I do not understand how somebody can dislike this video, is has everything. footage of forging, shaping. explanation of each step and commentary explaining stage of the creation step by step.
i liked that you mention that your method of doing the forge weld is what works for you. great work, spear the shalft really complements the pattern welding. keep up the good work.
Man Neil's, I only wish I was closer to you so I could learn in person from you. Your teaching skills are brilliant! As well of course as your blacksmith skills. Bravo Sir, Bravo!
awesome that artists are taking the time to share there work. no mater a forge a cnc a manual lathe etc. metal work is wonderful and should be passed on. thank you for the video.
Absolutely beautiful work! You are an artist! This gives me a great impression of what it took back then for my Norse kin to forge them...especially when you used modern techniques. Magnificent
Niels, exemplary work! The finished weapon is beautiful, a fine piece of craftsmanship. I will look through your library to see past work. Your presentation, and narration make going through the process a pleasure. Keep up the great work! Be well.
Excellent work, I especially liked watching the recalescence in action. My brother has started blacksmithing and, after helping him a few times, I appreciate the work you've done here. Truly awesome!
That was great, it brought the viking out in me and needing one of these for myself Ha! while you start another spearhead allow me to fit a shaft , there is an art to this part as well. tks 4 showing this
An amazing project. Well done!! To create something from a thousand years ago must be very fulfilling. I was born in an old Viking village in England. Gainsborough, along the Trent River in Lincolnshire.
My gods what a beautifully done piece ❤ This is also the first video of yours that ive seen, and i love the fact that you explain each process thoroughly, and in laymans terms so that people new to forging can understand what you mean! Again. Incredible work! It came out great in the end, and was a wonder to watch start to finish. I cant wait to finish one of my own in the future!!
That is an absolute amazing job you did in making that spearhead. Awesome professional work and craftsmanship. I actually think you're a bit too harsh on yourself lol you are very talented.
Beautiful craftsmanship, you did a wonderful job. I would love to own a spear. Maybe I might give it a go. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
Well done. Appreciate what you have shown and how you work from the same conclusions I arrived at. A spearhead is on my project list for the year after some 'hawks and gladii. Thank you for the inspiration.
Holy cow, awesome work dude. This is just amazing, I'm definitely going to make one of these as soon as i get a better forge. Awesome work, this is outstanding!!!
Form follows function...that is a beautiful piece of work...I would love to see how well it would work when taking a 150 to 200 kilo boar hog...I bet that would be a great hunt! Thank you for a great video. Ed
In all first world countries bar one killing an animal that way would be a serious criminal offence. And rightly so. We live in the gunpowder era. I'd consider not using the right calibre or a well landed shot to be cruel and improper. The last thing we need is dickheads running around thinking they're fucking Conan the Barbarian spearing animals destroying the sport.
@@bashpr0mpt244 Hunting boar with a spear is quite legal in most of the US, including California btw and Ive done a number of boar that way, including a nice 585lb Russian Boar. (265 kg). For boar hunting..a cross guard 12-18" down from the tip of the blade is almost a requirement. As one stabs or lets a pig charge and impaling themselves on the blade..they will continue to push down the shaft to eat you. (And yes..pigs will gladly eat a human being. We are not talking about Javalina (who also will eat you and comes in packs ). The cross guard prevents the hog from reaching you that way and allows you to keep out of his jaws. Just as historical as can be...and not a sport for the timid or weak. Now that Im old..Id simply prefer to shoot them with arrow or bullet, load them up and be off to the butcher...but that being said...I thought I should inform you of your error. I should further mention that this is far more sporting and humane for both pig and man, than forcing them into a tight chute, chaining their hind legs, hoisting them into the air and then slashing their throats or applying a bolt gun to their skull as they are thrashing around. Sometime man wins...sometimes the pig wins. Ive applied first aid and called in an ambulance more than once on people where the pig won.
As much work as you put into that beautiful spear head, just think what the viking blacksmiths had to go through to make it without the modern equipment you used..the presses and stuff...even more amazing when you think of that. What talent they had to do such work with only a hammer and forge..no presses, sanders, grinders, etc. Wow.
