Bad grinding day

Welcome Carley, glad you joined us.

While I don't see much to complain about, if it wasn't up to your standards, I am glad you pulled it from the sales. Your knives are good users and nicely made.

I'm glad to have a new young gal here. Many folks think I am female because of my name, but I'm just an old man.

I'm moving this to Shop Talk where more folks can get to know you. Again - Welcome!
 
Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
Welcome Carley, glad you joined us.

While I don't see much to complain about, if it wasn't up to your standards, I am glad you pulled it from the sales. Your knives are good users and nicely made.

I'm glad to have a new young gal here. Many folks think I am female because of my name, but I'm just an old man.

I'm moving this to Shop Talk where more folks can get to know you. Again - Welcome!
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Well thank you!! I’ve been loving the knife community so far :)
 
Try 0 for 2 today.
Had a lot on my mind as I just ended an 18 year relationship ( the last 7 with her Parkinson’s Disease.)
It unbelievable and unbearable to watch a family go after each other when they should be pulling together.

Yep, sobbing and grinding don’t mix.
 
Not gonna lie, I’ve thrown one over my shoulder, grabbed the next one and kept grinding without ever looking up more than once.
 
Done that more than once when I was climbing up the learning curve. Had folks try and buy one here and there….”just tell everyone it’s a factory second “. No ….never did. You never want your mistakes out on the market. I’d grind the tip down and toss it.
 
ScarFoot said:
Not gonna lie, I’ve thrown one over my shoulder, grabbed the next one and kept grinding without ever looking up more than once.
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I have a whole graveyard of blades I've thrown plus a whiteboard a caved in.

Funny stories.

1. I messed up a hawk and threw it as far as I could into the field by my shop. A few months later the landlord was like, hey, my guy was weed eating and found this tomahawk, is this your's? Ummmm

2. I messed up a blade and cut myself in the shop all in one go. I got so angry that I punched my white board and bruised my entire hand. That very week, Lebron James did the same thing in the NBA finals and badly injured his hand.

Moral of the story. Its OK to throw things and punch stuff. Even the GOAT does it. Don't feel bad.
 
Who you calling an old goat!!!

I toss them in a box and go back later. If it is totally messed up, I see if I can make another shape knife from it. If not, it gets trashed.

This reminds me of when I cleaned out Ron Frazier's shop after he died. Besides being 2-feet deep in trash and whiskey bottles, there were knife blades and assembled knives in various stages of grinding and finishing thrown on the floor and stuck in the walls and ceiling ... dozens of them. If Ron was having a bad day, ...and towards the end most were bad days ... he would throw the knife at the wall or ceiling. We found a finished $750 MOP flipper folder behind the stove in a pile of broken lightbulbs and glass when sweeping the place out.. Looked like he had trouble adjusting the liner lock and just chucked it at the wall. We also found many rusted blades in the woods where he would go to the porch and throw it as far as he could. I may have photos on my other computer.
 
darlington.edgecraft said:
I was so excited to do another one of my Penguin models. I was having a rough time with my grinds recently though and I thought I had gotten through it until I started my finishing grinds. This one I completely messed up and decided it’s better off as an ornament 😂

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People here will say.......there are No mistakes, just smaller knives

Could you have ground down the handle for ballance and make a paring knife? Maybe Next time.....haha.
Welcome
 
Stacy E. Apelt - Bladesmith said:
Who you calling an old goat!!!

I toss them in a box and go back later. If it is totally messed up, I see if I can make another shape knife from it. If not, it gets trashed.

This reminds me of when I cleaned out Ron Frazier's shop after he died. Besides being 2-feet deep in trash and whiskey bottles, there were knife blades and assembled knives in various stages of grinding and finishing thrown on the floor and stuck in the walls and ceiling ... dozens of them. If Ron was having a bad day, ...and towards the end most were bad days ... he would throw the knife at the wall or ceiling. We found a finished $750 MOP flipper folder behind the stove in a pile of broken lightbulbs and glass when sweeping the place out.. Looked like he had trouble adjusting the liner lock and just chucked it at the wall. We also found many rusted blades in the woods where he would go to the porch and throw it as far as he could. I may have photos on my other computer.
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Glad to know Im not alone in throwing messed up blades. Makes me feel a little better. RIP Ron.
 
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