Forging Arrow Heads - Rolling the Socket -

Mark Stretton shows in detail the rolling of the spoon to create the socket on the Type 10 arrow head.

[@arturleperoke3205]

Thank you for the great lesson, King Robert Baratheon, first of his name, King of the Andals, and the Rhoynar, and the First Men. Lord of the Seven Kingdoms.

[@Zamolxes77]

The Frenchmen that arrow head will stick into will appreciate all the work ;)

[@vagadagadingdong]

I think this is the very first video of someone forging something that does not force me to switch the volume all the time., I can hear you talking loud and clear, and the hammer strikes don't blow out my eardrums. Thank you for that.

[@murraylowe8677]

You are deffinately a teacher. I love your approach to showing your craft. You are a craftsman without a doubt.

[@BingBongFYaLife]

quality video in which he explains every step of the process. He has a quality camera and audio setup which makes watching this blacksmith video a pleasure to watch

[@Alexander-hx2bi]

I was having a lot of trouble with that hole created when you roll in the socket. Never could get rid of it. This video helped a lot. Thanks from a fellow medieval longbow shooter. Great help... even after all these years since the upload :)

[@MJFAN666]

All hail, King Baratheon!

[@docleafman]

Thank you very much! Most informative I've found.

[@getvaped7555]

Just going to say that. I love that he explains the little stuff as he's going. Things easily overlooked that can have very different outcomes.

[@leehotspur9679]

Detailed Instruction & Good Pics Attention to detail, Thank you for sharing

[@larryrohatsch4892]

Love the two camera setup, can't tell you how many vids I've watched and all you see is the back of someones hairy forearm or knuckles.

[@buddydeal7695]

Great video! I love that you turn off the kiln to speak. I know it makes your job longer but it’s so nice!

[@AmateurForger721]

Great video. Thank you so much. Can't wait till the next comes out.

[@tihzho]

The King orders 10,000 arrow tips...and wants them by the end of the month. Oh SHIT!

[@hankatmaggies8819]

time to change trade lol

[@macmacneill8600]

i may never forge a arrow head but have learned something thank you

[@Sagemaster00]

Holy fuck this long for one arrow head with more modern Tech, I could only imagine how insane it must have been back in the Medieval Era.

[@erikkayV]

+Elephant my guess would be they did it in more of an assembly line type process. One smith blanking out the spoon shape, another rolling another grinding and so on.

[@Sagemaster00]

Erik Kay You're probably right, it would make a lot more sense than one guy actually doing all of this.

[@bumblebee7838]

+Elephant Medieval smiths used more refines tools and much, much better working skills. Not meant as an insult, it is just based on work experience and starting age. Even today some older smiths can do a broad head in 5 minutes if they have the right tools. If you watch some arrowheads in the museum you can sometimes see the imprints of hammers, because they only needed a few blows.

[@bumblebee7838]

+Elephant Medieval smiths used more refines tools and much, much better working skills. Not meant as an insult, it is just based on work experience and starting age. Even today some older smiths can do a broad head in 5 minutes if they have the right tools. If you watch some arrowheads in the museum you can sometimes see the imprints of hammers, because they only needed a few blows.

[@sleepyhollow8205]

Elephant He isn't really gaining much from using industrial era technology. He has a blower for his forge, smiths of old had a boy working a bellows etc. Experience is the bigger factor. Someone who has made hundreds of arrowheads a week for the last 20,30,40 years will cast fewer, more precise, harder blows without the need to correct mistakes (because there are none.) What the other guy said, 5 minutes sounds about right. The people of the middle ages also understood division of labour.

[@DrLelantos]

Robert Baratheon?

[@crataegus2653]

yeah, he faked his death to screw everybody and went out of politics

[@CptnBmBm]

never knew hagrid is a blacksmith o.o

[@leonruvalcaba1549]

Megajoules el peluca sabbeeee

[@robviolin1]

Great vid, thanks.

[@aussiebushcraft5565]

Awesome thanks ⚒

[@nargaroth_6910]

What steel are you using ?

[@fishfinder401]

where did you get those anvils? or what are they called thanks -noel

[@gravityalwayswins1434]

Mark Stretton. Can shoot a #200 longbow. No shit.

[@craftsman2125]

I have forged arrow heads before but they were to heavy for my bow poundage

[@japadogi]

How many time takes you to make an arrowhead without teaching?

[@chrisw3172]

Holy shit u r good!

[@tanishalfelven93]

this type of arrow head can take anywhere from 15 to 30 minutes per head for me, though i'm somewhat unskilled, i imagine it would take someone like him about 5 to 10 minutes, possibly a bit longer (this includes heating the metal)

[@LOZBRY]

you can undermine the strength of the wheel if your using the side, how can the wheel be dressed on the side, they are made so the strength in the wheel is the compression when the wheel spins it's under great stress ,using the side of the wheel weakens it and it can separate, I have seen this happen the guy was very lucky a chunk of the wheel pasted his head one on each side ,if it would of hit him he would be dead now,stay safe

[@japadogi]

Where Can I buy Your's bows? How much are they? :)

[@mrmonkeyman412]

If you do the bench grinder wheel from the side, extreme care should be taken as the wheel can catch the work, get caught in the metal guard assembly, and cause the wheel to shatter, sending bits everywhere.

