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Good morning folks. It's back to work for me today.I did manage to almost finish a kiridashi yesterday.I was going to go for a bike ride but I hate wind and it was wiiiiiiiiiiindy.Have a good one y'all!
 
Hey Daniel, I think you should do the mini KITH! Maybe just make one in your down time, I bet you could get one all ground out and ready to HT in just about 30 minutes or so. No obligation in the KITH until the deadline of July 7. You can enter at any point up til then. Kevin, you should try one too, its fun and a good challenge.

I don't have any plans for mine yet, but I do want to try and get a good hamon on one. I may use ivory for a handle again, I have a bunch of different types, including elephant.

I got the shank of the handled spike all polished up yesterday. I took it to 12,000 grit then a white rouge. I know its a good polish when I can't tell its spinning. Next I need to start applying the finish to the handle. Its nice to be able to finish them seperately, then assemble. I think I will use the Tru-Oil and Armorall finish again on this one, it sure looks nice, easy to maintain and touch up if needed.


-X
 
Afternoon!

Well like Kevin said, its been windy here. Walking home from work right now, saw this at the park near my house...

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That root ball is a good 10' in the air! Trunk is about 4' across, and I estimate about 80 feet tall.

Have a good one y'all!


-X
 
That is nuts! Big tree! :eek:

Sounds awesome on the spike, very cool.



Kevin that is great you almost got a dashi done! :D sounds good



I slept all day, I think I have been fighting off a cold or sinus infection and it hit me hard. I haven't taken a nap in years... I feel like I just rolled down a large embankment with groups of people beating me with sticks, lol. I really wanted to work on knives too, I am having some serious fun with scale materials and can't wait to see the results.
 
Hope you feel better, dude. Sickness sucks.

I'll spare you a lecture about pacing yourself. ;)
 
Bako said:
Hope you feel better, dude. Sickness sucks.

I'll spare you a lecture about pacing yourself. ;)
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I hear you, I need to slow down sometimes.

Once I figure things out I'm going to get some help with mailing and other things that take up a lot of my days "off." I really want this forum to be the base for everything as communication is open and fun that way. Right now I spend every morning for about an hour minimum turning down order emails, it is so tough! Communication is important to me but I want to meet demand and will make no compromises, in fact the more I make the better they get! I'm in somewhat of a transitional time right now with the way I am doing things and pushing really hard to make it work. I always think I need to spend the whole week on knives and do everything else for the business after or before the day gets going... I read that Strider has (I think) 3 knifemakers employed and 4 secretary's so I should listen! But I need to rest, lol! Too much fun too...
 
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I had a big long post almost done and Brandi walks up behind me and taps my screen just playing around and deletes about half then posts the other half. Ugh, cuteness sometimes just doesn't cut it.

Anyways, tough day at work today. Bought a hipster of rum for the walk home and a bottle of beer for after dinner. My thermo-meter says its still about 64* outside, my beer is somewhere in the high 30's right now and my head is at about 15,000 feet altitude. Hard work makes the beer that much sweeter.

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Daniel, don't keep runnin until the tank is dry, refuel before then. Your body will thank you for it and your family will love you for it. I had the same habbit as you, booking races back to back in cities 7 hours apart, my performance suffered and I lost some cntracts after too much of doing that.

We'll all be here dude, if you can't make knives because your burnt out we all lose! Take care of yourself! Our paychecks and temporary happiness depend on you! You lowly knife pusher! If you can't keep the supply going we're all in trouble!


Your friend-

-X
 
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Here's a gem from Phill Hartsfield; "We're not going anywhere, we're already there."
TYT Daniel. :)
 
Morning!

Off today, but no fun for me. Cleaning chores, first its the bathroom then the garage. Ugh, but the wrath I will endure if I don't do it will be far greater! If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

I should be able to get something fun done today though, maybe start finishing the spike handle. Or I may just get drunk. We'll see. Ever have one of those days?!


-Xander
 
Good call Xander and man that beer looks like a good one. Have a great day! Get drunk for me, lol no beer here for a few days. I bet that spike will turn out nice!

I have been to busy lately to work on it but I am going to try to have a few knives available on my website in conjunction with the sales here. This will only be on some models that I plan on keeping around all the time like the Ti Backpackers. My sales are probably 70% repeat customers and the rest seem to be from here, internet searches or Facebook (even though I am not on there). I hope having a few for sale all the time will help out with the online demand. I am so small as far as my name goes but the demand has been nuts! My problem is that I am almost too motivated, lol. I have had to turn down some huge orders to dealers and one manufacturer because I am not going to overdo things, I know that was smart. Hard to do though... When I am ready then that will happen! If I took every order I would be making 1000+ knives per year so that is good. I'm going to stay in my shop this year and hope to make 500 knives.


