Week 2 is much more hands on than the first week.  Steve Coleman and Dave Anders aren't doing any lectures but instead emphasizing hands on techniques.  They both have very different styles and both differ from Greg's so we are getting a range of options. We started off forging and grinding a drop point hunter.

Dave Anders demostrates forging a blacksmith's knife.

Steve Coleman and Matt normalize a bowie.

Hilario waiting for the steel to reach temperature

Sorrow's Bades... Today's work

Heating the edge of a blade.

The quench...

And the resulting hardening line , aka hamon.

We also did full blade heats and quenches. They were more exciting.

After we tempered it in an oven, we ground an edge on and test cut some free hanging 1" rope. It worked. (the photo comes from a series shot with the Nikon's continous picture mode. Thanks again Doug)

We then hacked thru a 2X4 and shaved hair off my arm.

Then we tried to bend it 90 degrees. This one broke at about 50.

This is what should happen with an edge hardened blade (I used the full quenched one)

And where we are tonight with stuff... The wooden knives are grinding practice and patterns.