Gary House gathering 2014

Bill Burke · Feb 28, 2014

Here are pictures of Gary House's gathering this weekend.

[video]http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ThcCWY39orI&feature=em-upload_owner[/video]
Will post more picture as the week end progresses.

Salem Straub · Mar 1, 2014

Wow, a jelly-roller? I've seen power twisting and power rolling, but that's new! What's the center bar/mandrel made of? More damascus, and it stays in there?

Jetzler1 · Mar 1, 2014

Very interesting sure would like to see more!
Thanks for sharing
John

Kohai999 · Mar 2, 2014

I was eating some ice cream and a video of Bill Burke and Tom Ferry making damascus came up on my monitor and I started laughing and screaming simultaneously and ice cream shot out my nose.

Damn!!!!

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson

Jon Brand · Mar 2, 2014

Kohai999 said:
I was eating some ice cream and a video of Bill Burke and Tom Ferry making damascus came up on my monitor and I started laughing and screaming simultaneously and ice cream shot out my nose.

Damn!!!!

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson

I watched the video, what did I miss!!

Burl Source · Mar 2, 2014

Thank You for posting the video Bill.
Do we get to see how the pattern turned out?

Bill Burke · Mar 2, 2014

No pattern Mark that you a see. We all worked Tamahagane this year.

bbarnettAUS · Mar 3, 2014

I hate you guys:grumpy:....maybe next year, or this August

!!!!!!
Cheers Bruce

Bill Burke · Mar 3, 2014

bbarnettAUS said:
I hate you guys:grumpy:....maybe next year, or this August!!!!!!
Cheers Bruce

Ha ha Bruce after we were done forging the steel we made swords and water quenched them. Six swords quenched and no cracks. Whoo hoo.

Bill Burke · Mar 6, 2014

Well I made it home from the Gathering. It was a great weekend. At gatherings for the past three or maybee four years we have constructed and ran Kodai type furnaces producing some three hundred plus pounds of tahmahagane. so this year instead of making more steel we decided that everyone should forge some of previous years product into something. In attendance were, Gary House, our host. Tom Ferry MS, Jon Christiansen MS, John Conway, Kelly Cupples, John Davis, Daniel O'Malley, Myself and a few visitors. Kelly Donated a few hundred pounds of steel (180/15n20) which was almost completely forged into Damascus. I took a mulitude of pictures with my phone however almost none of them turned out very well. looks like the dumba$$ holding the camera had the shakes and didn't have the image stabilization on so they are all blurry.

gthouse · Mar 6, 2014

Thank you Bill, I enjoy the friendship of these gatherings so much. The knowledge passed around is tremendous. Besides Damascus forged I think we had 6 swords, several spears, large knives, a throwing star, a Turkish twist kitchen knife (guess who) and other forged things. This may be my last large one. Forging 10 to15 hours a day for three days can wear one out.
Gary

Gary House gathering 2014

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