There’s no sense at all in forging a mediaeval nail, but if that were the only criterion I suspect half the awesome stuff we feature on Hackaday would never see the light of day.

Dive into the fascinating world of Damascus steel knife-making as a simple pair of discarded nail clippers is transformed into a killer blade. This video captures every step of the forging process ...

There is also a.certain arrangement of the anvil relatively to the lateral motion af the nail roads for the purpose of drawing the nails from head to point in the forging operation.