Building a Viking Shield!! // Great Woodworking Project

Hey everybody it's Taylor with Voice and 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 voiceovers 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 tacks 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 centerpiece. The centerpiece, which is called the Shield Boss, I got off of Amazon also. They range between $24 to $30 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 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. It came together really nice and it actually is really rugged. If you enjoyed this video make sure to like it. We have lots of other projects on our channel so make sure to go over there, check those out, subscribe, and hit the notification bell. And 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.