From Raw Steel to Deadly Weapon: Medieval Sword Making
Video Overview & Insights
Josef Dawes of White Well Arms joins Jason to talk about the creation of the knight’s sword. Starting from a few billets of steel, like medieval sword blanks, Josef shows Jason some of the techniques to shape the metal and manipulate it to where it needs to be in order to create a well-balanced knightly weapon.
Bro when tf did theon greyjoy become a blacksmith
• Executive Producer: Jason Kingsley OBE
• Executive Producer: Chris Kingsley
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• Senior Producer: Brian Jenkins
• Producer: Edward Linley
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• Director/Editor: Dominic Read
• Presenter: Jason Kingsley OBE
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• Subject Matter Expert: Josef Dawes
• Camera: Dominic Read
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• Camera: Lindsey Studholme
• Continuity & Stills Photographer: Kasumi
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• Production Manager: Kevin Case
• Sound Recording/Design: Liam Flannigan
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• Additional Camera: Darren Cook
Dude has skill. Great work 👏
• Additional Camera: Neil Phillips
• Additional Sound: Elizabeth Carlyon
To show how a sword in the medival was made, it needs much more then a gas forge and a piece of modern produced steel. He was right. This knowlege is practicly gone.
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Special Thanks:
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• Chris Payton
• Ed Savage
When you become a blacksmith's apprentice, the first thing you make is a hammer. Than you use that hammer to make the rest of your tools.
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Skyrim vibes are strong with this one.
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so not really that much like how they were actually made then. Perfectly competent modern smith but that's not the title subject.
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Gotta quote Rush: "Blacksmith and the artist reflected in their art, to forge a new creativity, closer to the heart." This video definitely proves it. Thank you.
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The most famous Japanese swordmiths had specific patterns of hammer strokes they used when making katanas. Modern histrians can still identify the work of master sworsmiths by these patterns. Very useful in identifying forgeries
Many thanks to Josef Dawes at White Well Arms: http://www.whitewellarms.co.uk/
Medieval swords were certainly not made in a gas forge, and not from factory rolled bar stock..... but I suppose it gives an idea of the process....
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For Lee'side!!!
@ThisOneCommisardso with that he polish ?
@FarsiratoriusThis is such a great channel
@mack6511Interesting when he's talking about how he made some of his own tools.
The line between engineer and tradesman is often a lot more blurry than people on the outside think.
A propane forge! what sorcery is this!?!
@SoliAKAZiggyBy eye is the true skill
@RedwhiteandRawdidn't smiths make their own steel? they had iron sand and rich ore and charcoal and could control the quality in house.
@ToneKnob-joe-424Wouldn’t have a propane fordge nor that steel strap 😅
@MiddleofmontaWere medieval swords manufactured from factory-produced steel?
@sinancetinkayaThat Bladesmith needs to get some of those Paul Mitchell products lol. Mitch that stuff up bro!!!!
@Teleman01Without hacksaws and power tools what tools did they use? How did they determine the quality of the blank? What was the metalurgical content?
@markhorrell9213teste.
@paulovinicius9940Makes that hammer dance.
@MarkSmith-nw4osI am a time served blacksmith 7 years I done as an apprentice he is not a blacksmith or a blade smith
@robbiematthews743Put the bloody mug down
@JohnBurke-f9lThis is stunning! Beautiful!
@shikanofromhere3240This is a great video! I apologise if I offend but has anyone told you, you sound a little like James may?
@Mar-nc1om"youre not really doing anything, but you are" is absolutely the most profound statement that relates to many master craftsmen in different fields. essentially you get to a point where you learn from the material youre working on and react to it accordingly to how you want it to go or change. us jewelers are essentially jus smaller blacksmiths and its very similar process.
@lordmark4966With metal you silly ass!
@JasonLane-p1zIts called "giving your work a coat of gaze" .
@thormidthagahast8914What do mean by steel. Steel is an fe carbon alloy. So what is the medieval start point, obviously not a low carbon steel with 15pts of carbon.
@geoffelliott-l8bI love this young sword smith for his work ethics a real one finally 👏
@emildraxineanu7037I love forging videos like this where they add dramatic music or slow motion closeups of the hammer coming down and maybe some sparks and slag flying off. In actuality forging is 30 second windows of hammering followed by 4 minutes of awkwardly staring at your forge while the metal heats and you fiddle with your hammers and tongs.
@coltonthorpe7812E-mail propane forge that blacksmith doesn't know what he....ou never do it on purpose he's stupid
@user-px2sn8pr5tI believe him yo, I don't know why but I do.
@ragepage159610:40 Huh, I assumed the bouncing was just not stopping the hammer by force, avoiding unnecessary strain/fatigue.
@whyjay9959Never trust a skinny cook's food and never trust a blacksmith with shaggy hair's blade.
@sexyshadowcat7I want a sword lol
@gameram6382Amazing job
@gameram6382I loved the episode and seeing a real craftsman work is always a delight. One criticism though: the interview sections felt more like Jason talking at the blacksmith and impressing him with the thesis of swords taking on a magical aspect. While I agree with the thesis, I wanted to hear so much more from the blacksmith. Can you let the interviewer talk more next time?
@andrewalcock461How did you pierce the pommel? You didn't show that. Did you use the same tools you used to pierce the guard? Or was the pommel too thick for it? Also did they have angle grinders in the middle ages? Electric forges?
@omega6599I'm not Irish, but I'm almost certain this blacksmith's lineage goes back to Cú Chulainn or Fionn mac Cumhaill.
@Tu-kueI’ve always been interested in making swords but playing kcd2 is making me try to take it seriously, I have a blacksmith 7 minutes away from me so I’m gonna apply as an apprentice
@SeanJim0109Does this man have a shop or something? I would be very interested to get a sword from him
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