StateoftheOzarks Fest ’22
The Order of the Red Boar pose before the noon fight. StateoftheOzarks Fest ’22 by StateoftheOzarks staff StateoftheOzarks Fest ’22 took place Saturday, September 17, on Historic Downing Street in Hollister. The street festival is hosted by Hollister-based StateoftheOzarks.net and is the company’s sixth annual event. “This was our biggest festival,” notes editor-in-chief, Joshua Heston.…



![“This axe is a failed project. It wouldn’t have failed if I hadn’t hardened the edge so hard. I was doing a Norse style technique for making the axe head. This is a lawnmower blade that I wrapped around. This is a file that I inserted into it. I couldn’t get a good forge weld so I tried doing what I lot of them did where you actually drilled through it and sink pins [into it]. But I ruined a drill bit or two trying to drill through the file. So I eventually just took my drifting tool and punched holes through it when it was hot and stuck nails through and then I welded it. And this last time I hardened it I immediately went to go test it and realized it was too hard when I chopped into a log or two and the edge chipped off.”](https://stateoftheozarks.net/showcase/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_8865-625x417.jpg)