{"id":1373,"date":"2015-06-21T23:52:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T22:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2015-06-26T19:22:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-26T18:22:46","slug":"p-160-metalworking-forge-update-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/p-160-metalworking-forge-update-5\/","title":{"rendered":"P-160: Metalworking Forge Update 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have uploaded some pictures of my second forging session. My knife is already starting to look vaguely knife-shaped, with the tip coming together nicely.<\/p>\n<p>I now need to work on the handle, refine the tip, and flatten the blade in preparation for taking an edge.<\/p>\n<p>I think the tip of the blade was the hardest part because I had to work the steel at a very awkward angle, and it kept slipping under the force of the hammer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0358.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1382\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0358-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0358\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0358-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0358-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0358.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0360.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1381\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0360-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0360\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0360-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0360-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0360.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0362.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1380\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0362-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0362\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0362-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0362-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0362.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0365.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1379\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0365-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0365\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0365-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0365-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0366.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1378\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0366-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0366\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0366-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0366-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0370.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1377\" src=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0370-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0370\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0370-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0370-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/DSC_0370.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have uploaded some pictures of my second forging session. My knife is already starting to look vaguely knife-shaped, with the tip coming together nicely. I now need to work on the handle, refine the tip, and flatten the blade in preparation for taking an edge. I think the tip of the blade was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inventions","category-miscellany","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phoenixgamedevelopment.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}