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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on March 13, 2014 at 12:22

Then there was the other items!  Not only do they make the steel billets but highly sought after guards and custom Damascus knife blade blanks for the custom knife maker or hobbyist.  They can come to you pre-ground or just as a profile you grind yourself.  Need a Hatchet?  ADS has that also.

One of the folks that works at ADS (Virgil) took a moment to give Donnie his first full fledged grinding lesson.  Although there is about an hour of video on this for Donnie, for your enjoyment there is about 5 minutes 

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on March 13, 2014 at 12:23

Have some fun, if you have questions let me know and I will see if I can get Brad or maybe even Lacy Smith to help us address them

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Permalink Reply by David Selph on March 13, 2014 at 16:24

Wow!  Thanks for sharing

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on March 13, 2014 at 17:37

Ok Donnie looks like he is right at home doing what he does everyday! lOL

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KnifeMakerPermalink Reply by Lacy Smith on March 13, 2014 at 19:05

Great video Jan

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on March 13, 2014 at 19:09

Thanks Lacy, it was very interesting how the coordinate that hammer and fold.  Like a beautiful steel dance

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KnifeMakerPermalink Reply by Nathan Raptis on March 13, 2014 at 20:06

Hello Jan, Thank you for sharing. It look like Donnie was having fun.

Nathan

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Permalink Reply by Alexander Noot on March 14, 2014 at 1:49

Looks like they've got one of those "Cheater" Double hollow grinding machines (I'm just kidding I'm jealous really).

Pretty cool!

Also their shop is a lot smaller than what I suspected. Cool stuff!

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on March 14, 2014 at 7:32

the grinding shop is in the basement, It is actually three levels

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