work of art being birthed is just amazing. So cool. A pity I'll never be able to afford such a wonder, heh.
AMAZING craftsmanship dude! And the video is perfect :)
beautifully executed work!!! you sir, are a master at your craft!
Christ. A real blacksmith for once. Great video, great work. From a 66 year old Smith, I love the way you work. Keep the videos coming.
That is beautiful craftsmanship right there!
juste magique ! bien filmé tu as un vrai don merci
Great job...thanks for posting..
wow, what an inspiring piece of craftsmanship
Realy wonderful work!
bloody marvelous work
Beautiful, Hephaestus as returned.
amazing! what a piece of art!
wow what an amazing TH-cam video! such clean editing and the weapon is just incredible. this channel is awesome as fuck.
whaaaaaaaaat..... That's just crayyyzeeeee! Nice work.
You even got Randy from Trailer Park Boys to help you hold the newspaper when you cut it. That was a nice touch
Beautiful work :)
majestic work
Amazing. You are a wonder.
Excellent work! I became enthralled in watching the process. If you get a chance could you please estimate the amount of hours put into something like this? That's the only thing I'm missing to truly appreciate the efforts you made. :D Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the video.
How about the flexibility of the sword ? Does it accurate to an original sutton hoo spatha blade thickness ?
Outstanding!
What would you charge for a similar sword? I've been looking for a few years, and I like yours better than any I've found. Awesome craftsmanship, and a beautiful piece of work!!
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🫡awesome work/video ❤
With the outer layer did you cut a channel or grind a slot before you hammered in the core? I'm just wondering how it didn't keep popping out when attaching them together
fricken yeah !! your the master i want one:)
Thats amazing !
beautiful
awesome!!!!
Beautiful
Beautiful work. What culture does this style of blade come from? It has a striking resemblance to some Viking blades I've seen recreated, but the handle looks completely different and the blade seems wider.
None the less bravo, do you just make these for a hobby or do you sell them?
It's an anglo-saxon spatha, around 600 AD. found in Sutton Hoo near Ipswich GB. So the original is older than the viking swords, but the vikings used similar forging techniques, just the handle and bladegeometry is different, the forging it'self is the same.
What is that song in the beginning?
Preliator from Globis i think, i'm not sure did not cut the video.
Very cool!
I must have a sword done buy you..excellent craftsmanship are they pattern welded like the original Saxon Germanic swords.
*by
Adam rickard yes that's why there are many thin pieces stick welded together to make the billet in the opening few second of the video
Beautiful Blade
A fine work you can be proud of it !
Great vídeo but the music is a great complement. what's songs are these?
+Edson Rodriguez Ochoa The first song is from Globus Preliator, then some saoundtracks of Halo and Mass Effect and Two Steps from Hell.
How to make the sword solid without breaking
Man, all that time and effort. You could've made a super garden rake or other useful tool.
yes sir ...
Outstanding! What are the handle materials?
+kaziklu79 The handle is made by black horn, bone and bronze.
Thank you!
In the original they used gold in the hilt. I spect that added a mite to the price but it appears the buyer had it so...
:)
Just amazing... I wish I had the tools to do that...
+Michael Carreiro It's not just the tools it is the SKILL and craftsmanship that make the difference.If you gave him only the basic hand tools and nothing powered like how they did it 800-1000 years ago I bet he would still produce masterpieces like this beauty.
Poparod Cassidy I'd just try until I got it right. Skill is earned with time and effort.
True for the most part BUT there are examples where no matter the will or desire its just not in you.Example: I love the guitar,I love its sound and the skill it takes to play one well.I have been trying to play a guitar for the last 22 years BUT no matter my desire or practice I just can NOT master the thing and I sound like shit with one LOL!
+Poparod Cassidy Many thanks for that compliment. I do works in a historical forge too, but just simple ones, like tools, not patternwelded blades and spears, because it' takes to much time to make patternwelded works in a historical forge. I organize a project, to make a patternwelded seax just with historical tools, but it takes a lot of preparation, special because i need friends to work on the ballows and the slatchhammers like 1000 years ago, a lot of organizing, but when i'm ready i will make a video of this crafting process too.
