Anyone who has played Skyrim can tell you how easy forging is. You find a few materials, press a few buttons and BAM, you've got a Daedric Sword of Asskickery. Unfortunately, the real thing isn't quite so simple. Real smithing requires time, dedication, practice and most importantly, tools you probably don't have and wouldn't know where to even start looking to acquire.
Fortunately, this here's the Internet and as we know, we can find virtually anything we can think of here. I don't know about you, but I think it'd be pretty awesome to be able to forge my own knives and small glass pieces. Naturally, I practically freaked out when I found a video from YouTuber NightHawkInLight teaching how to make your own small forge at home using a soup can, a small blowtorch and a few other easily acquired materials.
It goes without saying that safety should be your first priority, working with fire and hot metal. Badassery should be a close second though. This first video covers how to make the actual forge. The second gives the basic process NightHawkInLight used to craft a home-made knife.
Be sure to check out NightHawkInLight's channel for other really cool crafts and nerdy experiments.
BONUS
This bonus video, also from NightHawkInLight, teaches you how to increase your real-life lock picking skill using hairpins.
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