ABS Apprentice Peter Serkov passes his cut and bend

[Bruce Bump]

The Oregon Show a couple weeks ago produces a student for some damascus training at my shop this week. His name is Peter Serkov. Peter was born in Siberia and his family migrated to the Bay area when he was 18 years old. It was interesting to hear his story of struggles to get established in America. He speaks better Russian than english but we still had "good time" and made some feather and a killer mosaic set of blades.

He also brought a 5160 blade with him to test for his American Bladesmith Society Jouneyman performance test aka "Cut N Bend" and passed with flying colors. He had never cut a free hanging 1" rope before and took some time to practice that before the test began.
Congratulations my friend Peter Serkov.

Here are some interesting shots of our propane and steel burniing time together

 

[murphda2]

Congratulations and best wishes on your journey to you JS Rating Peter. I've only had the opportunity to witness the performance test once and it was a great experience. Thank you for sharing Bruce.

 

[Josh Dabney]

Great Pics Bruce

Thanks for sharing and Congrats to Peter on his successful completion of the performance test !

-Josh

 

[Dwane Oliver]

As said before Congrats Peter.

Great pics Bruce , and thanks for posting.

 

[Jim Poling]

Congrats Peter! Well done and good luck on the continuation of the test.

Jim