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- This is how I make wooden boards using only one single axe. Well, to be honest, in the beginning I use a small carving axe for making a wooden wedge. Both axes shown here are fitting for Central European medieval ages.
The log, red oak (quercus rubra) was already split in smaller sections, you can see the bigger halfs in the back. I also tried to avoid using clamps or hooks to fasten the board to go full rural medieval, so it's hopping around quite a bit. The oak was more twisted than I hoped so I actually had to remove quite some material and got a pretty narrow board in the end, but thats always the difficulty with splitting logs.
In the end there are some shots of the finished building where the boards were used for a simple wall. It's a workshop shelter with a greenroof, currently equipped with a medieval forge. Look at the textures from the axes!
Edit:
To make it clear, the aim was to use one single axe for all steps involved, meaning using an axe that could also be used for felling a tree, splitting and hewing. In rural medieval villages, where tools were expensive and people probably rather went for tools that could to a lot of tasks than tools that can only do one specific task. And off-set hewing axes are only for one job good: making plane surfaces.
I love the crackling sound of the wood when you slit it.
I do enjoy that as well every time! That is why I basically stuffed the camera in there. :D
Wow... Life goals: be able to handle an axe this precisely.
Thank you! Easy, get a good axe, shape the handle to your likes, and start working. :D It's all a matter of training!
These type of videos are hard to find but I keep liking and subscribing when I find something good and now I'm starting to get recommended gems like this one! Definitely gonna check out your channel for more like this
I'm glad you enjoy what I do!
I'll be the guy that says you used 2 axes. One for the wedges one for log. Great skills. Truly. Be well.
Than you are the guy who is correct. :D For carving the bigger one is a tad unwieldy. But I'd love to go fully off-grid with one axe in the future!
I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this video. I've never made a board, but have split a lot of locust posts. There is something very satisfying in using a ax and wedges.
Just imagine what most people today would think of doing some manual labor like that. Most of them would probably rather die than have a few blisters and calluses on their hands and a tired back from some real work!
I think necessity and desperation can motivate even the laziest of people most of the time. Most people just aren't that desperate...yet
Good to see some woodworking the ancestral way ! Nice work
Thank you! I also enjoy doing it this way, although it'S pretty time-consuming and wastes surprisingly much material
I've done this using railroad spikes for fire wood, had this in mind, for observations its quite digestable
Impressive! That's the best looking forge I've ever seen.
Thank you! I do quite like the equipment in there (didn't build it), too
@@hluthvik How long did it take you to make that piece?
@@TheJavonplayer I think (excluded the camera work) 4h
You’re very good hitting that axe in the same spot I’m not good at that
That's just a matter of exercise and time spent doing it. Thanks!
I've watched this video a couple of times now, very enjoyable to watch.
Thanks a lot! I'm glad you enjoy it :)
Great work. Thanks for showing us and take care.
thank you! stay safe and healthy
Thank you for sharing your work and valuable insights which will be enjoyable to try and perhaps one day needed...
You are very welcome and thanks for your words :) And yes please, do try it! What is to lose in the end, if all goes downhill you got some firewood. :D And yes, I love about it that it's completely free from using fuel or electricity, so it's a useful skill nonetheless
Sometimes I get frustrated with TH-cam’s algorithm. But I’m happy with its suggestion today
Well done mate
Thank you! I'm glad you like the video
I think that's how a lot of people were still making use of wood not long ago
And you are right about that! Not many people had access to a saw mill for long boards.
Very impressive. A good reminder that the human being is still the most versatile machine on the planet and has a built in computer.
Thank you! Yes, it's pretty cool to see what you can do with the most basic tools.
That is some pretty quarter-axed oak!
Very cool! And very hard work.
Very good job & hardwork.
NICE...I'M WAITING FOR MORE VIDEOS. GOOD JOB
I am working on it :D
Masterpiece .
Thank you!
I watched him do that and was like it looks like he’s done that before then the camera shot at the end with all the wood wow that’s bad ass
hehe, yep I do have some hours of axework on my clock. But still, every project is an adventure. to be honest!
Kul och lärorikt!
Tack så mycket!
You just got 2 new subscribers, I subscribed with both of my channels. Great video
Oh that's kind of you, thanks! Subscribed back
Great video! You should save your axe for chopping and use a sledge or wooden commander for pounding the wedges. "One single axe" is a good title, but not a long life for the axe handle.
Thank you!
