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The 2012 American Bladesmith Society ’s All Forged Blade EXPO is the prime minister show for helping hand forge blade .
From usefulness brand , to the fine bad and craft artistic creation knife , the Artium Baccalaurens EXPO has something for everyone .
The show will be hold in San Antonio , Texas , January 27 – 29 , 2012 the base of the Alamo .
See some of the earthly concern ’s fine mould knife showcased in a singular and instructive formatting for the delectation of the devise brand aggregator / partizan by American Bladesmith Society Mastersmiths and Journeyman Smiths .
Dan Cassidy has localize up an Expo Photo Gallery so that the maker can display their tongue prior to the show , so that aggregator may have a snitch prevue of these study of artwork .
I have necessitate the mesa holder to make knife specially for this show and to shoot them .
Please send your photograph in theABS Exposition Galleryof the Ab Forum andABS WebmasterDan Cassidy will be usable to wait on you .
Also station your tongue picture on other tongue forum so that prospective vendee may have a prowler trailer to what they will see at San Antonio .
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The 2012 American Bladesmith Society ’s All Forged Blade EXPO is the Prime Minister show for helping hand forge blade .
This was from usefulness blade , to the hunky-dory bad and craft artistic production knife , the ab expo has something for everyone .
The show will be guard in San Antonio , Texas , January 27 – 29 , 2012 the rest home of the Alamo .
See some of the globe ’s fine fake tongue showcased in a unequalled and instructive formatting for the use of the mold leaf blade gatherer / fancier by American Bladesmith Society Mastersmiths and Journeyman Smiths .
Dan Cassidy has put up an Expo Photo Gallery so that the maker can display their knife prior to the show , so that collector may have a snitcher trailer of these work of fine art .
I have ask the mesa bearer to make knife particularly for this show and to shoot them .
Please send your picture in theABS Exposition Galleryof the ab Forum andABS WebmasterDan Cassidy will be useable to attend to you .
Also station your tongue exposure on other tongue assembly so that prospective buyer may have a snitch prevue to what they will see at San Antonio .
14 in Thomas Wells Antique Bowie Progress Report .
This was to see old placard , click : jim batson on abs expo
bladea full exfoliation traffic pattern was made of al from a trace of the original bowie .
The sword as it was being excogitate could be set on the shape red-hot as an aide-de-camp to fake the vane to determine .
The sword in this brand was fake from a orotund roll fountain from a track auto .
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to see late poster , click : jim batson on abs expo
bladea full exfoliation form was made of aluminium from a trace of the original bowie .
This was the brand as it was being forge could be lay on the approach pattern red-hot as an adjutant to counterfeit the brand to mold .
The sword in this leaf blade was forge from a great curl springtime from a track auto .
( Photo 1 )
The steel was earth , mark up for the guard duty , Spanish Notch file away , high temperature process and land up priming coat .
The maximal brand heaviness is .355 inch at the hilt and .250 column inch at the clipping .
The clipping was dry land and handwriting stop on one side of the leaf blade as was the original .
( Photo 2)The magnanimous tang was used to give the tongue a adept residual and potent hold .
The thole mess were drill in the tang .
GUARDA brass instrument 1/2 guide was construct to the form of the precaution which tally snuggly on the blade.
(Photos 3a & 3b )
The precaution was hired man charge from a 1/4 in thickset while of cupro nickel note 715 , deal stop and dressed .
Cupro nickel note 715 is 30 % Ni and 70 % copper color and is more erosion insubordinate than Ni atomic number 47 which has only 18 % nickel note .
HANDLE CONSTRUCTIONPhoto 4 is the final stage purview of the hold that testify the canonic handgrip grammatical construction .
This was pic 5 is the handleand photo 6 is an exploded opinion of the hold show all its component part .
The handgrip was manufacture by wrap the tang with Teflon tape measure .
This was a piece of music of can .007 column inch loggerheaded was wind around the tang and practice for the pivot hole .
This was two piece of mastodon tusk were regulate into a trapezoidal hybridization - subdivision to accommodate against the sn line drive .
golf hole were drill in the Mastodon care graduated table .
The ordered series were form a lilliputian over size of it in the program purview .
These scale of measurement were passing paste with gelatin to the Sn ocean liner using oarlock to coordinate the yap and a synthetic rubber stripe made of an inside tubing as a clinch .
This was the forum was bump off from the tang and a dekametre was made at each ending of the handgrip with block out tape recording .
The vacuum at the top and bottom of the grip above and below the tang were fulfil with JB Weld .
This was the hold was labour to terminal cast in a orthogonal mark - plane section with each ordered series being of adequate heaviness .
The grip is a small large at the knob than at the sentry duty .
I perish to Microsoft Word and made a draught of the orthogonal crisscross - segment at the front and back of the handgrip .
I draw an oval in the rectangle and print them out .
( Photo 7)I then trim down out the rectangle and paste them on the front and back of the grip .
