That has very little to do with an actual Viking shield, but you get ALL the props and praise for being an absolute nutcase X-D turning a shield on a lathe may be the most ridiculous thing I've seen done with crafting. You're bloody amazing Rex.

@RexKrueger

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Loved the video but my oh my is that shield thicc.

@gordonpromish9218

5 жыл бұрын

yep, way too thick, and made of high-quality hardwood. they were supposed to be of yellow linden plywood, cloth or rawhide covered, thin and light, pivoting and deflecting blows rather than resisting penetration, and essentially disposable (except maybe for the boss). but it is pretty work!

@stcredzero

5 жыл бұрын

The shield was way too thicc, by a factor of 3 or 4. However, the thickness and turning method would make for a really dandy round table! I'd bet Rex could sell one of those handmade tables for a good price.

@Nurk0m0rath

3 жыл бұрын

@@gordonpromish9218 Well, the texts say they're supposed to be ply, but from what I've heard from the reenactment community there aren't any surviving remnants of shields made that way. The remnants we do have were apparently plank construction, many in pine, with the wood grain running opposite the crossbar, which gives you an index for the grain direction, and tapered from about half an inch total thickness (including the cloth or rawhide) to a quarter inch or less at the edge. Tests have proven that the plank construction was deliberate, letting a sharp sword or axe blade split its way into the rim and bind. I have seen youtube videos of both the construction and the sharp tests if you'd care to see them. I believe they were both on Roland Warzecha's channel.

A trebuchet obviously. We love ya big guy.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Loved the slow-motion footage of the water balloons. Hysterical 😂. How about a halberd or a flail? Flail is a bit similar to your first one, but a wooden chain would be interesting to see!

Awesome Viking Shield Rex !!!!!!!!!

Hey Rex, seeing that shield mounted up to the homemade lathe makes me think it would make one hell of a monster disc sander!! Oh yeah, awesome shield too! I'm loving this medieval weapon series. I'm thinking...Battle Axe!

Loved the “safety shake” of the equipment!

Oooh, that turned out nice ;D Maybe next, a sharktooth sword but with carved shark teeth? Or a Aztec obsidian blade? Hmm, Roman pilum? It's be ptretty challenging to get the wood that thinned down except maybe by hand. How bout a bearded viking axe? Armour maybe? Like a face mask or a pauldron. A breastplate, like a hoplite muscle cuirass would be quite the challenge. You could try and really push the limits and try for a early firearm like a matchlock. Hollow the barrel and make it "functional" with trigger mechanism and spring propelled musket balls (of wood of course). That'd take forever but it would be a crazy cool work of art.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

Those are all on the "maybe" list. Thanks for watching!

I am a new subscriber but find myself coming back to your channel more and more. I like this wooden weapons series not just for the weapons but the skill sets used to create each. I have been interested in turning globes and liked your take on it. I also really enjoyed your video on how you started your youtube channel and how you started. Very inspiring. But now that you have a shield and mace. Maybe some sort of armor. I am always a fan of a Good double bladed battle Axe. Whatever you choose, have fun. It translates well to the rest of us.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you think so. This series isn't getting big views and the encouragement helps me keep at it.

Dagger with a tringular blade, a celtic/roman Spatha, an atlatl.. so little time, so many things to build ;)

Medieval Crossbow. Think William Tell. Or even a traditional English Long Bow. A Viking Flatbow or a Korean Style Horse Bow.

@schm4704

5 жыл бұрын

Crossbow or bow indeed. That's a no-brainer.

@khoatran-pc6tb

4 жыл бұрын

As much as I’d like to see it, a korean horse bow or any sort of wood-horn-sinew composites might be a bit too ambitious. A selfbow would be great to see though

@friedfish69

4 жыл бұрын

Crossbow, crossbow, crossbow, crossbow.....

@Nurk0m0rath

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe a siege crossbow. They have a unique construction, with semi-rigid limbs attached with a rope hinge. Apparently the design makes them more compact so soldiers in a castle can use them in small spaces.

Just discovered you program and enjoying it. I’m just getting into woodworking, more so wood carving. What I would love to see is a chisel, gouge rack. Similar to you too box. Looking forward to it.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I could do that!

Dual handed sword would be awesome! :D

A miniature trebuchet might be an interesting build.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

Good idea!

That was the coolest thing i had ever seen so far on your videos

Making a really fancy irish sheleigh would be nice.

