Class times 8AM to 6PM
Mokume/Damascus Steel Chef Knife with David Barnhill and Ric Furrer
$850 per person
Five day 8" Damascus Chef Knife Knife with Mokume handle with Internationally recognized mokume metalsmith, David Barnhill……and Ric will be there Too!
Back by popular demand is our two-in-one Damascus steel/ Mokume-Gane class for 2022. This will be our 4th time co-teaching this class. This class is limited to six students for a personalized experience. Don't wait to sign up - this class fills FAST.
This five day class is an updated version of the class we taught at the Appalachian Center for Craft in 2018.
We had 11 or so students in that class so we decided to limit this class to six for a more personalized experience.
David and Ric will walk you though the wonders and magic (or tediousness and heat) of both Damascus Steel and Mokume.
You will clean and kiln bond your own billet of Mokume with David and when that is firing in the kiln Ric will guide you through welding a stack of steel. The next few days will be working those billets into bars and then into final shapes for pairing them into and onto a functional kitchen knife.
In the end not only will you have had a good time, you will have an item that your friends will not believe you made.
David will cover a large amount of history and theory of mokume and show many examples of patterning possibilities. He will talk about ways of making tooling, metals used in mokume bonding and pattern manipulation.
Ric will show a few pattern manipulations that can be done and walk you through grinding and heat treatment of the knife.
One evening your instructors will give a short demo of other things that can be done with these materials.
You will have some design input into the project, but given the amount of work to be done and the time frame we suggest you follow our lead.
July 2020 class
June 2019 Class
