{"id":9117,"date":"2020-09-07T10:40:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-07T02:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=9117"},"modified":"2020-09-06T22:06:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T14:06:59","slug":"knife-to-meet-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/07\/knife-to-meet-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Knife to meet you"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sign<\/p>\n

It’s back to adventures and places with me but this time in a super socially distant manner in which I am inviting no one<\/strong> to come with me!<\/p>\n

With that said, there are activities or places you can go on your own, don’t be scared. It can be fun to try out things by yourself.<\/p>\n

This time, I’m making a knife out of rebar at Tombalek<\/strong><\/a>. Tombalek is at 7 Mandai Link #10-22 , Mandai Connection BLOCK B, Singapore 728653 at the time of this post. If you see that sign, you’re at the right location.<\/p>\n

\"Block<\/p>\n

It’s at Block B so turn left all the way and walk to the lift. Once at the lift click the 10th storey and walk to your left, you will see a carpark to your right and to the left again finally you’ll see wooden pallets and tools.<\/p>\n

\"Tombalek<\/p>\n

Tada, you’ll find yourself at Tombalek. Also no, I didn’t get to ask if Tombalek was a pun on the wrong spelling of Terbalik. They have woodworking classes besides metalworking ones\u00c2\u00a0and<\/em> some are skillsfuture claimable so check Tombalek<\/strong><\/a> out yourself.<\/p>\n

\"Furniture<\/p>\n

I was early so I got to around the workshop to see the finished items of what their classes have to offer.<\/p>\n

\"Forge<\/p>\n

What I was here for was a 1 day class at making a rebar knife. Rebar is a material that’s apparently ‘soft’ and easy for us beginners to learn with.<\/p>\n

Goggles and a glove was provided for safety but you need to wear covered shoes since this is a workshop. Do dress appropriately.<\/p>\n

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\"Hammer,<\/p>\n

Tiffany blue hammer. I laugh since it’s no diamond but it’s hard enough.<\/p>\n

Fortunately for us students, it was a cold rainy day. That meant that the heat wasn’t as sweltering as it could be on a typical day and being near a forge\u00c2\u00a0is<\/em> hot.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

We learned how to make a keychain knife before making the ‘actual’ knife and this was a form we needed to hammer out, out of a piece of rebar. We\u00c2\u00a0did<\/em> get to use the power hammer which is propelled by air.<\/p>\n

Think of a sewing machine with those foot pedals to increase the speed, now imagine that with a hammer.<\/p>\n

After that we had to manually hammer the shape out too.<\/p>\n

\"Knife<\/p>\n

Alright, I got a vague knife shape and if you can see it, the instructor has markered out where I should grind it to make it look like an actual knife!<\/p>\n

\"Knife<\/p>\n

There’s an actual shape of it now. To think it started out with a a rod looking piece of metal.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

There was more grinding and then polishing and sharpening but behold!<\/p>\n

My knife! I’m calling it SafeEntry because of this whole… season. Yes, SafeEntry the rebar knife.<\/p>\n