🔴Viking ship building in Norway - Part 9; Finishing the Meginhufr (Slow Film)

It is over a year since we started making the great strake (Meginhufr). Although this film doesn't demonstrate exactly how we did it, it shows why it has taken so long. This has been the most complex piece to fit and entailed many, many repetitions offering up the board, taking measurements planing a little wood off and trying again. Splitting and shaping the wood, steaming and bending, etc, etc. and finally clinking the perfectly fitting piece to the boat. Part Four covers some of the earlier work on the Meginhufr.
Viking ship building playlist;
• Viking Ship Build
To financially support the making of these films directly, please consider becoming a patron at patreon o,r buy me a beer using my paypal donation page. Follow one of these links for details;
paypal.me/Luca...
/ lucasstephens
My Channel:
/ lucasrichardstephens
Website:
www.stephens.no
film and music ©Lucas Richard Stephens / Bono 2020

[@TheBeardedCarpenter]

Howdy Lucas- what an enjoyable video to watch. Your patience is amazing. Everything is done so meticulously and with tremendous skill. I think I could sit and watch you work for hours. Thank you so much for sharing the progress of the ship. Take care and may God bless you

[@LucasRichardStephens]

Thanks for watching Paul, it is always wonderful to hear that you enjoy the films and the handwork. My very best wishes to you sir and Gods blessings to you and your kin.

[@tokkarijuha]

This action camera footage is really the best way of showing what you see. Great job on the fit up. Really nice to watch.

[@LucasRichardStephens]

Thanks for watching! And thanks for writing an encouraging comment, all the best, Lucas.

[@clydedecker765]

Fascinating watching your build but what did the Vikings use for F clamps in their day? Watching those clamps set and reset over and over day after day ... How did they manage to build so many ships? They all seem so totally different and built in such a way as to seem like they would never stay afloat. No fairing of the hull other than the bowed lines...No flat bottoms... What made them decide that that was a great design for a boat? For such long voyages with so little creature comforts or cargo hauling facility.

[@LucasRichardStephens]

We use clamps you might see in the other films of this series, that are made of wood and iron and could resemble more the ones the Vikings might have used. Those wooden ones are not suitable for this particular job however, and though we could have made clamps just for this task, we didn't. As for the shape and method of construction, I think it came about by a series of developments of previous boats of the region. In the North of Norway, boats are still built that stem directly from this boat building tradition and were used extensively in the fishing industry right up until the 1960's, though now they are more used by enthusiasts. no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordlandsb%C3%A5t

[@jeroenvankessel446]

What kind of clamps did they use back then ?

[@LucasRichardStephens]

I am not an expert on what has been found in the way of clamps, from archaeological digs in Scandinavia. I doubt there is much, if anything left from the period. Like many tools there are perhaps finds from other contemporary cultures that might help as pointers as to what might have been used. There was a great deal of international/regional shared knowledge even at that time. We do use clamps from the living tradition that are lower tech than those shown in this film. Some of the wooden clamps we use are shown in other films on my channel.

[@jeroenvankessel446]

Thank you !

[@evgeniykhalzov4725]

Лодочники- ремесленники.