Off Topic Best Christmas Gift???

OnceBitten said:

The other Mr. Brown (UPS) brought me this just before Christmas.


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45 minutes prior to this pic, I was unwrapping it.

It was coated black, scratched to f*ck, and missing a good chunk out of the edge, just opposite where the spine transitions into the clip.

There are still some issues on the spine where it looks like someone was trying to hack through a Jeep but.....things are looking WAY better than received. It was ROUGH.

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Was this sent in for warranty and returned like that? If so, hot damn that's a fine result!
 
OnceBitten said:
Nope. I fixed it.
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You did a great job, I'm doing a bit of regrinding the primary with my Dogfather... though it will never look like yours.

Here's what it looked like before I put a bit more work into it yesterday... it's a bit cleaner now. This is straight off my Sigma Power 120 waterstone, doing it by hand... no belt sander/grinder currently.

 
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When I got mine, it looked like someone had been hacking at a pallet and hit a nail (I've done it...). The previous owner said that he "honed out" a small chip - I'm guessing that it was at least a 1/8" chunk out of the edge because I got it with a 1/16" bit missing and a "dip" in the edge around it.

There's nothing worse than an unloved Dog.

I was at the office and only had an old file, a block, and some sandpaper. I did it Caveman Style. I couldn't just leave it....it hurt to look at the damage.

I took a lot of steel off (you can see at the belly) - I need to put put a proper edge onto it.
 
tokerblue said:
Love the Macross Valkyrie.

I went down the Transformers rabbit hole a few years ago and started buying a "few". Bought my son Siege Jetfire and he's an incredible toy. It's like the animated version of "Skyfire" came to life.
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That's why it was my favorite. It scratched my Robotech itch also since you couldn't actually get a veritech unless you lived in Japan. My youngest (12) loves transformers and also has that Skyfire. Almost as expensive of a hobby as Busse.
 
cobrajet said:
That's why it was my favorite. It scratched my Robotech itch also since you couldn't actually get a veritech unless you lived in Japan. My youngest (12) loves transformers and also has that Skyfire. Almost as expensive of a hobby as Busse.
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What's funny is that the Bandai Chogokin Valkyrie VF-1J is even more difficult to get than a Busse. I stayed up until 3AM to try and buy one on 4 different Japanese sites. They all sold out in less than 10 seconds. That's a rabbit hole I don't want to go down again.
 
tokerblue said:
What's funny is that the Bandai Chogokin Valkyrie VF-1J is even more difficult to get than a Busse. I stayed up until 3AM to try and buy one on 4 different Japanese sites. They all sold out in less than 10 seconds. That's a rabbit hole I don't want to go down again.
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Nerds unite!!
 
OnceBitten said:
When I got mine, it looked like someone had been hacking at a pallet and hit a nail (I've done it...). The previous owner said that he "honed out" a small chip - I'm guessing that it was at least a 1/8" chunk out of the edge because I got it with a 1/16" bit missing and a "dip" in the edge around it.

There's nothing worse than an unloved Dog.

I was at the office and only had an old file, a block, and some sandpaper. I did it Caveman Style. I couldn't just leave it....it hurt to look at the damage.

I took a lot of steel off (you can see at the belly) - I need to put put a proper edge onto it.
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Curious what you used the file for, just to remove the edge damage quickly? Did you try the file on the primary to see if it would bite? I thought about trying this on mine, but seemed unlikely to work well unless it was much softer steel.
 
I used the file to remove material from approximately 5 inches of edge going from the belly and tapering off toward the choil.

It was the only way to get out the remainder of the edge damage and the "mini-recurve" caused by the previous owner's "honing"
 
I received a small Atlas Forge Anvil.

And a pack of rapid tongs from Ken's Custom Irons. A new pack of assorted belts for my 2x72 and a steel wire brush for removing forge scale.

I did not take any pics.
 
tokerblue said:
What's funny is that the Bandai Chogokin Valkyrie VF-1J is even more difficult to get than a Busse. I stayed up until 3AM to try and buy one on 4 different Japanese sites. They all sold out in less than 10 seconds. That's a rabbit hole I don't want to go down again.
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You should upgrade your membership so we can PM nerd transformer stuff.
 
WatermanChris said:
That might be my next project but I'm in the middle of building 5 Polymer 80s and 3 ARs (AR9 Pistol, 10.5" 5.56 Pistol, and a supressed AR22 Pistol).

308 or 6.5 CM?
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Mine is .308. With ammo being so expensive and hard to get I like to keep it common.
 
mymindisamob said:
Mine is .308. With ammo being so expensive and hard to get I like to keep it common.
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Yeah. I agree. One of my rules for buying/ building new guns is that it must take a cartridge and magazine I already have.

I've broken the magazine part with the AR22 build and I will break it with an AR10 but for the most part I've been good - Glock double stack 9mm, FN509, AR, AK, M1A, and Sig P365 are all "allowed" (by me at least) purchases.
 
The socks comments made me remember I got underwear from my wife. Not just any underwear, mind you, she found some company that prints faces on them. They're awesome!!

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