thanks, Mas  

 OOOO that is a nice one!  It looks really sturdy to me for some reason or other.  I love the wrapping on the handle and the wrist loop, that's a good touch.

very nice, man  

Hallo there!
Here're some pictures of my second attempt in forging a socket axe (typical of the Iron Age in my region).
Neither socket nor the blade hardened enough to bear considerable blows, so the forging resulted in a failure; still I learned how to bend an iron sheet by hammering it  
AND I'll probably return to forging spearheads for my experimental archaeology purposes  
 
The original:

 
Forging begin!

 
Welded iron:

 
Bent iron:

 
More pictures, and a much more detailed description, are on my site http://ilferrochecanta.forumfree.it.
There's also a full-length video showing the quench of this axe there  
Greetings,
Mauro.

Quote from paleoarts on Oct 5^th, 2009, 7:06pm:

 
Aye, thank ye, Laddie.
I'm an old Celt in a kilt an' I say Ye doo bonnie fine work.
 
 
Does anyone know how a prehistoric Celt left a stone celt in the upper Mississippi valley?

caribou antler and persimmon wood.
 

Love your works,Paleoarts!
 I'm curious and probably others would be too,to know which axe would you take of the many you have made,if you would have to survive with it. I'm curious what wood,what stone,what attachment method would last the longest.  
I'm not familiar with ironwood,but i guess a ironwood celt and perhaps some basalt axe head wedged into it ,and wrapped with rawhide so it can't split the would should hold a very long time.