Cable class at studio 4

[D lisch]

Hi Folks well it has been a while since I shared anything about the classes going on at studio 4. I run one or two classes a month I recently added a new class called cable damascus, the project was to take a piece of cable and make a knife that has the cable as the handle. Each student would forge and heat treat 2 knives on Saturday and on Sunday we grind sand and etch the knives and just to keep things fun I offered them if they wanted to, the chance to unwrap and wrap in a piece of nickel foil, it gives the blade a nice little sparkle but adds to your chance of failure, as it is already very hard to forge a cable straight down into a blade and have no inclusions. I ran the class two weekends in a row 6 students in each class we all had a blast, learned a lot and I picked up a few new tricks in the first class so the success rate was higher in the second class. There were a few really great blades in each class, and a few with inclusions. Thank you Bill Buxton for the nice box of cable.

 

[D lisch]

week two some of you may know Cliff F he did a great job on both knives His nickel wrapped knife came out awesome

 

[Karl B. Andersen]

Cool looking knives, Dave. :thumbup:

That had to be fun.

 

[winterbear]

The grinding class I took with Dave was great these classes look to be even better ( what's better that hot steel?maybe his stag handle class or Damascus or W2 ). I would encourage anyone with the desire to check out the classes Dave offers.
Chris Roberts

 

[Dawkind]

Man, those are some really fine knives your class made my friend....

Great job and don't have too much fun!!!!!

 

[D lisch]

Thanks Karl Chris and Dudley, Karl it as fun Chris I look forward to having you in another class.

 

[Kevin Jones]

Impressive knives, you obviously have a great knack for teaching.
I would really like to take one of your classes, wish you were closer.

 

[Kai Winters]

Wow, that is very cool.

 

[Steve Randall]

Very nice, obviously good instruction to produce those fine knives. I like the way you have your disk grinder set up.

steve

 

[bbingenheimer]

David, Thanks for showing this to all. I too want to make it some day for one of your great classes. I can see they are very productive.



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