Hand-forged Herb Chopper

Hand-forged Herb ChopperChopping fresh herbs: its the best part of making a salad. Learn how to make your very own herb chopper in this one day course which will focus on the forging of blades. Students will forge, heat treat and linish their own herb chopping knife, and will leave with techniques to forge ahead with creative blade forming projects of their own. During this course, students will gain insight into working with carbon steels and the considerations required to

Forge an experience straight from the furnace

from those just getting introduced to the craft to those wishing to expand their kitchen collection and know how

non-ferrous casting work and for making Damascus steel

finishing off by applying an acid-etch to develop the pattern and shaping the handle from a piece of spotted-gum timber

design and profiling

Course learnings

before heat-treating the blades to ensure the steel becomes hard-wearing

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Students will make

texturing and twisting a piece of steel to form an ergonomic handle

Axes have been used in battle and to harvest timber for millennia and were an integral part of Viking and early Scandinavian life

the physicality of making and the excitement of working with hot steel