This is a few photos from the knife making course I did in September, 2016, following on from the billet making course I did in August, and I talked about in a previous post. I will try and tidy this up, order the photos, and discuss it a bit more soon. Essentially though, its was in a serious of stages, with the steel making bit over one weekend, and then the knife making bit over a second two and a half days.
There was much more grinding and shaping that I envisaged on this course. In fact, once the billet is fairly roughly shaped, a lot of the work is done on the grinder/linisher. So there is a lot of the billet that is simply ground away.
The fairly raw billet. A bit is being marked to be cut out as its a not that well welded together. 
The workshop area. 
The billet being beaten into shape. 
The billet all beaten together, being marked up for the grinding phase. 
The shape ground billet. 
With a tang welded on. 
After a LOT of grinding. 
Post etching, showing the patterned steel. 
After edge hardening. 
Shaped for the handle. 
The handle. 
All fitted and finished. 
A selection of tools made on the course. 
It works! 
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