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Dixieblade57

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Am I the only one that has six projects going at once! :eek:

The wife has been sick since back in November of last year, and we are still battling her illness. So I have been working on projects between doctor visits and her being in the hospital. Some days I don't have the money to complete a particular project and some days I am just trying to find something to do that doesn't make a lot of noise so she is able to rest. In the midst of all of this I have started several projects. Tonight I started counting. :confused:

Project 1, my KMG clone is 75-80% complete. (Needs a shaft, all the wheels, platen and tool rest have yet to be completed.)

Project 2, mounting my anvil is 95% complete. (Needs to be mounted on rest)

Project 3, my forge is 90-95% complete. (Awaiting forge stand completion and rest of plumbing to the tanks)

Project 4, my forge stand is 25-30% complete (Finish welding up, painting, and mounting forge and PID controller)

Project 5, in the midst of all this the other day I laid out 9 new knife profiles waiting to be cut out.

That reminds me project 6 has yet to be started but I have to weld up a stand for my portable Dewalt band saw to be mounted to for cutting up the new profiles I just laid out. (I have been using a right angle grinder up to this point.)

And today I measured up some steel I have laying around to make up some new benches for my shop! (Need one more lenght for the legs.)

Not to mention, I can't keep my eyes off of the two pipes leaning in the corner of the garage, that need to be cut up and welded for the new knife vice!

Guess I can't be the only one but, now it's time to buckle down and finish some of these projects I have started!!!!! One thing is for sure if I ever get them all finished I am going to have a slew of WIP's as I have been trying to document the grinder and the forge stand build, as well as the new work benches. I will be glad to get the new benches done as most of the time I have been working off my table saw top and on small bench that was always covered up. Never enough time or money,:D at least not at the same time! :jerkit: :yawn: :mad: :rolleyes: :D
 
I just got my EERF grinder up and running, I still have some work to do on it, and some parts to order for it, but it is at least operational with a small wheel fixture, so it is a now officially a working WIP.

Have a HT oven in the works, the heavy lifting on that begins tomorrow.

Am working on a stand for my sandblasting cabinet so I can steal the table it is on, for the grinder or possibly the HT oven....

My little shop looks like a bomb went off and has since I started working on the grinder, so damage control/cleanup has become an ongoing project which I am hoping to make a big dent in tomorrow, before I start on the oven.

That's 4, not counting the knives which have been on hold, waiting for the new grinder and HT oven (and whatever I am going to put them on).

I could probably remember more but the above are more important or the others would not be forgot, so it's best if I don't:confused:
 
Well six, I don't know, let's see

1. Knives for the Oregon knife show
2. Rebuild the gas forge
3. Archery project
4. I want to buy and old rifle and re-finish it
5. finish the shed in the back yard
6. clean shop

Ok I had to work at making the list 6 things, but feels like more.

Hoping and praying for your wife to get better.
 
Only six?
I have more knives than that on my workbench.
Plus, all the dozens of other projects going on.
 
Well, the projects need to take a back seat to the wife's illness. I know from experience that you loose some concentration under such circumstances. But, then sometimes it is good to have something to take your mind off things that really bother you, but you have no control over. Best of luck to your wife and may it go well for her. Let her know a lot how much you mean to her and make sure to help her enjoy life. It is the best and most important thing you can do in life for her and yourself right now. Jim
 
ib2v4u said:
Well, the projects need to take a back seat to the wife's illness. I know from experience that you loose some concentration under such circumstances. But, then sometimes it is good to have something to take your mind off things that really bother you, but you have no control over. Best of luck to your wife and may it go well for her. Let her know a lot how much you mean to her and make sure to help her enjoy life. It is the best and most important thing you can do in life for her and yourself right now. Jim
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Jim, thanks for the words of encougarement, you do sound like you are speaking from experince. We are still looking for a diagnose for her illness that has been the most trying part of this whole experience, not knowing what you are battling! We have thought we had a diagnose twice, only to be proven later that both of them were incorrect and it was not what has causing her to be so ill!

It’s good to see I am not the only one out there that has more irons in the fire, (pun intended) than I know what to do with! I think it comes with the territory!.
 
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Jim, thanks for the words of encougarement, you do sound like you are speaking from experince. We are still looking for a diagnose for her illness that has been the most trying part of this whole experience, not knowing what you are battling! We have thought we had a diagnose twice, only to be proven later that both of them were incorrect and it was not what has causing her to be so ill!
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My wife has been having some health issues for the last couple of years too, nothing terribly serious, thank God, but enough to put one in mind of what's important.
It is frustrating and a little frightening when the doctors have to prescribe this and that, then wait and judge the effects, just to try to get a diagnosis.