That was absolutely beautiful. I've always loved to watch artisans share their passion. I'm a woodworker hobbyist but my father was a welder by trade. One thing that I am wondering and maybe you can answer: seeing how difficult it is to make the hollow part to receive to shaft, and having to considerably taper the wooden shaft to fit it in, wouldn't it make more sense to make a tang instead or would that make for a weaker fitting?
Excellent video! And a great build! Always a pleasure to watch a professional work. I liked your music and the fact it didn't overpower what you were saying. What music did you use. please?
Back in the day there wouldn't generally have been all the extra patterning work, and with an assistant standing in for the power hammer there wouldn't have been 10 hours or whatever in one spear point. Medieval Blacksmiths built tools, the creator built an art piece.
Looks good for me so far a few delaminations at the end of the spear blade and the tooth leaves some holes but i know this is freaking difficult. There are so many chances to mess this up never done this before. Maybee in the future the most difficult thing for me is the socket and forge weld this. I made three diffrent boar spears so far but im lazy and used a pipe for the socket, but every spear was quiete a challange. Thanks for showing us the almost complete process.
It's definitely tricky. The one I made before welded all the teeth fine but the one for the video definitely did not fill all the gaps. Next time, I made fuller the teeth a little bit to make some more space for the wrought iron to fill up the cavities.
Wow Niels (and Tony). That was impressive. Final product is jaw dropping... and even more so when you see the work that goes into it (well... probably one tenth of the work). Cheers. And btw...I have some ash I'll trade you for wenge :-D
lol Niels, I google you name to see if I could buy items from your forge and was directed to your bio. You are a very accomplished man my friend. Sadly though, I will have to look elsewhere to buy since I doubt you have time to forge for retail.
Hey there Niels - I have an idea that may help going viral, which may help given how terrible youtube has been for content creators. Game of thrones has just come back, and it features "valyrian steel" swords. These as speculated to use obsidian ("dragonglass") as a component. Obsidian is 70% glass, and melts at 920-1080 degrees C. If you did a wootz / crucible steel button using obsidian instead of glass, and labelled the video something like "Making real life valyrian steel", you could get a LOT of views. Potentially. Up to you, of course.
That's an interesting idea. I have a bunch of Obsidian lying around! I have also thought about making a meteorite sword as I have a couple kilos of campo de ciello lying around. Unfortunately, crucible steel is a two person operation but I may be able to find a victim!
Yeah I think making game of thrones oriented stuff would definitely help you blow up, especially since the new season has come out and people will be thirsty for content. Dragonglass (obsidian) is gonna be a big part of this next season so capitalizing on that and valyrian steel could be big
Niels Provos combine a tiny bit of the meteor (10% final weight, wootz doesn't like nickel all that much) with some vanadium steel (20% cr80v2) and make the rest wrought iron and an appropriate amount of carbon you'd have a very nice composition. If you do this, I would absolutely love a mention in the description for providing the idea. I run my own sword channel, even talking about wootz metallurgy in one of my videos.
If you are going to go the meteorite route, you might want to try and get your hands on Tektite. Its similar to obsidian, but rather than being volcanic glass, its a glass formed when a large impactor hits the ground and flash-melts the surrounding rock. They don't really knap like obsidian, if you were thinking of making a glass blade, but a nice chunk of polished Moldavite could make for a unique pommel. As IPostSwords mentioned, the nickel content of meteoritic iron can be a problem. But trying to recreate a meteorite's natural Widmanstätten pattern in pattern-welding could be an interesting technical challenge on its own.
I do not understand how somebody can dislike this video, is has everything. footage of forging, shaping. explanation of each step and commentary explaining stage of the creation step by step.
i liked that you mention that your method of doing the forge weld is what works for you. great work, spear the shalft really complements the pattern welding. keep up the good work.
Man Neil's, I only wish I was closer to you so I could learn in person from you. Your teaching skills are brilliant! As well of course as your blacksmith skills. Bravo Sir, Bravo!
awesome that artists are taking the time to share there work. no mater a forge a cnc a manual lathe etc. metal work is wonderful and should be passed on. thank you for the video.