I'd be interested in an episode around the "Tonfa." It's the inspiration for the modern Police Baton. They have a simple-but-elegant design, and are highly effective/rugged weapons.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

You read my mind. Already did one as a test. Came out GREAT.

@CosmicVitamins

5 жыл бұрын

@@RexKrueger Fantastic!! Also, still interested in Rabbit Sticks and a Gunstock War Club. Just a note, the 'Gunstock' war-club is not the typical war-club. The unorthodox history behind it could be used to draw in your audience. Good Stuff, thank you for your content sir.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

@@CosmicVitamins The gunstock club MIGHT be in the works with a surprise collaborator...but you'll have to wait and see.

Awesome job!! Very cool!! I loved the water Balloons!!

I'm usually more interested in practical projects but that was nuts! I also liked the new music. Thanks for making these.

Make a crow's beak! A long pole weapon that has a multitude of weapons on its ax head.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

That's a new one for me!

If you do a sword, check out falchions, another shield- spiked buckler, but I think a battle axe would be sweet.

Not sure if you are still adding to your forged in wood series, but it would be really cool to see a catapult or even a trebuchet on your channel. Not full sized of course, unless you're up for it, but something big enough to throw some mid sized rocks across a yard. The catapult was one of the first major siege weapons, and would probably be easier to make than the trebuchet, but the trebuchet would be pretty cool to see in action. I am new to woodworking, like brand new. Recently, I subscribed to your channel and I wanted to think you for inspiring me to think outside the box and use what is available to me to make work pieces that are functional and beautiful. I also love that the underlying message of all your videos is that woodworking is an art, it is another form of self expression, and that even the most basic of shop tools can still be beautiful works of art. I hope my idea for another forged in wood video inspired you as your videos have inspired me. However, I do understand that a project such as this, even a scaled version, can be quite the undertaking so I understand if you have to pass on this one. Oh, and congrats on the new shop. Haven't watched the video yet, but I will soon.

Thumbs up for the music!!!

you need a Scottish claymore for your collection

Oof, that shield looks super thick. Viking shields were made from split planks that were ~1/2" in thickness and were fast, nimble implements. Still, can't wait to see the build.

@timpedzinski230

5 жыл бұрын

Are you sure it was half inch and not 12 mm? They were from Europe you know. :)

@richstone2627

5 жыл бұрын

@@timpedzinski230 Most found were 1/4" not 1/2"

@QlueDuPlessis

5 жыл бұрын

@@timpedzinski230 yeah, but metric hasn't been around that long anyway. I wonder what measures they used though 'cos I don't think Imperial had been invented either...

great video rex!

Awesome! Now I know how to make a shield for my son :) How about a halberd next?

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

That's a popular suggestion!

@kadaverf

5 жыл бұрын

@@RexKrueger looking forward to it! Thanks for the great videos

That was cool and appropriately dangerous, I mean, scientific. I was kinda hoping you would get hit by a late water balloon at 8:14. As for other ideas, how about a trident? Thanks for sharing, Rex!

you could try making chest armor and if you are feeling masochistic make some wood chainmail.

If we're talking about wooden weapons, you could make one of the most effective wooden weapons in history, if not the most: a bow and arrow. It's very tricky to make a working wooden selfbow, but if you get it right, it can be the most beautiful thing! If you don't want to go into so much work and investigation, a spear would be awesome as well!

A wooden spear would be pretty cool, an atlatl (spear thrower) would be a great carving project.

@ArikGST

4 жыл бұрын

Oh I second an Atlatl, I bet Rex could make one beautiful handle :D

@bradyritter2193

4 жыл бұрын

Andy Rawls made one

"Don't repeat at home. All tricks are performed by professionals" ) As always - great video

How about making a polearm, but with interchangable heads (i.e. a wooden shaft that can be turned into a glaive, billhook, spear, etc.)? Would be interesting to see how you'd tackle the problem of getting each head on and off securely

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I could do that!

You'll be prepared to defend yourself with the strength of a grizzly, the reflexes of a puma , and the wisdom of a man.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

That last one is questionable.

@seanhannagans

5 жыл бұрын

Hope you got my Rex Kwon Do reference from Napoleon Dynamite. 😁

thanks for risking your life for us

M16? Derringer? just a thought. seriously, last week, I had 2/3 of a project leave 1/3 of the project behind, and it made it's way to my face. 3.5" cube of yellow pine. Fortunately, the wood wasn't damage. Also, fortunately, my nose was pre-broken, so it just slid a bit over towards the ear that had been bit distant. Little to no permanent damage, but, that hurt like a...well, it hurt a lot. So watching that table top do about 500rpm on the side of your bench...I teared up a little. Really glad your project came out okay. And you don't have any chunks of wood embedded anywhere you hadn't intended to.

