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By Bjorn J, 13.06.2022BLADE show is the biggest knife show in the world, held each year in Atlanta, Georgia in the South of the USA.To give you a picture of how big it is, if you were to walk past each of the 920 tables from the exhibitiors, spending 1 minutes on each table, you would need 15.6 hours. To do a single walk-through, no buying, talking or picking stuff up!Here are some photos from our trip, should you want to get an idea of what to expect, if tagging along next year.Riley and I set …

Here are the slides from the Winner Announcements from the 2022 Knife Making Awards!We had such a good turnout this year, and a lot of amazing knives.a massive Thank you to everyone who took part in making it such a fun event, from prize sponsors to makers to everyone joining in the live streams every week to make it a fun event!Thank you again to our judging teams from the Australian Knifemakers Guild and Australian Woodsmith Magazine!This is a picture heavy post, might take a little while to l …

These are the summary slides from the live stream covering the judging and scoring of the Australian Knife Making Awards 2022: …

Plane Old Iron ForgeJacob McNamara at Plane Old Iron is working hard on a new batch of 2.5 lbs rounding hammers for Nordic Edge this week.Rounding hammers is a popular style amongst knife makers and hobby blacksmiths, made popular on youtube by Brian Brazeal, Alex Steele and others.Here is Brian Brazeal showing why he thinks this is a great hammer style:The reason rounding hammers are popular is the "squashed basketball" round head that can be angled to be used as both a straight and cross peen …

Wednesday 18th of May 2022 the Awards 2022 stream covered:HOW TO ENTER & WHAT PHOTOS TO TAKE.The hosts were Riley Burns and Jamie Bishop from Nordic Edge, with guest Brook from Brook Turner Blades.Brook was the winner in the 2021 Australian Knife Making Awards in the coveted Best In Show category, and back this year to have a chat with the guys and help with some tips for new makers.Entry link is open until Sunday 29th of May 4 PM AEST: LINK Here are the summary slides from th …