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Courses At Bastion Forge
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ONE DAY KNIFE MAKING EXPERIENCE £190pp
Ever wanted to try making your own knife?
With this private experience, you will join me for an exclusive day in the forge and feel what it means to be a modern day bladesmith!
Spend the morning forging your blade with hammer and anvil, then move to the grinder and refine the profile ready for hardening, quench the blade yourself, grind the bevel, and finally sharpen the blade to get a sharp edge!
Once your blade is forged, ground, hardened and sharp, you will finish your day by going away with a handle blank that your knife fits into to glue at home!
TWO DAY KNIFE MAKING COURSE £475pp
An in-depth experience where you will make a full tang usable knife!
With the two day course you will spend the first day forging out your blade! You will spend the afternoon grinding and getting everything ready for the hardening in the evening. It’s a physically demanding day of working hard to produce something a more professional knife!
Day two is all about handling and putting on the final touches of your knife before sharpening it.
This experience is rewarding unlike any other and, in the end, you walk away with a blade you will have for a life time!
DECORATIVE SWORD MAKING COURSE £750pp
Forge and grind a beautiful and iconic decorative sword
The two day decorative sword making course is more physically demanding than the knife making course as we have to fit more work into the time available. Decorative swords are not hardened and won’t hold an edge or hold up to impact.
We start by forging the blade tip and any profile changes until you’re happy with the shape. Then we grind the profile clean and grind in the tang.
Once the blade profiling is finished we grind the bevels in and give it that iconic sword shape!
Next, we make sure the cross guard and pommel fit nicely and then you make your handle from scratch.
The pommel and cross guard is prepared before the course due to time constraints.
However, if you are flying through the course then I am happy for you to make them if we have created the time by the end!
When all components are finished, you do a final assembly and get to swing your sword around for the first time!
