The Secret of Making a Pattern-Welded Viking Spear

In the Viking Era, the spear was the most common weapon. It had long range and was much cheaper than a sword. I show all the steps of creating a pattern-welded Viking spear from start to finish including forging the wrought iron socket and all the complicated pattern-welding steps that need to be combined at high temperatures in the forge fire. At the end, I add a shaft and test the spear. This is quite a complicated project and requires a large number of forging steps especially the forming of the wolf tooth pattern that make the original Finnish spearhead from Rovaniemen so famous.

This video is an abbreviated version of the eight videos appearing in my Spear Forged of Fire series. It is also forged in fire :-)

If you want to see more details of the work, you can find it in those individual episodes.

A detailed explanation of pattern welding: https://www.provos.org/p/pattern-weld...

The original spearhead inspiring this work is on display in Helsinki, Finnland:
http://www.helsinki.fi/arkeologia/rau...

You can order t-shirts explaining pattern-welding here: https://rdbl.co/2BSFDkr

Blacksmiths: Tony Pederson, Niels Provos

I would also like to express my gratitude to Jim Austin from http://forgedaxes.com/ for helping along the way.

A big thank you to the following Patreon patrons:

George Marsack
Graham Bullard
Jeremy Letheule
Nathan Webb
Nils Anderssen
Ryan Hurst

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Filmed on a Sony PXW‑FS7. Color grading in DaVinci Resolve.