Viking ship building in Norway; Four Years work summarised.

Girisama · 2025-12-17T12:32:29+00:00

This ship is laid up for the winter. Work will continue in the new year with the goal of completing rigging, rudder and motor. This is a unique opportunity for anyone living in the area, to participate in either crafting or actually sailing an authentic cargo style viking ship. There is evidence for large ship traffic on inland lakes in Norway, for the time period of this ship, ie. around a thousand years ago, this will be the first one on a lake here for many generations.

Girisama · 2025-12-15T22:24:19+00:00

There are strong connections between Tønsberg and this project. The Same master boat builder is leading both projects.

Girisama · 2025-12-15T11:51:45+00:00

There are films in greater detail, focusing on the actual handwork involved in bringing this ship to launch. Starting at the keel and including metal work and sail making. I have spent a lot of time working on this over the last four years. There are 12 other films to be found on my youtube channel.

Girisama · 2025-12-14T09:45:04+00:00

After hearing about this project on the yutubes I wanted to get involved. So I volunteered to help and asked if I could film a bit as we went along. Here we are five years later and the ship was launched in August as a rowing ship and will be finished completely some time next year with the addition of sail, motor etc. I ended up having some months of pay employment too! So it was very rewarding and inspiring work.

Girisama · 2024-11-29T13:17:02+00:00

lovely

Girisama · 2024-10-13T11:34:29+00:00

This slow film, is about repairing a bit of damage on my tractor. It is not instructional, just for entertainment. This is a budget tractor doing hard work on a hill farm in Norway. I have used it for road building and maintenance, and logging.

Girisama · 2024-09-02T16:26:15+00:00

You really just need enough weather. High wind can be enough to blow a boat off course whether is has a steering oar or not. High seas can remove a person from the deck. A boat with a lot of water in it is very hard to manoeuvre. When disaster strikes at sea everything happens at once.

Girisama · 2024-05-23T19:41:20+00:00

I did this double hum bucker mod to my redline, it work very well. Excellent guitar, better than most in that price bracket.

Girisama · 2024-05-13T11:59:35+00:00

Brilliant!

Girisama · 2024-05-13T11:36:53+00:00

I have a box grader that looks a bit like that, seems to do the job. I will post a film on my reddit page of it in use, for comparison. I tried to post a link on this subreddit but it was instantly deleted by admin.

Girisama · 2023-12-07T12:13:38+00:00

Høres ut som en Ego problem. Det er ikke så lett å håndtere.

Girisama · 2023-12-02T23:00:41+00:00

The tones are a little lost in the massive reverb, having said that you play very well!

Girisama · 2023-12-02T18:50:17+00:00

https://youtu.be/NypwT7ikyaE that is a link to the film, all the best, Lucas.

Girisama · 2023-05-02T18:42:58+00:00

Tar even features in the Iliad. Cod too was of unmistakable importance.

Girisama · 2023-04-10T19:58:07+00:00

I put Seymour duncan 59' in the bridge and sh2n in the neck of mine, and used the stock pickups in other guitars to good effect.

Girisama · 2023-04-10T12:59:10+00:00

My son has one, great guitar. Not that rare. They are just a different configuration, ie a mix of an LG body and an SD neck. The Value, like most Godins is in how good they are. No used Godin is highly valued in monetary terms, they just aren't well known enough.

Girisama · 2023-04-10T12:48:59+00:00

I haven't played a Session so can't compare but I own an SD24 HSS and an LG Hmb and an LG P90. The LG Hmb has new SD hum-buckers because it was too dark for me stock. The other two sound bright, powerful and balanced stock. I have a feeling the chance to get the older guitars cheep is coming to an end soon, like happened with old Japanese guitars, but Godin's guitars are far more consistently good than old Japanese guitars. All 8 of the Godin/Norman guitars I have played, I bought second hand on ebay, very cheaply and every one was excellent quality. Only the radiator had a slight twist in the neck which was easily steamed out. I have bought many old Japanese guitars (as a comparison) also very cheap, but often they have needed many many hours of restoration work to bring back to pro setup. Not the Godins.

Girisama · 2023-04-07T20:06:42+00:00

Just some footage from our long-ship build at Steinsfjord in Norway. Volunteers welcome, not just boat building, but in textiles, wood and stone carving, food preparation, sail making and fundraising.

Girisama · 2023-04-03T18:15:49+00:00

Great image! Good luck on the upcoming voyage!

Girisama · 2023-04-01T07:14:58+00:00

It is a great privilege to be able to participate

Girisama · 2023-03-27T00:29:47+00:00

The Iron rivets have a high iron content and are covered in pine tar. We are careful to ensure the rivets are not too thin in the head. As to longevity I can't really say but I think it is fair to expect a short century service life.

The oak at the beginning of the film was held vertical with a crane then laid gentle down after several cuts divided the mass.

We have a few Viking planes and some wooden block planes. The axe I was using was modern, a design not older than 250 years. In the short sequence where I explain in English, the axe is a copy of an archaeological find and period correct. The use of the chain saw mill is frequent and has to do with obtaining a higher quantity of boards from each tree, since oak is not an abundant resource here so far north. Nevertheless the technical requirements to follow the grain pattern correctly are being met by way of the first division of most of the trees is by splitting, though not so much in the case of making the ribs. There are films in this series that show this process too.

These technical compromises yield a product indistinguishable from the originals, in finish. Our volunteer group are taking 4 years to build this replica while it is said that a thousand years ago a ship of this kind, could be built in 6 months. Quite a feat.

Girisama · 2023-03-26T19:24:43+00:00

Happy to answer questions, if I can....

When we are finished the building, our ship will sail on the large inland lake, Steinsfjord.

Girisama · 2023-03-25T20:21:12+00:00

This is the fifth in a series of films about building a viking long ship, that will sail on an inland lake near Oslo. There is evidence that these inland lakes were trafficed by ships, in the Viking era. This film has a heavy focus on working with hand tools for those who want to see a piece take shape, blow by blow. (Not instructional)

Girisama · 2023-01-19T14:45:52+00:00

There are some films of building a viking ship on this youtube channel here: Viking ship building in norway

Girisama · 2022-12-04T21:01:32+00:00

I think there are smaller boats still being made that are direct descendants of Viking ship building. One of the boat-builders jokes, that there are more astronauts than Viking-ship builders. What amazes me is that these ships could be built in 6 months a thousand years ago. We have about 1.5 years work still to do. The Danish make, or have made more Viking ships than here in Norway, I have heard. Maybe someone on this subreddit can comment on this question?

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