The most amazing thing next to your skill at making these is just the sheer size of the reproduction. Most of us think 'spear head' and picture something maybe with a 6-7" or 18-20cm long cutting edge, but they're actually a lot closer to something like a gladius in terms of their size and would have been truly scary things to have poked in your general direction.
Hello! Just again another very impressive and amazingly good looking spear! Your skill and technique are on the next level! I read the comment where you said that you are planning an exhibition... I am really looking forward to that! Must be really amazing to see everything you made and much more! I wish you good luck with that!! All the best, Jasmine!
Beautiful work! I enjoy watching your process. The scale on your power hammer, have you ever thrown any of it into your iron smelts? I have a large bucket of it that I plan to mix in with a smelt.
i used the scale several times but now i have 3 tones of different type of the iron ore. If u want to use scale for smelting u have to add some SiO2 sand, 10% will be ok.
Most of replicas i forged for last two years are for museum exhibition which will start in July this year. The name of this exhibition is "Black Metal", it will be about iron metalurgy and and blacksmithing techniques used in early medieval in Europe. We plan to make it on-line as well.
