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By Bjorn J, 13.06.2022BLADE show is the biggest knife show in the world, held each year in Atlanta, Georgia in the South of the USA.To give you a picture of how big it is, if you were to walk past each of the 920 tables from the exhibitiors, spending 1 minutes on each table, you would need 15.6 hours. To do a single walk-through, no buying, talking or picking stuff up!Here are some photos from our trip, should you want to get an idea of what to expect, if tagging along next year.Riley and I set …

Here are the slides from the Winner Announcements from the 2022 Knife Making Awards!We had such a good turnout this year, and a lot of amazing knives.a massive Thank you to everyone who took part in making it such a fun event, from prize sponsors to makers to everyone joining in the live streams every week to make it a fun event!Thank you again to our judging teams from the Australian Knifemakers Guild and Australian Woodsmith Magazine!This is a picture heavy post, might take a little while to l …

These are the summary slides from the live stream covering the judging and scoring of the Australian Knife Making Awards 2022: …

Plane Old Iron ForgeJacob McNamara at Plane Old Iron is working hard on a new batch of 2.5 lbs rounding hammers for Nordic Edge this week.Rounding hammers is a popular style amongst knife makers and hobby blacksmiths, made popular on youtube by Brian Brazeal, Alex Steele and others.Here is Brian Brazeal showing why he thinks this is a great hammer style:The reason rounding hammers are popular is the "squashed basketball" round head that can be angled to be used as both a straight and cross peen …