Sting 3 - Forging and Grinding

Did some final tweaks on the wakizashi forging, and moved the tang shoulders forward on the hobbit sword. Having some issues with the ends of the edge bars shearing and tearing up the wrought in the tang, so I've cut away the problem areas and now heading out to finish the forging...

Tang forged out, and the first side of the blade ground down to bare metal, bar a couple of spots. It's at about 8mm thick at the forte, tapering down to about 5mm at the tip. I'm at the point where I need to take it to my other shop and get it on a wide flat platen to establish some true flats to work off before I do much more to it. I haven't touched the profile with the grinder yet. Need to find the centre line and establish a completely symmetrical profile...

Latest Forging

I rough forged in the profile on the hobbit shortsword, and started to grind down the surface to clean metal. So far the welds look good, and I still have plenty of thickness. Once I get it close to clean, I'll finalise the profile forging, and do a bit of beveling to develop more width in the edges (which will give me a little more wiggle room when it comes to truing up the profile with files). And I still need to move the tang junction forward by about an inch and a half.

Also forged a wakizashi while the forge was getting up to full temp...