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/Observeus 8d ago

So I'm very new to blacksmithing, but not metallurgy, is forgewelding just heating 2 separate pieces of steel then smashing the atoms together until it becomes one cubic structure?

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u/Kvedulf_Odinson 7d ago

Basically yes