Forging the Bloom
Here is a shot of the piece before adding heat:

Here is a shot of the charcoal forge used to forge it with.
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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