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Here are the summary slides from the live stream Wed 11th of May 2022: Prizes per top 15 spotsTrophies for the Australian Knife Making Awards 2022Clarification of what type of knives to enterHosts were Jamie Bishop and Riley Burns, with guest Jerarmie "Jezz" Heywood from Oblivion Blades. …

Australian Knife Making Awards 2022: CATEGORIESThe Awards 2022 is about completing a knife between May 1st and May 29th and entering online in the free competition. Every week there is a live stream on the Nordic Edge Facebook page, as well as on the Australian Beginner Knifemaking Group. The below is the summary from the stream detailing the categories and requirements for each.Wednesday 4th of May at 8 PM was the live stream covering the categories of the 2022 Awards; Best Knife From KitBest …

Who is ready for the Awards 2022!! Starting May 1st and lasting until Sunday May 29th, you have 4 weeks to complete a knife and enter it into the free, online only competition that is the Australian Knife Making Awards 2022.The guys hosted the Award Start presentation on Facebook Sunday 1st of May, LINKHere are the summary slides from their presentation;Your hosts this year is Riley Burns from Nordic Edge, Jamie Bishop from Sausage Man Forge and Nordic Edge, as well as Tony Earwaker as …

Nordic Edge now representing ST Power HammersIf you have ever seen a power hammer in use in person - and you like forging - you often fall into one or two categories within the first 10 seconds; Wow, that is a bit too big and loud, hand hammering is the way to go.Wow, that is the coolest thing ever. How can I get to forge on one?A power hammer is at the "business" end of blacksmithing, when you have a need to either work large stock, or do more jobs in the same amount of time. For instance bein …

At the 2022 Blade Symposium, Adam Fromholtz held a presentation on how to use a flypress for forging.Adam has made a lot of tooling for both his own flypress and the one at Tharwa Valley Forge, developing his own system for quick replacement of tooling. Not only does this make it easy and quick when swap tools, but it also saves the main flypress bolts from contantly being opened and closed every time a tool is swapped out.Adam's system consists of a bottom plate the bottom tool slips into, and …