we don’t know much about how these Saxon
Smith’s forged such intricate blades
during these dark ages but we do know
their tools and workshops were primitive
but they were master craftsmen able to
make their weapons both beautiful and
strong on some levels of science mythic
would be a very simple thing but I don’t
think the people who are producing these
blades were simple Smith’s I think they
would have been specialists the blades
that they used back then were being used
in reality they produce these blades
using a technique known as pattern
welding a process that created blades
with beautiful swirling and rippling
patterns to fit their golden gilded
fittings
to show just how much skill went into
making one modern-day swordsmith Owen
Bush will replicate a Saxon see axe
blade to match the gold and garnet hilt
fittings from the Horde I’m going to
fold this material and it will it will
become the edge it’s very similar to the
techniques Japanese used to make their
samurai swords then he forges the layers
together using a hydraulic hammer that
hits the steel 240 times a minute the
equivalent of eight men who’s in
sledging
so compared to my Saxon forever and it’s
it’s quite a tall at a big advantage the
next stage is the back of the blade
I’m twisting this bar it’s going to be
addictive element for the back of the
sax twisting each bar of steel 50 tons
create stars and Chevron patterns down
the back of the blade and it also adds
strength the middle sections next he
saws triangular notches out of one bar
and presses it into another creating a
Wolf’s tooth pattern that will give me
an interlocking pattern white teeth
running along the edge of the blade oh
and then joins all the sections at the
ends they’re acting at a very complex
engineering way which which considering
this is how the Saxons made their blades
is quite amazing the final and most
critical part of the process is forged
welding all these components together we
can’t make a mistake now he’s invested
so much time into the piece
the end result is a blade containing
over 1500 individual pieces of steel
though not made of gold or garnets
pattern-welded sword blades are every
bit as impressive
Smith’s forged such intricate blades
during these dark ages but we do know
their tools and workshops were primitive
but they were master craftsmen able to
make their weapons both beautiful and
strong on some levels of science mythic
would be a very simple thing but I don’t
think the people who are producing these
blades were simple Smith’s I think they
would have been specialists the blades
that they used back then were being used
in reality they produce these blades
using a technique known as pattern
welding a process that created blades
with beautiful swirling and rippling
patterns to fit their golden gilded
fittings
to show just how much skill went into
making one modern-day swordsmith Owen
Bush will replicate a Saxon see axe
blade to match the gold and garnet hilt
fittings from the Horde I’m going to
fold this material and it will it will
become the edge it’s very similar to the
techniques Japanese used to make their
samurai swords then he forges the layers
together using a hydraulic hammer that
hits the steel 240 times a minute the
equivalent of eight men who’s in
sledging
so compared to my Saxon forever and it’s
it’s quite a tall at a big advantage the
next stage is the back of the blade
I’m twisting this bar it’s going to be
addictive element for the back of the
sax twisting each bar of steel 50 tons
create stars and Chevron patterns down
the back of the blade and it also adds
strength the middle sections next he
saws triangular notches out of one bar
and presses it into another creating a
Wolf’s tooth pattern that will give me
an interlocking pattern white teeth
running along the edge of the blade oh
and then joins all the sections at the
ends they’re acting at a very complex
engineering way which which considering
this is how the Saxons made their blades
is quite amazing the final and most
critical part of the process is forged
welding all these components together we
can’t make a mistake now he’s invested
so much time into the piece
the end result is a blade containing
over 1500 individual pieces of steel
though not made of gold or garnets
pattern-welded sword blades are every
bit as impressive
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