The music brings this whole video together... absolutely masterful work. Thank you for sharing sir
I wish you would invite one of us to be an apprentice.
lots of good work for a spearhead
Absolutely beautiful work! You are an artist! This gives me a great impression of what it took back then for my Norse kin to forge them...especially when you used modern techniques. Magnificent
i second anything handcrafted with that much attention and care seems to be a work of art these days that's a two-edged thing its self
Niels, exemplary work! The finished weapon is beautiful, a fine piece of craftsmanship. I will look through your library to see past work. Your presentation, and narration make going through the process a pleasure. Keep up the great work! Be well.
Excellent work, I especially liked watching the recalescence in action. My brother has started blacksmithing and, after helping him a few times, I appreciate the work you've done here. Truly awesome!
I have watched this several times and it never ceases to look deliciously beautiful! Well done!
Damn man. I appreciate how difficult this is. I am envious of your ability. Very well done!
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That was great, it brought the viking out in me and needing one of these for myself Ha! while you start another spearhead allow me to fit a shaft , there is an art to this part as well. tks 4 showing this
It was great to watch it again in a single streamlined episode.
Well done Niels, anyone would be proud to have that piece of fine art hanging on theit wall..
This is so freaking cool! I certainly don't need another hobby, but I'm going for it!
An amazing project. Well done!! To create something from a thousand years ago must be very fulfilling. I was born in an old Viking village in England. Gainsborough, along the Trent River in Lincolnshire.
Thank you. I am glad you liked it. I grew up close to Viking settlements as well, e.g. Heddeby.
My pleasure, I really appreciated the hard work, talent and historical knowledge that went into this project.
My gods what a beautifully done piece ❤
This is also the first video of yours that ive seen, and i love the fact that you explain each process thoroughly, and in laymans terms so that people new to forging can understand what you mean!
Again. Incredible work! It came out great in the end, and was a wonder to watch start to finish. I cant wait to finish one of my own in the future!!
Glad you liked it. There is a whole video series on the spear that goes into a little bit more detail.
a great video , end product unbelievable ,a lot of time and effort to make one spear , one of the best I've seen
I really enjoyed watching this spear come together. Such an incredible amount of work! Thank you for sharing.
Lot of work, I would never take you for granted brother.
The work of an absolute master. Video extremely well made.
you are my favorite content maker. I hope the search for wootz continues.
Absolutely magnificent! Your metalwork is amazing. And the wood you used really made this a masterpiece in my book.
love this video man. like how you explain what youre doing in each step as apposed to just a montage like everyone else.
Enjoyed this video, especially the patience and man hours you put into creating this work of historical art.👍
Thank you. It actually took a while to figure out how to make it :-)
Much respect for your skills, and the finished spearhead looks amazing!
My favorite blackssmith on youtube!!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
I have learned a lot of new things!
That is an absolute amazing job you did in making that spearhead. Awesome professional work and craftsmanship. I actually think you're a bit too harsh on yourself lol you are very talented.
I love how you tell your stories! Keep them up, there excellent!
Your videos are always so comfy to watch
Superb , well done . Quality workmanship always speaks for itself .
Beautiful craftsmanship, you did a wonderful job. I would love to own a spear. Maybe I might give it a go. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
Gorgeous spear. A work of art, truly.
Amazing job there, who would of know how much work goes into these, what a nice spear in the end. Wolf tooth pattern looks great also.
Beautiful work. I enjoyed following your work. I have no clue how to work with metal, and for me it is amazing to see someone doing it. Thank You.
Well done. Appreciate what you have shown and how you work from the same conclusions I arrived at. A spearhead is on my project list for the year after some 'hawks and gladii. Thank you for the inspiration.
Holy cow, awesome work dude. This is just amazing, I'm definitely going to make one of these as soon as i get a better forge. Awesome work, this is outstanding!!!
You should change the channel name to God Of The Forge because that's exactly what you are. You have some true skill
WOW, not only amazing technical mastery, your narration to the video was just as captivating. I subscribed instantly :-)
Very nicely done! Thank you for narrating the process!!
I can only hope that one day I have the forging skill to do something like this..Amazing work and skill sir...
+abolith thank you and good luck on your journey
True craftsmanship!! Awesome work, love the video as well.
Form follows function...that is a beautiful piece of work...I would love to see how well it would work when taking a 150 to 200 kilo boar hog...I bet that would be a great hunt!
Thank you for a great video.
