Backyard blacksmith Phil Baumhardt has a creative streak in him, so much so that he is capable of transforming vehicle trash into what would be deemed to be treasure by the Vikings. When Baumhardt was still scavenging for materials, he came across a pair of suspension leaf springs, and these were, in all probability, thrown out during a trailer or vehicle repair. He realized that these were made out of high carbon steel, which is the similar material that is used to make survival knives and stage combat swords. Hence, he ended up smelting that to harvest required material to make a Sax, which is what you would call a single-edged short sword that were used by the Vikings of yore
An iron plate that has been bolted to a stump doubles up as an anvil, while the buckethead wet-dry vac functions as a bellows. The vac will do its job to increase the airflow and the heat, and after spending some time in the forge, both rust and impurities will be hammered out of red hot metal, while the tang is being formed.
Surely one man’s meat is another man’s poison, and in this particular case, it would be one man’s trash being another man’s gain.