LEARN FROM THE MASTERS

So you want to be a knifemaker, eh? Make your own sheaths and scabbards? Set up your own shop? Forge your own damascus? Grind blades? Operate a disc sander? Make a coffin handle? Run a knife business? Sharpen, even photograph, knives?

These learning opportunities and more, all taught by some of the world’s foremost knife authorities, await you at the 7th Annual BLADE University.

Sponsored by Work Sharp, BLADE University is held in conjunction with the 39th Annual BLADE Show June 5-7 at the Cobb Galleria Centre. Classes begin the day before BLADE Show 2020 and conclude show Saturday.

While most are held in the Cobb Galleria, some classes also are conducted under the tent in The Courtyard—the latter the parking lot of the show’s host hotel, the Renaissance Atlanta Waverly.

BLADE University assembles some of the world’s best knifemakers, bladesmiths and other knife professionals to teach a wide