Bladsmth (Stacy Apelt) in latest issue of Blade!

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to use in context i bet there is not one maker out there that is just a knife maker (for all his life ) we all draw off what we did before in life and what we might also be into at the same time as our knife making

i am a Marine have designed logo mats and also washed and delivered said mats (before all that i was a stockboy at the local grocer
even i have a hard time seeing how i make kitchen knives as a specialty of mine but i have worked hard at getting it right over the last 6 or so years. i am still learnign and getting better too

im glad to that you can point out addresses and other jobs of the people that can easy be looked up (even just googled) cause thy list there real name for there internet name or have it posted in there sig line
 
2knife said:
Why the reference to Stacy's career as a jeweler? It is simply for context.
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I am Stacy E. Apelt, and have been a reader of Blade magazine for over 20 years and have been making knives since 1961. I have technical background in metallurgy, and chemistry, having worked in research for VA chemicals ( formerly VA smelting) in the 1970's.
I am currently the moderator and advisor on Bladefourms.com Knifemakers Shop Talk sub-forum. Bladeforums name - Bladsmth .

He posted that earlier in the thread, I'm still not getting it.
 
I believe he is trying to say that Stacy is a jeweler by trade and not a blacksmith, if he doesn't mean that, then I guess I didn't get it either.
 
There is a long letter in the new BLADE June edition attacking Stacy's letter as not "real world" results and a bunch of other claims . Even uses the Titanic as an example of technical data vs "real world" .
 
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I'd like to read that as well. If it doesn't pop up here I might actually stop by the news stand.
Side note, and this is not meant nasty: has there been any independant tests of EF's process? If not, how about indepentant testing of what he has processed himself - charpy, abrasion resistance, grain size, etc? I'd love to see it if so.
 
hammerfall said:
personally i do not denie any possiblities unless i personally tried it many times and the results tells me no. 10000 years ago at mesopotamia, there was this man who cutted one of his testicle off to find out if it can grow back. eventully he got the answer is No. he then used another one testicle successfully made many children and grandchildren and great grandchildren, their name are Aristotle, Galilei, Newton, Einstein...his family tree lasted to even today. it is said that every single scientist on the earth was decendented from this man with only one ball... so everyone who is reading this now touch their balls, if you find one of them is smaller than the other, i guess you all shares same ancestory lol.
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This is one of the funniest things I've read lately :D

Really insightful thread by the way. I somehow missed this when it was going on, but reading through it now (and also through the perspective of the other forum linked) is pretty interesting.
 
Guys, I am going to lock this thread. We just had a re-hash , and there is no good to come from it opening again.
If you want to discuss it among yourselves, do it by PM and email. The last resurrection is still on Around the Grinder, but I feel we should just agree that many of us disagree.
 
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