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Good work ..... Please folks, remember to always remove hardy tools, especially hot cuts, from the hardy as soon as you are done with them. However skilled you think you are, one moment's loss of concentration and you damage tools but far more importantly, could easily sever a finger on your hammer hand. Familiarity breeds contempt, so just develop good practice from the start and keep safe

Como le hace para avivar el fuego y si este es a base de carbon?

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Very nice.

Here is a updated version in HD of this process ua-cam.com/video/L28mhV8jOlo/v-deo.html

i am making a new metal that i plan on using to make the strongest swords known to man... swords that can easily far-surpass even ancient Damascus... my point i simply heard that bluing effect's the strength of gun barrel's my Q, is will it affect the strength of an impurity-free sword ?, also i personally wish for my blue to be as deep and bright as i can get it, how would i ensure that the metal holds a very solid reflective bright-blue color ? and preferably without harming the strength of my work. is there a way to make this kind of coloring work without compromising the strength of the blade or is the coloring part just a rainbow i'm chasing ?.

Magnifique travail ! Qui sait encore faire ça ? Bravo !!

Cool! Would they originally all have been ground to shape along the socket?

You advised that your fuel is a mix of coke and coal. What coke and coal and what mix 50/50 60/40? I have just completed my first forge with my son complete with box bellows (a little too close to the forge, in hindsight) but do I not wish to demoralise my son if we cannot get the fire hot enough for us to do basic work.

can you reuse the coke . coal from the forge ? or is it burnt out from a single days usage?

rip video quality

ON THE DIAGONAL, NOT THE FLAT. INTERESTING POINT ABOUT THE POINT. THANK YOU HECTOR. TAKE CARE GARE

Beautiful work and craftsmanship as always, thank you for sharing your expertise

beautiful work

Fantastic video. By far the most comprehensive and certainly the cleanest smith work on a bodkin i have watched on UA-cam so far. Thanks for putting the vid up Hector.

What is that: 4:53

the best

Show the end result of your hard work :(

ill take 2 dozen

beautiful job

OMG, that's awesome!!!! Thumbs up for the video Hector! And thank you, sure.

The skills and the knowledge of Hector Cole are indeed awesome. It is clearly that this expert has improved his technics and the mastering of his tools in many hours. I'm realy sad to mention that this is not what I would say about the camera men and the video quality itself. But this makes the explanations even more valuable. Thank You very much for this new video. Maybe some day there will be a HD cam with propper focus and low light performance available - to give us the ancient technics in modern picture quality... ;-)

That's great. How much would 24 cost?

Very cool

Thank you kindly for taking the time to film and post this amazing video. It has been very helpful! I think it's great that there are still people who can bring history back into modern day life. My hat goes off to you my good sir. I hope my bodkins will one day be forged as good as yours. Keep up the amazing work! Michael Brauer

This video is awesome!! Thank you so much for putting it up.

Need to lower the volume, the hammer blows were really loud and jarring. Great video though?

Was it made out of steel or iron? I think iron, right? Because it is medieval.

Very informative video, enjoyed your first film but so glad that you have gone into far greater detail. Looking forward to the next!!!

Finally! I found somebody who doesn't use a gas tank :)

Hello and greetings from Germany. :) That was very interesting. My grandfather was the blacksmith in my village. All I have left from him is the anvil and the interest in black smithing. So I always love to watch such handcrafting. Could you please show also, how the arrowhead is mounted on an arrow shaft? That would be so amazing too.

They must've had to have a hundreds workers at once to make bodkin points for an entire segment of archers.

That's the coolest thing EVER!!

Can somebody PLEASE tell me the device in the vice at 2:37?!

That was bloody brilliant, cheers :)

Amazing work indeed, a true deadly piece of art, bravo.

When I saw the name of the smith in this video I knew it would be awesome! I watched you forge a 6 sided barrel for the royal armory museum so they could test the effectiveness of the hook gun,or hand gun on plate armor. I was not disappointed! Thanks for sharing your art.

Thanks.

I wondered the same for a minute, but remembered they did have hand/foot powered sharpening wheels. Google "medieval sharpening wheel" for some ideas.

sorry but im still having trouble i think its due to the fact that the words on the top of the page are overlapping or is that just me

icliced on supplies but nothing happened

thanks

fantastic as always

@hectorcole how thick was the metal you started with?

what section of bar do you use and what do you set your callipers to if you don't mind me asking???

I would think they didn't have grinders back then, and would have left it finished right before that step in the video?

Can you imagine having to supply an army with 10,000 of those things centuries ago. I guess that just meant job security for the blacksmith. Impressive work.

A tudor bodkin looks like a diamond broadhead with the cone that accepts the arrow shaft in the center all the way out to half way or almost all the way to the tip. Basically it doesn't look like a bodkin as it has wings. My guess would be a spring swage is used. I guess when I find my way back to a forge I'll give the spring swage idea a try. Google the pics.. they're awesome looking points and I imagine there are some archers out in the world who would appreciate another source for 'em.

That looks a lot (exactly?) like the tudor botkin arrow heads I've seen except maybe the last couple millimeters cut off, with the point being less narrow and morereinforced. I could be way off here, more of a swords guy then a bow and arrow guy

Your overall technique is very nice, also the final product is very clean and finely forged. Not to be a smartass, but I noticed you're heating up way too much of material you don't work on. This compromises stability. Especially when you're using steel with high C, wich you obviously do, or otherwise heating would make no sense. You burn up alot of the C if you heat it up unnecessarily. Still way better technique and skill than what you mostly encounter on youtube! Greetings from germany!