Folks, the metal we work with is STEEL

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Vege-Taco said:
their - there - they're
your - you're
to - too - two
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(That's 8 completely different words!)

Thank you. C'mon, guys, remember grade school?

Also, Kevin, the word "quince" is used as often as "quinch", neither of which are in any dictionary.
 
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NickWheeler said:
Guys who post something and tell you that you're really going to like what they have done. Isn't that for the individual viewer to decide?

I think my biggest one is fellas who come off as experts and spend a large amount of time telling folks the "proper way" to make knives...BUT when you see the knives that they make, they are big dog turds. :rolleyes:
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HEY I resemble that remark:D
Stan
 
Please, don't ask if lawn mower blades are suitable for knife making.

Please, just don't ask.

Please.


Leadfoot
 
NickWheeler said:
Guys who post something and tell you that you're really going to like what they have done. Isn't that for the individual viewer to decide?

I think my biggest one is fellas who come off as experts and spend a large amount of time telling folks the "proper way" to make knives...BUT when you see the knives that they make, they are big dog turds. :rolleyes:
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I see it on photography forums as well , guys with 30,000 posts critiquing others work , yet when they post their own work , you scratch your head and ask yourself , why doesn't this guy take his own advice ?

Self appointed experts are only legends in their own mind , and most often , lost in a crowd of one :D
 
my single most recurrent pet peeve is being at a show (or the grocery store) and having someone who has never made a knife tell me I have to use japanese sacred holy magic methods of sword production and must produce katanas.
 
bladsmth said:
Many have heard this from me, but it bears re-telling.

When I first began forging as a lad, I had built a forge myself after reading some blacksmith books I found in my grandfathers library ( he lived next door). It was a pretty primitive coal forge, but worked. My friends and I would take any piece of metal we found, and pound it into a KSO or SSO. I had a three foot piece of RR track as an anvil, "Alligator" pliers to hold the metal with, and a claw hammer to forge with.
The elderly neighbor across the street came over to see what the burning coal smell was and what we were pounding on. He watched for a while, left, and then came back with two buckets of blacksmith's tools.
He had brought them with him from the farm in South Carolina when he came to Norfolk looking for work during the depression. He gave them to me, and showed me how to use them right. He had a South Carolina (slightly scottisounding) accent. I was a Yankee kid who spent his summers in NH. To say we had a language barrier would be an understatement. He would say, "Git 'er gud n hut, and strick 'er wore ya wan da stil ta move." We worked through it mostly by his showing me and me trying what he did.

After he taught me to forge, the knives looked better, but were junk ,because I was using found metal, re-bar, and some metal I bought from the hardware store. He said, " Ta git gud edjus, ya gots ta hab cobbin. Cobbin 'll mac da stil hahd." I didn't have any idea what cobbin was, so I asked, "Where can I get cobbin?" He said,"Tarns, yehp,tarn is ful O cobbin." I asked where I could get tarns? He said "Da junk yahd." Now, I was totally lost, and he could see it, so he pumped his arm up and down and said, "Ya-no ....fer da jak." Suddenly it dawned....Tire Irons.
That evening, my grandfather told me that it was Carbon in the steel that made it get hard....and he then explained the basic hardening process and metallurgy to me ( he was a physicist).

I went to a scrap yard about 1/4 mile from my house and asked if he had a tire irons he would sell me that I could forge a knife out of. The guy just pointed to an old shack and said, "Tarns?, Yep, thahs a pahl O dem b'hin dat shed, Hep yahself, Tak all ya wan." That I understood...... I ran home, pulled my wagon down to the junk yard, and loaded it full or "Tarns".
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Great story! As a Buckeye who spent his summers as a teen at Dale Hollow it brings back fond memories. Thank you.

In keeping with the thread I must admit to having a pet peeve for proper spelling, but thankfully the mind is a powerful thing.

"Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Cmabrigde uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteer is at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe."
 
I studied English at university and I still get confused between 'bear' and 'bare'.

Affect and effect however, I've got those down just fine. Go figure.
 
hah! This post makes me smile b/c more than 10 years ago (!) when this site was fairly new, I posted to remind people that it is "DUAL thumbstuds" not duel, dewel, dewl, etc. Yet strangely few were appreciative of my "elitist" correction . . . .
 
Haha, Nick. I remember that conversation in SA.

I guess I'm fairly laid back on most of this. The long, strung out paragraphs without punctuation and capitalization frustrate me, so I just skip them generally. I've found that as my time becomes more limited, my effort and desire to decipher hard-to-read posts just goes away.

I can't tell you how many times I have started to type a reply to various posts only to just hit cancel or close the browser. Guess my patience is getting slim. :)

--Nathan
 
bladsmth said:
FWIW its not new, AFAICT it has ben goin on 4 a whil. TAFN - LOL
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Indeed; It's been around for far longer than cellphone SMS. I first encountered it on Prodigy/CompuServe, if that says anything.

*hoping to himself nobody's peeve was people replying to threads before they've finished reading them...*
 
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These are still the days of IRC - it hasn't gone anywhere :D

ircII and irssi FTW ;)

Ok, I'm done being off topic now.
 
12345678910 said:
sheat instead of sheath.... just one more letter...
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I think it's almost always non-native English speakers who do this. I'm not sure if "sheath" actually translates as "sheat" in any European language, or if the "th" is uncommon, but it seems like a lot of Scandinavians type "sheat."



My personal pet peeve (one of them, anyhow): I'm befuddled every time someone takes the time to type out "It is what it is."

It would be noteworthy if something is what it isn't.
 
It's nice to have a thread like this, because the sad fact is, correcting grammar on the internet is apparantly a worse offense than the bad grammar.

I can't stand it when people spell the possesive when the plural is intended. Drives me fricken nuts. You don't use an apostrophe to indicate there's more than one of something.

For example the plural of grinder is grinders, not grinder's. Arghhh.

Oh, and if a post is in all-caps, I won't read it.
 
Los Angeles said:
Misplaced apostrophe! Oh the ******* irony.
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I'm not seeing the misplaced apostrophe. If you're wondering why it's in one place for "shouldn't" and a different place for "they're", it's because in a contraction the apostophe replaces the missing letters.
 
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My number one peeve is folks chiming in on a question thread and telling how they do it.

That doesn't seem like a problem, unless you have just read the persons last few posts , and it is clear that the person has no equipment or ability to to the task. A moderator, I try and scan every thread. These chaps are all over the place at times.

Example:
Q - How do you do cryo?
A - I bring the blade to 1988.3F and hold it for one hour. Immediately after plate quenching it in my 6" thick copper quench plates ( I melted up $10 in pennys), I submerse it in LN for 12 hours, then 348.5F for two hours.......

Problem is that two weeks earlier the answering poster was asking -
"i am finishing my forth knife ,made from a file i found in a barn, so i know it is good steal. Can i use my grampa's wood stove to do the HT or will i have to use Moms kitchen oven? i don't know if the oven will get to 1500F??? Also, should I sharpen it before i do the HT? i herd that it will be reel hard after it comes out of the fire, and i don't have any tools."

Do these ''2000 posts in six month" kids think no one has a memory? (And, BTW, it is not just kids doing this.)

Sometimes I miss PimpinSquee
 
i kind of hate ppl asking for combat knife help. I'm a Marine and while I guess you could carry a fighting knife (i would not) a 6 inch or less non saw back non wire cutter in a sinple sheath and a multi tool would be all i want to carry (had a spyderco millie and a gerber multi plyer )
 
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