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Future propane gas forge
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Welding finished
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Getting our big Mexican Dinners
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The warm glow
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When forges get lit, people gather
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Read from R to L. Looked good at the time.
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Lauren and the inaugural billet
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Even heat, even heat
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Pre and post-diffusion copper and nickel
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First student billet in the forge
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Arthur and his material - in it goes
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Stephan readying the torque plates with a billet-releasing agent
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Prof Lauren McAdams and Bear
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8 lb, hand-actuated, trip hammer
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Hammer, Tongs, Anvil, and forge. Need I say more?
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So intense. Stephan and Lauren
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Stephan and his billet
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8lbs of mad hammering
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Stephan and I reducing billet thickness
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Clean, the metal must be ever so clean
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Close inspection of firing process
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Taryn and her billet
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Phrog and Heather
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Heather ready, and flip it
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Heather: on her way to mokume
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Textbook flip in progress
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Cameron, his billet and excitement
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Erika and Lauren
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Diffusion in progress
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3, 2, 1, and flip