Man forging a metal piece in a workshop, wearing safety glasses and a plaid shirt.

Steak Knife Forging Experience.

Join us and create two hand forged steak knives from carbon steel. This more compact half day course costs $290 per person and is limited to six participants to ensure personalized instruction (for larger groups please get in touch).

You'll learn traditional blacksmithing techniques, including hammering out steel, heating steel in the forge, grinding and shaping your knives, and finally sharpening them for use. There will be a lot of fire, noise, and fun!

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Course Details

Duration: 5 Hours
Time: 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM (typically)
Location: Lost Arts Knife Making School, Clevedon, South Auckland
Cost: $290 per person
Participants: Limited to 6 people (please enquire for larger groups)

Refreshments including coffee, tea, juice and homemade baking will be provided.

What to bring

  • Clothing you aren’t too precious about getting dirty (we do provide aprons, but you never know)

  • Something to tie back loose hair

  • Covered footwear

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Four forged finished metal knives with rustic patterns on the blades are laid out on a wooden surface with a hammer and a chisel nearby.

Who it’s for

Beginners are welcome. If you can hold a tool and take clear instruction, you’ll do well. Couples and father-and-adult-child pairs enjoy this one too. For team-building or corporate days, flick us a note — we run private sessions.

Care (carbon steel)

These knives are forged from carbon steel so they will rust if not looked after! Wipe with a damp cloth and dry straight away. A light film of food-safe oil now and then keeps things right. Don’t soak, and never dishwasher. A few gentle passes on a honing steel will keep the edges singing.

A man wearing glasses and a plaid shirt hammering a glowing hot metal piece with a hammer in a workshop for blacksmithing.
A knife making artist hammers a piece of steel with a hammer in a workshop.
A woman wearing safety glasses, a black shirt, and a brown apron is hammering a piece of heated metal on an anvil in a workshop.
A woman working with metal in a workshop, using tongs to handle hot metal near a forge with flames, in a dimly lit industrial setting.
Three men are working in a workshop, each using a metalworking machine that produces sparks. The environment has a rustic, industrial feel with wooden walls and exposed ceiling beams.
People working in a woodworking shop, one man is operating a machine with a belt and pulley system, another man is checking something on the machine, with others in the background observing and chatting.
A black hammer, a wooden strip, and four partially finished metal knives are placed on a rustic wooden surface, likely for knife making or blacksmithing.
A collection of rustic, forged knives with various blade shapes and textures, resting on an anvil.
Five hand-forged knives with rustic, textured blades and a small black sharpening tool on a worn leather apron.
Five handmade knives with black and silver blades resting on a brown leather apron.
Two individuals working on knife forging at a forge station, one woman using tongs to hold heated metal and a man in the background observing, both wearing safety glasses in a workshop setting.