Learn the art of bladesmithing and knife making from Bladesmith Karim Haddad. This extensive weekend workshop will give you the opportunity not only to learn these skills, but to make a hand forged knife of your own. Karim will guide a small group through the processes to hand forge and craft a tool that you would be proud to own and use.
The course goes from Friday night until Sunday Afternoon. For starting dates of next courses see the upcoming courses list on the side panel
Cost - $550 (incl GST)
Cost includes: Tuition, insurance, materials, use of tools, workshop consumables, safety gear, tea and coffee.
Need to bring: Lunch, appropriate clothing and covered footwear
This is an introductory course that assumes no prior knowledge, just enthusiasm and desire to learn.
Program
Friday
Evening 7pm - 9pm
Design, form and use
Knife making overview
Selection of materials
Tool orientation
Safety overview
Saturday
8am – 4pm
Forging
Temperatures and colours
Basic forging techniques
Flattening
Drawing out
Shaping
Forging blades
Forming the point
Tapering blade
Tang and Ricasso
Edge packing
Annealing and normalising
Lunch
Grinding
Profiling
Rough Grind
Ricasso and shoulders
Fine Grind
Hand Polish
Filework
Hardening
Edge hardening
Tempering
Sunday
8am – 4pm
Hand Polishing
Handles
Shapes and form
Guards
Handle Assembly
Shaping and finishing
Lunch
Sharpening
Edge angles
Sharpening
Maintenance
Sheath Making Overview
Finish off knives
For more information contact Karim on 02 6235 5622
“If steel "sparks" or "burns" while forging, cut it off approximately 3" behind the area and restart” -Jerry Fisk
From a recent course
Essential Supplies
From our Store
Knifemaking Steel
High carbon steel for bladesmithing. Excellent for forging and heat treating. The steel works well under the hammer and the size is perfect for a range of small to medium blade. This is a simple steel that is oil quenched and shows hamon lines very clearly when heat treated correctly. Perfect for Japanese style blades. You should get between 4 and 6 blades per length. 15N20 is the same as 1075 with an additional 2% nickel. It makes a high contrast pattern when combined with either 1075 or 1055 in Damascus steel.
1055 - 4mm x 25mm x 530mm (annealed) 400g - $10 per length
1075 - 3mm x 25mm x 450mm (spring tempered) 250g - $15 per length
15N20 - 2mm x 25mm x 500mm (annealed) 200g - $15 per length
Postage/freight extra. This is in limited supply so contact us now to order.
