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Haywood Community College is located in the mountains of Western North Carolina. The campus is located in Clyde, NC and is a designated arboretum with many natural classrooms. It is in this setting that the Bladesmithing School is located and classes are offered by Haywood Community College in cooperation with the American Bladesmith Society, Inc. The Bladesmithing School at Haywood Community College is well equipped with forges, anvils, grinders, power hammers, and assorted bladesmithing tools.

Contact Denise Thomason, Program Manager, Haywood Community College, for more information at (828)565-4242 or email dthomason@haywood.edu.

Bill Wiggins is the ABS Coordinator and can be contacted at bwiggins@americanbladesmith.com

Note: Class addition - Introduction to Bladesmithing - April 8 to 19th, 2013 - Jason Knight, MS - Instructor

Note: The Handles and Guards Class is NOW back on the schedule for June 3-7, 2013.

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The 2013 Haywood Community College Class schedule was just updated again today May 1, 2013. The schedule is now set out below:


Feb. 21-23 "Design and make your own Dooms Day knife" Instructor, Jason Knight, MS

March 15-17 Spring Smoky Mountain Hammer-In - Adam (MS) and Haley (JS) DesRosiers - main demonstrators

March 18-29 Introduction to Bladesmithing - Wk #1 Greg Neely, MS / Wk#2 Adam DesRosiers, MS

(Class addition) Introduction to Bladesmithing - April 8 to 19 - Jason Knight, MS

April 22-26 Damascus

June 3-7 Handles and Guards - Jim Rodebaugh, MS

Oct 19-20 Fall Smoky Mountain Hammer-In - ABS Bladesmiths from France and Belgium - main demonstrators

Oct 14-25 Introduction to Bladesmithing - both weeks - Jim Crowell, MS

Dec 2-6 Folders

Our Thanks to ABS Treasurer Bill Wiggins for working to put together this schedule!