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Evil I tell you, pure evil...

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Just look at his black and beady eyes, not a shed of compassion for the living in there! The pics of the loser are just too gruesome to put here, its bad...

Hamster society works like thunder dome, I'm convinced.


-X
 
Scary! :eek:

Sara and I have been playing "Mail Detective" all day and it really isn't fun... we are pretty good too! Mailing policy is being written up.. I don't like rules either...
 
That PO stuff can be a PIA. When I go and there's a line, I turn right around.
I found out that lunch time is a good time to hit our PO.
 
The lines aren't bad but sometimes it is hard to figure out who gets what... long story. :)

It has been tough with the PO too, they keep changing rules... last time we went in to mail international stuff they told us the same boxes we always use were no good... had to order more and just got them two weeks later, express boxes ironically. 3 day mail, only two weeks for the boxes! We have to order the other ones too as they do't carry them so it really set us back, seems no one local has them all of a sudden.

I will get into the shop today! Only one more to do and I have to wait until tomorrow to get it out I think.
 
On the home stretch! Only an hour left at work...its been mind numbing slow. I hate having to find stupid little things to do. I want to be home working on things.


-X
 
I think I've decided to make a knife. I saw some tutorials on how to make a Frikkie, and none of it seemed remotely difficult as long as you play by the basic rules, and don't try to half-ass too much. The guy I saw made G10 grips with thin liners- no reason why I can't make Ti liners, and anodize them. Also no reason why I can't buy some nice Ti hardware like torx head cap screws and chainring bolts and anodize those too. Or why I can't use nice CF for scales and some nice steel for a blade, as long as I'm sending it out for HT.

I think I'm gonna go for it.
 
Its 7:00 pm, its 70 degrees in the shade. The rum is cold, my girl is hot and I'm enjoying my life right about now! I just love California! Having a damn fine cigar courtesy of our good bud Gnarly, watching Zyler play in the yard and kickin back after having some top shelf sushi for dinner.

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Id love to say my job is super stressful, or I work my ass off every day so I deserve this, but it isn't and I don't. I just deal with idiots at times, keep the children working and for the most part just show up and stay busy. I don't make a lot of money, but its enough to allow me to indulge in Daniels fine tools from time to time. Only thing better is if I were actually sitting around and BS'ing with all you good fellas in person.

Hope you have a good weekend dudes!


-Xander
 
Hey all!

It's been a while.... I've been swamped this past semester with loads of homework and assignments to do as I took six courses. Today was my last day of classes! I've got two more papers to write, one on chronic pain, and the other is a critical analysis of popular leadership quotes (military) from the lens of transformational leadership. I've also got three exams to write in the next two weeks (Ethics, History of Military Thought and Strategy, and Brain and Behaviour). And then, assuming I pass, I'm DONE!

awc
35 DTG!
 
I think I've decided to make a knife. I saw some tutorials on how to make a Frikkie, and none of it seemed remotely difficult as long as you play by the basic rules, and don't try to half-ass too much. The guy I saw made G10 grips with thin liners- no reason why I can't make Ti liners, and anodize them. Also no reason why I can't buy some nice Ti hardware like torx head cap screws and chainring bolts and anodize those too. Or why I can't use nice CF for scales and some nice steel for a blade, as long as I'm sending it out for HT.

I think I'm gonna go for it.

Hell, it aint hard. Just remove everything that doesn't look like a knife! There are enough hacks like myself making these things that you should be able to! Start small, maybe a custom paring knife, and then go from there.


-X
 
Hey Andrew, good to see you round here again! Keep up the good work dude! Hope to see you on the racecourse someday.


-X
 
I think I've decided to make a knife. I saw some tutorials on how to make a Frikkie, and none of it seemed remotely difficult as long as you play by the basic rules, and don't try to half-ass too much. The guy I saw made G10 grips with thin liners- no reason why I can't make Ti liners, and anodize them. Also no reason why I can't buy some nice Ti hardware like torx head cap screws and chainring bolts and anodize those too. Or why I can't use nice CF for scales and some nice steel for a blade, as long as I'm sending it out for HT.

