[Kyonos Weatherstone]

After going through his usual morning routine, Kyonos got to the B&D Anvil and fired up the forge, wondering what they were going to do today. Whatever it was, the Dwarf was eagerly looking forward to it. The fire was going strong when Gimli arrived. Kyonos grunted a greeting and his mentor did the same.

Gimli said, "Today you will make a sickle. The difference from what you've done before is that you will need to bend a metal rod into the semicircular shape that you need and then hammer it into a blade with the cutting edge on the inside of the half circle." Kyonos listened carefully and planned what he was going to do.

He took the piece of metal and heated it until it could be worked. Then then he hammered it into a semicircle with a shank. When that initial part was done he showed it to Gimli who nodded his approval. Next he reheated it and hammered it flat, taking special effort to maintain a uniform width of the blade. That done, he hammered an edge onto the inner part. Once he was done and got the approval of Gimli, he attached a wooden handle onto the shank and then carefully honed the cutting edge.