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yeah baby ! oh btw, I found some longer chainring bolts than the ones I'm sending you. Let me know if those are too short for the choppers. The longer ones are pricey though, $15/pair but in titanium.
 
Don't spend too much, I can find them for cheap, I had figured you were getting them off bikes. :D Then again the ones I can get aren't Titanium, that is way cool!

Morning guys!
 
yea, no worries, I have several sets off bikes but they aren't long enough. Also, the really long ones I have that you can possibly grind down (they are about 3" long) seem to be kinda soft. Will look them over some more to see if they are even viable.
 
Cool!

Man I am toast here...

I spent the morning making a sheath, my early afternoon cutting handle material with a rock saw and I have been behind the grinder for the last 7 hours. I'm tired...


I just put some Anthony Bourdain on netflix, cool show... making me hungry! He is in Thailand on this one.
 
Yeah he rocks, I used to be a chef and he really captures everything! If I watch his show I just keep eating, lol. It is tough!!!
 
nothing like having the house to myself for some early morning motivation!

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my neighbors don't like me much sometimes...! :D


-Xander
 
Yes!!! That is just killer, Tool on vinyl! I'm in to the records myself, I have a decent collection. Rock it!
 
Xander, I'm still thinking about the photos you posted, I had no idea that area looked like that... delta style. cool...
 
Yeah and that album was a virgin too! Cut it open for the first time this morning, I have had it for a while now.

just got back from a short bike ride with the wife. I just love riding behind her! n/m.
Gonna grab a quick bite, then head back out on the bike for a long ride.

Anyone wanna go for a ride? I have a couple extra bikes...

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-Xander
 
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Daniel Fairly Knives said:
Xander, I'm still thinking about the photos you posted, I had no idea that area looked like that... delta style. cool...
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yeah you should google map it if you want to see just how expansive this area is. My home port is Stockton Sailing Club, which is an inland sea port and the farthest up the river you can go pretty much. My trip was from there to Owl Harbor. The San Francisco Bay Delta is the only other true birds foot delta in the country besides the Mississippi river delta. Survival out here is different than many other places. I could go into all the history and how the chinese dug the channel, etc, but that would be a long post.


-Xander
 
mmmm what a morning.. indeed. anyone want some toast?

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We have a kitchen remodel slowly going on.. so the toaster has been in this ugly corner for a while.. and today it was being a bitch.. f'ing door wouldn't open and my toast was done! Oh well, glass tastes good too :E


Daniel, been making lots of steel dust.. that 1084 is tiny now, lol.. I've learned a bunch.. I need a belt sander that doesn't flap around O_O I've created a very strange little knife.. see if it becomes more dust or if I can finish it.. I just keep making changes, then screwing up, then having to change it.. so it is definately my learning knife. It slices thru paper like butter now.. It's like a spearhead, angle blade O_O one side flat ground, the other compound convex with the tip flat and top swedge flat. I need a pair of goggles though..

alright, enough blah blah blah, get back to work you slackers! ;]
 
OK... must comment later... lmao getting to work! But not 'cause anyone told me... because i have had 3 cups of coffee and am ready to go, lol I can't sit still!

Sounds good though man...
 
Daniel Fairly Knives said:
OK... must comment later... lmao getting to work! But not 'cause anyone told me... because i have had 3 cups of coffee and am ready to go, lol I can't sit still!

Sounds good though man...
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Haha,I know how you feel, I just killed a rockstar and an iced latte! I was editing a paper for my wife when all of a sudden I realized it was turning into one long sentence! Yikes! Calmed down, focused and got it done.


-Xander
 
fast14riot said:
Haha,I know how you feel, I just killed a rockstar and an iced latte! I was editing a paper for my wife when all of a sudden I realized it was turning into one long sentence! Yikes! Calmed down, focused and got it done.


-Xander
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Jack Kerouac style, lol. He wrote On The Road in one siting with no punctuation! He had something a little stronger than coffee though, that must have been nuts, lol...
 
sloth357 said:
mmmm what a morning.. indeed. anyone want some toast?

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We have a kitchen remodel slowly going on.. so the toaster has been in this ugly corner for a while.. and today it was being a bitch.. f'ing door wouldn't open and my toast was done! Oh well, glass tastes good too :E


Daniel, been making lots of steel dust.. that 1084 is tiny now, lol.. I've learned a bunch.. I need a belt sander that doesn't flap around O_O I've created a very strange little knife.. see if it becomes more dust or if I can finish it.. I just keep making changes, then screwing up, then having to change it.. so it is definately my learning knife. It slices thru paper like butter now.. It's like a spearhead, angle blade O_O one side flat ground, the other compound convex with the tip flat and top swedge flat. I need a pair of goggles though..

alright, enough blah blah blah, get back to work you slackers! ;]
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Flappy sander- Try blaze belts, they seem to flop less. Probably mostly just the grinder but I have had some belts get so crazy on me. The blaze 60's are the most stable but funny enough, the 120's move all over the place on my KMG, fine for most stuff but hard cutting in a ricasso!

Making it smaller is cool, just make it good! The more you grind the bigger they get! Dull it back before heat treat to get the blade thicker, lust a little under dime thickness. You have to keep it thicker to avoid warping and to deal with "decarb." Sounds like it is going good!

I like that toaster, lmao!
 
Ok Daniel, what did you do with your caffeine high today? I did this with mine. Forged, profiled, ground, hand sanded to 400#, heat treated, and is in the oven tempering now.

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I expect you to have done 3 times as much!


-Xander
 
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