Do you actually read threads when you post?

heh....

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This thread is like one of those stupid "communication" games where someone tells someone something and it gets whispered around the table so you start with Nick whining about "people never fully read the threads" and at the end it's like "I like bacon flavored ice cream on my chocolate pie." :confused: :p

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James, you look like a Viking but more feminine.
 
If I'm at work it means I'm stuck using my phone and usually only have time to only read the OP's first post and or reply. Mostly I don't reply that being the case and especially if the thread has multiple pages (too much for my wee phone). However, contests may be different (certainly when I'm broke starting out and expensive equipment is on the line) and when I came home I read the rest of that thread and realized I posted after your post :o. For the truck bumper try the microwave you don't even have to be Japanese for that to work:D.
 
Nick, I try to read the posts. But sometimes I scroll down through the responses because they become redundant and then trivial. A petpeeve of mine is when people post responses that clearly don't know the answer. Or they say "just buy one". If we weren't doers we would just buy knives.
I try to preview my replies to correct errors, and I wish everyone did.
adammichael, I apologize, I for one did not know your name is michael. :oIf your posts were signed I probably would have picked that up.
Alden
 
I try to read as much as I can. If it's a thread that has information I'm interested in, or at least find entertaining, then I'll read every post. But if a thread is 8 pages long and I start seeing some significant drift in the topic, I'll usually jump to the end.

Can I have #34? :D
 
fitzo said:
Are those aluminum foil lined?
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Double-layered stainless foil! Helps prevent brain-scale, don'tcha know! ;)

Will Leavitt said:
James, you look like a Viking but more feminine.
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Hush your mouth, son! That's not me... I'm so good-lookin' I don't dare post my own pic in here, lest you lunatics get funny idears. Valhalla-forbid your wives might see me... I have my own woman.

What the heck were we talkin' about?!? :confused:
 
As some others have already said, I will read every post if I plan on posting in a thread. Otherwise I will usually read the first couple of posts, skim the middle posts, and read the last couple of posts.

Nick, you know, it's kind of strange, I'm noticing that I tend to agree with your attitude on basically everything. I can't recall the last post you made that I didn't agree with, although I suppose I'm not following them very closely at all.
 
James_Terrio said:
Double-layered stainless foil! Helps prevent brain-scale, don'tcha know! ;)
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Now I'm gettin' interested. I wonder if they have 'em with the horns out the front and back instead of the sides? :confused:

PS: Nick, I always read all the posts in a thread. Top to bottom, even, just like the cereal boxes. It's just sometimes, I see a pretty little butterfly and get distracted..... like this groovy forging hat of James'.
 
TekSec said:
This is going to be another 17 page thread...
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Thanks Nick,
I just read all the post in this thread, now my head hurts. :confused:

I'll try to post more on page 17 - :D

Let me know when we get there? :confused::rolleyes:

And no I don't want #17 - I would like #537 instead - OK?


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Padrig... are you makin' fun of me, or am I just paranoid? Either way... "for this, I must put you on ignore!!"

fitzo said:
...I see a pretty little butterfly and get distracted..... like this groovy forging hat of James'.
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You laugh now, but when the zombies/aliens/CIA take over, you'll be clamoring at my door begging for such a helmet. Hah!

Wait... did you just call me a pretty little butterfly? That's sort of cute... *blush*

:D

What the heck were we talkin' about? :confused: (I should just put that in my sig line...)
 

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Yes you can heat treat car bumper steel in your home oven, but if it is from a 1942-1982 truck bumper you will need to use WD-40 to keep it from rusting due to the low nickle content.
 
Keith_H said:
I usually read the whole thing, sometimes if the replies are just "great job!" I will sometimes skim them. For the number thing, I pick my number than Ctrl-F every page till I find it already posted.
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Amazing more people don't use this procedure.
It's damned simple...

Control F people
or Edit > Find (on this page)

By the way, Everyone know that German bumpers make the best knives...
 
Nope, not all the time! For instance, I read to post #31 in this thread and realized I could be using my time reading other threads with real info in them about actual knife making processes. But, then I decided to post to the thread anyway stating such, even though I haven't read all the other posts. Do I win any resounding disdain and judgmental accolades of condescension? No matter, I probably won't be back to read about them anyway. I'll probably be too busy reading one of Nick's top notch tutorial threads instead of this stuff. And, I am often too impatient, often not impatient enough (for instance I could have quit reading at #10), often extraordinarily patient (as in time to sand a blade anyone?)
 
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Nick, Adam's contest wasn't for a map it was for a map ARM. You know, the thing that holds the map in front of your eyes so you can keep both hands on the wheel where they belong.


I'll take number 42

Very generous of you to give away your little giant. You better hope I win instead of one of them Canadians so you won't have to pay so much for shipping.
 
Forging hammer, I thought this was a map giveaway on the cartography forum....

I'll take Indonesia, the #3 and one of the foil lined viking helmets. PayPal okay?
 
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