The work of heating and working the metal was slow and boring, repeatedly holding the bar into the fire before hammering it into a more suitable shape. The 'sword' was honestly nowhere near as impressive as the name implies, and was more of a large iron dagger - at least, from a human perspective. For a goblin, with their small size and weaker strength, Clelk was making a veritable longsword. 

After around 2 hours or so of hammering, Clelk was satisfied with the shape of the bar - long, skinny, and flat. Almost completely blunt, but the blade wasn't supposed to be developed at this point of forging. He reheated the blade again, before hammering into a straight piece of metal, removing any bends or dents in the blade. Next came one of the worst parts of this entire process.

Clelk moved into his hut and grabbed a large saw - he had a pair of old shears as well, but the metal for the sword was thick enough that using them would more likely break the shears than it would help cut the blade. He then proceeded to spend another 20 minutes of intense sawing in order to cut off the unworked section of the iron bar, for later use. After [i]another[/i] 20 minutes, Clelk managed to cut part of the excess metal off, and he proceeded to heat it up in the flames. This significantly smaller piece was to serve as the crossguard, which only really served a purpose during war times, as wild animals didn't really use weapons that could be blocked with a guard. Still, better than nothing.

After he was satisfied with the shape, Clellk began what was the longest part of the forging process - the detailing. He got a whetstone and started his work, cutting the edges down to a nice curve and actually sharpening the blade itself. If Clelk had more advanced tools, the process would be far, far quicker, but he didn't really have the option available to him as a goblin. He also used the whetstone on the flat portion of the blade itself - not to sharpen it or anything, but to remove leftover fragments of iron from the shaping process. The Clelk had to drill a hole into the pommel by hand, drill another hole in the pommel so that they would connect and make the larger hole wide enough to find on the lower end of the blade, and heating the crossguard enough that it would remain fused to the blade with a little hammering.

Clelk then had to vigorously rub sand and the whetstone along the flat ends of the blade in order to make it look nice, and after that, he actually went about attaching the handle. He used leather, since a regular pelt (while easier and a lot less hard to make) was very easy to get dirty, and would rapidly decompose compared to hardened leather. 

Clelk never ended up needing the extra dry wood, but it would be nice to have extra as backup. It had been hours, and by the time Clelk had finally finished forging the blade, the sun was beginning to set.