Primitive Forging Bloom Iron with No Metal Tools!

In which we successfully forge weld two pieces of bloomery iron into a ingot using a stone anvil, a rock for a hammer, and several pairs of split-branch tongs. In other words, we forge welded iron, from scratch, with no metal tools!

This has been a bit of a watershed moment for me (JB), since I have been working toward this goal for 7 years now. It feels really good to be posting this one.

Once again, we are super grateful that Andy from How to Make Everything came out to film with us. He contributed much of the footage for this video. Check out his video of our Iron smelt here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmknPnU5QNs&t=3s

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