Messerschmieden bei Ferrum

Most of Encodo went to the Zugersee to Ferrum where we took an all-day course on knife-making, from start to finish.

Before we begin

Armin and Pascal at the pre-smithing briefing

The home-made forge (made from a propane gas bottle)

Karin, Marco, Remo and Dani at the forge

Karin carefully extracts her knife from the forge

Remo works at the forge while Marco looks on

Karin at the anvil

Daniel (the proprietor) shows Remo how it's done

The back side of the forge

A row of tongs by the forge

Armin (talking to Pascal)

Armin heads to the forge

Marco and Dani messing around with the anvil

First stage is complete

Dani is focused ... on getting some water

Encodo photographs itself

Pascal shaping the handle of his hunting knife

Karin in the break room

Dani is thinking evil thoughts

Encodo watches the master smith at work

Daniel (proprietor) files down the raw knife

Daniel (proprietor) grinds down our knives

Pascal just successfully dunked his knife in oil

Remo dunks the point of the blade in oil

Daniel (proprietor) at his home-made high-heat oven

Karin gets ready to dunk her red-hot knife in oil

Encodo watches Dani get ready to scorch his wooden knife-handle

Dani scorching his knife-handle

Karin fits her knife-handle on her knife

Daniel (proprietor) performs the (almost) final sharpening

Armin, Urs and Marco look menacingharmless

A finished hunting knife

A finished hunting knife (blade close-up)

A finished kitchen knife

A finished kitchen knife (blade close-up)