My apprenticeship as a blacksmith - forging a nail

Before forging my sword, I had to do an apprenticeship as a blacksmith, and make a nail. Here witness my training.
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I was a guest of The Cut and Thrust Collective - four blacksmiths who have banded together in a forge that was once known as The Forge of Avalon, in Glastonbury. There I spent most of a week, and there I forged my sword - Arnander - the making of which will be the subject of further videos.

I'm quite pleased with the amount of information I got into this video about how forging is done. It shows you several details of how to use a forge to heat metal, and how to hammer shapes into metal.

Many thanks to Joseph McDonald for inviting me in the first place, acting as cameraman, and cooking lots of bacon. Thanks too to my teacher here Thom Leworthy.

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