Firesteel Forged Vikingstyle

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Firesteel, forged vikingstyleby morfmir on August 24, 2011

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Firesteel, forged vikingstyle ......................................................................................................

Intro: Firesteel, forged vikingstyle ..............................................................................................

Step 1: Tools ..............................................................................................................

Step 2: The raw steel .......................................................................................................

Step 3: Forging ............................................................................................................

Step 4: Hardening and testing .................................................................................................

Step 5: Lighting the fire ......................................................................................................

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Intro: Firesteel, forged vikingstyleThis Instructable will show you how to make a firesteel. This kind of firesteel was used by the vikings to light a fire. In a later 'ible I will show exactly how to do that. Th'ible will just show how to forge the steel, not how to use it.

Image Notes1. original firesteel exhibited in the National Museum in Copenhagen

Image Notes

1. other original firesteels

Image Notes1. other original firesteels


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Image Notes1. Remember your safety gear. A viking with a eye patch ain't cool.

Image Notes1. Smith tongs

Image Notes1. This is my reconstructed viking forge.

Image Notes1. The heat in the viking forge is from wood lump charcoal.2. This stone called a "Avlsten" is a reconstruction of a stone found in SnaptunDenmark.

Image Notes1. my apprentice testing a firesteel.

Image Notes1. water to quick cool the steel.2. a wooden bucked made from oak.


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Image Notes1. my reconstructed round tongs was lost the day I made this 'ible, so I had touse a modern round tongs.

Image Notes1. This forge is made from clay. A water pipe with a valve made of paper and aair source. The air source is a vacuumcleaner that is blowing.

Image Notes1. This improvised smithy I made this summer in Sweden at the ScoutJamboree.


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Step 2: The raw steelTo make a good firesteel you need some highcarbon steel. It is the content of carbon in the steel that makes the sparks.The best steel for firesteel have a content of above 1% carbon. My best source of high carbonsteel is old files and car springs.The carsprings are perfect for forging knifes and other cutting tools. The carbon content in the carspring is around 0.8% -1% and that is a little low for firesteel. The fileare all above 1% some 1.5% and that is great for firesteel.

Image Notes1. an old worn-out file. Cheap on flee marked or free from mechanic or smithworkshop. Good for firesteel.2. Carspring good for forging cutting tools.

Image Notes1. The file must be smooth or else the patten will be visible on the finalfiresteel.

Image Notes1. To make the file smooth I use the angle grinder.


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Image Notes1. Now the file is blank and ready for forging.

Image Notes1. one file will make 3 firesteels.

Step 3: ForgingNow heat the steel to forging temperature. The steel needs to be gloving red. When it cools down and the gloving color fade heat it again.

First hammer out a long pointy end.Heat the end and with the round tongs bend the end to an eye.Now heat the steel again and bend the rest of the end around the anvil horn.

Then the firesteel is ready for hardening.


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Step 4: Hardening and testingWhen the steel have the right shape it is time to harden it.Bring the steel to glowing red, and dip it in the waterbucket.The steel will now cool very fast making it very hard.

Dry the steel and find a sharp piece of flint and test if the steel can make sparks.

Some times you need to remove the black surface on the steel before you are able to make the sparks. The black scaling is easy removed with the scraping of a flintstone.

Image Notes1. This is the steel seconds before i dropped it in the water bucket.

Image Notes1. Have a bucket of water ready near the heat. For the steel to be good it needs tcool quick in the water not in the air.

Image Notes1. Now test your firesteel. Strike the flint hard with the steel.

Image Notes1. look at them fly. This is a perfect firesteel.

Step 5: Lighting the fireWhen you have practiced making sparks with your firesteel. It is time to make a real fire.

Stay tuned for my next 'ible where I show how to prepare tinderfungus and make a fire The Viking Way.

/Thomas


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