🛡️🛡️🛡️The Secret of Crafting a Medieval KITE SHIELD 🛡️🛡️🛡️

Thank you for the very informative video. It is always a pleasure to see a professional craftsman work. There are many techniques in the video to learn, and can only be learned by observation than by doing it. Thank you and please keep up your videos and your professional engagement in the comments. Very appreciated.

I don’t understand how you only have 8.9k subs, but you just gained another. This was the most interesting and useful video I have ever found on trying to make a kite shield. I’ve wanted to try but couldn’t find a good video, and you actually tell us what you’re using instead of me having to guess. Keep up the great work👍

Amazing content brother. Cheers from the states

This is such good content. I can't believe you only have 8k subs. Earned another one today

How on earth do you only have 8k subscribers, you are far more interesting and produce a far better video than much larger channels. You make cool shield too. I guess.

Dude, this is without any doubt the best shield crafting tutorial I've ever seen, this will surely help me with my kite shield. Huge thanks for it!!

Ausgezeichnet!

🗡😇🛡DEUS DE VULT, Gott segne Amen.

I made my shield press out of 2x6s cut to profile. It worked.

I can recommend getting your plywood layer wet, but not super water logged. It’ll dry out in time, but it becomes more flexible and prevents the wood from straightening out. When we did our banister, that’s how we curved the wood.

There is never too many clamps😂

empty, iron barrel, two wooden slats, two load straps, PVA glue, two 3 mm plywood boards. Where can I get an iron barrel? An empty iron barrel floats behind the workshops. The load belt creates extreme pressure, and the next day you can cut a shield from the 6 mm plywood, Much easier than playing with weird construction... :) It also seems to me that your shield is not curved enough. The originals, at least in Eastern Europe, were much, much more curved ;) (It should be kept in mind that the plywood board must be taken slightly larger than the shield and the shape of the shield must only be sawed out of the curved rectangle.) In any case, this complex construction is not needed to make a shield. The board shield can also be glued together against the barrel with the pressure of the car's load belt, it presses them tightly together. You simply cut off the edges on wooden boards. And then curved the angular places with a planer... This is how we made larp shields about 30 years ago, they also resisted real axes when we tested them. :)

Just amazing!!!! OMG, I think I might have found a new hobby xD

I loved the hack with the ducktape. Great work!!

I love ur enthusiasm for medieval projects! Earned a follower for that!<3

Very cool, cheers from Sweden

I need an electric planer. I can’t believe how many hobby items that use them. I just thought they would be a very useless tool, but it will absolutely help me! In your research on shields using leather hides, have you come across the meat side facing outward? I saw a boot maker use the smooth side in towards the toe and the rough side out. And it turns out it harder to get through it when making a cut. I used a couple pieces of scrap and gave it a try to see which it took less effort to cut… it checks out. I was curious if that was a thing makers back in the day knew or not?

Interesting. 7 kilos is...well, heavy, but guess it is expected. Had only experienced center grip viking kind of shields myself and they were definitely lighter. Maybe I'll return to hema one day and try one of the kind you made

Just found your channel and am very glad i did. Great content, can't wait to see more. Liked, subscribed and commented.

The individual steel ribs for bending is a really interesting idea. It would take up much less storage space than the jig I built. Mine is 2'x4' plywood with wooden ribs permanently attached to it. It achieves the same goal. I also use ratchet straps