I hope your wife's health is on the up:thumbup:
 
First of all I think it goes without saying, take care of that woman of yours, if she is anything like mine she is worth keepin around... or better yet, you may wanna try to be worth her keepin you around, lol.

I feel your pain. My honey do list gets longer everyday and at the same time I am trying to get the shop completely finished. My wife is 4 months pregnant and she wants to get EVERYTHING ready asap, this coupled with our 2.5 yr old son is a full time job in itself. I have a heat treat oven that has been finished for 2 months but still doesnt have legs on it and is sitting on the floor(I been using it too, lol), just finished my NWG, have 4 knives waiting to be finished and 10 more waiting to be started... stuff is a mess and I still have a few tools to build or modify... ughhh

I do believe it was Patrice that said a few weeks ago that he seemed to be building more tools than knives, I think it is the perception that the more tools we have to easier it will be, when in reality it aint ever gonna be easy and you will learn to make due with what you have. Remember necessity is the mother of all inventions. I did learn about 3 weeks ago that sooner or later, you have to start making knives and stop making tools. Things just have to wait. Finish what you have and go with it, if you dont finish something completely and get used to it(hence the 27" deep heat treat oven without legs) you will never finish it.

You and yours are in my prayers and I hope all goes well with your wife and that she has a speedy recovery and lord willing you can start making all the noise you want again.
 
Oh, I am speaking from experience alright. As some here know my wife was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor in the fall of 2008 and died in January of 2009. It lets you know the real order of importance in life. Look at you wife's deal this way. Maybe they don't know what it is, but, you also don't know that it is something truly horrible. Hopefully it is something a bit odd, but not really serious. Jim
 
Jim, my heart goes out to you, I am sorry for your loss! I did not know when I said you sounded like you spoke from experience.! I have known my wife for nearly 35 years and we have been married to her for 32 years now and don't know what I would do with out her.
Not that she know what to do with me some days, :eek: :rolleyes: but something has made it stick this long in this throw away world! We take every day as it is a new begining, and thank the good Lord at the end of each day, (kind of the way I figure God meant it too be)!

Knives and projects are just something to pass the time in between real life, (family and friends)! :thumbup:;)
 
LOL yeah I know how you feel about to much stuff going on at once, and not getting a whole lot done on any of it. Today I decided to finally do my taxes. After that I was to depressed to do anything productive So I spent the afternoon driving my motorcycle.

As far as shop projects it goes as follows:


-turning my basement in my recently aquired home into a small fabricating/machine/gunsmithing/knifemaking/forging/heat treating/realoading shop.

Projects I have started are:

Setting up a lathe and mill- Lathe is setup(12x36") mill is still not setup, or even down in the basement for that matter.

Heat treating oven- Have everything except the refractory, can't seem to find anything locally so I guess I will have to eat a huge shipping bill.

Quench tanks, I cut a few different sizes of oxygen cylinders up that should work well, I want to rig up an agitation system on the larger one.

Grinder, I am building a 1x42 first, and then hopefully improving on that and doing a real beefy 2x72. I think I have all the materials on hand, and made a 7" steel contact wheel, aquired all the bearings and pulleys ect. I am going to be using the pulleys off a crapped out drill press for speed selection. Also going to turn that drill press into a crank type vertical tapping tool.

Set up a room that's nearly fire proof with an exhaust and fresh air fan for forging, light welding, grinding and heat treating work. I haven't got any where on this other than I have the room picked out.

Something I realy need to start building are stands for propane forge, anvil, grinder, mill ect ect ect.
 
It seems like there is always something when I am working on a knife that just speaks to me to say if this were alvailable? You could quit beating yourself to death doing it this way! So I set forth to try and build or obtain that given object! :rolleyes:
Or another way of looking at it is, "he who dies with the most toys wins"! Of course someone here on the forum already said it, "please Lord don't let them sell my stuff for what I told them I payed for it when I am gone! :eek: :) :D
 
Only Six! You slacker. :p
I've stopped counting long ago. The list is always growing even if I try my best to shorten it.
As to the illness, prayers sent for you and your wife.
 
You know I was going to kind of let this thread die out but, the wife went to the doctor today and we finally got a diagnose that may actually make some sense and if this diagnose holds, it was a common disease, and is very treatable. The diagnose would truly explains alot that has happened the past few months.
I guess what I am trying to say is thanks to evryone on this forum and a few others that have sent me and the wife prayers and good thoughts through this long ordeal. There truly is a bunch of good people in the knife commmunity!

And by the way if you ain't got at least six other projects going along with making a few knives now and then, well that just makes you a Type B (boring) personality instead of Type A (anal) like me. At least I think thats what the wife means when she say I am a pain in the A$$!!!! :eek::D:D:D:D
 
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