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michael---- does that mean your coming down im hopping so would like to meet you
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elkdoc said:
Hey Jason...interesting...another knifemaker in Knoxville who is also a Ph.D. student at UT...I guess that makes three of us now that I know of!
-Darren
Darren Ellis said:Hey Jason...interesting...another knifemaker in Knoxville who is also a Ph.D. student at UT...I guess that makes three of us now that I know of!
-Darren
Guess I didn't realize you were glutton for punishment, too. Can you imagine the whining if you, Rob, and I got together?
I had to skip Bowie's place today, but I'll look you up tomorrow...- Joined
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elkdoc said:Guess I didn't realize you were glutton for punishment, too. Can you imagine the whining if you, Rob, and I got together?
LOL, yeah, that would be quite a site...all complaining about being overworked, underpaid, and all getting the Big Orange Screw.
Sorry I missed you yesterday, unfortunately, I won't be there tomorrow...got a darn mid term project that is due early next week and have to spend the day writing code and doing calculations...would much rather be there hanging out with you guys and hammerin' on some steel!
-Darren
The final day was fantastic, too. Alan Longmire did an awesome pipe hawk demo. Lots of visiting going on afterwards. Those who couldn't make it to Bowie's should keep your calendar clear for next year's hammer-in.
Thanks again, Bowie, for your hospitality!
Thanks again, Bowie, for your hospitality!
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Well, this was my first visit to "Bowie's" hammer-in.........
Although I have attended other events, I will say that I have never been made to feel more at home.
Ron (Bowie) is a super individual with a sense of humor that jumps out and captures you. He is a comedian, an intellect, and a true friend.
Thank you Cap'n for being who you are and for sharing so much information.
Robert
Although I have attended other events, I will say that I have never been made to feel more at home.
Ron (Bowie) is a super individual with a sense of humor that jumps out and captures you. He is a comedian, an intellect, and a true friend.
Thank you Cap'n for being who you are and for sharing so much information.
Robert
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I am back home and its a bit like coming off a high.....back to reality 
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I had a great weekend.
Ron and Phyllis, thank you so much for your hospitality.
Thanks to the knife suppliers for enabling me to purchase a lot of new and needed materials.
Thanks to all the demonstrators who taught me lots of new things and made me think more about the things I thought I knew
Thanks to the guys that gave me advice and encouragement, and a special thanks to Burt Foster for the additional time he gave myself and Jim for the JS testing.
It was a great weekend and I look forward to meeting everyone again in the not to distant future.
Kevin Davey
.I had a great weekend.
Ron and Phyllis, thank you so much for your hospitality.
Thanks to the knife suppliers for enabling me to purchase a lot of new and needed materials.
Thanks to all the demonstrators who taught me lots of new things and made me think more about the things I thought I knew
Thanks to the guys that gave me advice and encouragement, and a special thanks to Burt Foster for the additional time he gave myself and Jim for the JS testing.
It was a great weekend and I look forward to meeting everyone again in the not to distant future.
Kevin Davey
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An addition...
Kevin is being vague and modest by it, but I'll say it. I had the honor of supervising two JS performance tests: Jim Gardner and Kevin Davey. Both passed with flying colors, and I'm glad to have been there to see it.
Jim and I were in the same intro class at the ABS school in 2002 and his work has come a long way since then! He tested with a very elegant, thin and narrow integral forged from a 3/4" round bar of 5160. His blade was through hardened and differentially tempered. Most of the bend was teken up at the point that the integral bolster met the blade, but the blade itself went past 45 degrees, and returned to within probably 3 degrees of straight!
I met Kevin at Bowie's last year, and he is a great guy. He even helped me brush up on some English (read Brittish) profanity, because you never know when that'll come in handy. His test knife was a big, wide bowie / camp knife type blade of 52100 (if I remember). His blade was edge hardened with a soft back. Despite being at least 1/4" thick at the thickest point, it flexed beautifully.
Both knives did great on all parts of the test, with good edge retention and no edge cracking during the flex test. It was a good illustration that you can make almost any type of knife for a JS performance test if you know your steel, and you understand what to do.
Thanks also to Ron and Phyllis, you guys did so much work to get ready for this weekend. Most of us will never understand how much work goes into one of these events, until we have to do it. Thank you all!
