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Turning Crucible Steel into a Wootz Seax 20 Jul 2013 | 07:32 pm
This Wootz Seax is the first knife we made from our crucible steel. The bolster is copper and bone decorated with a dot and ring motif. The hilt is ironwood left over from a flooring project. The over...
Making Wootz Steel 11 May 2013 | 04:31 am
Our experiments in creating crucible steel with a composition similar to ancient Wootz steel are continuing. In this video, we show the process of making a Wootz ingot and our first successful forging...
Phone call with a Heavily-Accented Phisher 3 May 2013 | 05:50 am
or How I failed to get the whole story I am lying on the bed with a stomach bug when the phone is ringing. It says 544 Unknown Name. The following is an abbreviated recollection of the phone call. W...
Crucible Steel 14 Feb 2013 | 09:40 am
Our first experiments with creating crucible steel. The video shows the first run in which we melt wrought iron at 3000F. The ultimate goal is to create crucible steel with high carbon content that ca...
Casting a forge-shell from Kast-O-Lite 30 LI 22 Aug 2012 | 05:26 am
Here are some pictures of my recent forge rebuild. When I originally started to look into refractory concrete as an option, I noticed that there were not a lot of articles on the web describing the pr...
On a quest for Viking-age swords 17 Jul 2012 | 03:46 am
While visiting Germany this year, I was on a quest to find Viking-age swords as a source of inspiration for future work. The first trip took me to Nürnberg where I visited the Germanisches Nationalmus...
The Serpent in the Sword continued... 22 Mar 2012 | 04:06 pm
The Serpent in the Sword project is slowly progressing. I have posted a couple more videos documenting the process. In part 2, the bevels of the sword are forged, the geometry is established on a belt...
The Serpent in the Sword 21 Jan 2012 | 08:47 pm
Inspired by "The Serpent in the Sword" from Lee A Jones, I embarked on the quest of forging a pattern-welded double-edged sword that has a visual serpent at its core. The video shows my progress over ...
Pattern-Welded Seax 7 Jan 2012 | 07:17 pm
In my quest to forge another double-edged viking-age sword, I have been experimenting with a serpent pattern. As part of my experimentation, I forged the the seax shown in the picture. It's over all l...
