Instructor - Ray Anderson

Course Fee $25.00

One Time Materials Fee $80.00 

Class Prerequisite:  Beginner Blacksmith Class.

This three-day frontier knife class will be hot forged using traditional blacksmith skills; hammers, tongs, files, sandpaper.  We will be adding riveting and heat-treating techniques to the skill learned in the Beginner Blacksmith Class and Frontier Knife Class.  We will hand build a frontier-style knife using traditional techniques of blacksmiths of old.  Forging a knife blade on the anvil using a hammer, files, heat treating and sharpening with no or very little electric grinding.  Next, we will fashion the handle and attach it using pine tar and hand made rivets to complete!  Please note this class is co-ed. Materials fee is payable to the instructor the first day of class.

We will provide all necessary equipment and supplies.

Water 

Safety glass and hearing protection.  

You may bring your own tools if you have them.

You will need to bring and/or wear

Closed toe shoes (boots preferred)

Long pants

Non-alcohol drink and a snack

Note taking material for your own use

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Raymond Anderson is the owner of The Blacksmith Experience.  Ray has been working in metal for a lifetime.  He retired from the USN as a boiler maker. His co-instructor is Elmer Rouch, a world famous Blacksmith and National treasure. We hope you enjoy this Blacksmith Experience.  Forging a lifetime of memories, and having a great time in the process.