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Coy Baker and his team in the US make some amazing looking specialty steel for high-end makers:LINKThese bars are made for stock removal to not distort the pattern, and to avoid any risk of the elements with lower melting temperature melting at the higher temperatures of forging.To really make these pop, the blades need to be etched and then worked to create additional contrast.Alex Norton from Valhalla Ironworks is one of the Australian makers who get amazing results with the Baker Forge & …

Meet The Maker #20 - Mark Cordina from Cordina CustomsBy Jamie SausageMan Bishop for Nordic Edge, October 2022I first heard about Mark when he became a Prize Winner in the Facebook Aussie Maker Collective Group by winning the Beginner Knifemaking Competition. He then came to prominence when he won the 2nd Place in the Beginner Chef Knife category at the 2021 Australian Knifemaking Awards. When I finally met Mark in person at the 2022 Australian Blade Symposium, I was blown away by the qual …

Thinking of doing our one-day Introduction to Blacksmithing workshop?Check out this 1 min clip made at one of our recent hands-on workshops in Sydney:Jamie is taking a group of students through a fun day of hand forging a bottle openerhammer control and using different types of hammerstongs, types and usesanvil; different parts, what to look for in a good anvilhammer and anvil weights and types for different jobsthen after lunch, free forging time to experiment and have some more forging fu …

Walk-ins welcome in the afternoonsNordic Edge is an online hobby  company and not setup as a  shop. We have no shopfront, price tags or display products.But a couple of days a week you can drop in if needing to get something urgently.Or if you want to look for a particularly nice piece of curly birch :)Mid-december the workshops will close down for summer.Until then the the warehouse is open if dropping by between: Monday 2 PM-4PMTuesday 2 PM-4PMWednesday 2 PM-4PMThursd …

By Darren Ilias, Sept 2022 for Nordic Edge.This is my first MTM article for Nordic Edge, and after seeing Cameron's work online and knowing a little about his background being similar to mine, I really wanted to know more about who he is and why he does what he does. DarrenMeet The Maker #19: Cam from Sacred BladesMy name is Cameron Elder, I'm 37 years old. I’m of British origin…. My father as Stoic Glaswegian, brought up in the tough slums in Glasgow, Scotland building warships as a …