Yep, you are completely right, it was kind of a clickbait. I still need to build a big wooden mallet for stuff like this, when I'm not going full medieval I usually take the sledge.
Looks like you could use an adze (I think that’s the spelling). Essentially an offset axe that lets you trim off parts along the length of tree/board in a straighter line along the tree/board. Still very neat what you do. I found that they call them a left-handed or right-handed hewing axe.
Thank you! And yes, an adze is a useful tool (did you check what they actually are?).
I think I'll do an explanation video why I didn't use an offset axe and why I most of the time don't use them. :D In short: they are highly specialised tools, doing one job: making a plane surface. They excel at that, but can't do much else. I prefer tools which can do more than one job. For example, I can switch the working direction easily with a double-bevel axe. Admittedly, there are double-bevel axes specialised for hewing, but they are also just for one job. The axe I'm using here could have been used easily for felling, limbing and bucking a tree. Which is what I was going for here (i probably will make a video where I show exactly that, doing all the jobs with just one axe).
Wood is definitely of earth. Fire is kind of it's own thing. But dumping a bunch of dirt on it definitely extinguishes it.
Thats oddly poetic.
@@hluthvik fieldcraft and woodwork is elemental stuff. Especially when it comes to making fire. It wasn't meant to be poetic. I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Good video, I recently made a couple of gates from yew I either cleaved or hewed. My timber was less than ideal though, but it taught me so much. I think we (collective we) need to learn to use the timber around us more. I wish I'd filmed the process now. Next time I will! Keep adding the videos - you got a lot of views there!
Thank you! Yes, you learn definitely more with difficult projects/wood. And I think it's beautiful to work with wood in its natural shape, using curves and knots for instance. I got to keep an eye out on your account!
@@hluthvik The gates I made were for a magazine article (in woodcraft magazine) but also for my own garden! I carved the date into them so I'll know how long Yew lasts (I had an old book that said it would outlast iron so we shall see!). But no won the lookout for some more wood to hew from. I'm sure this winter will bring some!
Nice work! I'll have to check more of your videos to see if there's any joinery. Axes are such amazing tools.
thank you! Joinery isn't my strong suit, but I am sure that I'll make videos on it in the future :)
@@hluthvik I am terrible at joinery haha. I need to practice more. Luckily wood grows on trees!
Very nicely done. Looking at your log to start, I thought there's too much twist in that, what kind of reasonably straight board can he get out of it? And then you got a nice looking board from it after all :)
Thank you! Yes, it wasn't a good log to start with... But I had to work with what I had to finish the wall
@@hluthvik I was glad to see the twisted log and wondered how you would deal with it... And you certainly did, very nicely!
Your decision to use what you had is both instructive & inspirational!
Looks good. I'll order 200 by next month for my house project. Thanks.
will do boss, need a few more men though
@@hluthvik I can spare one dwarf
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Loved this. How many man man days did it take to build this blacksmith shop? Looks amazing and solid
Thanks a lot! And it took... way too long. I think it took all in all a year. It started as a project with volunteers doing a year in preservation (Jugendbauhütte) and I had on-off helpers.
Title of video is making a board with a single ax, first 3 minutes of video and he used 2. Still impressive nonetheless.
I knew there'd be comments on that. There are surprisingly few. :D Technically you are completely right, although the actual making of the board involves only one axe.
Nice share
No music. Great camera work. Engrossing.
Thank you! I aimed for something between tutorial and atmospheric stuff. :D
Not a complaining woman to be heard…
Lovely.
uhm, what?
Nice....
Hack hack hack
Vampire stakes
Very nice work! Where are you working at? Looks like an open air museum... A friend of mine and I have been hewing boards on the market at Hedeby a couple of years ago, was great fun!
Thank you! Yes, I am working in an open-air museum, indeed. It's located in Berlin. Pretty cool that you have done this work it Haithabu!
Super cool! That same friend just sent me an insta-post from Düppel about their new smithy and I thought: that looks kinda familiar ;-)
It's clear why now they invented planers and saws
Yep! Incredible technological steps. But you'd be suprised how long people were using just axes for stuff like this.
I made a short handle for a post maul hammer , and I cheat and use iron wedges , it's a grunt , but wrks convincingly
Watching these sites always make my day! Love this!
hehe, thank you! watch out for iron splinters when you hammer iron wedges with a steel hammer, maybe go for aluminium or plastic ones.
@@hluthvikactually really liking the wood wedge method ! But I still like me Whomper ! Though I've one old wedge that's a longer one with a twist in it , I find quite handy .. I did once get a piece of hot steel from swinging a hammer lodged into my neck , I still carry a scar in m jugular .
