A Journey Through Making Steel !
7 day class covering the process of smelting iron and steel, consolidating the bloom down and making a finished knife out of the materials
This is possibly my most challenging class to date, both for myself & the students!
This 7 day class will take you through the process of making a knife starting out with iron ore and ending up with a finished handled knife.
We will spend 2 days smelting, running a smelt the first day from a pre built Saxon style smelter and building another furnace to be run on the second day, any of the bloomery material made will be divided up between the students for consolidation.
We will then spend 2 days consolidating the bloomery material, sorting the high carbon from the low and forge welding and amassing bar stock. The bar stock will be shared between the people attending the class.
From this stock we will shape our knives by forging and grinding the blades and fitting simple handles.
We will aim to each end up with a small kitchen/general use knife or seax.
This is a rare chance to make yourself a very unusual thing – a knife made absolutely from scratch, literally from rock to finished knife!
The price of this week long course is £720
Course Dates for 2012:-
6th to 12th August 2012
To secure a place on this course please send a 50% deposit ….. £360
Cheques should be made payable to Owen Bush and sent to East Wickham Farm, Welling, Kent DA16 3DA
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