Here is a really nice film of Finnish blacksmith Jesse Sipola, he has developed a system of using hand held air hammers for fine forging work, particularly faces, it's a nicely shot and edited film too.
Jesse Sipola, Seppä | Blacksmith
(2011) from Eero
Y on Vimeo.
and here is one for the woodies it is an absolute gem, recorded in 1984 two "bushmen" Bill Boyd and Mark Garner fell a tree,
split "slabs" off it and hew them to make house timbers. I have worked
with some seriously talented hewers in Japan, Germany and the best from
the UK, when I watched the first few seconds of this film with these two
chaps sat on the porch sharpening their axes I thought it all looked a
bit hammed up for the cameras but just stick with it, they are as
skilled and effortless as anyone I have ever seen with an axe.
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Those guys are absolutely amazing. Bill Boyd makes hefting an axe look as delicate and precise as handling a pencil!
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