I'm sure you could put out an open call to the international blacksmithing community and get many experienced volunteers to come be strikers for you.
First song name?
I really have doubts about the reconstruction of the shield and other artifacts.
It's never bad to be carefull. Unfortunately the sand-clay soil of Sutton Hoo destroyed the most iron/steel and organic materials, so a reconstruction with just some fittings ad a shadow in the soil as base for the shield for example is not the perfect start. But i think that our craftsmen did a nice job, they cooperated with the National Trust of GB, who is responsable for Sutton Hoo.
This man is a giant.... Never watched such skills
Das ist schöne Arbeit, ich liebe das Muster. Woraus besteht der Griff?
Horn denke ich
Horn, Knochen und Bronze, wie beim Original auch.
Forging a Saxon song to the halo soundtrack, holy shit, this is the best.
mate what country are you from i was checking some of your videos out and i noticed one of them has icelandic music?
i take that back theres multiple of em, are you icelandic?
+Lobozo IPlayGames It's correct, for some of our reenactment videos we used iclandic musik. But our group is from Benelux, central europe
How long did this take? (hours/days/weeks) (anyone)
around 650 hours of work, i needed 8,5 months
wow. Thanks for the info sir. Keep up the great work. :>)
Song at 15:00?
Love the work, but in the future I would respectfully suggest toning the music down for your videos or getting rid of it all together. I can watch forging videos on YT for hours, but I could barely finish yours, which is sad, because what you are doing is cool as heck.
Thank you for the support, i will see how our blacksmith will make the next clips.
How do you do your makers mark?
you see how it's stamped in the 10:07 min. It's a steel stamp
진짜 멋진 검이네요~^^
Beautiful sword. With the blade length it almost seems to need a longer handle; hand and a half at least. but awesome nun the less!
The blade is 81,2cm long ad weights 792g. The handle it 11cm long, so longer than the original, the client for this reconstruction has bigger hads than the owner of the original 1300 years ago^^. But a spatha is always a signlehanded sword, and performes very well as singlehanded sword. Longspords developes in the late middle ages, so good 700 years later that this type of sword.
Is that an Anyang 33 power hammer?
+Colin Roy No it's a 34kg KB1 by the german enterprise Reiter.
beauty.....
those are some of my favorite cookies
Oha! Kann man bei dir irgendwie in die Lehre gehen? Wo lernt man sowas heute eigentlich noch? Und da sagt man, Da Vinchi oder so'n Zeug ist Kunst. Aber auch nur, wenn man das noch nicht gesehen hat!
Ich habe ein Monat Praktikum in einer Kunstschmiede gemacht und die Basis gelernt, dann beim Gleichen Meister 6 Monate Abendkurse genommen, der Rest autodidaktisch mit Büchern, Dokus und Versuch und Irrtum^^
out of curiosity...why didn't they make swords full tang (not stick tang) back in the day?
Riviting the tang later, to compress the handle, was simply the easyest and toughest method. And it still works very well, when the sword is tuned, means that the compression is not to large or small.
so much work for one single sword! !! Imagine having to make them for an entire army
Limited only for the rank of general and above only,, I guess haha
Whilst swords were not exclusively for the upper echelons, even modest quality pieces were quite prized. When found in burials they were sometimes even found cradled in the warrior's arms.
want!
Meh. Thanks for the video and your efforts. Keep up the good work
That was epic! Very risky project I am sure
Please include the weight of the swords, centre of weight would be the cherry on top!
This swords weights 912g and Cog lays 182mm before cross
Beautiful work mate. But I thought a spatha was a roman cavalry sword.
Rob
Why does no one hammer out the fuller anymore, I see way to much grinding machines
sphata's didn't have thurtsing point. they were rounded in that end.
Anyone just re watch this video for the music
is this out of a meteorite as well?
No, i have just a small 300g piece of meteorite left. i will use it for a sax blade, completely forged with historical tools, so no machines, but that's a long project^^
so what metals did you use ?