G'Day Rex. YOu should make a range of boomerangs for different purposes, I was told by a Wiradjury man that they used the root stock of wattle tres as they had very dense hard woods and the bends in the roots made the grain turn well for the shape of the weapon just like looking for good oak branches for elbows in ship building. I would love to see you take this challenge of using some (common here) rare exotic woods.

very cool quality vids!

The shield looks terrific! Great job and I look forward to your next wooden weapon.

Very fun video love it.

Your next historcal project should be probably be a gladiator class call the "Hoplomacus". Their weapon of choic is bascially a spear and a small wrist mounted shield(it bascially a size of a buckler shield but without a boss and is strap to you insteas of a grip to hold) and depending which one is accurate they also either carry the gladius sword or a pugio dagger(which ever it is it one of those two.

Roman gladius. Centurions actually trained with wooden replicas that were up to twice as heavy than the metal ones

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

Popular suggestion!

You sir are officially insane with that lathe setup. Love the way it came out. Now you need to make the helmet to go with the mace and shield.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I really am thinking about a helmet.

Yike! That viking shield would make a great table, I think maybe a tad more research on the thickness? 🤔🤣 Impressive build nonetheless, we need more of these. 👍🏻

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for giving a POLITE note on the thickness. I've heard about all I care to on this subject and most people are rude about. Thanks for watching!

Sugestion for the next weapon: bambu sword . I once saw a bambu knife that actualy cuts. You have to laminate the material and put the grain in the right orientation to allow you to sharpen it, but you can make a real weapon out of it.

Awesome video and build. Hope we get to see more videos in this series

Well Rex, at least you were smart and wore your brown pants, you know just in case.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I really was a bit scared!

@keithfaulkner6319

3 жыл бұрын

@@RexKrueger obviously be very afraid. You never know what's in those "water"balloons.

You should make Braveheart's Long Sword!! Or how about tackle making a traditional long bow. I can send you a piece of Osage to use.

Might seem silly, but how about a Quaterstaff ? Not only was it appropriate to the age. But it is actually a traditionally wooden weapon (and no, it's not just a stick)

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I might!

@gregmislick1117

5 жыл бұрын

@@RexKrueger GREAT!, I'll take 2

Great idea Rex!!

My boys would love to see an axe, mace, crossbow and samurai sword. Keep up the good work

You turned a freaking table on your diy lathe :D

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I'm kind of shocked that it worked!

Really, appreciate the videos, Rex! I think you might have lost your mind slightly for this one. Between your crazy lathe rig and your music selection! Haha!!

Try making an all-wood crossbow.

blow gun should be your next weapon. with no lathe or power tools. just hand tools.

Would absolutely love to see this revisited sometime in the future with more historically accurate material dimensions. My six-year-old son, meanwhile, suggests that you make a viking-style sword to go along with your shield. (I also think this would be a cool project)

You should make a crossbow next!

Having done some sketchy things on a sketchy work table...I suggest having the diy lathe clamped along the long side of your table as that is the axis of force caused by the large spinning object. Please do another large spinning object build. Please.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I flipped it around the long way after the first few minutes. Really helped with stability. Good suggestion!

Midevil crossbow!

Awesome! I saw the teasers in Instagram and have been waiting for the full video! Did not disappoint!

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I'm really glad to hear that!

Some ancient Nordic shield turning music would have been a nice touch :)

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I'll look into it...

A small catapult!! Great video as always!!

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

That's a good one!

Love the look! :)

You should add "vikings" as a keyword, like the "historical TV show. Maybe some character names too.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

Now THAT is a helpful suggestion. KZread community take note!

@lapislignum

5 жыл бұрын

@@RexKrueger also if you like toolboxes and want to go further down the Japanese woodworking rabbit hole check this out kzread.info/dash/bejne/eZyIydawp92unco.html excuse me posting it here, couldn't find any contact details and I don't know how instamessenger works yet.

That's one beautiful table you built there. Now where's that viking shield? 😁 It obviously looks nice and is cool. Just, you know, in no way actually resembles a historical shield. These were normally made of cross laminated thin wood slices.

