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I can feel just by reading your post how stressful this was for you and how anxious you were to present your best work. And to score such high scores at your first attempt!!!!! You can be proud of your achievement and skill.

Congratulations and well done. I hope to buy a great knife from you one day!

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1 hour ago, grunf said:

I can feel just by reading your post how stressful this was for you and how anxious you were to present your best work. And to score such high scores at your first attempt!!!!! You can be proud of your achievement and skill.

Congratulations and well done. I hope to buy a great knife from you one day!

Thanks mate. I appreciate it 👍

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20 / 20 for one of your first attempts!!  I can’t imagine that happens very often?

Well done mate - a great reward for some obviously very detailed work 👍

Looking forward to another post like this in 12 months!  I’d say you’ll do pretty well

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3 hours ago, Dave9.3x62 said:

Wow, I never new of the guild and how hard it is. Well done. How are the points allocated?

The assessment covers all aspects of the knife. Take a look at this checklist: https://akg.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/FULL-DOC-Assessment-Checklist-for-Guild-Membership.pdf It gives a full breakdown of what the assessor looks at. Plus it saves me typing a detailed answer 🤣🤣🤣

 

2 hours ago, Duncs said:

20 / 20 for one of your first attempts!!  I can’t imagine that happens very often?

Well done mate - a great reward for some obviously very detailed work 👍

Looking forward to another post like this in 12 months!  I’d say you’ll do pretty well

I dont know what the scores usually look like. I actually didnt think to ask. I really thought I would be getting 10 to maybe 15 for each knife, so was pleasantly surprised.

Full membership will take me a while I think. I already have an idea of the knives I want to build for that test, but I need a mill for that step. I think probably it will be a couple of years before I am at that stage. But its funny how you progress over time. I have been making knives since 2016, but it was really the lockdowns from 2020 that got me spending a lot of time making knives. So the last 4 years has been the bulk of the time I have been at it. And when I look back at the knives I have made, the serious development has been in the last 2 years. Hopefully I will be able to get out and do a few training sessions with good knife makers to focus on the things I need to do for the full member assessment.

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2 hours ago, Rifletuner said:

The assessment covers all aspects of the knife. Take a look at this checklist: https://akg.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/FULL-DOC-Assessment-Checklist-for-Guild-Membership.pdf It gives a full breakdown of what the assessor looks at. Plus it saves me typing a detailed answer 🤣🤣🤣

 

I dont know what the scores usually look like. I actually didnt think to ask. I really thought I would be getting 10 to maybe 15 for each knife, so was pleasantly surprised.

Full membership will take me a while I think. I already have an idea of the knives I want to build for that test, but I need a mill for that step. I think probably it will be a couple of years before I am at that stage. But its funny how you progress over time. I have been making knives since 2016, but it was really the lockdowns from 2020 that got me spending a lot of time making knives. So the last 4 years has been the bulk of the time I have been at it. And when I look back at the knives I have made, the serious development has been in the last 2 years. Hopefully I will be able to get out and do a few training sessions with good knife makers to focus on the things I need to do for the full member assessment.

Interesting the assessment excludes temper?

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12 hours ago, Dave9.3x62 said:

Interesting the assessment excludes temper?

Its part of point 20 "You should be able to answers specific questions regarding how and where the blade was heat-treated. And if done in shop,
what procedures and equipment were used". A lot of people heat treat their own, but I get mine done by a heat treat shop local to me. I would like to do my own, but I need to sell a few more knives to afford the $6000 to $9000 for a heat treat oven.

 

9 hours ago, ben338 said:

well done RT

Thanks mate

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59 minutes ago, Rifletuner said:

Its part of point 20 "You should be able to answers specific questions regarding how and where the blade was heat-treated. And if done in shop,
what procedures and equipment were used". A lot of people heat treat their own, but I get mine done by a heat treat shop local to me. I would like to do my own, but I need to sell a few more knives to afford the $6000 to $9000 for a heat treat oven.

 

Thanks mate

Oh, shite didnt see that - man look victim.

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On 29/04/2024 at 8:54 AM, Rifletuner said:

For the last 18 months I have been working towards becoming a member of the Australian Knifemakers Guild.

As a recipient of your knife making skills i know that you deservedly warrant the title mate, a very well done F.

My pic doesn't do  this one  justice. lugholeRTknife..jpg.1fbf2cb23871478454935b1ec09d9b5f.jpg

 

 

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9 hours ago, gryphon said:

As a recipient of your knife making skills i know that you deservedly warrant the title mate, a very well done F.

My pic doesn't do  this one  justice. lugholeRTknife..jpg.1fbf2cb23871478454935b1ec09d9b5f.jpg

 

 

Thanks mate 👍 Its great to see it in action. That was my first ever knife from Magnacut steel. 

8 hours ago, Joe.358win said:

A result worthy of quality. Well done RT and look forward to hearing of updates after 12 months.

Thanks mate 👍

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6 hours ago, Gibbo 30.06 said:

Congratulations mate, that was a great read thanks for sharing. Your passion for knife making definitely comes through in that post. 

Thanks mate 👍

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