'Hawk Making With Tai

On Saturday Tai came over to Jeff's and began showing us how to make 'hawks. It was one of the colder days we've had this winter, so I didn't enjoy that too much, but I'm a real wuss when it comes to cold. Jeff had a washtub he wanted to convert into a forge, so Tai cut a hole in it and had her fired up in no time. For fuel we just used big chunks of pine wood. It worked out pretty well. Working at splitting the wood was a blessing as it warmed me up. After forging the 'hawks, we started converting old ball peens into hot sets, but I'll cover that in a separate post.