Bowie`s Hammer in

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Ron Claiborne

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Hello knife makers and friends
we are going to have another hammer in here at my place in knoxville
Tenn. .
all are welcome to attend we hope to have a great time . its for knife
makers and those that want to learn a little from some really good
makers
we hope to have a working and hands on atmosphere and help each other
and teach each other ,what ever one wants to get into .
it will be a two day event with forging demo and damascus demos and
grinding demos
heat treating demo s if you attend and want to teach you will be
welcomed to do so ,hope to have lots here
Larry Harley will be here teaching , Len Landrum will be teaching
in-house heat treating for the ground or forged blade a very interesting
guy . James Gibson will be forging a blade to shape and helping those
that want to forge their on blades from start to finish
we hope to keep some thing going on all the time so be here and join the
fun
the cost is free we have a few acres to pitch a tent or set up
a camper but have no hook ups sorry.
Dinner will be served at $5.00 a person
that being said i need to know if you will be here so that we can make
better plans for meals , ect.
as time nears we will no doubt have more demonstration for you
to watch
I will be sending directions and motels near by that you
might want to stay at but all that want to can camp here on the place .

Call or e-mail if you want to attend thanks and i hope you will be
here . the date is the week after the Blade show in Atlanta June 8
-and 9th you are welcome to show up early if you want to
Call 1-865-660-1569 ask to speak to Ron Claiborne
 
I heard rumors of mass quantities of clear liquid, in mason jars.
:D
BTW, Ron, welcome to the forums.;)
 
Being my anniversary weekend,....I wasn't sure if I could go or not.

But it is official....I'm there. I'll load my truck with machinery and haul it down for you guys to demo untill you run out of steel.

Any special requests?

See Ya there,
Rob
 
Great, Rob!

People will love you're equipment. I really look forward to meeting you and so many others for the first time face-to-face. This will be my first hammer-in and I'm excited like a kid!
 
Oh well, beat laid plans of mice and men. That Murphy fella has struck again and I will not be able to attend. I will be there in spirit and I hope all of you learn a bunch and have a great fellowship.
KEN (WWJD)
 
Thats great Rob that things worked out we will be so proud to have you and your famely here .
I to like fitzo cant wate and Ken we will be thinking of you also wish it could have worked out really wanted you here .
man we going to have a good time .
 
Bowie!!! I wish I could attend, but i dont think I can since I will be graduating and looking for a job, etc. :( Have fun and make some stainless pink damascus! :p
 
Taz you show up ill let you make all the pink damascus you want and im sure it will be a hit hehehehehehe sorry we were realy hopping you could make it .to the hammer in not pink damascus,
Bowie
 
LOL. i wish I could make it too. But parents are on my case to get a job now that i graduated yesterday and won't let me upgrade my knifemaking equipment much until I get a full time job with benefits. They also said i couldnt get a KMG until I moved out :(

But they did get me a ton of weightlifting stuff yesterday, well 500 pounds worth, so bout a quarter ton of stuff :)
 
A little update on whats going on I posted this at other forums so you might see it a few times sorry
Glad you guys are coming , and you bring anything u want to sale we will have a
tailgate sales if you want .
All I ask is that you might bring some thing to place in the iron in the hat drawing
this is the only way that might off set some of the cost , but that said you dont
have to , all i want is for use to teach each outher and have a good time talking
makingand living knives for a weekend .
have you any ideas on what we could get Larry to do . im so proud of having
Larry and others to take the time to help with this and for you guys supporting
this also .
its a working hammer in so bring what you like to work with i hope to have
forges set up and we trying at this point to get a few hammers in but cant say for
sure yet
we will have Coal - gas -press - power hammers We also have Rob Frink
bringing some of his KMG grinders down so we will get to see some of the
latest thing he is doing there . that is very kind of him its going to be hard to let it
go when this is over heheheh , and we will have a place for doing hand work if
you want to do wire inlay leather we will have a large tent to do those thing
thanks guys i cant wate for those that are going to Atlanta i might see you there ,

let see do you think we could get Larry To show us how he shouts weld and the
steel does.
i watched him once just look at a billet and it welded from fear alone (GRIN)
I have also alearted all the harley riders to watch their chains max is coming to
town.
Bowie
 
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