I think I'm gonna go for it.

Nice! We're always here if you need a hand. Send it to me for ht if you like... :cool:

On the home stretch! Only an hour left at work...its been mind numbing slow. I hate having to find stupid little things to do. I want to be home working on things.


-X
weak muahhhahhhh here... mail detective day. at least grinding was nice... lol

I'd get to the pub!!
lol I ground 11 blades to completion instead.

Its 7:00 pm, its 70 degrees in the shade. The rum is cold, my girl is hot and I'm enjoying my life right about now! I just love California! Having a damn fine cigar courtesy of our good bud Gnarly, watching Zyler play in the yard and kickin back after having some top shelf sushi for dinner.

Id love to say my job is super stressful, or I work my ass off every day so I deserve this, but it isn't and I don't. I just deal with idiots at times, keep the children working and for the most part just show up and stay busy. I don't make a lot of money, but its enough to allow me to indulge in Daniels fine tools from time to time. Only thing better is if I were actually sitting around and BS'ing with all you good fellas in person.

Hope you have a good weekend dudes!


-Xander

Awesome! That is a great cigar, I smoked one once in a Churchill size... very nice! Cheers!


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I've reground some old kitchen knives gently, into other shapes- I had a heavy, forged 10" Henkels Chef that an employee dropped tip-first onto a ceramic floor, which wound up as a Santoku. Profiling isn't what I'm worrying about, nor is the drilling or shaping of liners and scales. It's beveling that seems like it's going to have the shallowest learning curve.

Is there any merit to any of the jigs I've seen for sale, or is that whole thing for sissies?
 
Hey all!

It's been a while.... I've been swamped this past semester with loads of homework and assignments to do as I took six courses. Today was my last day of classes! I've got two more papers to write, one on chronic pain, and the other is a critical analysis of popular leadership quotes (military) from the lens of transformational leadership. I've also got three exams to write in the next two weeks (Ethics, History of Military Thought and Strategy, and Brain and Behaviour). And then, assuming I pass, I'm DONE!

awc
35 DTG!

Hey good to see you!

Hey congrats in advance, sounds great! :D :cool: I hope you do well.
 
Bako, nobody said this was rocket science. :) Some of us don't have the time for 50 hobbies anymore :) Or some of us like collecting other people's works.. or some people have no style, or... you get the point :) I do though understand the desire to make :)

cheers all! (/me clanks riot's glass with his medicinal glass)
 
I've reground some old kitchen knives gently, into other shapes- I had a heavy, forged 10" Henkels Chef that an employee dropped tip-first onto a ceramic floor, which wound up as a Santoku. Profiling isn't what I'm worrying about, nor is the drilling or shaping of liners and scales. It's beveling that seems like it's going to have the shallowest learning curve.

Is there any merit to any of the jigs I've seen for sale, or is that whole thing for sissies?

Nice! The first knife I ever modded was a Henkels I dropped on the tip! I used stones to reshape the tip and was paid to sharpen all of our chef's knives after that.

Bevels - remove bulk with a grinder (you have a 1x30 I think... get ceramic belts for it... blaze or cubitron) and then draw file (angle file) to line everything up. After that sand with a metal or hard backed piece of sand paper from 120-400 grit.

Jigs - You will run into a lot of opinions on them but I say do what works! I think they are a good idea but don't use any, I need to make some. To me jigs are like hand kneading bread vs machine mixing... some people care how it is mixed but I am more after some tasty loaves.
 
Bako, nobody said this was rocket science. :) Some of us don't have the time for 50 hobbies anymore :) Or some of us like collecting other people's works.. or some people have no style, or... you get the point :) I do though understand the desire to make :)

cheers all! (/me clanks riot's glass with his medicinal glass)

Hey cheers and great to see you! :cool:
 
BTW Bako I have lots of tools but highly recommend hand work, drilling needs a press but everything else will go faster at first by hand.
 
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