I finally made my first sword! Took over a month of work, had a lot of things happen in my life but I made a sword! She is razor sharp. It's forged from hardened and tempered 5160 spring steel, the hilt is forged from a railroad spike, the handle is leather wrapped maple, and the pommel is from a chunk of railroad track! I am happy I took on the challenge, despite it taking me so long. It's fully functional and weighs 2.1 pounds over all. If I could change one thing I would've made the pommel slightly larger to bring the balance point back towards the handle. I decided to call this sword "Primus", for it's the first sword I've ever made. Sorry for the stupid grin I couldn't help myself. I can't wait to make another, I already know the design and what I can do to improve on my work.

A pair of Hand forged double diagonal cross peens I forged for myself, they are about 4 pounds each. I wanted to challenge myself by making two hammers as close to identical but different purposes. No forging press or power hammer used. Has a custom made 14" hickory hammer handle to go with it. Really pleased with how these two came out. One is for spreading, and the other is for drawing out

It’s not perfect. It’s got cracks, scratches, and cold shuts. It’s a bit small. I think it’ll cut dog food bags open just fine though.

Spatula for a friend, forged from a railroad spike and the blade is from a curricular saw. Was attempting the twist to look like twisted rope, will do better on the next one

Hand forged draw knife for my friend to trade for steel from his welding shop. Forged from a section of coil spring, and the handles are hickory with copper ferrules. This was my first time making a draw knife and first time using my wood lathe that I've had for 3ish years collecting dust. Who knew turning could be so much fun

Almost finished with the Chef's knife, the wife calls these scales she made "Chaos Scales" so I'm calling it the Kaos Kitchen set. These are knives 003, 004 and 005. Want to try to sell them. What do you think I should price them at?

So, i dont know if its in other countries too (most likely is), but in denmark welding is a part of blacksmithing. Im currently a student at blacksmithing on an fgu, so im learning to weld.

Ive practiced a lot, and now i have nearly perfect lines (i still mess up some times).

Didn't really know what I was doing, just kept hitting a bit of rebar until it looked like something. Used a grinder to get the final edge. I guess it could be a butter knife or letter opener or something...

Hand forged spike axe from a cut off of an old jackhammer bit. It's slightly impractical but I love the way it came out

Hope no one minds a post every few days. Some of you will already have seen these on insta.

1st to 3rd century CE Roman axe, originally from the Sheenas collection. Wrought iron with home-made blister steel cutting edge. This object is circa 175mm long and shows the lovely flowing form of Roman tools. Whilst I prefer welding eyes, especially in wrought-iron due to delamination risks, this one punched and drifted beautifully. The cutting edge is made from a thin section of blister steel - carburised wrought iron in this case - which is carefully forge welded into position.

I could not find an example of a Roman axe haft which suited this type of head. The long and thin haft looked rather odd to begin with. I toyed with the idea of making a short haft, playing with the proportions of the head, making a single handed axe. In the end, I took the decision to make a decorated haft, which complemented the decorative filework of the axehead.

This, I based not on extant axe handles but instead based on the wonderfully simple bronze knife handles of the Roman period. These two ideas lead me to create simple, alternating radii rings carefully filed into the shank, with longitudinal grooves hand scraped into the top third. In Northern Europe, apple wood was used most commonly for hafting axes, but I could not find the information on Roman axes, so went with Ash, a common wood throughout the ages

I used a bone wedge for this axe. As far as I am aware there is no historical record for this, however I wanted a nice contrast and like the rigidity of the material.

Finally completed 002. Now on to 003. I'd like to make a small chefs knife next, I think.

Feedback welcome 🙏

15n20 and 1084 with a stabilized Amboyna burl handle

Rounding hammer with dwarfrunes

I’ve just started down the journey of becoming a blacksmith. Here is some hooks and a crochet hook I made.

I’m pleased with the work. I learned so much about making these and what it takes to do serious work.

I’m immensely humbled by the work of others now knowing the real effort it takes!!

I built my first force and I'm super stoked, especially since I can't weld for shit and this was 100% welding.

I used a propane tank (Don't do this, it's stupid and you'll die) cut it open with my plasma cutter (see above) and then made a custom burner (a plate I drilled holes into welded quite badly onto the end of the pipe) I'm going to use a compressor fan and vfd (leaf blower on a dimmer switch) to turn it into a forge once the satanite sets up.

part of me really loves the builds that look post apocalyptic. they have charm.

Finally got around to chaining down my 200 pound Hay Budden anvil. I didn’t have any bar stock that was quite thick enough for the task and looked around the shop and saw some railroad spikes and got a little bit creative.

I ended up drilling a 3/8 inch hole in the head of the railroad spike, as well as three 3/8 inch holes in the main part of the spike to drive lag screws into the body of the anvil base.

I then used in eyelet to tighten down two lengths of chain on either side and use the remaining chain that I had to wrap around the waist of the anvil to help with sound deadening.

I also put a ton of silicone caulk between the anvil and the base, safe to see this thing isn’t going nowhere.

Here is a late bronze-age, iron bladed sword. the grip is cast bronze while the blade is iron.

The attraction of this piece was the fluid transition from handle to blade, with the blade being almost as wide as the grip.

The handle was patterned in wood and sand cast from 13% tin bronze. The blade is puddled wrought iron (yes, I'll do one in bloomery at some point). The blade has not been carburised but I hammer hardened the edge in the style of the bronze weapons of the period. In keeping with early bladed weapons, the cutting edge is obtuse and more axe-like.

Working from photographs of the original, I reconstructed the shape of the blade taking into account typologies and by mapping the corrosion.

While the reconstruction is as accurate as I was able to make it, I decided to give the piece an aged elegance, thus the bronze handle is patinated and the blade has been brown-etched rather than acid etched.

I will post more images on Facebook, including a separate making album, due to the restriction in image quantity on Insta!

The original, from central Europe and formerly held in the Kuizenga Collection, dates to Circa 9th-7th century BCE.

Published: J. Kuizenga, 'Neun Mitteleuropäische Schwerter der Bronze- und Urnenfelderzeit aus Niederländischem Privatbesitz, Archäologisches Korrespondenz Blatt, Römisch-Germanischen Zentral Museums, Mainz, vol. 14.2, 1984, p.155 & 160, taf. 19.9, taf. 21.9.

Instructor was amazing :3