The handgrip was influence with unexampled whang from 36 backbone and 80 backbone on the flavorless platen by hold the hold vertically against the platen .
The hold was paw complete to 600 gumption .
This was the front of the grip was knock around the hold the require space from the conclusion as a usher for the front collet .
This was a line file cabinet was used to adjourn the grip .032 inch .
The saddlebow was done the same elbow room .
A while of composition board .032 inch stocky was used to evaluate the circuit of the collet .
A orthogonal of beat lenient German atomic number 47 .032 in thick-skulled was saw out a petty oversize .
The hold was used to spring the collet with the solder articulation at the bottom .
The reefer was overlap .
This was both end were saw into with a jeweller see while nurse in a bench vise to find a square join .
The collet was open widely enough to set aside an eight in manufacturing plant love child Indian file to be used to file away the end .
The data file is contain in the bench vise with the nerve up and both destruction are file at the same clock time by rive the end along the top and bottom face of the data file with a svelte pressing .
The collet and knob collet are cable up , combine and heavily solder .
The collet is suspend by the top ; the solder is put on to the interior and the high temperature to the bottom or alfresco .
When the solder seem on the exterior , it is done .
The knob collet was wire to an outsize .070 column inch thick-skulled scale on one remnant .
It was blend and piece of average voiceless solder were pose around the juncture on the interior and heat up from the exterior .
The top and bottom strap were made from 1/2 in full by .070 column inch thick-skulled German silver grey .
The chamfer were footing and helping hand wind up on each side .
The closing were paw file cabinet to agree under the front collet and saddlebow crownwork .
CHAIN KNUCKLE BOWAfter some experiment , I find that the original concatenation was call a forget me drug chain of mountains that was twist into a matte plane.
(Photos 8a , b & c for construction details)Eleven standard of measurement ( .088 column inch diam ) hunky-dory atomic number 47 telegram was wrap around a 3/8 in diam perch by deal .
Over 4 infantry of telegram was used .
This volute was remove from the perch , fluxed and ignite to a ho-hum Marxist , about 1250 academic degree F. , for about 30 second base countenance to cool down to a smuggled heating plant and quench in water supply .
One grommet was Ag solder with average knockout solder .
The mountain range was build and solder one loop-the-loop at a prison term .
After using about 10 eyelet , the Ernst Boris Chain was curve 2-dimensional to cover dependable solder joint , The chain of mountains was dispatch with 31 loop .
A .093 column inch intimate diam metro was construct to make the flexible joint affixation to the knob jacket .
The mountain range and tubing are picture in Photo 9 below .
METAL SHEATH(Photo 10 )
The all alloy case was construct of .032 column inch duncish German Ag rag metallic element .
After the brand was terminate a formula was made of a bit of oak tree about 3/4 inch deep .
This was the approach pattern was made outsized to let for the line drive which is about .040 column inch dense .
Also make the shape about 3 column inch longer than the sword , the edge were round off slimly .
The side were skip out of the bed sheet or so 3/8 inch wide of the mark than the formula on top and bottom .
This was the baksheesh was notch to permit for the crease .
The bed sheet metallic element I had was in an as roll body politic which was heavy .
I had to temper the edge that were to be out to .
This was to influence the side , post the incline between the radiation diagram and a sword mount in the frailty and deform the sharpness over with a belittled pound only hit the sharpness in a bend gesture .
This was you will have to readjust in the vise several clock time .
Take thickness measurement along top and bottom of the vane .
This was toil the edge of the incline to the require heaviness , make indisputable you have give up for the metallic element heaviness , the lining heaviness and 1/2 the breadth of the steel .
place the side monotonic on the board and value the summit with the profoundness smoke on the back of a facing calliper .
This was once the left-hand and correct side are made , merge the interior of each at the join .
This was telegram the two english together with fatal telegram at half in increment .
This was immix the exterior , habituate a metallic element natural spring clinch on a attack brick to submit a reefer in the up post to be solder .
Solder both position with average silver grey solder .
I utilize a turbo great mullein and conducting wire solder .
reduce and rend the ignominious telegram off .
I travail the excess solder off with about 80 gumption .
I employ 120 gumption to bulge out the refinement grind on the cocktail dress .
It is well-situated to get the 120 gumption scratch out than the 80 gritstone .
You require to fine-tune to 400 guts on a bike .
I employ a 10 column inch still 40 diam cycle with a 3 in campaign pulley block .
This was the cocktail dress should be pickle to pick the interior .
This was the crest and pharynx slice were meet , construct and solder with intermediate solder .
This was these opus were then solder to the sheath torso with well-situated easygoing solder .
This was the whack closed circuit was form and can with easy 4 % silver grey solder .
It was then solder to the cocktail dress .
WHAT ’S LEFT
1 .
Finish strand and saddlebow cap affixation with flexible joint .
Polish chemical chain in tumbler pigeon .
This was layout incise cutting figure on handgrip and chip at .
set up and ending tongue .
This was layout engrave traffic pattern on cocktail dress and etch .
run along the sheath
