Fire Iron Forge

Forging a wizard head part 1: Starting with 3/8”(8-10mm) round bar forge a square taper out to roughly 3”(75mm). This can be done on the face or on the horn/bick, but the fastest and most efficient is how you see John forging it down here over a rounded edge of the anvil. This method is designed for quickly roughing in the over all shape of the taper, then is cleaned up on the face of the anvil. Once the square taper is roughed in, forge the corners down creating a rough octagon taper.

This will serve as the hat of the wizard. The beginning of the taper will be where the eye sockets and top of the nose will be forged in part 2.

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Jonathan upsetting some 1.75” round bar to 2.5”. This is a custom pommel for a swordsmith. Once to size the end will be mushroomed over and thinned out to the customers specs and drilled. It’ll be a beast of a sword!

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Two friends forging knives for the first time! Here he is drawing out the heel of the knife using a ball peen hammer and a soft or striking hammer. This is important because you never want to strike a hammer against another tool that is also high carbon. Even a perfect strike can cause one of the tools to chip, and those chips can cause very serious injuries. Always strike with a soft hammer. If you don’t have one make one. If you don’t want to make one buy one from us or another smith. 👍🏻

We use this technique in our intro to knife making because students that have never forged can do it. As they progress and grow in skill they switch to using a single crosspeen to do the spreading. This is a great way for them to win right way and start getting the concepts of spreading.

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Ty of made a sweet short sword! Here he’s appropriately breaking it in at our local hammer in. 🤣

Made quick work of the pork shoulder we cooked for dinner. Don’t try this at home kids.

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