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- Jim Batson
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- Jim’s Bell dirk
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- Batson Bowie
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- Bowie handle
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- Bowie blade dimensions
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- Forging the point /1st
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- Forging the point /2nd
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- Forging the point /3rd
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- Forging the blade /1st
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- Forging the blade /2nd
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- Forging the blade /3rd
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- Forging the blade /4th
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- Pre-curving the blade edge
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- Forging the blade edge
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- Rough-forged blade edge
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- Truing-up the blade edge
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- Forging the point
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- Measuring forging progress
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- Perfect!
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- The rough forged blade
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- Fullering the tang
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- Ronnie assists Jim
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- Jim Jenkins strikes for Jim Batson
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- Forging the tang /1st
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- Forging the tang /2nd
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- Hot-cutting the tang with a hardy cutter
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- Forging the distal taper
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- Forging the tang to shape
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- Forging completed
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- Jim grinds the blade to shape
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- Quenching speed
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- Heat treatment steps
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- Ralph tends Jim’s fire
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- Checking for critical temperature
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- Heating the blade to harden it
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- Almost there …
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- At critical temp
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- Ronnie tests the oil temp
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- Quenching the blade in Phil Love’s quench tank
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- Waiting for the bubbles to stop
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- The quenched blade, differential hardened
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- Drawing the temper with a torch
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- Tempering completed
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- Measuring the tip thickness
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- Measuring the whole edge thickness
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- Tang hole tool
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- Close-up of head detail
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- Guard fitting the tip
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- Rounding the tang
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- Cutting the blood groove /1st
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- Cutting the blood groove /2nd
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- Grooving tool detail /1st
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- Grooving tool detail /2nd
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- Grooving tool detail /3rd
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- Grooving tool detail /4th
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- FJ close-up /1st
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- FJ close-up /2nd
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- FJ close-up /3rd
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- FJ close-up /4th
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- FJ close-up /5th
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- Final grinding
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- Filing the dirk tang
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- Filing jig /1st
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- Filing jig /2nd
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- Draw Filing /1st
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- Draw filing /2nd
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- Draw filing /3rd
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- Draw filing /4th
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- Chalking the draw file
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- Stoning
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- Bell dirk with a spanish notch
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- Another filing jig
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- Jim Jenkins’ bowie
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- Gary tests his blade for proper geometry
GCBA has adopted the 
Gulf Coast Blacksmith Association 