Largest Knifemaking Workshop?

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Jason Fry

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What is the largest knifemaking workshop you've ever attended or heard of where each student left with a completed knife?

I know there have been some giant hammer-ins, etc. I'm specifically interested in classes where knives were completed.

Texas Knifemakers Guild and Tarleton State University just completed a workshop where 32 students and 10 instructors running 12 2x72 grinders completed 42 knives in three days, stock removal from bar stock.
 
with handles? i did the ABS intro class in texarkana and we all made a handful of knives and all 10 of us each made one handled test knife but it was a two week intensive course
 
Pics or it didn't happen :) We had a few students leave with their knives before we were able to get the group pictures, but you get the idea.

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That's a bunch of grinders! I think I live in the wrong part of the country for a knife maker because it looks like Texas is the place to be!
 
bark rive knife and tool does them (stock removal ) jerzy devils send a hell of a group up there evey year and i knwo they have other workshops over the year
 
I just talked to Mike at Bark River. He said they had 90 students, 45 "staff" and 10 experienced knifemakers at their largest event. All made a knife, but roughly 2/3 of them started with a ground blank and the other 1/3 started with a bar of steel that was already hardened. He said as far as he knows, we have the record for start to finish full customs.
 
Jason Fry said:
I just talked to Mike at Bark River. He said they had 90 students, 45 "staff" and 10 experienced knifemakers at their largest event. All made a knife, but roughly 2/3 of them started with a ground blank and the other 1/3 started with a bar of steel that was already hardened. He said as far as he knows, we have the record for start to finish full customs.
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ron keeps askig me to make the trip and one of these days i guess i ll have to
 
If I saw this in my shop both the instructor and student would be out the door until we had a little talk.

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MadBug said:
If I saw this in my shop both the instructor and student would be out the door until we had a little talk.
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I assume you're talking about the dangling lanyard nametags. Me and my group took ours off as soon as we entered the shop. I still don't know their names.
 
Jason Fry said:
I assume you're talking about the dangling lanyard nametags. Me and my group took ours off as soon as we entered the shop. I still don't know their names.
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And the long sleeves.
 
Ozark Knife Makers has a fairly good size school set up. When I taught a couple classes there seem we had 10-12 students.
 
I was thinking of Tom at Ozark Knifemakers too Don. They have a pretty nice facility. I'm going there next summer.

I've been to the Bark River event several times. Once there were about 55 people and they all made a unique custom knife from scratch BUT most of them did start with a bar of steel already hardened. But it was just a rectangle...not shaped at all yet.
 
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