Events

Launch of the new design for the 2017 Non-Guild Member Competition.

Free entry to the event!

Gawie will give the outline of the competition and the wonderful prizes to be won.

Carel will give a talk on the Knifemakers Guild.

Bertie will show you the new design to be made for the competition and will have the knife on display and he will give you a few pointers on making the knife and answer questions.

Cutting Competition.

The Randburg Knife Club is running a cutting competition at the launch of the Non Guild Knife Competition.

The blade specs are:

• Overall Length: 375mm max
• Blade width: 50mm maximum
• Blade length: 250mm max

You must know the blade steel, heat treatment and handle construction to compete.

The knife must have a lanyard hole and lanyard. The outer rim of the lanyard holes must be rounded to avoid the lan-yard holes cutting the lanyard. The lanyard must be fixed to the wrist.

The blade may not have any holes in the cutting length of the blade or any weights on the blade itself.

All knives need to be approved by the officials before the competitor is allowed to enter the competition.

Hidden tang knives may be used but the heat treatment of the blade and tang must be disclosed by the competitor.

All knives must be tested by the competitor in the wood chopping exercise before being allowed to compete.

Production knives are not allowed in the competi-tion due to the fact that their design and heat treat-ment are not known.

The knife must have a finger guard or design that prevents your fingers slipping onto the cutting edge of the blade.

The competition will consist of the following stages

• Wood chop: Chop through 38mm by 114mm con-struction grade pine beam twice.
• Rope cut: Cut though a 20mm and 30mm think sisal rope.
• Water bottle cut: Slice through 10 300ml water bot-tles.
• Tennis ball and golf ball cut: Chop through a mov-ing tennis ball and golf ball.
• Water bottle slice: Slice through a 300ml waterbot-tle from top to bottom.
• Apple can: Slice through an apple and soda can.
• Foam Tube: Slice through a foam tube.
• Dowel chop: Chop through a 19mm dowel stick.

If you are interested in competing, please PM Alan Mitchell on the Randburg Knife Club Facebook page.

You need to pre-register as you cannot sign up to compete on the day of the competition.

There is a R150 fee per competitor to cover the event costs.

The order of the stages will be provided on the day of the competition.

Judging will be time based and unsuccessful at-tempts will earn time penalties.

Great prizes to be won !!

First prize: Shaya Forge Damascus billet donated by Bertie Rietveld

Second prize: Ultimate Platen donated by the Herbst.

Third prize: Knife photograph by Dirk Loots.