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Metalsmithing For Rendezvous: Tomahawk and Primitive Folding Knife
Course Overview
So you've always been intrigued with the lifestyle of the Voyageuer-- or at least the look of one.  Here's your chance to work on that image.  Nothing says 'serious Voyageur' like a hand-made deer antler folding knife and a hand-shaped tomahawk.  Bring the Voyageur lifestyle alive in this three-day workshop as we toil on the coal forge and in the classroom hand fashioning your own Voyageur folding knife starting from a piece of deer antler.  You'll forge and heat your blade and back spring and complete the knife based on period designs.  To finish out your ensemble, you'll forge a rugged tomahawk head from a railroad spike and fit it to a handle.  You'll be the envy on the portage trail.  No need for accomplished blacksmiths here, but students should have a basic level of knowledge about forge work using a coal forge.
        