Class Details

Learn hollow, flat, & convex blade grinding, basic details of heat treating and tempering the blade, installing bolsters and handles, various finishing techniques to include mirror polish, hand rubbed, and satin finishes. Take home one completed fixed blade knife and the skills to immediately start building your own knives. The class includes discussion on pricing and marketing your knives. Experience has shown that my 4 day class can reduce your learning curve by as much as 5 years...don't miss this rare opportunity.

Learn skills that take your own completed knives to a higher level of quality. Learn various decorative filework patterns, also different handle constructions to include slab handles, hidden tang, mortise tang, and stick tang construction. Learn soldering techniques, and great emphasis is placed on blade finish, and fit and finish of bolsters, guards, and handles. Many embellishmet techniques are shown to include nitre bluing, etching, jeweling, handle fluting, and anodizing. The class includes discussion on pricing and marketing your knives. Day-at-a time classes are also available for this class. Call me for details.

In this class we build a LinerLock folder using basic tools that are found in almost all knife shops. Starting from scratch we layout the pattern using titanium for liners, drill and ream associated holes using only carbide tooling. The blade material is selected, profiled and ground to shape, then heat treated and tempered to required specs. The folder is finished by installing bolsters and handles, and going through specific steps to avoid mistakes, and improve productivity. A materials and special tools list is provided upon completion, and the student takes home one completed LinerLock folder and the skills to build folders in their own shop. The class includes discussion on pricing and marketing your knives. 

I offer Professional Knife Photography to makers to help to build your personal portfolio, brochure, or website. Pictures are taken using high end cameras and lighting equipment. Consider me to take your knife pictures...magazine submission is also available. Check out the pictures on my site, many of them I have taken myself....I've honed my skills over the years using techniques shared from many of the country's top knife photographers, to include Steve Woods, Jim Cooper, Terrell Hoffman, and Chuck Ward. Contact me for details and pricing.