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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 …

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 …

Winner Announcement: Saturday 16th of OctoberOn Saturday night we had the winner announcement from this years Nordic Edge Destruction Test Challenge!Hosted by Jamie "Sausage Man" Bishop and with guest Michael Cthulhu, it was a good show.Jezz from Oblivion Blades had to pull out last minute so did not get to present the prizes, but the guys managed to get it all sorted.1st Place : Daniel Pettersen: Steel billet from Oblivion Blades2nd Price: Alex McAlpine: Blacksmith Apron from Nor …

Cu Mai is an amazing-looking material in the right hands, but certainly not a beginner project.The laminated copper in between the steel and nickel makes it temperamental, and will require some experimentation but this is the recipe Jezz at Oblivion Blades succesfully use. He should know, he has made every bar we sell.The Cu Mai consists of 9 layers:1020 Mild steelNickelCopperNickel1084 High Carbon steelNickelCopperNickel1020 Mild steelThe nickel helps with the welding of the different mate …