We unveil this amazing sword for the first time. Folded steel, inlaid runes, carved bronze and bone and a Viking Pattern welding demonstration.

Owen Bush, amazing pattern welder, teacher, sword smith and old friend was asked to make a Viking era sword from a novel. It is an extraordinary collaboration between Owen and Petr Florianek, with a blade of meteorite and pattern welded steel and hilted and scabbarded in carved bronze and bone.

He has never seen it finished, I have not seen it at all and it was a great excuse to visit Owen and talk swords with some pattern welding demonstration on the way.

This all came about because J.C.Duncan wrote a book called "A song of steel", [ Ссылка ] set during a clash between Norse Pagan cultures and European Christian cultures and the forging of this sword was an important theme. Although my work is all about historical military weapons, my historical interest is also very much about the social side of life and A Song of Steel was a great balance between action and real daily detail and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

If you want to find out more about J.C.Duncan, you can visit him here [ Ссылка ] or [ Ссылка ]

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Owen Bush runs fantastic courses and sells his great work here [ Ссылка ]
Petr Florianek makes extraordinary work and can be found here [ Ссылка ]

00:00 [Intro]
01:37 [Revealing the sword]
05:36 [Symbolism]
07:26 [Making the Sword Blade]
08:49 [Pattern Welding Demonstration]
14:00 [Closeup]

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