Today I made another video to show more of the process of blacksmithing, aka, metal displacement. I chose to show how I make a 1 piece garden trowel out of a 3/4" solid round bar. The metal is directionally pushed into the direction I want it to move--the trowel part is opened wide and the tang part is stretched length wise. This video is sped up to be very fast, in a few cases it looks like i'm hammering very slow--the reality is the opposite of that. Also, if I make this look easy, I've made a few hundred of these in the past ten years. I got a lot of practice!
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