Rolf that is the best quote ever. Hartsfield was pure genius.
 
It is a very good beer! I really like Speakeasy brand, lots of good stuff that stands out and doesn't follow the crowd in flavor profile. I don't know if they're out there, but be sure to pick one up if you find it.

Back to being the house beotch :rolleyes:

-Xander
 
I'll look for it, one of the local places carries a few hundred micro brews and has new ones daily rotated in. The description sounds nice. I want to make some beer soon, I need about two solid days to start a batch, lol Maybe I'll just do a dried malt extract with a mini mash as that is a lot easier. I broke my brew kettles handle so I kind of need a new one. No beer is cool for a while, I know alcohol gets my allergies going.

I just tried to go outside the back door and could not get it open, we have that much snow! It hammered down all day yesterday, I wouldn't be surprised if we got a foot!
 
Hey doods.

I just came back from an evening at the secret Tuffknives laboratory, buried deep below the bedrock of Secureundisclosedlocationville, PA.

You've never seen so many SICK Ti framelocks, and 100s of other knives, in your life. BladeArt? Ha! Not even close.

Geoff and his buddy Vance had dozens upon dozens of knives themselves just out on the table being discussed and pored over, and then a guy I know from the local gun trade named John Gray was there also, with a dozen or so of his Tf framelocks with CTX blades. There was stuff from Laconico to heaps of heavily pimped Striders and factory knives. Even a Michael Morris frikkie someone had sent in for an anodized Ti scale, and a natural CF scale on the other side.

Oh, and Geoff TOTALLY tricked my Hell Toad. Reground the entire blade right down to reshaping the tang, drilled and tapped for a tip--up deep cover clip on the left, re-anodized the liners in Pimptanium™, installed new teflon washers, etched his makers mark onto each side of the blade (and in the little hole in the scales), and resharpened it for me.

I'll put up some pics as I upload 'em :D
 
Morning gang.

Forecast to be 82* again today. It is quite nice.

I got my chore done yesterday, so I can play today.


-X
 
Bako said:
Hey doods.

I just came back from an evening at the secret Tuffknives laboratory, buried deep below the bedrock of Secureundisclosedlocationville, PA.

You've never seen so many SICK Ti framelocks, and 100s of other knives, in your life. BladeArt? Ha! Not even close.

Geoff and his buddy Vance had dozens upon dozens of knives themselves just out on the table being discussed and pored over, and then a guy I know from the local gun trade named John Gray was there also, with a dozen or so of his Tf framelocks with CTX blades. There was stuff from Laconico to heaps of heavily pimped Striders and factory knives. Even a Michael Morris frikkie someone had sent in for an anodized Ti scale, and a natural CF scale on the other side.

Oh, and Geoff TOTALLY tricked my Hell Toad. Reground the entire blade right down to reshaping the tang, drilled and tapped for a tip--up deep cover clip on the left, re-anodized the liners in Pimptanium™, installed new teflon washers, etched his makers mark onto each side of the blade (and in the little hole in the scales), and resharpened it for me.

I'll put up some pics as I upload 'em :D
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Nice!!! Sounds awesome, so many knives!!!

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Morning gang.

Forecast to be 82* again today. It is quite nice.

I got my chore done yesterday, so I can play today.


-X
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Good morning! It is full on Winter here, I can't believe it! way cold...

have fun!


Still sick here but getting a lot pf rest and eating well. We worked on mailing all day yesterday and I have a bunch of projects/materials lined up! Jade is sick too with the same thing but like me hasn't slowed down too much lol. She just gathered all of the pillows in the living room and is running full speed and dive bombing them!
 
Lycosa said:
Cheking in!
Get well, Daniel.
Hi all.
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I'm feeling better for sure and will be taking care of a bunch of random projects today, taking it easy but getting caught up on some things at the same time.

Do you know where the Hartsfield quote came from... that is the best. "We're not going anywhere, we're already there"

Hartsfield, Loveless, Moran - ahead of their time!

There is something special about Phill's work that really draws me to it, he was the very best. I just saw one of his lineman's knives online for the first time, talk about cool. The Strongboy is probably my favorite. :D

Loveless was using 154cm and micarta back in the early 1970's, talk about cool. I hear he would just live in the shop staying there until very late at night...
 
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