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This whole thing was born over a few drunken evenings during A.G. Russell's show back in July.
I was hanging out with Chad Nichols, Jody Muller and Michael Burch. They were talking Damascus ( like everyone does when they are hangin' with Chad). Of course I always have to get into the middle of a good Damascus conversation.
So, all of a sudden Chad pipes up and suggests that we all come down to his place and do some collaborative Damascus and knife building together.
Budda Bing!!!!! The First Annual Redneck Summit is born!!!!!
This past week we all invaded Chads shop down in Blue Springs Mississippi for the Summit.
It included 5 days of steel making, DRINKING, knife making, DRINKING, eating great food, DRINKING, and just some straight up DRINKING!!!!
Since I got there 2 days ahead of Michael and Jody, Chad and I decided to do our first ever NICHOLS/KELLY COLLABORATION knife.
Then when Jody and Michael arrived we worked on a 2 knife 4 maker collaboration together.
The first ever BURCH/MULLER/NICHOLS/KELLY COLLABORATION set.
Attached are some pictures of the week...
#1 & #2 Chad's Hot Shop
#3 The top secret billets in the fire!!!!
#4 & #5 Chad and I working on parts
Stay tuned for more pix to come !!!
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!
I was hanging out with Chad Nichols, Jody Muller and Michael Burch. They were talking Damascus ( like everyone does when they are hangin' with Chad). Of course I always have to get into the middle of a good Damascus conversation.
So, all of a sudden Chad pipes up and suggests that we all come down to his place and do some collaborative Damascus and knife building together.
Budda Bing!!!!! The First Annual Redneck Summit is born!!!!!
This past week we all invaded Chads shop down in Blue Springs Mississippi for the Summit.
It included 5 days of steel making, DRINKING, knife making, DRINKING, eating great food, DRINKING, and just some straight up DRINKING!!!!
Since I got there 2 days ahead of Michael and Jody, Chad and I decided to do our first ever NICHOLS/KELLY COLLABORATION knife.
Then when Jody and Michael arrived we worked on a 2 knife 4 maker collaboration together.
The first ever BURCH/MULLER/NICHOLS/KELLY COLLABORATION set.
Attached are some pictures of the week...
#1 & #2 Chad's Hot Shop
#3 The top secret billets in the fire!!!!
#4 & #5 Chad and I working on parts
Stay tuned for more pix to come !!!
ENJOY!!!!!!!!!
but it was fun.Got the chance to meet and visit with some really talented knifemakers, and work on a knife I was making out of Chad's stainless damsacus. Michael Burch was kind enough to show me how he does his handle texturing on Micarta for the scales on the knife, actually he ended doing most of it with me assisting(thanks Michael)After a few beers that afternoon, the grill was pulled down to the shop and I grilled up some deer kabobs that Jody brought and some pork chops while the damascus squeezing was going on. What little time I spent,I had a great time!!:thumbup::thumbup:
