Shreveport LA Fall Hammer inn "LOTS MORE NEW PICS"

DanGraves

DanGraves

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Having another Hammer Inn and all invited. It is at my house and I have a nice big shop and overhang where my power hammer, forge and press are and they will all be running. We like newbies, pros, collectors and just folks who enjoy knives. It is a Saturday and Sunday event and we will have some form of BBQ on Sat. with leftovers on Sunday. There will be forging demo's and Damascus making with discussions on construction methods, clips on blades, discussion on mosaic damascus, grinding, can weld Damascus and heat treating. Come one and all and do some hammering.
My address is
4887 Dixie Garden Loop
Shreveport, LA 71105
318-865-8166

There will be 4 anvils and forges so all can get in the fun. Schedule is for demos but other things will also be going on.

Here is the tenative schedule:
Saturday Oct. 10, 2015
8:00 introductions and coffee
9:00 - 10:30 Blade Forging
10:30 - 12:00 Blade grinding and set up for heat treating
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch (BBQ Chicken, tater salad, beans, bread)
1:00 - 2:00 False edge knife clip
2:00 - 4:00 Forging Can Damascus / Damascus (as time allows)
4:00 - 5:30 Heat treat knife, Grind and cleanup of heat treated blade
5:30 - 6:30 Free Time prior to dinner.
7:00 Dinner Out

Sunday Oct. 11, 2015
8:00 - 9:00 coffee and discussion
9:00 - 10:00 Forging tomahawk
10:00 - 11:30 Guard and handle
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
1:00 Construction of knife
2:30 - until Free Time (Questions, answers, requests.)

Here is Ed and Joe using a fuller with the help of my power hammer. No substitute for power.

Me and a buddy looking at my new Supermax milling machine. Love this machine.

Randy Wooten doing some hot work. He put on a great demo on forging a knife.

Here I am doing a demo on setting up the blade in a file guide. This was for a hidden tang knife.

Here I am grinding the knife. Dang I look old..Oh I am.

Randy doing some more hot work.
 
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I'd LOVE to come! I can't commit as Saturday and Sunday are my Thursday and Friday. I'll see if I can get the time off, and hopefully see you soon!
 
Would love to have you and hope you can make it. There will be some good makers here and lots of forging going on.
 
Hope I can make the drive. I used to live in Bossier and of course waited to move before I decided I wanted to make knives. I used to get bees from a guy on Dixie Garden.
 
Robert, I know the bee man. Remember his name is Joe Rosalee. Nice guy. He lives on the same street as I do and has great honey. Hope you make it.
 
Looking forward to another great one Dan!

Always many fine opportunities among even better company. I appreciate your efforts and the old-school generosity you have shared over the years in order to pull off so many memorable gatherings.

I plan to drive over early Saturday with a box full of hammers, some steel and the just plain spiffy "portaforge" that my good buddies Dan, JoeD, and Stewart cooked up for me last winter.

See you then.
 
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Just added a schedule of events. Other forges will be running so either watch the events or do your on thing.
 
Hey Dan,
Heard from any others that are coming ? Not many posting like usual ?? Will, Charlie, etc., etc. ? Hope there is a good turn out.
 
Sounds awesome to me. I'm not an early bird, but might make it by 9:00 on Sat. if nothing changes.
 
Hope you can make it. Some good folks doing demo's.
 
^^ Thanks for hosting again Dan. Had a great time catching up with everybody and hammering some steel! Never gets old.
 
What a great time for all. Was truly a great one and thanks to the all the guy's who helped me. You know who you are. Yes it never gets old but D@$%#!!!! I do.
 
Hated to miss Sunday, but I learned a lot Saturday. Thanks to all for sharing your skills and knowledge. Extra thanks to Dan for his help.
 
This was one of the best in a while. Had a great turnout with 20-30 people in attendance. Here are a few more photos.

Randy Wooten forging demo.
ForgingDemo.jpg

Clip demo
Clip_Demo.jpg

Fitting the guard.
Fitting_Guard.jpg

Finished knife.
Finished_Knife.jpg
 
Here are some more pics.
Ed drifting a tommy hawk.


Here I am grinding on a billet


Andy forging a knife


Bronsun, Joe and Randy fullering a knife


Andy grinding a clip on a blade. He has a unique way if doing it. Does a great job.
 
More pics
Andy refining the clip on the knife we made during the hammer inn.

Here I am grinding the knife.

Randy using the double fuller

Ed using flux on a Damascus billet

Ed setting weld on the billet.
 
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