Neat video Hand Forged Axe Making

Cool video.

One of my favorite of all times if you can ever come across was made back in ‘69 getting ready for the Bicentennial called the Gunsmiths of Colonial Williamsburg. It stars Wallace Gusler as a young man along with his apprentice making a flint lock rifle from start to finish circa 1775 or so. I first found out about this from the book Fox Fire 5, and we watched it when I went to gunsmithing school on the old "reel" movie projector. I purchased my own copy on video when I was at Colonial Williamsburg back in 2001.

I show this video the first day of classes showing my students how technology has changed, but in many ways it’s still the same. Everything from forging, hardening, drawing, spring making, and of course the wood working side of things. We hit 95% of this in our two year Tool & Die program where I'm an Instructor. Wallace is a true master.

The next day I show a Modern Marvels video called machine tools on what we are doing today.

One day I’m going to try my hand at forging.
Thanks again.

I wish I had the space to set up a forge and a blacksmith shop. I would love to try it. They usually have a shop set up at the local thresher shows around and they are really cool to watch.