I spent some time with the mini-forge yesterday, and took the opportunity to work with a friend on some hammer forging.
My friend had some spare 1/4x1/2" copper bar and we wanted to do some hammer forging. Copper is so much easier than steel for hot forging, and it was a real treat.
We made this blade, and he worked solo on another, to practice drawing, and get used to using the hammer.
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I'd like to draw the tang out a bit more, and probably even the bevel out a little, but this is strictly an art piece. It will probably recieve a walnut handle. The stock was an extremely high purity copper, and it barely hardens at all, so the blade is exceptionally soft. I'm in the process of learning more about copper alloys. I believe fuming hot copper with zinc will at least produce a brass cortex on the work piece.
we will also be building a couple more mini-forges, but a bit larger than the one i have built already.
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