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AWARDS 2024: How to Enter & Taking Photos to Score Well
On Wed 15th of May 2024 the live stream was on "How to Enter" and "What Photos to Take" or more importantly, how to take photos to score well.Riley Burns from Nordic Edge and Kevin Room from the Australian Knifemakers Guild hosted the stream, with Rod from Rod Hoare Knife Images as expert guest on to help with tips on how to take better knife photos.Stream split into twoShortly into the stream facebook and the streaming software had a bit of a glitch and the stream had to be restarted, this resu
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16th May 2024
AWARDS 2024 Kick-Off Presentation Slides
The Australian Knife Making Awards are back for 2024!Wed 1st of May 8 PM AEST your hosts this year Riley Burns (Nordic Edge) and Kevin Room (Australian Knifemakers Guild) hosted the Kick-Off live stream for the AWARDS 2024.The AWARDS:
free to enter online knife making competitionfor makers in Australia and New ZealandGet judging feedback on your knifewin prizes and trophiesbeginner friendly: 2 beginner and 2 advanced maker categories Watch the live streams for full info, here are the summa
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2nd May 2024
AWARDS 2024: Join us in May!
Australian Knife Making Awards 2024: Join us!Beginner-friendly knife making competition Held each year in MayFree to enterGet feedback on your knife - become a better makerLive streams with more detail + Q&A + GIVEAWAYSPrizes and trophies to be wonWhen is the AWARDS held?The AWARDS are held in May each year. The knife can be started any time but has to be completed in the month of May. Beginner-friendly?This is for all makers wanting to take part.The Best Knife From Kit catego
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28th Feb 2024
AWARDS 2023: Summary of Kick-Off stream with Categories, requirements and timeline
The Australian Knife Making Awards or AWARDS for short is a free to enter, online knife making competition held each year in May by Nordic Edge for the Australian and New Zealand knifemaking community.Each maker gets feedback on their knife to help up their knife making, as well as the opportunity to win trophies and prizes.We are very lucky to partner with the Australian Knifemakers Guild for scoring and judging the knives, so you will get quality feedback from very experienced makers here.Host
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3rd May 2023
Awards 2022: Judging and Scoring
These are the summary slides from the live stream covering the judging and scoring of the Australian Knife Making Awards 2022:
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29th May 2022
How to Enter & What Photos to take: AWARDS 2022
Wednesday 18th of May 2022 the Awards 2022 stream covered:HOW TO ENTER & WHAT PHOTOS TO TAKE.The hosts were Riley Burns and Jamie Bishop from Nordic Edge, with guest Brook from Brook Turner Blades.Brook was the winner in the 2021 Australian Knife Making Awards in the coveted Best In Show category, and back this year to have a chat with the guys and help with some tips for new makers.Entry link is open until Sunday 29th of May 4 PM AEST: LINK Here are the summary slides from th
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19th May 2022
Australian Knife Making Awards 2021: Winners & Prizes
Australian Knife Making Awards is an online, free knife making competition organised by Nordic Edge on the Australian Beginner Knifemaking Group on Facebook every year in May.We could not have put this on without our sponsors, and we are very grateful for the prizes from:Aussie Outback SuppliesOlight AustraliaAussie Woodsmith MagazineHare & Forbes MachineryhouseAustralian Knife MagazineLast night the Winner Announcements were made on the group by our hosting team Darren Ilias, Riley Burns an
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3rd Jun 2021