Nice observation re the work-hardening and the change in the response of the hammer

Can you please please please make a version of the Leviathan Axe from God of War 2018 or God of War Ragnarök!? That would be an amazing piece for your collection, and it will surely boost your viewership, too! Theres many from god of war 2018 on youtube but not many variants from ragnarok! So maybe doung a version from ragnarok would be great!

Might makea plus sign cut for the handle going into the axe head. Use a contrasting hardwood to show off the wedges. Very handsome combinatikn to compleme t the bequtiful. Raftsmanship. Well done!

The slurry cracks all the time, why don't you try other moulding methods

Copper ball bearings are hard to find

Hmm! Beautiful axe! I wonder if the ancients used different shapes more conducive to bronze? Possible a thicker blade and higher blade sharp angle. Maybe 20 or 25 degree? Less shaving more chopping. Fine casting and l am learning to salvage imperfections by brazing. Thanks

Now you need to complete the collection. Gold hammer!

i horribly misread the thumbnail

Cool experiment. How about an aluminum donut around a long round electromagnet. Flies right off if I remember correctly.

Beautiful work man

Listening to this about Chriist blood splattered garment, make me realize that going to "war" for your beliefs and there is "blood that is shed," is OK!

golden knife!

So nice and clean! Really comforting❤️

Read about " lost wax" process to make the mold.

7:40 hold on. I thought aluminium was the most thermally conductive metal. Silver has the highest electrical conductivity. Still a big ol' heat sink.

Will and Skill.

Have you sold this?

You can now make UFO using copper and magnetic. That is what they use.

frictionless piston

SCV anyone? ukposts.info/have/v-deo/eZ-eoambaZWSqpc.html

To me its for show only yes it can cut soft wood but dry oak? Not sure about how effective.. Looks great but i personaly prefer steel and brushed surface since i cut wood a lot.

thank you for including the aborted attempt, the problem solving was interesting

Just a thought for you. When pouring it's easier to hit the target by positioning the spout left-right but not forward-backward, because the spout focuses the pour position L-R. The F-B accuracy is dependant on your flow control consistency, which is much poorer and especially if it's heavy. So pouring into an annulus should be done tangential not radial.

You could have replanted that tree it needed a bigger and deeper hole with decent soil! I like the look of you small axe maybe try it on green bone as it could be good for butchering a carcus!

How I upgraded my grinder,by replacing almost every part. Lol. Nice video, but I do wonder if just buying a better grinder would have been better for you instead of changing out loads of thus one.

Wow Great video

have you ever heard of "Danielium"? it's a cast iron and aluminium bronze that was invented not too long ago by an italian youtuber, and was particularly resistant to shock and abrasive damage, maybe worth a shot?

That sand casting bench is a fantastic piece of kit. Inspired. You might also consider using the old Japanese katana trick of making a sandwich of your CU/AL alloy with a thin piece of high carbon steel in the middle, which would then be the cutting edge and would last much longer. The golden color of the alloy was very nice and I liked watching the process from start to finish.

I believe the “fin brakes” on roller coasters are copper/aluminium alloy, be interesting to see how this or pure aluminum would react to the magnetic eddy currents produced by the ball magnet

Can you do some sort of diping of the edge into molten steel or titanium or something then hammer it to put a harder edge on your bronze hammer? Like how candle wax is added to a wick to build the candle up?

Amazingly skilled work with the casting I can see years of mistakes and learning there. But yeah different edge geometry probably better for this kind of metal

Been Aware of this For a While, Strange as Copper is Not Much Magnetic(Diamagnetic) Would Love to Try With a Gold Tube, Don't have enough Gold😢 Had Wanted to Try a Sheet of Magnet, And Drop Fine Gold and Copper down the Side of it to see if it is Drawn to it. Would Be a Good way to sort Fine Gold. Have Sheet at Slight angle So Gold would Be drawn to a Slot opening, The Dirt/sand would drop straight down. Can you try any of this. You Are Better Equipt than me Right Now, Good Luck

Bronze acts like a shock absorber for steel, it wouldn't last long, but it looks great though

How much would you sell one for, cool gifts for my brothers?

Green wood is much softer than kiln dried wood. You're chopping on the freshly downed tree was probably a more realistic test.

That aluminium bronze has a brilliant colour. I'd love a cube or ingot of that stuff on a little pillow just to look at as a decoration lol.

FUN FACT: Lenz law can also accelerate an object.

Why is is called Bronze? Bronze is Copper and Tin. This is Copper and Aluminium. ...stuff all to do with what they had in The Bronze Age 3000 years ago. Fun to watch though :-) V would have swapped Helen for that Axe You just made.

Thats a great axe for a zombie apocalypse

A question for the room, thanks in advance. When melting the copper as in the video, the material was dirty as many here have said. If that ingot was sold at a scrap yard, what grade of copper would that ingot been sold at in comparison to the copper that he started out with that was contaminated? My question basically, is it worth it to melt into ingots if the material you have is contaminated similarly as in the video? Enjoyed the video very much. Thanks

It must be great to be able to afford all of that equipment just for a hobby

I would like to see how it affects the mass of the copper cylinder on a scale. Is the weight of the copper tube increased by the amount of magnet if the copper tube is on a scale (even though the magnet is not touching the scale nor tube), or if you hold the tube in your hands while standing on a scale and someone drops the magnet through it?

It seemed so much like anti-gravity that it made me wonder how big a set-up would need to be to make it look like a person was in free fall in an SF film.

man discovers that gold tools have low durability; shoulda played minecraft first

Ya know they still sell Carbon C-60 powder. I know it might be expensive but the end results will astound you!!! Did you ever hear about Jim Bouwie's Knife??

As the melting point of aluminium and bronze is much lower than iron, I think this might be an alloy the previous cultures could have actually used.

After cutting the dried hardwood, rather than 'grinding' a new edge, cold hammer the edge to both sharpen, and further harden the edge. It would have been nice if you told us to what angle you made the initial edge, and why you chose that angle.

I'd like to see how this performs in any hardwood that has been standing dead a season.

It's called aluminium.

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