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Bill Thorne won the Viewer's Choice Award in the #townsbowiebuildoff challenge!Here is the winner announcement video from Sam Towns:Bill won a Nordic Edge Blade Vice, we will get this on the way to him in North Carolina shortly.It was awesome fun seeing some WIP photos and the final line-up of big blades this year!If you want to keep up with Bill's knives on Instagram, give him a follow here: LINKAnd a big thank you to Sam Towns for organising the challenge. …

By Bjorn Jacobsen, 29.11.2022Sam Towns is again holding the #townsbowiebuildoff challenge. The makers taking part has 2 months to complete a big bowie knife in either beginner or "open" category. Sam is a fulltime blacksmith and knifemaker in Western Australia, and co-host of the Forgecast podcast together with Alex Norton.Towns Bowie BuildoffThe full story on Youtube with intro and rules for 2022 is here:In summary the bowie has to have: Blade longer than 8" (200 mm)Clip or false edg …

We are starting a Maker Give Back this year: $5 from every order in DecemberThe money goes to a charity This year it will go towards Kevin Slattery's multiple disc surgeryFor every order on Nordic Edge in December 2022, we will give back $5 to a charity in the Australian maker community. This year we will send the money to a fellow maker who is going in for some major surgery. Kev Slattery has lived every day with chronic pain for a very long time. This is his opportunity to get …

Hayden has been in the workshop again, working on another video showing how to build the knife kits.This time he is doing the MG Santoku Kit with G10 scales: LINK.The MG blades are made in Spain from Stainless steel, and what makes them quite unique is that they have integral bolsters forged as part of the blade. The bolster is the thicker bit between the blade and handle, and is here not attached after the fact, but made in the actual knife steel, as part of making the blade.The kit comes …

Article by Bjorn Svensson in Norwegian, translated to English by Bjorn Jacobsen Oct 2022Bjorn Svensson is a Norwegian hobby knifemaker who wrote this excellent article for a knifemaking group in Norway. He has kindly allowed us to use it in Australia. If there are any inconsistencies or lack of clarity, this is due to the translation and not the original article.Bjorn makes knives in his home town of Risør, one of the oldest towns in the south of Norway.Here is the first half of Bjorn's art …