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Ah crap, I totally forgot about this thread! Sorry guys!

I am demonstrating this weekend as the Iron Age Blacksmith, so I will get the arrowhead done then (actually I did get most of the pictures done at the last event, but my camera died half way through ).

Tim, the bodkn points like you showed earlier are one of those great things for demos coz they change shape quickly and people recognize them straight off the hammer. They are also something that had to be turned out in their millions for battle, needle bodkins aren't hardened (they are traditionally wrought iron of course), though some of the stumpy plate piercing ones that come later are made of phosphoric iron to make them a bit harder. I was demonstrating arrowheads to a school party last year and they timed me making a needle bodkin about the same size as yours. Without the correct tools set up (ie no hardy mounted chisel, swage for turning the socket, etc) it took 1 1/2 minutes from glowing iron to shootable arrowhead! I reckon that if there were two or three smiths working together with the right set up it would be possible to average one a minute or more

Whatever I turn out for this head in the hat, I'll throw in a bodkin with it

Tim, sorry I didn't realise that you had done a tutorial for socketed heads, I remembered the double curled tanged one and thought you meant that Your technique is different to mine, but there are many ways to skin a cat . I'll do a tutorial of my way as well, just so folk can see another way of approaching the same task.