Knife to Meet You: An Introduction to Bladesmithing

Multisession Duration: 12 hrs completed over 4 days. By purchasing a ticket, you are committing to attend all meetings included in the multisession. Scroll down to reference the Agenda page to indicate which ticket to purchase for that session!

In this class we will forge, file, heat treat, and sharpen a small blacksmith’s knife using only a piece of high-carbon steel, hand tools, and first principles.

Students will leave the class having made an all-steel one piece “blacksmith’s knife” suitable for cooking, cutting, and everyday use.

Techniques covered will include: straightening, tapering, drawing out and beveling high carbon steel, filing a knife to it’s final shape, quenching, tempering, and finally, sharpening.

The materials fee for this class is $12. This is separate from the ticket price and is to reimburse the instructor for any tools or materials used in this class. This will be paid once, directly to the instructor at the start of the first class meeting. This instructor accepts Venmo.

• Students will learn all of the basics of bladesmithing
• . Forging of a basic knife
• . Filing the knife to shape
• . Simple Heat Treatment (Quenching and Tempering of Steel)
• . Knife Sharpening
• . The End Result will be a simple and functional blacksmith's knife.
• . This course does not include tool testing.

Willow is a blacksmith, bladesmith, Forged In Fire Champion and mom from Lunenburg, MA. She has taught at multiple craft schools around the US, and worked with blacksmiths as far away as Myanmar. If you take her classes, you must have a high tolerance for corny puns, and strange tangents and stories that are actually extremely relevant to the topic at hand.

Their beautiful selves, their sharp and inquisitive minds, closed-toed shoes, natural fiber clothing, and most importantly a water bottle.

• 24" of 1/2" round mild steel bar
• 8" of 1/2" diameter steel coil spring (high carbon steel)
• Access to A2's Metalsmithing shop and tools for the duration of the session.

Attire: Attendants should wear close-toed slip-resistant shoes (steel-toe work boots are ideal), long pants, and no loose-fitting clothing that could possibly get caught in machinery. Make sure to wear only natural fibers (i.e., cotton, wool, linen, etc) and bring reading glasses if needed for detailed work.

Learn more about our class and ticket cancelation policies Here.

Please email [email protected] with any questions.

*Sales end 24 hours before the start of the class to allow the instructor and staff time to prep.

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