first knife class at studio 4

D lisch

D lisch

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Well this weekend I taught the first class at the new school and althought I have been teaching blacksmithing classes for 12 years, 3 or 4 times a year, this was my first time teaching knife making on my own. This was new curriculum for me as i want to have a class that I could teach in two days with folks that have never made a knife before. So, no forging. I had a small sheet of 1075 cut into 3 different style blades; hunter, skinner, kitchen knife. all with the same type of consturation. I let the students pick the knife they wanted to take home, and away we went.
On the first day we had the blades in the oven by 3pm so we just played the rest of the day. Sunday we hit it hard and by 4pm knives where starting to get done. We took these pics after the class. Now this caught me off guard, everone picked the kitchen knife and of corse we had the overachiever, who will not be hard to spot, he made a smaller knife from a hunter blank he cut most of the hunter blade away to make it a paring knife. I think they all had fun. I know I did. and the first one is the hardest. next week is Mike Vagnino, and two weeks later Jason Knight teaches, and we are just getting started.

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Dave, That was a good approach having the blade blanks already made. Glad to hear the class worked out. I'm sure you did a good job teaching! I really enjoyed watching your candle holder demo you did several years ago in Stevenson.
 
Thanks Ray I can tell you I was nervous beforehand but once things got going I settled down and things went well. It helped that I had such a good group of guys. 3 of the 5 had never made any sort of knife . so they used push sticks for grinding. I would say grinding was the hardest part of the class but everyone had there own grinder and I was jumping around to the folks who needed the most help.
 
such a great thing you're doing with this Dave, I can't wait the two weeks or so I'm going to have to wait to get on over there.
If I start swimming now, I should get there some time tomorrow:D
 
Very cool Dave!!! No surprise that -Mr. Monster Metal- was the overachiever :D

Wish I could have gotten in line for Mike and Jason's classes... sounds like a hell of a good time!!! :)
 
Dave, where are the future classes listed I am only seeing the basic class listed on the south site. Thanks Chris
 
go to www davidlisch.com and click on Learn to get all info on up coming class sent to you. I will be sending out the new classes soon. Nick I am going to have a BBG on saturday when Jason is hear sept 18th at the shop you should stop by if you can. Lorien will have dried off by then.:D
 
Great Job Dave. Also great job by the students. Your teaching must have done em good. It is nice to walk away with a finished knife in just 2 days.
 
Great! I am waiting for the class I am going to take in October. 8 days over 8 weeks. We will be forging our own blades. I am excited. If I enjoy it, I will pursue it further. I have so many cool ideas for knives. Being able to actualy make them would be great.
 
Dave I think it is a great thing you are doing there. You are sure making a lot of talent available and the students will certainly benefit from that. Congratulations on getting this off the ground. I know you have put a lot of work into making this happen. I am sure it will pay off big for everyone involved.

Well done, Jon
 
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