Hoplite Spear
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
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In this video, I make a dory (greek spear), with a forged steel head and a cast bronze butt spike. Casting bronze is not in my skillset, so I called in my friend, Patrick Kenny to help out. Patrick created a 2 piece of reusable mould from soapstone, into which, he was able to form the molten bronze. His bronze alloy consists of scrap copper and tin with a ratio of about 90% copper to 10% tin. I then forged the spearhead from 5160 spring steel, forge welding it to a mild steel socket. After grinding and heat-treating both pieces were fastened to a hickory shaft creating a spear about 8 ft long.
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The Value Village Tin Mine.... I love it!
I’m sure people decorating their weapons like this happened we love decorating our tools/weapons!
Incredible talent. A joy to watch.
Man, Thak is going to kill it at the next cosplay event. All the lasses in leather belly dancer armor are already moist in anticipation! :)
Great video but the background noise and music was distracting.
Can you buy soapstone commercially easily? Could I go to, say, a place that sells stone for countertops and buy it?
You have to call around, as many stores have the countertops made to spec elsewhere. A few cut them in-house though, so may have scrap pieces available for sale.
after so long I don't think the hoplite's panoply is almost complete, I hope to see it equipped soon,great job 💪💪
One more week amigo
I've been waiting 2 years for this build to be complete. It will be a killer view once you wear everything!
Thank you, finally! I've been waiting for tips on how to make the socket when casting the head piece.
You should be getting alot more views than you are. Good stuff man. Keep it coming!
A joy to watch - bravo!
you have to learn how to throw it incase someone tries to raid your shop and steal your armor
I worked for seven years in a talc (soapstone) mine and didn't know it could be used for making moulds. This project is awesome.
Cool video. For me, your method of making the decorative bands was the highlight. Thanks Thak
I really admire you work!By the way the bottom part of the Spear/Dory its called Saurotiras or Styrakas!
Thank you
The greeco Roman's had technically 3 weapons the dory spear head was the main one then if the spear broke the could use both the spear head and the pointed bit that can go in the ground, if they lost one side or both then they would use the xiphos sword at their waist so they technically had a primary weapon and two secondary weapons.
Ponle subtitulos en español!!!
Cool! Does Patrick have a TH-cam channel? I’d love to see some more of that!
He does now! youtube.com/@OgmiosForge
I didn't see any vents in your mold Patrick. Do you get a lot of porosity in the parts?
Thank you so much for getting Patrick involved! As someone who has been doing historical bronze casting in my garage for a number of years now, his little observations and methods can really be integrated into my future projects and combined with your excellent forging as usual it made this video an especially fun watch.
I like that you showed us your mistake with the first attempt at casting.
Very nice looking spear.
Beautiful job Thak.
When I casted my spear head I had to drill out the socket. Wish I knew the socket trick.
Good form
Highly anticipating the final showing , it's going to be the high light of the year mate. :)
Now that Thak has all the pieces of the suit it's like were about to watch Voltron form. Good stuff.
Thanks for a great episode. Looking forward to the final assembly.
I love your videos man thanks for making all of these
Not even close on to a historical spearhead from Ancient Greece. They are of two main types, southern and northern types. I own bronze spearhead of the Peloponnesian type and the head width is only about 1 1/2” wide. It’s much more slender and that’s by intent. A borrow thin head will penetrate and avoid getting stuck in bone or armor. So actual Greek spearheads were much lighter and smaller than people assume. They had to be wielded for long periods of time and so large and overly heavy spearheads would have been quite a chore to use.
This is not my armchair opinion, it is what we see in museums and the 3000 year old bronze spearhead I own. I have reproduced this spear in steel from the bronze original. In testing the copy I found it to be not just fast but like a scorpions tail. A trained man could engage multiple opponents with both slashes and thrusts. It’s light and very controllable weight makes it no mystery why the spear was the king on the battlefield.
That is the type of feedback I like...thankyou...I would love if you sent me some photos of your spearheads
@@ThakIronworks not sure how I can do that through here. I’ve spent years making faithful copies of Ancient Greek armor and weapons. I have even made a single piece bronze Corinthian helmet. That took over 9 months alone to create. Not something I recommend anyone can do but I’d wanted one ever since I was 7 years old. So I finally just made one for myself lol
@@Apolokrates my email is info@thak.ca ...as you know from my repeatedly saying it on this video series, historical accuracy is not my first peroggative ...but it is of interest to me. I would love to see your work and hear about your experiences
@@ThakIronworks well historical accuracy is just something tied to the physical reality. The Greeks weren’t dummies and so I always viewed what they made as likely to have been extremely well engineered for its purpose. Fantasy style and all that is great but it’s important to remember this wasn’t dress-up for them. These were actual weapons of their day and how they made them and their shape and size was pretty important. It’s about efficiency in purpose. Most all of the panoply items are quite specifically made and while there is the inherent individuality in Greek stuff, there is still always a basic plan on how they made things. I’ll try to get you some pictures here shortly