Solo Fire shapes the metal.

[Osd]

74th of winter For the first time in a long time, osd wasn't working at the forge for an order. But for something he himself wanted to make. An axe, unlike swords or daggers axes where considered tools as much as weapons. He knew how to forge axes made for tool use pretty well and his teacher said only a few adaptions were needed to make them combat ready. They were slightly lighter with a narrower cutting blade, which was also shaped like a crescent to gather the force of impact in a single point. He gathered the tools he would be needing for the forging and began to heat up a bar of iron the forge. Patiently waiting till it was red hot before taking it out of the forge. First things first. Normally when making an axe, you first created the part where it would connect to the wooden handle, but he didn't have any wood on hand at the moment. In this heat it would be to easy to set it on fire either way. So he had too use regular steel. It was heavier, but that was offset with the fact it was stronger as well. He put the red hot bar of metal on the forge and began to draw it out with confident blows to the length he wanted the axehandle to have, making some parts thicker too let it withstand the impacts better. Mostly the area where the axe-blade would be attached to the handle and the small part below. He thrust the handle into the trog of water when he was done. Leaning back to avoid getting the hot steam in his face. He put it aside, the handle was done, now he had to make the head of the weapon. He put aside the handle and took another bar of steel, putting it in the forge and heating it up. He held the bar sideways with a pair of tongs , used a vice too make sure it didn't move and then took a chisel, parting the bar halfway till the middle. He turned it so that the split was now horizontal. He took the handle and slid it inside the split. Using his hammer to make sure it was all the way down the end of it. Then he began to forge the open ends of the split around the handle. Letting them meat and enclosing the handle in the steel. He had to reheat the bar a few times when he did that to make sure the metal didn't grow to cool to work. He didn't put the work into the trog of water when the handle had been attached to the lump of steel that would become the head of the axe. It wasn't time yet to temper that part of the weapon. He began flattening the steel that stuck out from the side of the handle. Tapering off towards the end of it and shaping it like a crescent. He tried to do that at least but it was harder then it was, his crescent was lopsided and wouldn't really do its work very well as far as osd could see. With a sigh he flattened it back out and went back to the more traditional wedge shape for axe's. The length of the handle he had would still mean he got more leverage and swinging power then was usual for a normal axe. When he finished the head he heated up the axehead till it was glowing white hot and plunged it in the trog of water, stepping back to avoid the billowing steam. When the sizzling stopped he pulled out the axe. The main work was now done. He just needed to sharpen the weapon now.