I just made my first sword and I've had my forge for about 2 1/2 months- of course I've been working with it a good deal in that time and I did a lot of practice pieces, just trying to get a couple of inches of blade shape- and I watched some great videos on YouTube so I could see how real bladesmiths do it, and that helped a lot with the fine points. My sword turned out wonderfully- almost exactly as I'd wanted it to (a recreation Roman Gladius mainzensis).
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