[@guskrupsky6843]

Where is your camera man 8 miles away nice video.

[@embracetherandom6355]

Is that anvil made for making arrow heads

[@gateway8833]

I wonder if blacksmith making arrowheads where like yea, thay shot thirty thousand arrows today!

[@oneshotme]

Ok I'm not a blacksmith first off lol But why hit with the bottom of the hammer instead of the top?? What's the differents?? Is it a weaker blow since they are both the same shape

[@lazyles875]

🥰

[@belzebuthhhh]

you buy our head? sorry for my english i a belgian

[@snapnjamin]

never grind on the side of a wheel it weakens it and will make it come apart

[@ruhalfoyls]

wish i could afford a decent anvil. am so sick of forging things on a old train rail. looking at this (and other youtube video's) i see how easy it could be when having the right tools.

[@sheep1ewe]

+Ruhal Foyls Me to when i was younger, i was realy p**ed off at the market where i lived and the ridiculus pricing at almost everything maket "blacksmithing" no matter what jukn it was so i salvaged money and bought a new one from the czech Republic, was not a big differense in price anyway that time and everything was frech and flat on it. I know those anvils are cheap compared to better quality ones for example from German but i still using it wery much after i made some tools for it. (not to talk about powerhammers, i live in the nord in europe, powerhammers where actually so commen here that many of them whent to the scrapyard back in the 80s but in the 90 the pricing expolded for no reason and all that junk that was scrapped for a good reason and shold hawe gone to China was dragged bak as "precious gems" and owerflooded the market but the pricing was still rising behind sense of a healthy man... everyone here said stupid things like "but look at the centreal erupe or the United States, f*** yea i did and bought a wery fine hammer from Germany for less then a 1/3 of the pricing of some old brooken junk in sweden... i probably still hawe the best powerhammer in the country and lot of money saved i could spend in more useful things for my workshop, for example i bought a big excentric press for the price of the scrap metal at same time, a machine that had been at least 4x more valuable then any powerhammer during that period and i still had lot of monet left to spend on other things... i am probably not the smartest person in the world, but people here are realy extreme idiots when it comes to things likt this... and i was hoping that at least a person with a normal IQ would hawe figiring out the same things as i did with his toes, but i was wrong... ) :D

[@sheep1ewe]

+Sheep Ewe And... Story does not end there if that had been today i could hawe afforded a used Harley Davidson roadster in wery good condition (bikes are cheap here at the moment, i don´t know why) for the money saved and still hawe my powerhammer... A Harley Davidson bike for freee... And a much better powerhammer modern steel and built in Germany, not that chinese junk, that´s not bad if ask me... :D (Well i theory, but still real money i saved...)

[@sleepyhollow8205]

Ruhal Foyls Learn the secret of scrap metal yards. They often have anvils, and all the metal you will ever need.

[@sleepyhollow8205]

Sheep Ewe Swedish steel is some of the best in the world. Even the Germans use it at Solingen these days (for example, Dovo straight razors are made in Solingen from Swedish steel.) Strange that you couldn't find quality tools.

[@DJVULGAR]

on my 1914 train rail i have welded a top cap on it and tempered..it mad it look huge and it its hard and it bells once u ding at it

[@jpavlvs]

I'll take two dozen.

[@crowley5555]

dus jij bent een belg ? leuk ik ben een beginner blacksmith ;p

[@LOZBRY]

you should never use the side of a grinding wheel very dangerous, but you would know that ,

[@bryanotero123]

LOZBRY What is the consequence of it???

[@dryzix]

you look like Robert Baratheon

[@KowboyUSA]

Ta' shanky.

[@chestnutforge4395]

Hi Mark, great video. I would like to send you a picture of another type of socket to ask you a question on it. Can you PM me an email address please?

[@ติญาลักษณ์ลอยวิสุทธิ์]

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[@bekanav]

Too many heats, too much words, too weak hits, too short grip, too much light, too weak anvil, iron is too cold and everything is just too slow. But he looks like a blacksmith.

[@techmarine83]

Talking out of your ass

[@MrKirby2367]

Yes where is your video sir?

[@bekanav]

I've done some bladework, it's just way more difficult than forging mellow steel. You must hit only when it is hot, too many heats or forging cold iron will ruin the blade. Iron has blue brittleness in 400° C. In daylight you can not see temperatures. Anvil must be heavy and hammer heavy enough. Good blacksmith is fast, he doesn't need many heats to forge the short knifeblade. I don't make videos. Check e.g. japanese bladesmiths, they are true masters.

[@TNTnor]

+bekanav This is arrowheads, not blades. Different Technics, different steel/iron compositions. And the moment you wrote 'japaneese bladesmiths' and 'best' in the same sentence, made you stand out as a katana fanboy.

[@Shmagmoots]

how much time does it take you to craft one?