Kevin is being vague and modest by it, but I'll say it. I had the honor of supervising two JS performance tests: Jim Gardner and Kevin Davey. Both passed with flying colors, and I'm glad to have been there to see it.
Jim and I were in the same intro class at the ABS school in 2002 and his work has come a long way since then! He tested with a very elegant, thin and narrow integral forged from a 3/4" round bar of 5160. His blade was through hardened and differentially tempered. Most of the bend was teken up at the point that the integral bolster met the blade, but the blade itself went past 45 degrees, and returned to within probably 3 degrees of straight!
I met Kevin at Bowie's last year, and he is a great guy. He even helped me brush up on some English (read Brittish) profanity, because you never know when that'll come in handy. His test knife was a big, wide bowie / camp knife type blade of 52100 (if I remember). His blade was edge hardened with a soft back. Despite being at least 1/4" thick at the thickest point, it flexed beautifully.
Both knives did great on all parts of the test, with good edge retention and no edge cracking during the flex test. It was a good illustration that you can make almost any type of knife for a JS performance test if you know your steel, and you understand what to do.
Thanks also to Ron and Phyllis, you guys did so much work to get ready for this weekend. Most of us will never understand how much work goes into one of these events, until we have to do it. Thank you all!
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Burt Foster said:
lol....now dont go confusing 'profanity' with 'terms of endearment'....
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What a great weekend! Ditto on the cudos to Ron and Phylis! They warmly opened thier home to us and hosted another wonderful event. Congrats to Kevin and Jim. I'm so glad to Jim back again this year with a strong determination to exceed...which he did!
Now we have the long wait untill next year
....362 days...and counting.
CYA again next year!
Now we have the long wait untill next year
....362 days...and counting.
CYA again next year!
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welll thanks for all the kind words ,but the truth of the matter is i had a onedeeeeeeeeeeeeerfulllll time ,to have all of you here at my place and shop was the the high lit of my year . i look forward each year to seeing all my friends ,
this could not happen if it were not for the hard work that you guys do to bring it off ,the demos were just great .Allen longmire , Richard Williams . James Batson Mark Zalisky.Burt Foster ,my head is still hurting from all the information that was sheard this week end , helped me tremendously ,there skill in teaching is as great as the work they do .
also we had standing in the back ground many more skilled and masters of this craft willing to do what were i might ask i cant thank you guys enough for your help .without you this doesnot happen,
Rob frink bringing down grinders for us to play with and work on , thanks Rob you are truly top notch and it`alway a pleasure to talk with you . your grinders also top notch .\ I tried to tell Fread Loving which is a neighbor and good friend that your warranty was void if the grinder he purchased was removed from the property, he seamd not to hear me and continued to loading it on his truck and he also found the chain that i had placed on it to jerk it back out when he tried to drive away .
Raid hawkens had a set up of knife making supplies for us to restock
i was informed by Raid ater Allen`s demo on hawks that its best to have at least three Drifts at your vice when building a hawk ---use one when it get hot -get the next one when it gets hot get the next one ( use it ,-when it get hot usethe next one - if you need to do further drifting go back to the first drift ,and its best to color code them and that its best to have a few on hand when friends drop by shoot im not sure how many hawk drifts i have but raid asued me that i was set up for a very long time and that he hoped that i had lots of friends to drop by
I only seen Allen us but one drift im thinking he must have forgotten the others and left them at home .Allen im hoping you did not burn your hand
On saterday we had the cutting contest ,whitch was fantastic to see you cant understand sharp untill you see thes knives proform , Bill wiggins did a great job in making this fun and exciting to watch and i can only imagine the fun that all had that proformed it was fun to hear the befor contest started mind games that were being played out , rumor has it that Burt Foster had to keep his knife sheathed at all time only to be unsheathed just befor using it in each event the tell was that Burts knife is so sharp that wild animals shed the hides just from fear . all in fun it was great to watch . winner were first place-- Burt Foster second place Lin ladum third place James Batson ,,Im thinking about 12 interested the contest
we were also pleased to have Mark Zalesky and Huston Price of knife world to bring over ther fine line of books , you guys have always been supportive of promoting knives and knife makers and collectors we owe you more than just a thanks you have over the years been a source of information that is constant thanks guys
Darren Ellis was here with his forge building supplys and we thank him for his support. we are hoping that you guys got to talk with Darren and stocked up thanks Darren for taking the time out of you Busy schedule to help out
I know this is long and i could go on and on im still pumpted i owe so many so much for all there help as said befor it would not happen with out all that atended i, a
im was so proud to meet you all and to get to see old friends to talk knive all week end and to make new friends if you did not take nothing away from here but a new friendships im happy i know this morning i could still hear the sound of the anvals ring and it rang famley and friends thanks guys and gals for you all being here a special thanks to James Batson A long time mentor for atending this event you made it great for many .Congratulation to Kevin Davey and Jim Gardner for passing their journymans preformance test for ABS under the whatchfull eye of Burt Foster
Bowie see you all next year
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Bowie
Thunder Mountain Forge
this could not happen if it were not for the hard work that you guys do to bring it off ,the demos were just great .Allen longmire , Richard Williams . James Batson Mark Zalisky.Burt Foster ,my head is still hurting from all the information that was sheard this week end , helped me tremendously ,there skill in teaching is as great as the work they do .
