Boar Spear

[lwrhea]

After a discussion about wild boar hunting one day recently, I decided to see if I could forge one. I've had experience with forging socket handles so I thought that would be the way to go. Instead of welding this one close as I would for wood chisels, I decided to leave the gap open. Here are a few stages of the forging and then the finished Spear head.

I start by forging a pre form of the blade. A rough point and then forge a waist into it.


Next I forged the bevels. This draws out the length as well.


It gets cut off the bar and what will be the socket is forged out and spread into a fan shape. It has to be tapered too.


This is over simplifying it but the socket has to be shaped and the whole thing is straightened. I then forged a rim onto the end of the socket.


This is a hunting spear so I left it forged and put a belt finish on the blade bevels.


This is a great forging exercise.

 

[Maqua]

I like it.

 

[Leonid Evdokimov]

Beautiful!

 

[john april]

heavy duty & cool !

 

[R APPLEBY]

very cool

 

[Steve Nuckels]

Lin, you have incredible skills!

really well done!

Steve
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Member, W.F. Moran Jr. Foundation
ABS AP

 

[Chris Montgomery]

Very nice work Lin. I really appreciate and enjoy the in progress shots. Thanks for taking the time to document and share your process.

Chris

 

[Lorien]

can we get a photo of the end of the socket? The shiny parts are impressive enough, but I wanna see those tightly controlled dents!

 

[3fifty7]

Very nice and quite inspiring !!!!
What were your starting and finishing dimensions ?


Sent via telegraph with the same fingers I use to sip whiskey.

 

[RockFireForge]

How did you heat treat the socket or is that left soft


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[Bigfattyt]

So cool!

 

[drow]

nice work!

 

[Sled]

Excellent....looks like it will do the job!

 

[i4Marc]

I really admire your work, sir. Very cool piece.

 

[stromania]

That is really impressive. Thanks for sharing.

 

[joshuaharman]

Nice! What steel did you use?

 

[bobasaurus]

That turned out really nice. How did you forge the rim on the end of the socket?

 

[lwrhea]

Thanks guys. I'll get back with some pictures asap. It may be Wednesday though.

Lorien, that's what forging is. Tightly controlled dents!

 

[BladeScout]

That looks good.

Did you contemplate one of those whatchamacallits perpendicular to the blade in order to prevent a big run through oinker moving up the spear to get ya'?



Maybe just as a nod to tradition of some types of boar spear - I doubt most hogs are going to present a problem in that regard and further more plenty of spears dont have them.

I only hunt hogs with a knife not a spear (though Ive wanted to try hunting with a spear), so what the heck do I know

 

[BenR.T.]

That's awesome Lin. Another on my list of somedays to get from you.