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Bootthrower:
I am trying to attach pics, but it doesn't seem to work. The pics refuse to show up

Mr. Woolery:
A file should work fine for dressing the hammer face. Hammers have to be resilient because you are pounding on steel with them. That translates to a softer steel than a file, which is made to cut steel.

Patrick

Bootthrower:
Today I filed my hammers and made the socket thicker up by the shoulder and voila! Out came a great bodkin!
I don't know what did it, perhaps a combination of the two, but it worked wonders! The head is by no means perfect, but the best one I've made so far. Now that it doesn't break in two I can start improving the finer details and the speed of forging.

This head is essentially complete. I still need to file some more on the socket and I will admit I had a small cold shut up by the tip, but I managed to file most of it away. After that I just need to harden it.

Thanks a lot for your help! You seemed to have been spot on about the problem and now I can finally batch out some arrowheads!

I'd like to show a pic of the arrowhead, but I think the size of the picture files are too big to upload

Mr. Woolery:
I would love to see the picture if you can manage to post it.

Congrats on getting it sorted out!  I know that the simple concept of rounding off the corners was a huge level-up for me.  Sometimes those simple little things do so much more than we'd ever expect.

-Patrick

Bootthrower:
I am really pissed about it, but I really can't reduce the size of the file enough to upload. I will try some more, but right now it seems it won't work..

Yeah! I forged some more today and really think it made a difference! I might just be imagining it, but it felt much faster and easier to get more even and polished surfaces on my work. Thanks once again!

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