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Tonight on the Australian Beginner Knife Making Group: Micro Hammer-in Challenge Announcement!Friday 16th of OctoberTonight Jamie "SausageMan" Bishop announces the next Creative Man Challenge on the facebook group, micro hammer-ins on the weekend of 21st/22nd of November.This is another initative to bring the knife maker/blacksmithing community together while we are in various versions of lockdown, with restrictions on what we can do regarding travel and group sizes. So the below will have to be …

What to expect from the Blacksmithing Introduction WorkshopMary, Scott and Scott joined us for the Blacksmithing Introduction workshop, where the day consisted of:09:00 - 09.30 AM: Introduction, Safety Talk, Blacksmithing tools09:30 - 12:00 PM: Demonstration and forging of bottle opener12:00 -  1: 00 PM: Lunch break 1: 00 -   2:30 PM: Forging free time: Making another bottle opener or other small project2:30 -  3:00 PM: Tidy-up and discussion time; recap, questionsEach s …

By Bjorn Jacobsen 28th of August 2020Jamie is possibly one of the most well-known guys in the Australian knife making community. He has a big beard, a big laugh and a big pan of Kransky at every show and market he goes to – making him a popular visitor both in front of and behind the tables of the other makers.Jamie, who grew up outside of Sydney, spent a considerable amount of time in the school holidays and weekends with his grandfather - was also a keen maker. It was during this time t …

Meet The Maker #10: Shane Wells.By Riley Burns, 8th of August 2020.My name is Shane Wells, I am a 24 year old Blacksmith from Sydney, Australia.I am a Prop maker for Film and Theatre full time, I teach in my spare time at Makerspace and Co.and am a blacksmith in what ever time is left after all that. My blacksmithing is all done under the business name Steamjunk.I have always been a maker, but really got interested in working with my hands around the age of 12 and at 16 I started working profess …

Jamie held a great workshop at Creative Man in Sydney on Sunday.For the first time we ran a group through the new "Forged Chef Knife" version of the Blacksmith Workshop.This is a bit more work than the Pizza Cutter/Herb Chopper project but the guys all got through with great looking results!Starting at 8.30 we had safety briefing, overview of anvil, hammers, tongs and other tools before covering the project process we would follow on the day.By 9 am we had everyone forging on their blade and by …