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It being Texas, there's a chance you would have looked down the barrel of a gun within 5 seconds :p

Ok here it is: I walked around with the camera a couple of times and made some video impressions. There is no real purpose. I just wanted to show the stuff that was going on at the time.

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When victor is using the big angle grinder, you can really see what happens when the metal dust gets sucked into the air intake of the forge. Fireworks!

Ok this was first. I compiled a video of the billets I forge welded. the meteorite billet is not in this. Just various tool steel billets. Not the most interesting stuff but I figured I might as well...

I am currently editing my video footage.
I walked around a couple of times, just filming people at various times during explanations etc. I hope to have it later today.

Randy has the good weather mojo. The weather was wonderful.

Yeah we talked about it but somehow the idea seems to have fallen by the wayside.

My meteorite

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The meteorite billet. It needs 4 more folds.

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2 pieces of twisted damascus with 11 layers

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2 pieces of 9 layer damascus with just parallel lines

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Super funky wonky damascus. This was made in 5 or 6 steps, with the billet...

a slice of the meteorite loaf

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A 5 layer billet with 3 layers of 1095 and 2 layers of meteorite

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The billet after welding it together, with help from Andy Lewis who handled...

A bouquet forged by local blacksmith Larry

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the grill master in his natural habitat

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The inside of the big welding forge

Mouse and friends waiting in the lounge with me

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Arriving at the Shop

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My breakfast after some of the bacon was already gone

Cutting a slice of meatloaf, ehm... meteorite loaf :D
There is so much nickel inside that it took 2.5 hours for the bandsaw to get through it.

That's me with the hat, talking to Victor while I'm waiting for a billet to get to temperature.

That's me swinging the sledge to work down the meteorite billet, with andy Lewis handling the tongs to move the billet so that I always strike the middle of the anvil.

Sorry to hear that Steve. We will certain have a drink in your honor! Get well!

Just in case you happen to need to hook up an oil pipeline while on the road :)

I think Randy was bringing tongs he just bought. And Scott and Randy will presumably bring their mjolnir hammers. I will not bring mjolnir because I will already have luggage weight issues on my...

If the old diner still existed I'm pretty sure they would remember us as well. I was really saddened when I saw that message from Cliff about the situation. Still, there's a new diner close to the...

That's what I do for my tool steels and damascus. I know I can do so in my forge, but I never bother. Just throw everything in the kiln, press start and forget about it.

Unfortunately for you, I am pretty much a creature of the night so when I go the US, I typically do not have much of a jet lag and wake around the same time as the rest. I basically fall into a rythm...

If we use the 1095 and 15n20, we shouldn't need the oven to anneal. we did that last year by going to critical and then placing between 2 soft bricks. For O2 that was a big fail but 1095 was a...

Thanks everyone. I've passed the offers on to Jaime. I'll probably know something later today

Jaime also asked if there was anyone willing to share a room.
She realizes that this might not be possible because she is a 'she', but she figured it wouldn't hurt to ask.

It's a bloody miracle that you 2 fit in the car :)
Victor's got it covered.