I rough forged in the profile on the hobbit shortsword, and started to grind down the surface to clean metal. So far the welds look good, and I still have plenty of thickness. Once I get it close to clean, I'll finalise the profile forging, and do a bit of beveling to develop more width in the edges (which will give me a little more wiggle room when it comes to truing up the profile with files). And I still need to move the tang junction forward by about an inch and a half.

Also forged a wakizashi while the forge was getting up to full temp...