Hook Pick - WIP

While I'm finishing up my knife, I've also started (and almost finished) a hoof pick for my sister. If you're not sure what that is... well, it's just a pick to clean out a horse's hoof. Unlike my knife, I forged this out of a short triangular piece of cut-off from my rasp knife. All I have to do now is normalize it a couple times (heat it up to critical temperature 800F and let it cool). Then I have to heat it to critical and quench it in light oil, polish it, temper it with the blow torch and finish it up.

Blacksmithing - Using my Homemade Forge (Videos)

My Homemade Forge!

Recently, I've gotten interested in blacksmithing--partly because I really want to make some arrows for my osage bow (not yet completed) and partly because I like doing things with fire so it seemed really interesting and useful to me.

So here are some videos of the process of finding out if a piece of metal is hardenable and therefore able to keep an edge whether it be a knife or an arrowhead, etc.

Zachary