Pictures from Don Fogg's forging and finishing demos, Ashokan 2006

[Chris Meyer]

Don Fogg gave two excellent demonstrations at Ashokan this year. The first was a forging demo, during which he forged a knife from round bar. In the evening Don gave a demonstration on his technique for hand finishing a blade. Below are some photos from those demos.

FORGING DEMO

Don making a point.

Forging the round bar.

Forging with a manly hammer.

Working on the point.

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HAND FINISHING DEMO

Don’s vise and backer for hand sanding.

Steel bars used to hold self-adhesive sand paper.

EDM stones soaking in windex, the blade, and other supplies.

Beginning to sand.

Working up a sweat, close-up of sanding technique.

Crappy picture of the partially finished, etched, demo blade. (Sorry about the poor photo.)
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[Terry_Dodson]

Very COOL :thumbup:

 

[Matthew Gregory]

Watching Don was like watching Michelangelo work marble... completely effortless. A true master! Great pictures, Chris!

 

[Keith Montgomery]

What a blast it would have been to get to learn from Don and the others at Ashokan. Maybe someday.

 

[flatgrinder]

Nice! Don made that without a grinder?

 

[Chris Meyer]

Don said that he doesn't like belt grinders, so he uses them as little as possible. I believe he said he rough grinds the blade and bevels, then goes to files, stones, and paper.

 

[Don Hanson III]

Don's a hell of a demonstrator and just a super person :thumbup: Thanks for the photo's, wish I could have been there.

 

[North]

Thanks for sharing the pictures.

Bill

 

[Sweany]

THANKS, good pics

 

[waredbear]

Thanks for the pictures. You gave me an idea on using the two vise set-up for filing. I was thinking about how I was going to do that the other day.

reid