Forging the Bloom

Here is a shot of the piece before adding heat:
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Here is a shot of the charcoal forge used to forge it with.
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Here is a shot of it after the first heat, it was quite solid, more so than any bloom I've forged so far, but I still had to baby it so that it wouldn't fall apart.
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