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Main Discussion Area => Arrows => Topic started by: Prarie Bowyer on March 01, 2015, 12:10:31 am

Title: Thinking about trying to forge some heads.
Post by: Prarie Bowyer on March 01, 2015, 12:10:31 am

I've been tinkering with the pope and young broad heads that are in the YouTube videorecently posted.

When I was younger I owned a black smithing business.  I made armor.

So I'm making these riveted and assembled broad heads thinking it would be easy to forge them, if one had the forge, anvile hammers, tongs, etc........ Oh right.  I don't so back to riveting.

Then I bump into designs for a tiny forge made from coffee and soup cans.  I have a decent bed on my vice, or a small anvile could be cheap.

Hmmmmmmmm.....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jBVa2bw3r_k

I like the size and the pearlite idea in this one

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uIRTcmR6sSk
But not the sodium hydroxide.  Wonder if the plaster alone would work?

Title: Re: Thinking about trying to forge some heads.
Post by: Prarie Bowyer on March 01, 2015, 12:15:53 am

To do them right I'd only need a small cross piene hammer,  2tongs, but one with a conical bottom jaw.  Gah!

I don't need to be thinking about this.

Title: Re: Thinking about trying to forge some heads.
Post by: WillS on March 01, 2015, 09:23:13 am

Here's a pic to help - it's the closing of the socket that takes the most practice but this pic helped me a lot.

(http://i1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb363/Will_Sherman/received_951172124912650.jpeg_zpslwdmvtli.jpg) (http://s1202.photobucket.com/user/Will_Sherman/media/received_951172124912650.jpeg_zpslwdmvtli.jpg.html)