Congrats... Nathan the Machinist in Blade Magazine May 2014

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Nice work Nathan!

Well deserved
 
I get Blade for Kindle and read it on my iPad. Off to go download the new issue! See what all the hub-bub is about.

Bob
 
Congrats!!

Nick Wheeler had a knife in the issue I looked at the other day. Congrats to him as well.

I feel like I'm surrounded by celebs. :p
 
Hey I just saw the article. That's really cool. Coop shot one for me in Atlanta last year and he sends his photos out to different folks, which gets your work seen by a lot of different people. He shot a dagger for me a couple years ago and as a result it ended up on the cover of "Knives 2013". You can't buy publicity like that and I thank Jim for it.

The article is about fullers and their function on blades. My knife in the article is a really nasty big stabby fighter and they've got it going across the entire page. I'm real happy about that. Stephen, the fellow who wrote the article, seemed like a real nice and through professional and he wanted to get the information right.

I may have been miss quoted a little bit because I don't think I said a fuller makes a blade better suited for penetrating, I said given two knives of the same overall dimensions and weight, one is plain and the other has a functional fuller (and therefor can be a little thicker) the thicker knife with the fuller will generally be stronger.

I wanted to clear up a misconception about fullers on blades and fluting on rifle barrels, but it was omitted from the article. Some folks think that adding a fuller actually stiffens a blade and that isn't exactly right. A fuller doesn't increase the stiffness by increasing the surface area (common misconception), it increase the stiffness by allowing you to achieve a larger area moment of inertia by allowing a given amount of material to be thicker. For example, simply cutting a groove into a bar won't make that bar stiffer, it will actually make it somewhat less stiff. But cutting a groove into a thicker bar so that it weighs the same as a thinner un-grooved bar will yield a bar that is stiffer than that thinner bar. <-- That's what I said. Probably doesn't read well though.

Anyway, the article is really cool and I'm really grateful my fighter was featured so prominently.

Edit to add:
Oh, and there's a picture of me too. Now you'll all know what a strikingly good looking man I am.
 
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^ good stuff!

Congratulations! I'll be looking for the new issue in the mail soon. :D
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Oh, and there's a picture of me too. Now you'll all know what a strikingly good looking man I am.
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Yes, but does it mention anything about your profound modesty? Or at least your evilness? You are, by far, the most modestly evil machinist I have ever known.

Congrats, amigo. :thumbup:
 
That sure would be awesome to have a blade you created show up in one of your favorite publications. Again congrats! Hope to someday be where you are.
 
Congrats to you and Nick! Very well deserved. By the way, I finally got around to using the disc, and it's amazing!

It's a shame that they didn't take the time to put your educational bit in there. There are too many giant misconceptions and flat out wrong "facts" floating around out there, and it would be nice if a major knife publication would take it upon itself to educate rather than sensationalize. Oh well, sensational sells. Some people wouldn't believe it if they read it anyway.

I'll have to pick up the issue.

--nathan
 
He may have re-worded it due to space constraints. It should be noted (if it isn't) though. The omission of the explanation on misconception was also likely due to space. It can be really challenging to fit everything you want onto a stylized magazine page. In that way (stylized formatting) is a form of art that limits content, but you're right, it wouldn't sell well if it read like a book.

Just a bit of advice... If any of you get interviewed by an editor, if you have something that you really feel needs to be a part of the final copy, let him/her know! And make *sure* they note it. If it's obscure/irrelevant it's possible that it'll get cut anyway.

Even if you're just chatting with an editor, if they seem to be really paying attention (or especially if they ask your name/are taking notes), you may find yourself in an article. It could be years later, as in Nathan's case. This happens especially in focused topic magazines like Blade, where the editor compiles information over a long period (hence the "make sure they note it"), or when they review old story ideas to fill out an issue.

Getting exposure in magazines is a magic feeling. Whether that be as the subject, or just being the guy that put you there. ;)
 
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