Forging Narsil/Andúril

I forget to bookmark them lol!

Server Room Gremlin said:

Here is a video where they forge the sword Narsil (based on its design in the movies). Then, they break it and reforge it into Andúril. It's pretty neat!

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This is so cool!!! I love blacksmithing. Gave it a try myself several years ago at a 2-day intensive (I was influenced by the Dwarves when the Hobbit movies came out), but I wasn’t very good at it because all the protective gear was too large for me to be effective. I’d love to try it again someday with the right equipment though, and with someone who’d be willing to teach me. I also like to watch the competition show Forged in Fire, in which blacksmiths compete and have to forge all sort of different blades and weapons. It’s really interesting!

Thanks for sharing the video!

Fingon_Findekáno said:

This is so cool!!! I love blacksmithing. Gave it a try myself several years ago at a 2-day intensive (I was influenced by the Dwarves when the Hobbit movies came out), but I wasn’t very good at it because all the protective gear was too large for me to be effective. I’d love to try it again someday with the right equipment though, and with someone who’d be willing to teach me. I also like to watch the competition show Forged in Fire, in which blacksmiths compete and have to forge all sort of different blades and weapons. It’s really interesting!

Thanks for sharing the video!

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Pretty epic that you gave it a go, anyway!
I've only done woodworking before as a subject in high school. I was a total beginner (unlike those who had done it the previous year too), but I was careful to clarify each new step with the teacher to make sure I got it right. No bandsaw mishaps occurred. 👍 The things I made turned out pretty well. I only chose the subject for a single semester and didn't pursue it any further. I was just curious and wanted to try something different.


^ My favourite one, a wooden frame with a dolphin that hangs in my room. We had a choice of what types of wood we wanted to use for the dolphin's body. The dark reddish one is jarrah (eucalyptus marginata), and the other is a tree from Indonesia (I've forgotten its name). These both happened to be very hard types of wood (cause I like making things difficult for myself apparently), so there was quite a lot of resistance when pushing them through the bandsaw to get the rough shapes of the dolphin halves.

Fingon_Findekáno said:

This is so cool!!! I love blacksmithing. Gave it a try myself several years ago at a 2-day intensive (I was influenced by the Dwarves when the Hobbit movies came out), but I wasn’t very good at it because all the protective gear was too large for me to be effective. I’d love to try it again someday with the right equipment though, and with someone who’d be willing to teach me. I also like to watch the competition show Forged in Fire, in which blacksmiths compete and have to forge all sort of different blades and weapons. It’s really interesting!

Thanks for sharing the video!

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I've worked with copper sheets before,to make ornaments and such but forging something sounds really cool! I've always wanted go give jewel smithing a try but never got the opportunity. Maybe someday I the future,when I'm less busy.

Server Room Gremlin said:

Pretty epic that you gave it a go, anyway!
I've only done woodworking before as a subject in high school. I was a total beginner (unlike those who had done it the previous year too), but I was careful to clarify each new step with the teacher to make sure I got it right. No bandsaw mishaps occurred. 👍 The things I made turned out pretty well. I only chose the subject for a single semester and didn't pursue it any further. I was just curious and wanted to try something different.

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^ My favourite one, a wooden frame with a dolphin that hangs in my room. We had a choice of what types of wood we wanted to use for the dolphin's body. The dark reddish one is jarrah (eucalyptus marginata), and the other is a tree from Indonesia (I've forgotten its name). These both happened to be very hard types of wood (cause I like making things difficult for myself apparently), so there was quite a lot of resistance when pushing them through the bandsaw to get the rough shapes of the dolphin halves.

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Wow, great job with your dolphin!! Very impressive, especially considering the types of wood you made it with and the fact that it was your first (and ultimately, only) semester in the class. Double-checking and asking questions as you go along always pays off. As they say in sewing (and probably many other creative endeavors), “Measure twice, cut once!” Can’t be too careful.

When I tried blacksmithing, we were working with rods of metal (what type, I know not), and I ultimately walked away with a crude fire poker, a dinner bell triangle and rod to go with it, and I feel like there might have been something else. Like I said, when your gloves are way too big and you can hardly see out of your safety glasses, progress was difficult and slow, and as it was a 2-day event, I didn’t have much time. Some other students made spoons and other things too, I think.

At the same event, my brother tried welding and made a pair of bookends with horse-shoes, but it wasn’t really his ‘thing’.

Tyelkormo the Fair said:

I've worked with copper sheets before,to make ornaments and such but forging something sounds really cool! I've always wanted go give jewel smithing a try but never got the opportunity. Maybe someday I the future,when I'm less busy.

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Ooh, cool! I would think your ornaments were very unique and interesting, using copper sheets. Did you bend and cut them into shapes? Jewel smithing also sounds like it could be fascinating.

Fingon_Findekáno said:

Wow, great job with your dolphin!! Very impressive, especially considering the types of wood you made it with and the fact that it was your first (and ultimately, only) semester in the class. Double-checking and asking questions as you go along always pays off. As they say in sewing (and probably many other creative endeavors), “Measure twice, cut once!” Can’t be too careful.

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I'd say my talent is that I 'catch on quick'. Which can be applied to pretty much anything, as long as I'm interested in some way.

Fingon_Findekáno said:

When I tried blacksmithing, we were working with rods of metal (what type, I know not), and I ultimately walked away with a crude fire poker, a dinner bell triangle and rod to go with it, and I feel like there might have been something else. Like I said, when your gloves are way too big and you can hardly see out of your safety glasses, progress was difficult and slow, and as it was a 2-day event, I didn’t have much time. Some other students made spoons and other things too, I think.

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That reminds me of the other stuff I saw in the workshop area. Some more experienced students moved onto making other things once they had finished the required projects. For example, actual furniture like chairs. There was even an entire small boat leaning upright against one of the walls. Well, not 'entire' as it was still being worked on by someone apparently (though not from my class). And a 'small' boat still reaches most of the way to the ceiling.

Fingon_Findekáno said:

I love blacksmithing. Gave it a try myself several years ago ...

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In one of my yearly company class reunions, one of the places we had a tour of was a water-powered forge mill.
I don't recall how old - decades at least, if not centuries - the machinery was, including huge logs as "handles" for the largest hammers.
Their specialty was producing clappers for big bells - we're talking up to multi-ton bells like the behemoths in cathedrals!
With this market being about as far away as you can get from a consumer mass market, the specialists for the latter (and many other smaller markets) have given it a pass. So with technology from possibly the late middle ages they produce these clappers for customers world-wide.
Besides the huge water-powered hammers they also did conventional manual smithying (I don't recall their entire product spectrum).
And we were given the opportunity to bang away with a smallish one-hand hammer after they showed us how it's supposed to be done.
Thing is, a blacksmith does not slug away at the piece of metal to be formed ten, twenty or thirty times in a row! The world's strongest blacksmith would get a bad cramp way before that. No, strike three to at most five times, then relax the arm an let the hammer-head bounce loosely on the anvil - then repeat. Well, I did bonk away well past the five-strike threshold - with practically invisible results. 😬

Server Room Gremlin said:

Here is a video where they forge the sword Narsil (based on its design in the movies). Then, they break it and reforge it into Andúril. It's pretty neat!

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Wow! This is an awesome watch! Thanks for sharing this!