For several years I've been hoping to make it again to The Southern and set up a 'Damascus Reading' table, possibly adding bore and wall thickness measurements. Unfortunately, the dates always overlap a Guatemala mission trip for which I'm either preparing or from which recovering
http://www.picturetrail.com/photos/gracemedicalmissions Steve Culver, who many of us are aware has successfully fabricated a short 2 iron crolle shotgun barrel, will be in Las Vegas at the Invitational Knife Makers show, and I would love to talk pattern welding with him, and many of you.
I can't justify paying for a table (and the show is sold out) since
nothing I know has any commercial application 
but possibly a dealer could give me 3' feet of table where I could set up and provide an opinion (for free) as to damascus pattern identification. In return, I could bring my Bill Henry wall thickness gauge and measure a
few (it is hard work and takes about an hour done right) barrels for the dealer.
Hard to take 4 days off during Paradise Season and the short Mearns season in SE AZ however
SO if someone with a table would be kind enough to be my host please send a PM or email me at revdoc2@cox.net and thanks!
Richard Baxter (1615-1691),
A Christian Directory, Part 1, Chapter IV, "Directions Against Covetousness"
"Be more careful to use what you have, than to get more."