I thought it was totally historically accurate. Do you not remember in the film 'The Vikings' how Kirk Douglas's face got scarred because he didn’t wear his helmet when using his electric lathe? Or when Tony Curtis sent Janet Leigh back to the hardware store because she got the wrong size screws? And who can forget Ernest Borgnine’s gallant fight against the water balloons? Am I giving my age away here? I bet most people who watch your videos are far too young to remember films with that cast list. I also bet your video was a lot more accurate than the film. I’m thinking of getting a small lathe, but there’s a few things I want to comfortably master in the workshop first. As always a brilliantly entertaining video, and the shield looked pretty cool. I hope you don’t mind my jest.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I don't mind at all. That was hilarious!

That was WAY COOL!! ^_^ Now all you need, is a ROCK MAPLE VIKING SWORD!! LOL

@VinlandAlchemist

5 жыл бұрын

@Rex Krueger - HEY!! It seems I can send files even in a Facebook Message Request! Please go check your FB message requests to find the plans for the ROCK MAPLE VIKING SWORD! ^_^

The vikings didn't put iron on their shield rims. They glued on rawhide. The idea behind the shield being flexible is to have blows glance off and continue forward momentum. This serves two purposes. To not have the wearer of the shield withstand the actual force behind the blow, and to open up the opponent to counterattack when their momentum carries them forward. If your theory of getting their weapons stuck in the shield is true, you also wouldn't put a metal rim on it, pohibiting weapons from getting stuck. Viking shields were incredibly thin and light weight. They were also ment to be used offensively by punching with the rim of the shield

Great video! Was fun to watch it. Would love to see a video about you building a huge Zweihänder with a flame shaped blade O:) Flamberge Zweihänder

Tiger Hook swords might be cool.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

Wow. people keep suggesting things I've never even HEARD of.

Roman Gladius a great chance to break out the draw knife

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I need no excuse to break out the draw-knife, but point taken.

You should probably make a gondor lord of the rings movie style helmet for when you use that contraption in the future haha :P

A great video, made me LoL at work!

♥️♥️Love your Videos Rex!!!♥️♥️ Thanks for taking my advice and working on fixing your massive under eye circles. I’m guessing you used Clinique dramatically different moisturizing gel. A personal favorite of mine I might add. Anyways, your videos are always awesome and congrats on not looking so severely sleep deprived on camera anymore. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

How about a collab with Shadiversity? KZread's resident ancient weapons and armor expert!

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I might!

Make a Mangonel

Not sure if you will see this but if you want some ideas, or to make sure you are being fairly historically accurate, I would check out Shadiversity and Skallagrim.

it would have been nice of you showed us how to find the exact center of your shield and how you mounted it to your lathe.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I used a center-finder, although I didn't show it. YOu can look at my lathe build series for workholding.

you could try to make a kanabõ some where actually made of wood and you can make the studs out of dome head bolts

Make a 1796 Light Cavalry Saber.

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I'd love to, but that thin blade would be fragile.

I know this is a different historical, but I want you to try a bat'leth

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

I could make one, for sure, but I feel like I'd just end up band-sawing the shape out of plywood. I'm not seeing the challenge...

Not sure about historical weapons, but the Cutlass Bluetane from Fable has always looked awesome to me.

Now that contraption would make Izzy Swan proud!

@RexKrueger

5 жыл бұрын

High praise!

Cause... Vikings! 😁

Rex, how about a Scottish Claymore? Its huge, and can have some cool detail!

Find you local SCA chapter, take it to their fighter practice and see how it holds up there

Next you should make a Viking Axe.

Battle ax!

Most shields, were,in fact, made of wood, although some were made of hide or wicker or other materials. But the boss (the domed part in the middle) would have been metal. And the Vikings probably didn’t use epoxy.

Have you thought about making a chakram?

You should make a spear, and complete the Norse look!

How about a Long Staff?

Roman Gladius

Yeah, I still haven’t figured out the falchion build, I wanna see what you do to make it

This was awesome!!! Loved seeing that huge blank spin! I would especially like to see you do some sort of war axe. I feel like you could easily replace the head with one you forged and go all Roy Underhill on some logs in the Woodworking for Humans series. Talk about crossover episode!

Maybe some sort of polearm next (guisarmes and lochabers are particularly cool) and you'll have yourself a complete knight's ensemble!

I like the idea of an Halberd, but an M1 Garand will do for me aswell.

I vote for a falchion

A Katana Practice sword! Great shield!

Music reminds me of 80 tv shows