Building a Viking Shield!! // Great Woodworking Project

Hey everybody it's Taylor with Boydston 
Grove and today we're gonna make… a viking shield! Let's get into it! Before we get 
into it, I would like to preface this by saying;   this won't be the usual video with a bunch of 
voice overs and talking. We're just gonna let   the footage roll because most of it is 
pretty self-explanatory. I will go over   the details at the end of the video, so 
make sure to stay tuned for that. Enjoy!! All right and here's our viking shield all 
finished, and let me start off by saying   this thing is super heavy! I don't know how they 
did it back then with the shield and the armor   and the weapons.

They probably ate fewer cookies. 
Let's go over a few of the details real quick.   These tacks right here are just furniture tax 
that I ordered off of Amazon. I'll leave a link   in the description below. I cut off the tack part 
and used e6000 to glue the heads of the tacks   over the heads of the screws on the center piece. 
The center piece, which is called the shield boss,   I got off of Amazon also. They range between 24 to 
30 dollars and they come in a variety of different   sizes and different finishes for different types 
of shields. As far as this strip around the edge;   typically viking shields weren't this elaborate, 
but we were refinishing some furniture and I   took off the brass strips off the furniture and 
thought it would look really cool on the shield.   The colors come from my own family's coat of arms. 
I actually have Scottish heritage so that's where   I came up with the blue and the white.

Now, viking 
shields have been found in a wide range of sizes,   ranging from 24 inches all the way up to 42 
inches. It really depended on the region,   the clans, and the time period. I decided to 
go right towards the middle with 28 inches.   All in all, this was a lot of fun to 
build and it also utilized a lot of   woodworking skills to make this happen. For 
all the gluing, if I didn't use wood glue,   then I used e6000 for anything that was 
touching metal.

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It came together really   nice and it actually is really rugged. If you 
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we would love to hear what you thought of this   project in the comments below. Thank you very 
much for watching. Be safe and have a great day!.

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