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Introduction to Knife Making
Learn the fundamentals of Damascus steel knife-making with Pete Mattila. Forge blades at this weekend course in Hobart.
At this intensive weekend course, students will forge and heat-treat Damascus steel blades.
Working over the anvil, learn hand skills via hammer and tongs.
This course covers basic blacksmithing techniques specific to knife-making along with explanations of simple metallurgy.
It takes place at the picturesque waterfront slip yards of Battery Point in Hobart, Tasmania.
Each knifemaking event allows only five students. This ensures quality in teaching and safe working practice.
Lunches will be included. Please contact us to advise of any dietary requirements.
Responsibility to teach and share with others in my community and abroad is a part of my arts and trade practice. This fits in with the ethos of self-empowerment through skills. Mattila Studio is a safe space where creativity thrives and ideas are realized.
PLEASE NOTE Students are to provide their PPE (safety gear) including Eye protection, Ear protection, Work boots – steel-toe-capped, Leather gloves, and Cotton clothes – nothing synthetic. Please also bring a water bottle with you.
Students must be in a fit working condition. If you have any health-related issues that could inhibit your ability to work, please discuss with Pete before proceeding with the order.
We acknowledge the Tasmanian Aboriginal people and their enduring custodianship of lutruwita / Tasmania. We honour 40,000 years of uninterrupted care, protection and belonging to these islands, before the invasion and colonisation of European settlement. As a destination that welcomes visitors to these lands, we acknowledge our responsibility to represent to our visitors, Tasmania’s deep and complex history, fully, respectfully and truthfully.
We acknowledge the Aboriginal people who continue to care for this country today. We pay our respects to their elders, past and present. We honour their stories, songs, art, and culture, and their aspirations for the future of their people and these lands. We respectfully ask that tourism be a part of that future.
Tasmanian Travel and Information Centre
16-20 Davey St, Hobart TAS 7000
(03) 6238 4222
bookings@hobarttravelcentre.com.au
hobarttravelcentre.com.au
