Forging damascus bloomery iron spear.

Forging of the pattern-welded (Damascus) bloomery iron Viking spear
In this video i show how to forge a replica of an early medieval (Viking Age) spearhead found in Ciepłe in Poland. It is completely made of bloomery iron I smelted myself.
I have used 3 kinds of materials: soft low carbon iron smelted from hematite ore, high carbon steel I made in Aristotle furnace, and high phosphorus low carbon iron smelted from bog ore. The socket is a wrap and welded.
The pattern-welded twist bars are welded on both sides of the spear core. To weld twist pattern billets I used high carbon steel and P-iron, cutting edge is steel, socket and core is soft iron.

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