Indian George's Hammer-in, summer 2008
The Images!
IG's hammerin pictures in chronological order
Phil straightening out a bar while Larry heats some stuff in the forge
IG and Gary "Wolf"
David Sylvester shows off wht's left of his set of JS test knives while Wolf talks with Sean Fu (Scar) in the background
Close up of the knives in the previous image
This knife is for cutting around corners! Acutally it was his performance blade
Wolf, Paul and Sean
Hanging out and talking shop, it was wicked hot and humid so not a whole lot of forging happened
Wolf talking about how he made the horns for the ram's head on his forged walking stick
With the heat, water was more important than beer!
Wolf did a basic blade forging demo
Pirate! the one eyed dog. Ok pirate isnt his real name but i think it fits him now
Gary, Peaches, and Larry
Dave explaining how to forge cable damascus to Phil and XXX
Tightening up the strands of a cable lolipop
A walrus jawbone. At the time none of us knew what it was though
Dave doing a blade forging demo
Forging in the distal taper, Sean watching from behind
Dave forges so that the curve is the spine of his blade and will straighten when forging in the bevels
Setting the choil
Correcting the curve in the tip of the blade
Drawing out the tang
Sitting around after and cooling off in the shade
Too hot to keep forging much, there was a lot of knife show and tell
Using a big ol chopper to chop... watermellon!
It's almost a knife ! Honestly!