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Once again, after the initial success of two hammer ins, My dad and myself are opening up the Flatwoods Forge to anyone who would like to learn to forge steel. We are gonna start doing it different. Because of only having one anvil, and one forge, we are going to limit it to 2 people per weekend. Now I'm opening this up for every weekend between now and Feb. So hopefully anyone who would like to do this, gets a chance too. 1 or 2 day class option, with primitive camping onsite. You will need to provide food and drink for yourself, we provide the campsite, and plenty of firewood. We can provide the steel, but most of our stuff is scrap we have collected. Leaf springs, coil springs, both of which make good knives. We also have railroad spikes, horseshoes, and different pieces of square, round, and rectangle stock. Good steel such as 1084 is optional, we can order it and you can pay us at the class, or you can order it and bring it with you, from newjerseysteelbaron.com. See examples below to see what can be done in a 2 day weekend with a good effort. Please post here AND send me a PM if your interested and we will get you scheduled and setup. Thanks guys. Jordan Flatwoods Forge These knives were all done in two days or less Zombie cleaver 5160 truck leaf spring, leather wrapped handle. 22" overall, 15" blade Fighting Bowie 1084 from website above, Burmese Rosewood handle, 19.5" overall, 13.5" blade Camp Bowie 5160 truck leaf spring, seasoned oak through tang handle, 15" overall, 10" blade

Bowie is on its way to nicky. Thanks guys

Yeah, I understand stuff stands in the way pretty often. If everyone keeps bring railroad spikes, I'm gonna be able to start laying track soon lol. Dan brought down several last time, and George brought several this time. They are fun to play with, and make some good designs.

Its got a professional edge on it. Part if the test is seeing how long it'll go before needing sharpening. If it does need a sharpen, just do what you can and dont sweat it

Trickynicky.its on its way to you tommorow

Everyone who showed up on saturday. George (Gjohnsoniv), Dan (Broomhead), Dan's dad Steve, John (Jaxjohn) and his son. Dad was in the shop and I snapped the pic John's knife he hammered out from 5160 spring steel Thanks to everyone who showed up. We will be hosting small one day hammer in's from time to time, so keep your eyes open. And look out for the next TGO rendezvous coming in march-april

I wanna die fighting a grizzly bear with a bowie in my hand if it has to be by wild animal. That way I would still go out fighting.

Just a quick reminder. Bring lunch and supper for sat. We will be fixing breakfast sat. If your staying all weekend bring food and drink accordingly. Can't wait to see you guys, Ive been forging all week so we are ready to have fun. See yall soon Also I wont be in oliver springs tommorow night for anyone who had planned to meet there. Ill already be up here at the camp site. Just print directions and you'll find it fine. My phone number is 850-776-8205. Call me if you get lost ill have my phone on

Smokey is the most desolate and dangerous place ive ever been. You either no someone or stay out. And i grew up in new river/ graves gap.

As far as other classes it depends on if dave shows or not. We are gonna fix breakfast sat. Morning about 830 and will probably fire the forge around 900 am. We will lay the trade blanket out after lunch in the early afternoon and keep them out as long as possible.

I have no problem including you bjb. The post count is to kerp people with 1 or 2 post and bad intentions from even asking. Im gonna leave this open. Ill send it to tricky nicky monday. From there to maroonandwhite, then to bjb. If noone else wants it, it'll come back to me

I think your wifes in for a suprise, if your like me. Cheaper just means you get to buy more of them at a time lmao.

That looks reslly good. I like, I like

I hope that saves hershel

13 minutes until the new season. Hell yes

Damn that sucks. Oh wrll I understand keeping OL's happy, thought I told mine if she plans anything this weekend, she better plan it alone lol. I have a couple confirmed and a few votes, so if worse comes to worse we will have 2 or 3 anyways

Kids are great. Kids that don't listen on a routine basis in a bad situation need to get a good whipping with a belt or switch. And they don't need to interfere in situations dealing with survival when there are mote capable adults around.

5 days left till the primer TGO campout of 2012. Come on out and have some fun.

Winchester model 12 12 gauge. Its a 1914 model, bought new by my grandpa in 1914. Its been stolen once, and got back, in the late 30's. It was passed to my dad in the early 70's and now he has passed it to me, just as Ill pass it on down to my kids. I still so a lot of hunting with it, squirrel in the fall, turkey in the spring.

Thanks for all the compliments guys.

Well if nothing else, if noone else wants to try it for me, I'll send ya the knife, with return postage money. I just need to know what works and what doesn't so I can improve.

First I'd like to thank Broomhead for overnighting me the steel to get this done this weekend. We started with a 1.5" x 1/4" x 18" piece of 1084 stock. after shaping with a lot of forge work, sanding polishing, etc, we ended up with a long, light fighting bowie. Specs are 19 1/4" overall. 13.5" blade. 12.25" cutting edge. 1084 steel hidden tang blade. 5160 hand guard, Burmese Rosewood handles. Weight is 21 oz. Its fast and quick, and should be a good fighter. Without further ado, the pictures My old man doing some beating, helping me shape it. Two weekends worth of work, not to bad. Me and my dad posing for some pictures.

Knifemakers and Bladesmiths

I just made a new social group, and sent invites before I realized it needed to be approved by a moderator. How long does that usually take? Just wondering so I can let the guys I invited have a heads up since they asked about it. Thanks

When I was 13 or 14 I found a crosscut saw stuck in a stump. Looks like they sunk it in the stump then left it there. Handles were gone, but the blade was still there. I've found a few pocket knives through the years. I once found a helicopter rotor blade in a crate when I was in avation mechanic school at MCAS New River, NC. Threw it in the truck, took it in to some buddies of mine who worked on dynamic components. It was a tail blade for a 60's-70's Huey. Musta been dropped back in the day.