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AWARDS 2023: Winners & Prizes
The Australian Knife Making Awards is a free to enter, online knife making competition run every year in May.The 2023 AWARDS ended Wed 31st of May with the Winner Announcement live stream where Riley Burns from Nordic Edge and Christian Mathieson from the Australian Knifemakers Guild showed all 12 winners across the 4 categories.Here are the summary slides from the live stream if wanting to catch up on this year's winners and prizes:Riley:Before we start showing the winning knives;
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1st Jun 2023
Nordic Edge in the papers!
Alec Smart from the Manly Daily were kind enough to come by and take some photos from a workshop recently.Putting togeher an article in the Manly Daily: LINK
1st Jun 2023
AWARD summary: Scoring, Judging & Prizes
Summary slides from Live Stream on the Facebook Group Wed 24th of May,where Riley Burns and Christian Mathieson had Shawn McIntyre, Mastersmith on as a guest presenter to discuss the scoring used by the judges at the Australian Knifemaking Awards. As well as the judging comments as a way of providing feedback to the makers taking part.The guys also covered the sponsors and prizes for the AWARDS 2023, and had a giveaway quiz at the end as always on the live streams.A massive thank you to the part
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24th May 2023
AWARD Entry and Photos: Summary slides
On Wed 17th of May Riley and Christian hosted the second live stream of the Australian Beginner Knifemaking Awards 2023, here are the slides with some summary comments:AgendaHow to enter?What photos to take for the judges for max scoring?Your HostsHosted by Riley Burns and Christian Mathieson, the Live streams is an opportunity to go over the criteria in a bit more detail, offer help and answer questions. Plus there is a giveaway on every stream as a thank you for taking part!The stream goes out
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18th May 2023
Australian Tanto in Ringed Gidgee
Chris Boon sent us some photos of his amazing tanto, check these out!The blade is 300 mm in 1084 high carbon steel, ground and finished to a high level.The guard - or tsuba - is made from W2 steel with high-gloss polished copper spacers on either side.The blade collar - habaki - is made from brass, and the beautiful handle is made from Australian Ringed Gidgee and Acrylester, with a mosaic pin. Acrylester is a synthetic material that drills and grinds well but can be somewhat too brittle for a w
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18th May 2023