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发表于 2009-10-6 20:36
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My name is Andr?Andersson and I was born in the north of sweden a cold December day 1980. Since my childhood I have always shown great interest in building things, and I soon developed a good feeling for design and proportions.
Later, in the early teenage I discovered a passion for drawing things. For many years I developed my technique and I started to dream of a career as an illustrator. At the same time I also discovered the enormous world of computer graphic and started to experiment both with 2D and 3D graphic.
Slowly I realized that the chances getting a good work as a web designer was bigger then as an illustrator, so I decided to put my old dreams to the side. I started too look at internet related educations but my faith seamed different. After finishing an electronic education I started to work for a big company producing DNA-science instruments.
It was during my four years at this company I discovered the art of custom knife making. My first knife I had already made six years earlier in school, but now I saw all the things a good custom knife maker can make. It all started by a coincident when I went to a three day course with the Swedish blade smith Roger Bergh. One of the guys who were going to participated hade gone sick so they had an opening, and after a lot of thinking I went there together with my father.
It was three days that changed my life. I was 19 years old and had found a new meaning with my life. Soon after, we started to build a workshop and before we knew it we were buying all old forging equipment we could find. In the beginning I did not have any belt grinder so I was unable to make ready blades, but it did not stop me from forging them.
During the course I talked to Roger and he was interested in me making a homepage for him. I made the page, and the next summer he came up from the south holding a small private course in Damascus forging in our new made smithy. I hade experimented a lot with pattern welded steel, but with no basic knowledge of the nature of welding it was hard and I destroyed more then I created. But with the guidelines of Roger the forging took a new turn and I suddenly started to succeed making all kinds of patterns for my blades. Now Roger has moved here and is a great friend and a source of inspiration. |
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