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Title: Forging a Pattern Welded Viking Sword
Post by: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 22, 2019, 10:28:21 pm

Regardless of where the famed Ulfberht swords were made http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,348603.0.html, (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,348603.0.html,) Pattern Welding was know among Viking Blacksmiths and practiced locally.

One Saga tells of the hero being handed an heirloom sword with magic powers. It never failed to bite and there was a tiny serpent living in the blade that would only come out and show itself when the sword was drawn.

So there's a couple of clues they're talking about a pattern welded sword.

Imagine building these 1200 years ago with no power tools.

Part 1

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHt-f5SwEyM#)

Part 2

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKRYoEEpJA#)

Part 3

Sorry... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQImCxfPDaA#)

Title: Re: Forging a Pattern Welded Viking Sword
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 23, 2019, 11:08:40 am

I tried forge welding in a friend's knife shop. Let's just say I'm not at this level and leave it at that. Maybe some day, but he died, and the heirs dug into his stuff fast....

Title: Re: Forging a Pattern Welded Viking Sword
Post by: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 23, 2019, 12:11:49 pm

My Dad's tools too. Joke was on them though.

They grabbed up what they could comprehend. Little stuff. Stuff they could use around the house.

Didn't even touch his array of measuring tools. He was an aerospace machinist, tool and die maker running a dept that made fuel control prototypes.

While I'm not using them, they mean a lot more to me than hand sanders and such.

Title: Re: Forging a Pattern Welded Viking Sword
Post by: Smokin Joe on January 23, 2019, 12:16:56 pm

Quote from: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 23, 2019, 12:11:49 pm

My Dad's tools too. Joke was on them though.

They grabbed up what they could comprehend. Little stuff. Stuff they could use around the house.

Didn't even touch his array of measuring tools. He was an aerospace machinist, tool and die maker running a dept that made fuel control prototypes.

While I'm not using them, they mean a lot more to me than hand sanders and such.

Unfortunately, these guys knew what the grinders, the anvil and blacksmithing tools, the gas forge and trip hammer were worth....

Title: Re: Forging a Pattern Welded Viking Sword
Post by: To-Whose-Benefit? on January 23, 2019, 12:53:42 pm

Quote from: Smokin Joe on January 23, 2019, 12:16:56 pm

Unfortunately, these guys knew what the grinders, the anvil and blacksmithing tools, the gas forge and trip hammer were worth....

Sucks, but expected.

Crows and ravens.

Bright shiney stuff they can't use.

Cash it in and buy junk with it.

Tools, the stuff that seperates us from liberals and other lower life forms.