also we had standing in the back ground many more skilled and masters of this craft willing to do what were i might ask i cant thank you guys enough for your help .without you this doesnot happen,
Rob frink bringing down grinders for us to play with and work on , thanks Rob you are truly top notch and it`alway a pleasure to talk with you . your grinders also top notch .\ I tried to tell Fread Loving which is a neighbor and good friend that your warranty was void if the grinder he purchased was removed from the property, he seamd not to hear me and continued to loading it on his truck and he also found the chain that i had placed on it to jerk it back out when he tried to drive away .
Raid hawkens had a set up of knife making supplies for us to restock
i was informed by Raid ater Allen`s demo on hawks that its best to have at least three Drifts at your vice when building a hawk ---use one when it get hot -get the next one when it gets hot get the next one ( use it ,-when it get hot usethe next one - if you need to do further drifting go back to the first drift ,and its best to color code them and that its best to have a few on hand when friends drop by shoot im not sure how many hawk drifts i have but raid asued me that i was set up for a very long time and that he hoped that i had lots of friends to drop by
I only seen Allen us but one drift im thinking he must have forgotten the others and left them at home .Allen im hoping you did not burn your hand
On saterday we had the cutting contest ,whitch was fantastic to see you cant understand sharp untill you see thes knives proform , Bill wiggins did a great job in making this fun and exciting to watch and i can only imagine the fun that all had that proformed it was fun to hear the befor contest started mind games that were being played out , rumor has it that Burt Foster had to keep his knife sheathed at all time only to be unsheathed just befor using it in each event the tell was that Burts knife is so sharp that wild animals shed the hides just from fear . all in fun it was great to watch . winner were first place-- Burt Foster second place Lin ladum third place James Batson ,,Im thinking about 12 interested the contest
we were also pleased to have Mark Zalesky and Huston Price of knife world to bring over ther fine line of books , you guys have always been supportive of promoting knives and knife makers and collectors we owe you more than just a thanks you have over the years been a source of information that is constant thanks guys
Darren Ellis was here with his forge building supplys and we thank him for his support. we are hoping that you guys got to talk with Darren and stocked up thanks Darren for taking the time out of you Busy schedule to help out
I know this is long and i could go on and on im still pumpted i owe so many so much for all there help as said befor it would not happen with out all that atended i, a
im was so proud to meet you all and to get to see old friends to talk knive all week end and to make new friends if you did not take nothing away from here but a new friendships im happy i know this morning i could still hear the sound of the anvals ring and it rang famley and friends thanks guys and gals for you all being here a special thanks to James Batson A long time mentor for atending this event you made it great for many .Congratulation to Kevin Davey and Jim Gardner for passing their journymans preformance test for ABS under the whatchfull eye of Burt Foster
Bowie see you all next year
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Bowie
Thunder Mountain Forge
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with the sound a of anvils ring coming out of the main shop where the young and first time makers gathered to start their journey of learning with the skillful help and teaching skills of Wes Byrd . you could see it in the eyes of Wes`s students that he had built a fire that will last for a life time , my humble shop seams to smile even now ,after all are gone ,from the interest that was sheared within its walls ,memories ,Wes you must fell great I know I would ,thanks for helping and I fell God is smiling down on you .
the sounds of forges and hammers striking steel can forever be heard in my memory I want to thanks you all for that .
the sounds of forges and hammers striking steel can forever be heard in my memory I want to thanks you all for that .