Burnt right in!
Past while not been Whoomping , working on a largish carving in a log right now . Hardwood , of a shark .
It's up on my page , some of the first and last photos in a wee slideshow .
It looks like oak, from the bark we would say black oak or live oak. All of the axes for this sort of thing have short handles, many of the handles are offset to allow the hand holding it
It's red oak, quercus robur, like I stated in the description. And I also stated that it was my aim to use a single axe for all steps involved, an axe which could also be used for felling. Things the tools you mentioned aren't designed for.
Nice, quite a bit of twist to hew out of there eh! You look like you've seen the work from the viking ship building museum.
What is the weight and edge length of that axe?
Thank you! Yes, the log wasn't my first choice, but I had to make the most of it... And yep, I've seen the videos made in Roskilde, quite educational and so lovely tool! The axe has a 13cm long blade, 66cm overall length, head 20cm long and weighs about 1,6kg
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Does the wood need to be green? I have a dried apple wood and I can barely get wedge in it
tree looked very cork-screw grown...maybe some better raw material will yield better result?
Absolutely! Wood selection can reduce the worktime immensely. I've worked with a log from the same species and could split out nearly perfect boards, 2m long and only had to clean the split surface.
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Nice keep up the good work
Home Depot sells boards.
Was there, traditionally, any use for the chips and off cuts apart from firewood?
Now excess is used for plywood, particle board etc etc
Well if there are actually any solid off-cuts, they would have been used for all kinds of small works. Plates, spoons, combs, needles, all sorts of things. Bark or wood from the oak can be used for tanning because of the acids inside, limewood fibres for ropes and string. But for the chips or smaller parts, firewood was most likely the dominant use of it. But firewood played a very important role in the life back then, as you probably can imagine!
@@hluthvik Nothing wasted, used wisely. Great reply, much appreciated! Thanks.
Ausgezeichnet!
Danke!
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Complimenti per la tecnica usata però quanta fatica e quanto scarto di materiale mi chiedo se funziona anche con altri tipi di legno
Not sure Google Translate did a good job here. THe log wasn't the best, it was a bit twisted, there are definitely better suited ones.
Топор викинга не очень подходит для плотницкой работы....)))) респект за старание!!!
I think I showed that this axe is very suitable for all kinds of work. But, as usual, things that can do everything a little bit, excel at nothing.
@@hluthvik привет!!! Гугл не переводит..... Всем здоровья и удачи!!!
That is a fuck load of work for one board. Dedication to say the least
Yep, it's a lot of work! Of course, the log wasn't ideal to work with, if you have a straight one you can easily split out nearly finished boards
I'd start w/ a straight log, and I see in the background some chainsaw work, why not saw it ?
You are right, the log wasn't the best to work with. But I had to make use of it. And why not saw it? Well because that wasn't the purpose of the video. :D I get my logs already cut to length and see what I can do with it.
Did you Forge and make your axe and hatchet
No, unfortunately my forging skills are not that good. I buy vintage axes and restore them (upcoming video?)
@@hluthvik I try hitting the old antique stores for all my hand tools
You make those axes yourself?
No, unfortunately I am not skilled in forging, I have made a small carving axe once. They are all antiques and I restore them
Where do i get this axe
In this case, it's a vintage axe probably made in france. Keep your eyes out on fleamarkets and ebay!
To much highway noce
Not a highway but a cobble-stone road which was never designed for the traffic it sees. :D But yeah, it is annoying and i should work with a better microphone
Go further in the forest, the cars are loud
Always a good advice, but unfortunately I can't in this case, because my workplace is there
You really need to invent a plane soon. At this rate it would take a year to make one wall. ;) and possibly an adze.
Well in the end I show two walls I made this way and it didn't take me two years. :D
I have done very similar with Woodglut designs.
I am not sure what you mean by that, but I hope you had fun doing it :D
You don’t look board...
I'm feeling oakay, why wood I knot?
you son of a birch
@@hluthvik well planed!
This bloke needs to get his hands on a broad axe used by timber cutters in Australia to cut hardwood railway sleepers. A couple of lessons wouldn't go astray either.
That chap needs to read the description, that way he could have figured out that it was this bloke's intention to only use a single axe for all steps in the process.
He could have done it in any number of ways and a variety of tools Colin obviously didn't read the title of the video that's the reason for his misguided smart arse comment