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Nathan the Machinist said:
"You're not buying any more steel until you use the steel you have" ←Jo
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I have the steel here for it including the frames

Thankfully I bought this material back before steel prices doubled

I also have the steel here for the semi-integral daggers. It's actually steel ordered for the kukri and I messed up when I ordered it and had the grain bias going in the wrong direction. So we get daggers now. Yay!

And, obviously, we have the correct kukri steel here now too. The sword steel is done grinding, all of the light Choppers are done and most of the standard Choppers are done. Adding the standard Chopper to the project kind of messed with the work flow here a little bit but we're about uncorked now.

These log jams man.

I may have got a little too ambitious with the size of these projects. And swords upset everything. I really need to stop doing swords.
 
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We do these pre-orders and I have to spend all the money before the end of the calendar year or it's a tax burden so I buy steel and carbide and abrasives and stuff and the materials are really starting to stack up. I need to stop taking new orders for a while and just process all this material we have here. For like an entire year. There's a solid years worth of 3V in there now. Bob is going to think I'm mad at him.

Oh wait! I'm going to make 2000 skinners!

I have two more machines on the ground that I need to put power to and get into production. Chris, the new guy, is really helping out a lot, it's not just me that's able to do this stuff now.

And I think I have addressed our power problems. At least for now.

Good Lord man
 
Catching up here….

I posted the below for the Skinner preorder, but after reading all of this folder talk, here it is again:

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Seriously, great work Nathan and Crew!!

You are all the best!! Can’t wait to see how awesome this folder is going to be!!

We appreciate all that you do!!!! 🤩🤩🤩
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
We do these pre-orders and I have to spend all the money before the end of the calendar year or it's a tax burden so I buy steel and carbide and abrasives and stuff and the materials are really starting to stack up. I need to stop taking new orders for a while and just process all this material we have here. For like an entire year. There's a solid years worth of 3V in there now. Bob is going to think I'm mad at him.

Oh wait! I'm going to make 2000 skinners!

I have two more machines on the ground that I need to put power to and get into production. Chris, the new guy, is really helping out a lot, it's not just me that's able to do this stuff now.

And I think I have addressed our power problems. At least for now.

Good Lord man
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That’s a ton of skinners

Also if you can, go accrual for your accounting. Idk if you can in your industry but it should help the tax burden as pre orders. I’d count pre orders as deposits on uncomplete contracts as a liability. Then upon shipment adjust it to revenue, but idk if you can do that…..

Stoked for the folder/dagger/SC/ and all future goodies.
 
JearBeatus48 said:
That’s a ton of skinners

Also if you can, go accrual for your accounting. Idk if you can in your industry but it should help the tax burden as pre orders. I’d count pre orders as deposits on uncomplete contracts as a liability. Then upon shipment adjust it to revenue, but idk if you can do that…..

Stoked for the folder/dagger/SC/ and all future goodies.
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Yeah

I don't actually know what any of those words mean

I'm actually just a machinist? When you get me out of my area of expertise I'm literally, not figuratively, I am literally retarded
 
So I think this folder information should go in the Miscellaneous section of the Encyclopedia. 😁

Most of the folders I have carried have a 3” to 3.5” blade and weigh about 5 oz or less. The Carothers 4” folder would be huge in comparison for what I am use to. When I get to the 4” blade length I look for a fixed blade.

Edit to add, I just saw that there is a scaled down version of the folder possible. That would fit into what I am use to.

Edit to add, the Buck 110 was usually carried in a belt pouch.
 
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I guess its not uncommon to run out of shop space for a knife maker.

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Thread 'New Shop Started!!'

For the last 20 years I have molded my knife shops to fit into the space that I rented. I've had 5 different leases by now, and while I think my shops have been workable, they have never been just right. The shape of the space, the neighbors, and the electric panel were always things that had to be accepted and worked around.

Well, last year Leah and I bought my grandads old place in N. Mississippi. Its 150 acres of gorgeous hilly land. My parents live there in grandads log cabin he built himself for retirement. Once this was done I started planning my 'forever' shop. My grail shop. By...
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Nathan the Machinist said:
I have the steel here for it including the frames

Thankfully I bought this material back before steel prices doubled

I also have the steel here for the semi-integral daggers. It's actually steel ordered for the kukri and I messed up when I ordered it and had the grain bias going in the wrong direction. So we get daggers now. Yay!

And, obviously, we have the correct kukri steel here now too. The sword steel is done grinding, all of the light Choppers are done and most of the standard Choppers are done. Adding the standard Chopper to the project kind of messed with the work flow here a little bit but we're about uncorked now.

These log jams man.

I may have got a little too ambitious with the size of these projects. And swords upset everything. I really need to stop doing swords.
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Don't forget BEHEMOTHER Choppers! - You HAVE the steel. AND, there must be efficiencies of running these after Standard Choppers.
 
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