Hitting the Anvil

Ok, this is forge the wild so, while you will see outdoor info on this blog, that wont be all. I am also go to exhibit black smithing info and videos. So to start of is one of my favorites, traditional viking axe smithing. This is done buy taking a lump of soft steel and working it out into a handle hole and a blade. This is not as simple as it may seem, which is what macks it so cool in my mind. As you will see the smith, Justin Austin, used a fuller to separate the mass of the piece. After he uses a hot chisel to split one end, so he can craft this into a circle the forge wield(the cool part) the ends. After, he dose this to the blade before inserting a piece of high carbon steel, or cutting steel so that the business end of the axe stay sharper longer.

Axe Forging Link  

This is only one of meany points of the smiths craft, another is the artistic end of it, and with spring just around the corner it thought it would be interesting to see how a leaf is made. A leaf topically comes out of a length of round stock, as it is not one hug mass as the axe is. In doing this, Steve Wietecha sets a short rectangular tapper on the end that is to become the leaf. Then he proseceds to to set a fuller behind the tapper and then draws this out into a thin round tapper witch will become the stem. Final finishing the piece by flattening out the leaf and place the vies in with the cross peen hammer.

Leaf Forging Link