Live, from Sea-latte, it's Studio 4!

Wow what a week that was! Dave's school, Studio 4 is a great place to learn. ^ students forged,ground,heat treated made guards and shaped handles in 3 days!!!
Dave Lisch thank you my friend for the oppurtunity to teach at Studio 4, I anticipate our next class. It was good to meet Stuart Branson and Lorien Arnold in person. If any of you have oppurtunity to attend a class at Studio 4 you better sign up as soon as Dave lists the class. I just cant get over how well it went and David Lisch made it happen.
 
I really wish I lived in Seattle. Dave's school is full of fun tools. :) I'd like to do a blacksmithing course with you some time Dave and looking at the roster of the blade programs, I could spend a lot of time there.
 
SBranson said:
I really wish I lived in Seattle. Dave's school is full of fun tools. :)
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I almost wish I lived in Dave's shop! Almost- the train going by every five minutes plus the two power hammers is kind of a deal breaker though.

Don, I do believe there was at least a little beer shooting out of various noses at some points during the course. Not that we were all drinking and forging or anything, because, you know, that's dangerous:) About as dangerous as being around Jason while he was riding that trike around with his khukuri. Unfortunately, our planned tricycle jousting didn't happen, (Dave made two of those trikes). I would have happily taken my beats just to be able to say I did it.
 
THOK!:D We never did get to use those lances you made, did we:(
 
Great pics, Lorien. It looks like a great time was had by all. And as for that Khuk, I think I am in love!!! That is the nicest Khuk I have ever seen. Jason, if you ever decide to get rid of it, I'll be your huckleberry!!! ;):)
 
well I have had a few days to relax and get my blacksmith work back on track. I did have a very good time and I thought Jason was a very good teacher. The leg work on these classes has been a lot more then I thought it would be but I am hoping that will get easier. I had Mike Vagnino up here, teaching a slip joint class two weeks before Jason's and it went very well also 5 slip joints in 3 days, 3 of the 5 folks had never made a knife before. So, much thanks to both Mike and Jason for jumping in and teaching before all the bugs where worked out. here are a couple pics of mike and the only pic I could find of Lorien, he had just raced John Conway for pink slips.

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Wow! I totally forgot about this, but I did actually get a chance to put a handle on a knife while I was at the course. Dave spent a bit of time with me and totally taught me about attaching scales to a knife handle. He even supplied the bronze pin material and the macassar ebony wood.


This is the knife as I received it from Tad.

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I wanna keep this knife in my pocket, and the paracord is not very conducive to a wet formed sheath like I like to make, unless it's epoxied. Besides I thought the knife would be rocked out best with some nice wood scales. Ok, now keep in mind that shaping this handle was my very first experience using a belt sander. Generally I use hand files for this stuff.
I was blown away by the belt grinder, and I'm convinced now that I will be needing more power tools in my future:).

Not overly proud of this effort, but it feels pretty nice and doesn't look too bad, and now I can make a sheath for this little guy and get some use out of him!

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unfortunately, my batteries didn't last too long, but I got a nice bit of time lapse video for you to enjoy:)

Check it here; http://vimeo.com/15491879
 
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