Oroshigane Forged Knife
with
Emiliano Carrillo
Class runs: March 3-7
Tuition: $750
Materials and Fees: $80
Skill Level: Seasoned Beginner and up, need to have solid forging skill and grasp on simple forge welding if possible.
3 spaces left as of 11/6
In this five day workshop we will take mild steel and transform it into ultra high carbon steel in a small charcoal furnace. This process is referred to as Oroshigane in the Japanese tradition and was used in virtually every other culture that developed iron work in order to consolidate small pieces of iron into a larger piece of steel as well as fine tune its carbon content. We will be folding the resulting puck of material many times in order to lower the carbon content to a usable level and remove impurities before forging our hand made steel into blades. Students should expect to leave with a 6”-8” hardened blade with hamon that can be finish polished and handled at home.
Previous experience bladesmithing is required and students are encouraged to have prior experience with Damascus or folding billets.
Emiliano Carrillo has been bladesmithing for over 6 years with an emphasis on Viking age and migration period pattern welding. He has created many Seaxes and Viking swords in this time striving for historical accuracy and authenticity within his craft. He graduated from Hampshire College where he was able to pursue historical bladesmithing and Scandinavian material culture and history. He has created his own steel and experimented with ancient pattern welding techniques striving to understand how these incredible weapons left to us in the archaeological record were made and what they meant.
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