arrow heads designed for cutting rope. used in naval warfare and defending against seige weapons.

its interesting how the Japanese chose to make their spears fit inside the shaft while European spears and polearms are all mostly made with a socket that fits around the shaft. I wonder whether there is any drawback to either method. It instinctively feels like having a socket around the wooden shaft and putting a pin through would be sturdier, but who knows. Its also rather clever that their yari points are triangular in cross section, which makes it far less troublesome to forge rather than going for four symmetrical faces like the European spear. I don't think that gives you any benefit but its a lot more work and easier to mess up.

Excelente, saludos desde México

did you temper the fork after hardening? Looks as if it wasn't

In Japanese archery there is a very similar kind of head known as karimata (雁股). They allegedly were used both for war and large game hunting. The tips tended to be slightly more angled forwards maybe 3-4cm wide on average, not as big as yours but very similar shape overall. It's important to note is that the bows these arrowheads were used with are military bows. We're talking about 80 -150lbs drawn back to 32-34 inches. Overpenetration even against large animals like horses is quite likely, and an arrow that passes through is an arrow that didn't exert all of it's energy into the target. So it can actually sometimes be preferable to have lower penetration. That being said this is mostly just conjecture and to my knowledge hasn't been properly tested.

Great craftsmanship, have you considered doing Damascus arrow heads ?

Amazing! I'm excited to see how you craft the handle!

Nice! Thanks for sharing.

There's a theory that perhaps they were made to injure and not kill, there could have been a stigma around killing another person, maybe someone in your group steals something of yours, you can't straight kill him because a certain peace must be kept, so you shoot a crescent and mame him. Its just a theory

Small game makes sense to me. I had thought maybe for hamstringing larger game, or possibly horses to take down riders in battle, but I found no historical mention of that so far.

Birds like duck or geese was what i read idea being it causes a big enough wound that it cant fly away and end up on the water dying like from a pass through.

I know some folks claim these are rigging cutting arrows, but maybe they are for birds or small game in the grass.

I was always thinking about a knife shaped arrowhead like a tanto style blade I must try it for shits and giggles

Old school forging a blade and bevelling does save your sanding belts. Truly enjoyed your video friend as I am soon to be a hobby bladesmith and too many hydraulics used normally but made my day seeing how I would like to forge. Love, peace and tranquility

Such a cool design. Does it feel balanced in the hand?

I think this style of spear is called sankaku yari or triangular spear (literally 3 corner spear).

Thats awesome dude

That hole is rough huh? I think both pieces of steel you're using is 5160. When you get it closer to finish and start grinding, etch it like a damascus. If there is color differences of lighter or darker the darker has the higher carbon content. With you using a coal forge you should have some carbon migration may be minimal but some should transfer between the 2 pieces and from the coal.

That stamp is super-sweet!

A little trial and error resulted in a nice looking arrow head. It was enjoyable to watch. 👍

Try forming the socket around a mandrel - rather than trying to form it by driving it onto your pointed former. (hint - keep some lube handy, beeswax or etc, and keep the mandrel as cool as possible).

mmmmm tooling.

I think you have pretty much talked me out of trying socketed arrowheads. I'm not much of a smith and that looks like an awful lot of work. Good video. Thanks for posting!

Just found your channel and Subscribed. Very interesting. Good job

Good arrows.

Brother you do all the things I been doing since 1979 I started custom knife builds in Bryan Texas at 9 years old and throwing hawks and archery I just do it now when somebody wants a knife or what ever it may be but my love is building spear heads and atlatl 's and arrow heads to cool video

Cool brother how do I get one of them Mongolian horse bows

So great work😮

So Nice blade!

Молодец! Всё вручную, как я.

О, наш человек!

That came out really nice. Great work!

You did a great work 😍😍

Nice work dude 😍😍

“I had better cuts ... Bill threw them in the fire.” 😂😂

Cool arrowhead!

incredibly informative and entertaining!

Ich hatte beim anschauen ihrer Arbeit nicht das 100 Prozentige Gefühl das sie immer Herr der Lage waren. Das Schmiedestück schien mehrere male fast weiss glühend, der Hammer rutscht in ihrer Hand, Unsicherheit war zu erkennen. Das alles mag jedoch auch der Aufregung geschuldet sein bzw. die Temperatur durch die Kamera nicht korrekt einschätzbar. Alles im allem eine tolle Arbeit die eventuelle Kritiker selber erstmal besser machen sollen. 😉😀👍👍👍

Strange! But ok?

Nice work dude, this looks cool 👏👏

It looks to me like it's delaminating and may split apart if you hit something hard. Overall it's not a bad design I'd just make another just in case it breaks.

That bale of hay never stood a chance 😔

Great video ☺☺

That thing looks kickass

That was coming apart like it was cast iron.

Nice video as always ☺☺

Great work as always 👏👏

You have a video on those points? Really WILD looking!

Oh nice

How much would you charge for one of your arrow heads?