Blacksmithing post #3 Rounding, Drawing out, and Flattening

Continuing on from the last post, after flattening the head vertically, i put the spike back into the forge for its second heat, again i removed the spike once it was almost white hot, and flattened out the head horizontally, it took a couple heats but the spike was a uniform rectangular prism.

 Now that the spike was uniform i started trying to draw out, or lengthen it, i wanted a long blade, so i needed to stretch the metal out.

 when it was drawn out enough, but still a rectangular prism, i moved on to making the handle, i wanted to make the handle round, which requires a technique called rounding
 to do this technique you turn the rectangle onto its corners and hammer it into an octagon, the hammer the corners down until it is almost a perfect circle.

Finally it was rounded and the tang(what goes inside the handle) was done, so i began to flatten the blade, turning the square into a thin rectangle.