You can see that some of the pics came out kinda blury, because I did'nt use the close-up flower thing, while some of them were good, because I did. Suprisingly, it did'nt take a long time to load. Don't forget to read the descriptions, they're kinda hard to notice.

The flatstock and the two barstocks:

Notice how thick it is:

The grain as it came from the mill:

The grain after I polished it alittle:

Cutting 3" of the flatstock with the sabre saw:

Mark out the lines:

Cutting with the bolt cutters:

This is what it looks like after the cuts are made. It dos'nt have to cut all the way through, because the cuts are just there for assistence for the next step. They ended up nicely the same length, so I decided to make a different design:

Using a large wrench to break off the pieces:

This is what is looks like afterwards. Notice that it easily broke off instead of bending:

The tips were then cold forged to make them tapered:

A file is used the file the flatness of the ends into points and to make the bolt cutter cuts more smooth:

This is what it looks like afterward, also with a hole drilled through the center and marked for filing into a square:

The filing is done with a small triangle file. The teeth on the file are very smooth, so it takes alot of work:

The square hole:

It's then put into the forge until it turns red hot. The redness showed up as pink for some reason, but it looks pretty funky anyway=P:

It's then hanged to cool down in the air and put back into the forge again when it's cooled. This is the normalizing process, and is repeated 3-4 times. You can see the soot on the surface of the steel. This can easily be rubbed off with a flick of the wrist:

After normalizing is done, heat the shuriken up again in the forge:

Then quench it in cold water. This camera keeps showing pink, but it supposed to be red dammit!=P:

Here's what it looks like after the quench:

After quenching, temper it in the oven for 2 hours. I did mine in the toaster oven under 450F degrees.

After tempering is done, letting it cool down, rubbing it with metal polish creme, and I put a light coat of oil on: