Doh! Brainfart!

David Schott

David Schott

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Ever have one of those moments where a moment of not thinking screws you? I just "touched up" the front edge of a completed liner lock folder bolster/liner, promptly removed too much and exposed the detent hole on the blade in the opened position! Looks like I just scored myself a new folder unless I come up with a Macgruber solution to hide it...
 
Sorry about the mishap David! I see you are trying one of the innovative BF approaches to eliminating the problem, "without photos, it didn't happen." Nice try, but I doubt it will work.
 
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I had a similar brain fart today:( I decided to rough in the edge on a knife while I am suffering from a head cold. I was reaching to shut off the grinder and switch to the stones and I sneezed out of no where. Result, some nice 120 grit marks on the blade.
 
DOH!! Those moments always suck. I can especially relate to those times when you reach for something and inadvertently move the blade into the moving belt!:o
 
I make mistakes like this all the time. For me these invariably become an excuse to rethink the approach (or even the goal). Some of my best ideas came after making some of my worst mistakes.

Sometimes you just have to get over the original idea in order to get a real inspiration. A brainfart is useful in getting over the original idea.

- Greg
 
Literally only 1/2 of a 1/16 hole is showing...probably a few mm of it... It's not a total deal breaker and I actually didn't even notice for a while. I'm contemplating making a new bolster that hangs down over the liner by milling it but it seems like lots if work for a minor aesthetic problem. I'm gonna finish it out and see how bad it looks. I'll post pics here for advice once it's done...
 
David Schott said:
Literally only 1/2 of a 1/16 hole is showing...probably a few mm of it... It's not a total deal breaker and I actually didn't even notice for a while. I'm contemplating making a new bolster that hangs down over the liner by milling it but it seems like lots if work for a minor aesthetic problem. I'm gonna finish it out and see how bad it looks. I'll post pics here for advice once it's done...
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Is it possible you did not see such a small detail in the first place? Maybe it was visible already.
 
Just hang your mistakes above your grinder. Before you grind anything, you can take a nice look at the wind chimes you have made. I have a lovely wind chime made up of bolsters liners and blades that were created during one of your so called brainfarts. It's a very important part of learning.
 
Yeah, that's rough. Sorry, man. Hey, we gotta see pics though. Maybe we'll have some bright ideas. (Not likely.)
 
Just make a new liner? and make the aforementioned "windchimes" (I love that thought!).
 
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Yeah I could just make new liners but I might just finish it off and then beat it to hell. I'll get pics tonight hopefully...

I do like the windchime idea!

I suppose one aesthetic flaw isn't bad for my first real attempt at a liner lock. Honestly After doing 6 slipjoints in the past few months this thing seemed pretty easy. The lock is much more forgiving to fabricate, or so it seems
 
Heres a pic of this flaw. Sonofabitch!
flaw2.jpg


The knife is going to come out nice when its all done, but I may just finish it out rather than scrapping the bolsters and making some with a lip. If I am going to re-do the liners, I'll take a bit longer and just make a complete new knife at this point. I've learned enough from this one.

Heres what it looks like overall, with the flaw out of sight :)
flaw1.jpg
 
Yup, you totally blew it. I will PM you my shipping address and safely dispose of it for a small charge.:D

Actually it is a fine job. Sorry that you over did it a bit. I sometimes have the problem of over fixing stuff myself.
 
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Literally only 1/2 of a 1/16 hole is showing...probably a few mm of it...
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1/16" is only about 1.6mm !!!

Until very recently, I designed every knife so that the detent hole was completely hidden.

It's a lot of extra work sometimes too, getting the lockface as far from the pivot as possible, and keeping the detent hole inside the liner.

Then, I built a prototype of a small knife for True North.
His only beef was handle to blade ratio, and he wanted it better, feeling the handle looked too big for the blade.
Well, there was no way to improve it without seeing the detent hole, and I told him so.

"Brian" he says, "who cares about that?"
"I do", I replied.
"No one else does" he said, and proceeded to show me a dozen or more knives from some big name makers that all had the detent hole showing.

I took it upon myself to start asking my customers about it, and of the 20 or so people I asked, 1 guy said he doesn't really like it, but it still wouldn't be a deal breaker for him.

I quit being so concerned about it.

Your mileage may vary...
 
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