Ed
In all first world countries bar one killing an animal that way would be a serious criminal offence. And rightly so. We live in the gunpowder era. I'd consider not using the right calibre or a well landed shot to be cruel and improper. The last thing we need is dickheads running around thinking they're fucking Conan the Barbarian spearing animals destroying the sport.
@@bashpr0mpt244 Hunting boar with a spear is quite legal in most of the US, including California btw and Ive done a number of boar that way, including a nice 585lb Russian Boar. (265 kg). For boar hunting..a cross guard 12-18" down from the tip of the blade is almost a requirement. As one stabs or lets a pig charge and impaling themselves on the blade..they will continue to push down the shaft to eat you. (And yes..pigs will gladly eat a human being. We are not talking about Javalina (who also will eat you and comes in packs ). The cross guard prevents the hog from reaching you that way and allows you to keep out of his jaws. Just as historical as can be...and not a sport for the timid or weak. Now that Im old..Id simply prefer to shoot them with arrow or bullet, load them up and be off to the butcher...but that being said...I thought I should inform you of your error. I should further mention that this is far more sporting and humane for both pig and man, than forcing them into a tight chute, chaining their hind legs, hoisting them into the air and then slashing their throats or applying a bolt gun to their skull as they are thrashing around. Sometime man wins...sometimes the pig wins. Ive applied first aid and called in an ambulance more than once on people where the pig won.
That's an awesome spear, Niels! Fantastic work and craftsmanship too.
Wonderful video and amazing looking final result!
Thank you very much!
Beautiful work buddy. So much time and effort but fantastic result. Looking forward to the next project.
Wow that was just amazing, you really are a master blacksmith
Well done, clearly structured and explained.
I love your videos. You had me hooked ever since I watched the "Serpent in the sword" what seems like forever ago.
Very skillful and great pattern.
Really amazing and love the high skilled effort that was put in by both of you
that voice and that accent tho. So great. Mesmerising.
Amazing! So cool, what handcraft!!!!
Absolutely gorgeous !!
I'm envious I cant make one , I have tried and tried !!
@@NielsProvos I can make gorgeous knives. Cant fold your pattern right.
As much work as you put into that beautiful spear head, just think what the viking blacksmiths had to go through to make it without the modern equipment you used..the presses and stuff...even more amazing when you think of that. What talent they had to do such work with only a hammer and forge..no presses, sanders, grinders, etc. Wow.
Exactly
Wow that was amazing work to see all that went into that it's a piece of art for sure. I collect Viking axe heads.
The slow motion makes it seem epic... Then again, it is epic 🤘
I am The Wolfman, and I approve of this wolf toothed spearhead. Ya gotta love the Fins. Never met A Fin I did not like. Peace from Canada.
That was absolutely beautiful. I've always loved to watch artisans share their passion. I'm a woodworker hobbyist but my father was a welder by trade. One thing that I am wondering and maybe you can answer: seeing how difficult it is to make the hollow part to receive to shaft, and having to considerably taper the wooden shaft to fit it in, wouldn't it make more sense to make a tang instead or would that make for a weaker fitting?
Very enjoyable video as always. And man, your picture... really beautiful.
Wouldn't call it a secret. Sacred yes. Excellent work
Have to get potential viewers excited somehow 😜
Beautiful!!! I really enjoyed watching you progress through this build. I have subscribed!
This is a beautiful piece. Great work!
Absolutely lovely. I'll be sure to check out some more of your content.
Very nice. I once found your channel, then lost it in one reformat or another. Nice work. Some catching up for me to do though.
Glad you are back! :-)
WOW very very nice job Neils. Just loved the Vid TKS
You've got mad skills. Nice job!
You got a sub for this.
Holy shit, thats a lot of work for a spear, but it was worth it!
Greetings from Germany,
Edgar
Beautiful spear! Perhaps not a period wood, but the aesthetics were worth the trade off!
Master at metal and wood! Amazing skill.
Awesome!
This is gorgeous thank you for sharing it with us.
+Harry McLane glad you liked it
Nice work.
fantastic pattern, great job and thank you
'Let's take a look at it in it's natural habitat' I was expecting it jutting out of someone's chest!
Extraordinary. Just extraordinary.
