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8:52 pm
I am starting to offer private classes in my shop, and My Friend Tom came by for a one day intensive class, forged both of these knives and the axe. We started at 9 in the morning and ended at about 1100 at night. Tom had some previous experience forging, he attended some classes at Peter's Valley Craft Center where I was the blacksmith shop assistant this past summer. Knives are 5160 and 1084, axe is W1.
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10:46 pm
June 16, 2010
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But Sam, someone should not attempt to forge a blade until they have at least 20 years of forging experience under their belt and have served under a master bladesmith for 5 of those 20 years. If they haven't they they will surely fail in their first attempt and be so distraught that they will never fire up a forge again!
Seriously though, those are some nice, functional looking blades. Pretty awesome accomplishment for one day (albeit one LONNNGGG day).
11:20 pm
March 21, 2011
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Those are real nice, Sam. Did he harden and temper them, too?
11:36 pm
Mark, you confused me I thought I was on iforgeiron for a minute there LOL!
Tom, he sure did but I assisted a bit in that process to assure quality but he did the quenching.
12:20 am
June 16, 2010
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sam salvati;14030 wrote: Mark, you confused me I thought I was on iforgeiron for a minute there LOL!
Yeah, I can turn on the hysterics just like that over here too!:timebomb::bounce:
4:50 am
August 14, 2010
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:stomp:Scared me for a second. Whew.:giggle:
Sam, nice show for a day's teaching. How come you let him go so early?
6:21 am
LOL, thanks Lewis! It was bad, he had a 3 hour drive ahead of him too after leaving his house at 530 AM, getting to me at 830, working til 1100, then leaving for a 3 hour drive.
4:01 pm
May 13, 2010
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Mark;14028 wrote: But Sam, someone should not attempt to forge a blade until they have at least 20 years of forging experience under their belt and have served under a master bladesmith for 5 of those 20 years. If they haven't they they will surely fail in their first attempt and be so distraught that they will never fire up a forge again!
Now that's funny, right there.
Nice job of coaching Sam.
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