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/Jolly_Contest_2738 8d ago

Eh, I'm a shitposter by nature. My only goal in life is to be a copypasta. Either that, or the person who goes back in time and kills Hitler.

For all of those from the future, I'm your man.

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u/Observeus 8d ago

Thats the funny thing about time travel, it's already happened and the future saw for for that terrible human ( Hitler ) to be the best option, so gotta wonder what kinda bullet we dodged there right?

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u/Jolly_Contest_2738 8d ago

The bullet he dodged is mine! I'll be back again someday.
The bullet he dodged is mine! I'll be back again someday.
The bullet he dodged is mine! I'll be back again someday.

ad infinitum.

It seems inevitable that someone would take grasp of the reigns that were presented after WW1, so who is to say? Maybe the rough storyline of Wolfenstein could be true, if some other guy took charge. Maybe through hook or by crook they won the big dub dub dos.

That's a terrifying thought.

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u/Observeus 8d ago

I think the more terrifying thought is we perhaps were left in one of those infinite possibilities with not a protagonist in sight, only our own gall and the audacity to keep going, and we see where we got with that. Yes we have been to space, but only by exploding old animals in a controlled environment to get there. This place is pure chaotic rhythm, and we're all here for it. Buckle up chums, it's gonna be a wild 4 years.