Alienated myself from BF in one day.

duffy99

duffy99

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I've been on this forum since April , probably lurking around a year before that. In the past 2 weeks I've seemed to alienate myself from the BF knifemaker community by over posting regurgitated info that I have read or my own personal experience in a tone that leads others to believe I've been making knives a lot longer then I have . Second I was a dick to a new forum member who made 20 threads about every little thing after I tried to answer all his questions I got pissed off and posted some mean spirited things to him. I went back and edited the posts and apologized to said member and spoke to two mods on the subject. Now it seems as if no one wants to answer any of my newbie questions , which sucks for me because there is so much experience and info here . End Rant.
 
sounds like you need to gear down there, big rig!
Don't worry, people forgive and forget. This is good peoples here.
Never enough time to learn everything, don't forget. Cuz that's your reminder you don't know everything!
 
If you know what you did wrong, and you seem to, there is hope. This place is full of great folks who recognize a good guy who has come around.
 
I came home from my last tour in Afghanistan in May of last year , I've done 3 tours in total. I released from the army due to injuries last September with a framed certificate from the Chief of Defense Staff and a pocket full of painkillers . It became a rough stretch in my life , war can do strange things to a person and in the first month of being out my wife left me , being a unemployed civvie after spending 12 years from the time I was 17 to 29 in the Infantry was overwhelming and it all fell apart like someone pulled that last Jenga block holding everything together. When I say things got rough I mean rough and it was probably the lowest point of my life. Making knives has really helped start turn things around . I treat it like a job even though I'm still new and learning as I go , it's basically the only thing I do is make knives , work on my shop , read about knife related things whatever. When I get into something I'm into it 100% , that's how I was in the army always doing the best I could as a Paratrooper,instructor, mentor or Section Commander. Now I've put all that towards knives and learning the art of making them.

I'm now on the Vocational Occupational Rehab program where they pay you and for your schooling to learn a new trade . Well it takes forever to get going with it , it's a constant uphill battle with Veterans Affairs. There are many hoops to jump through, programs to complete before you get close to actual schooling. It took me 6 months to get back into physiotherapy for example.I don't mind sharing my past , I hope that explains where I come from a bit better.
 
Everyone has down periods just hang in there .We'll help you learn knifemaking !!
 
Yeah, bro. I don't get in shoptalk as much as I used to, but if I see any questions you have that I can answer, I'm there.

If you want to feel better about your status in the BF community, go check out some of the dogpile/crash-and burn threads in "Whine and Cheese" or "Hall of Shame." Really. Check out the "Shame on you, Jim Adams" thread.

It's hard to avoid being overeager in your first rush of infatuation with knives. In time, you will develop a refined sense of tact on the forums, and be able to recognize quickly when a person you are talking to about knives in person begins to glaze over.

We all put our foots in our mouths from time to time. I do for sure. :eek:
 
This is the intranet, not everyone is interested in what you are doing... Having said that, there are some of the most amazing people here on BF! If you take it slow and look back on occasion you will see you knew far less than you thought you did at any given point in this crazy thing called knifemaking.

In the end you need to find the reward within yourself and your work, it will never mean as much to others as it does to you. I have found that most answers can already be found here, I learn more info when I am looking for the answer about something else. Keep going and take it slow. Thanks for your service!
 
I know a lot of guys in the service, some of which have suffered similar situations to what you describe.
As a Canadian, I thank you for your sacrifice, and also look forward to you bringing to bear that energy toward your knife making.
Drop me a line any time, whether it be running a design past a fresh pair of eyes or anything else. It's the least I can do to offer that, given you being in the shit on my/our behalf.
Given what I've seen, I think you could do really well. Don't focus too much on this forum, keep your focus on your craft. Oh, that's an IMO by the way. Definitely not here to tell you what to do.:)
 
No worries man... I ripped into you a bit harder than I needed to. I apologize for that.

It IS frustrating hearing the same questions a million times, and seeing people post questions asking for EVERY drop of info to be spoon fed.

I don't think everyone is ignoring you... I've been on here long enough to see that sometimes questions just need the roght person to answer them.

I personally REALLY appreciated your answer about knives for troops. I plan on doing a dozen or so knives with Kydex sheaths sometime in the next year for some troops and valued what you had to say on size, material etc...

BTW, for the notch in your para cord cutter... Maybe use a chainsaw file to cut the groove? I have a diamond file that's the same size that could be used to sharpen the blade, and cutter in the field.

I am sorry you are struggling with pain. Hopefully you can heal from your injuries. I also appreciate what you sacrificed for your country.
 
You have good days and bad days...we all do...no problem.

You man up when you make a mistake, you apologize, and you listen to advise. That will go far on BF.
Feel free to post any questions you have. Someone will answer them.

Overposting can wear down some of the folks who answer a lot, so make the questions such that they will invite an answer. Posting a question that gets asked once a week will most likely get passed over. Posting a too specific question can also get left alone, because without all the information, a proper answer is hard to give or will be long as a book.Read all the stickies, as there is a ton of info and answers tucked into them.

As said, the folks on BF are good chaps. We get into tiffs, flare at each other,....and go have a beer together ( real and virtual). Don't worry about it.
 
As long as you are willing to own your mistakes, I doubt that many folks here are going to hold any ill will for you or deliberately pass over your questions just because they are yours. FWIW I think this is a busy time of year for a lot of folks (myself included) so they may not take as much time to answer questions as they normally would. Beyond that, there are plenty of reasons why a question may not get answered right away, most have more to do with the question than the person asking it.
 
OK, I tell all you guys what is really going on.

September is next week, which means this is the first week of winter in Alberta. Cabin fever sets in fast and you go sort of crazy till you acclimate to only four hours of daylight.
 
Hang in there, Duff!

Did you have a BBQ on Summer this year? I heard it fell on a weekend! (ba, da, da...)
 
Y'all are joking but this past year we had the longest winter and shortest hot summer period since I've been in Deadmonton. I'll be HTing blades in the snow in a month, really wish I had a garage or at least a window in the basement.
 
The beauty of the interwebz, no? ;) :)

Even with lots of smilies, and quite a few of us that write pretty much how we talk... It sure is easy to type something on here, and have it (at best) not articulate our thoughts and (at worst) royally piss somebody off.

I'm a goofy smartass that gets along with almost everyone in real life. Yet I have people tell me all the time that I'm rude and condescending on the forum. I think the only times I go out of my way to be rude, it was because of something somebody else did first. ;) :p :)

I guess at the end of the day ya just gotta remember that it's the interwebz and you are bound to piss somebody off sometime. And as far as new guys, I've come to the conclusion that the ones that really want to learn will stick around and appreciate any help. The ones who ask 20 questions in two days rarely stay longer than a month or three and then fade off into nowhere, so I just leave them be. :)

If a guy wants information spoon fed to him, he's very, VERY unlikely to actually go out and make a knife. Just MHO :)

So keep on keep'n on :)
 
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