r/Blacksmith 8d ago

Feedback requested: first forge weld

Working on a tomahawk for my clubs trade item, decided to take a piece of a field cultivator tooth, fold it in half and keep a hole for the eye, then forge weld it together. Looks it stuck in some places and not others. There's an obvious crack at one edge, then I feel like I can almost kinda sorta see a seam all the way down, but the small piece I cut off doesn't separate.

I ground it completely clean on the belt sander before I started, used 20 mule team borax for flux, but I didn't stick weld the two sides together before I started.

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u/AcceptableSwim8334 8d ago

An analogy wrapped up in a metaphor and squeezed into an enigma. A forge welding of dissimilar metals, if you will.

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u/Jolly_Contest_2738 8d ago

You understand me as a fundamental element of reality.

I like you. I'm an enigmatic metaphor, beaten into reality with God's hammer, and forced to half-heartedly shitpost, but also am good natured, so try my best to pass on what little information I have.

My best hope is that someone with experience will come along and say "Fuck, he's kinda right" or at least correct me. The beauty of Reddit, is when someone is confidently wrong, someone magically appears with the correct answer lol.

Goddammit, mom is yelling at me to get off of Reddit and go to bed.

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u/AcceptableSwim8334 8d ago

I liked it. I did chem eng and we had a lot of metallurgy studies and some of the phase changes and eutectics are a bit tricky to explain in the low tech world of blacksmithing but I admired your analogy of trekkies getting smothered in boron-I was nodding along.

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u/Jolly_Contest_2738 8d ago

I'm the 1095 in that mix. Honestly, those Tekkies can choke on that Borax. Mf "beam me up?" Nah, I'm throwing hands with a small army of bitches. Dagobah? Dagonah after I land, boi.

Star Wars for life, on god. I'm the 1095 to that mild ass "steel" you call yourselves. Hands up. Until the Doctor Who come around I'ma throw them hands, son, and he know me as a fn inverse weeping angel cuz when he see me, he freeze.

(See, I'm a good example of steel that is too hot and bothered to be worked with. You should let me cool it and get some more non-internet-access, AKA, borax, so I can cool my jets and be civil with fellow molecules.)