A buddy of mine and myself want to forge our own knife. Is there a school around the southeast anyone would reccomend we should try? 3 day weekend kind of thing. our ultimate goal is to get into making our own knives and testing the waters on what equipment we need. We are just a couple bowhunters just wanting to make our own stuff. we live in north mississippi.  thanks  joey buchanan

American Bladesmith Society has a hammer in at Haywood Community College Bladesmithing School in Clyde, NC every March.  Three day weekend and cheap with the best of the best bladesmiths teaching.  Check out the ABS site...

http://www.americanbladesmith.com/

Just missed the Batson Bladesmithing Symposium at Tannehill state park near Birmingham.  I've been a few times and always learned a lot.
http://www.alaforge.org/Batson_Blade.html

There are several Knife University classes being held during the Blade show in Atlanta next month

Check out https://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/. They offer basic black smithing and knife making classes.