If you're foraging for metal in the wild and want to send someone a link to your blog post, I make some suggestions.
1. Make sure that you're using the right kind of metal. It's easy to get carried away with your search and find yourself carrying around a bunch of useless junk. The best thing to do is look at the composition of the ore and try to match it up with something that you can use
2. Make sure that you're using a hammer rather than just pounding on it with your bare hands. This will help prevent gouging out any precious metals from their beds or causing damage to them by knocking off chunks of ore that were hiding underneath them
3. When forging, you want a hot fire going in order for it to sink deep into the metal and create enough heat so that it flows through the blade when cooled down later on down in your forge (or whatever other tooling you're using). If there isn't enough heat, nothing will happen until it cools down again and then you'll have wasted a lot of energy getting nowhere fast
4. Forging swords requires patience: You need time for one part
forging metal in the wild
