Forging a Blade
Jun 09, 2021
4 minutes
When Bjorn Jacobsen from Nordic Edge invited me to spend a day with master blacksmith Jamie "Sausage Man" Bishop forging a chef’s knife I had to say yes.
A bit of background first.
Bjorn was born in Norway and has grown up in a culture that carries knives and whittles pieces of wood at a moment’s notice. Making knives from scratch and from kits is a Nordic tradition. Bjorn knows the "creator’s joy" you experience when you make something with your own hands is infectious and addictive!
In 2015 Bjorn set up Creative Man and started to import cutler’s hardware and knife kits. He recently changed the name of the company (women hold up half
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