Excellent video! And a great build! Always a pleasure to watch a professional work. I liked your music and the fact it didn't overpower what you were saying. What music did you use. please?
very beautiful work my friend
I love your content brother. Always high quality
Wow and wow. Very well done sir, again.
Your work is so awesome. Makes me wish I chose a different profession.
Beautiful work.
I cant imagine how long that took 600 years ago without power tools
Back in the day there wouldn't generally have been all the extra patterning work, and with an assistant standing in for the power hammer there wouldn't have been 10 hours or whatever in one spear point. Medieval Blacksmiths built tools, the creator built an art piece.
loved the video! top notch content and production! keep it up!
Looks good for me so far a few delaminations at the end of the spear blade and the tooth leaves some holes but i know this is freaking difficult. There are so many chances to mess this up never done this before. Maybee in the future the most difficult thing for me is the socket and forge weld this. I made three diffrent boar spears so far but im lazy and used a pipe for the socket, but every spear was quiete a challange. Thanks for showing us the almost complete process.
It's definitely tricky. The one I made before welded all the teeth fine but the one for the video definitely did not fill all the gaps. Next time, I made fuller the teeth a little bit to make some more space for the wrought iron to fill up the cavities.
Beautiful work very well explained
Cool, the pattern is amazing!!
Very nicely filmed, as always.
You sir just got yourself a sub. beautiful spear
Wow Niels (and Tony). That was impressive. Final product is jaw dropping... and even more so when you see the work that goes into it (well... probably one tenth of the work). Cheers. And btw...I have some ash I'll trade you for wenge :-D
The result looks awesome ... 👍🏽
Reminds me of PBS up here in Washington state like 20 years ago. Great voice. Great project
sehr gutes Video,danke. Man kann Streifen von Rinderroh Haut um den Schaft kleben...das verhindert Schwertkerben auf dem Holz !
Danke für den Tip
lol Niels, I google you name to see if I could buy items from your forge and was directed to your bio. You are a very accomplished man my friend. Sadly though, I will have to look elsewhere to buy since I doubt you have time to forge for retail.
That's right. I don't have the time to make pieces for selling :-)
Thor bless you brother ,you did an avesome job ,Congratulation and subscribed of course.
Glad you liked it. This was a fun forging project.
Simply breathtaking
Hey there Niels - I have an idea that may help going viral, which may help given how terrible youtube has been for content creators.
Game of thrones has just come back, and it features "valyrian steel" swords. These as speculated to use obsidian ("dragonglass") as a component.
Obsidian is 70% glass, and melts at 920-1080 degrees C.
If you did a wootz / crucible steel button using obsidian instead of glass, and labelled the video something like "Making real life valyrian steel", you could get a LOT of views.
Potentially. Up to you, of course.
That's an interesting idea. I have a bunch of Obsidian lying around! I have also thought about making a meteorite sword as I have a couple kilos of campo de ciello lying around. Unfortunately, crucible steel is a two person operation but I may be able to find a victim!
Yeah I think making game of thrones oriented stuff would definitely help you blow up, especially since the new season has come out and people will be thirsty for content. Dragonglass (obsidian) is gonna be a big part of this next season so capitalizing on that and valyrian steel could be big
Niels Provos combine a tiny bit of the meteor (10% final weight, wootz doesn't like nickel all that much) with some vanadium steel (20% cr80v2) and make the rest wrought iron and an appropriate amount of carbon you'd have a very nice composition.
If you do this, I would absolutely love a mention in the description for providing the idea. I run my own sword channel, even talking about wootz metallurgy in one of my videos.
That sounds great
If you are going to go the meteorite route, you might want to try and get your hands on Tektite. Its similar to obsidian, but rather than being volcanic glass, its a glass formed when a large impactor hits the ground and flash-melts the surrounding rock. They don't really knap like obsidian, if you were thinking of making a glass blade, but a nice chunk of polished Moldavite could make for a unique pommel.
As IPostSwords mentioned, the nickel content of meteoritic iron can be a problem. But trying to recreate a meteorite's natural Widmanstätten pattern in pattern-welding could be an interesting technical challenge on its own.
Nicely done! Does the act of pattern welding weaken the blade at all, as it's made of multiple different pieces?
Beautifully made!
Love the video and the information is great!
What a great job on this just amazing