15n20 an 1075 ?
Oh I thought he was kidding..!
Wooooooh HALO TUNES! *throws plazzy at banshee*
Halo music, pretty nice
Obviously this blade smith is guided by The Force!
Now...that's a proper Sword.
Good
funny that people do not no Viking swords come from Germanic tribes way before the Vikings like the Saxon's and do did the longships too the Germanics were doing it hundreds of years even before the Viking age.
It's true, the first found "patternwelded" sword is celtic around 250 BC found in south Germany. The torsionsdamask followed around 250 AD, first used by germanic warriors, then by the romans. And when you watch early pieces like Nydam or Iljerup Adal (around 400 AD) it just truned you crazy, the most complex swordblades ever made in history.
Teuton workmanship never changes.
The Sutton who sword is too old to be a Ulfberht sword, it was made in the 7th century were as they were made in the 9th and 10th
The norse raiders who went viking (a verb before it was a noun) did not have mortal enemies. They were raiders, traders, and merchants. They didn't hold grudges (usually). Although they were chronicled to avenge the deaths of their greatest heroes. The Franks actually gave land to the Viking, Rollo (who was not Ragnar Lodbrok's brother in actual history), in exchange for help in defending against future Norse raiders. With the blessing of King Charles, Rollo established a Norse kingdom in that land where Norse and Frankish cultures merged, though the Norsemen took on more Frankish culture than vice versa. The region was called Normandy (Norseman Duchy/Northman Duchy/Norman Duchy). Follow?
Wellll vikings are germanic aswell but i get what you mean
Would the original Sutton Hoo sword have been an ULFBERHT?
No, the Ulhberth swords are later, Sutton Hoo burial 17 is dated around 616 AD, Ulfberth comes later. But the archeologist made some analyses of the material, and the alloy profile shows that the steel used for the original was frankish.
i want one
But how am i supposed to screw off the pommel when i want to throw it on my enemy in order to smite him?
(And screw on a f**ng amber if i missed him and never found it again...)
+Sheep_Ewe
It´s a joke figuring on the TH-cam, refering to an old book showing a picture of a knight throing a pommel on his opponent.
+Sheep_Ewe I know these sources, illustraing trowing the pommel, but that's Xv century, this spatha is from the early VII century,, so no massiv pommel to trow it :-P
ASBL Lucilinburhuc
I realy love all Your work, wery few are at Your skill. I work as a blacksmith so i think i understand most of those steps and i can only say that it gives Your work even more respect, thaey are all true masterpieces.
Looks like great work. Had to stop due to the over the top "music". Sorry.
In 2,000 years, I wonder if people will be making replica Sherman tanks, or P-51's, or AK-47s??
Waylan, skal!
rad halo music
Sutton who?
+John Ratko en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo
Whoosh!
If the newspaper used in the cutting test at the end of the video is anything to go by, then he's German and therefore is incapable of understanding humour.
HAHA the ever preset tin of Danish sugar cookies .That for some reason NEVER has cookies in them . They are always full of something else like sewing kits ,nails , etc !!!
How much steel do yiu actually use, at least half of the raw steel volume gets turned into slate right, or is it like 66 percent? Yea. I'll stick with crappy garage blades frim large concrete saw blades, and that crap.. I'm unworthy😯 but do not have kiln, powe H, real anvil, or tongs, or even oil tank...Just angle grinder and welder.
Roma invicta
You need some Conan music for this video...
Long live germania
sorry but the handle looks nothing like the origional :) fun to watch anyway
The original handle was also made from bone, horn and bronze, so of course there was not much left, the handle is an interpretation of similar sowrds, with better conserved handles during this time. Source: -M. Carver: Sutton Hoo, a seventh-century princely burial and its context (2005).
The handle is too short
Short hadles are typical for spathae, we still don't know sure how they were hold, the original has just 76mm handle, the replica here is larger with 98mm. But it works to hold the sword, and use it. We did already a lot of cutting test with that sword.