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Eric Tingle and Rowland Swinden display there precision skills in grinding knives. Eric describes his life as an outworker grinding knives and demonstrates his skill with butcher knives. Rowland displays his particular skill in producing high quality Bowie knives, most destined for sale in North America. He also dwells briefly on some historic sites in the city.
One of the series of South Yorkshire County Council sponsored films commissioned from Sheffield Independent Film and the Sheffield City Polytechnic to document ‘little mester’ trades. This film was No.3 in the series entitled 'Trades & Crafts'.
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