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Grade 5 Goes Down!


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Today I was teaching a kettlebell workshop and finished with a little bending demo and let some people try some easy 3/16 and 1/4" stock and the CoC

I mfelt pretty good melting a medium 60d for the demo but didn't attempt anything harder at the workshop.

Anyway a couple of hours later i'm back home and I read Clays post about the first time G8 bender. Thinking to myself that the 60d went down easy I crack out a G5 and take it down!!!!

It was a bit of a fight, especially to get the last 1/2" but its finished now!

I am one happy camper :yikes

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Congrats, Don! I did my first grade 5 in Aug. Major rush when you know you've got it.

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Don, right on!!! :rock

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Thanks guys, it reading about all the super freaks on here that pushes me to keeo working on my bending.

I just got the IM wraps so I'm going to back off a little to some blue level stock and then work up to the grade 5 and G8 using those wraps so that when I take a run at the red I won't have to swap from leather to nylon at the last minute.

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  • 3 weeks later...

Great job. I remember how pumped I was when I bent my first one, it's a heck of a feeling. You're on the way to the red now. :rock

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wd8dky

1/4" x 6" grade 5s

The 5/16" are a super tough bend and only a couple of the guys here are doing them

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