Following Hair-Brained Ideas.

JTknives

JTknives

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I am the kind of person that gets weird hair brained ideas if you have not noticed. In my mind the idea seams cool but then i fight with actualy doing said idea to a knife. i get woried because there is no going back once started. i have such an idea right now that i have been fighting with for a few days. it will be very cool if i can pull it off, but im woried. how do you guys deal with your hair brained ideas?
 
If everyone was cautious, there would be nothing new-no experimentation.
That said, if the idea is not a good one, it will become readily apparent.
 
Shave first before implementation. Some of us have hairy brains then others!

Just don't hook up a high speed motor to drive an old fashion foot pedal powered sandstone/wetstone. Remember a certain somebody's near catastrophe?

As a young lad I had the hair brain idea that I might be able to ignite gun powder remotely via electricity. To test my hairy idea I pulled a bulb from a camera's flash cube and stuck it in a glass jar with some gunpowder and screwed down the lid. While holding the jar in my left hand I touched a battery to the leads. Following a pretty loud explosion, ringing ears, picking a few pieces of glass out of my cheeks and arm (have no idea how I got off so lucky) and convincing my mother I was alright I decided there might have been any of a number of better ways to have done that!

Not that your brain is as hairy as some of ours are, but just in case....be safe!!!
 
awah man i want a high speed large diamater wet stone. it saves my legs from all the peddling ;) just poaking fun my man.
 
JT,
The best way to deal with hair brained ideas is to stay on you meds.:D
That way the ideas quit telling you,"Do it...Do it":eek:
 
I think you need to let someone know before you leap. This forum is full of people who have tried pretty much everything out there. Just the other night I forgot what kind of glue I had all over my fingers while glueing on a set of scales. HHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMM gorila super glue. Well after nearly cutting off the end of my thumb and index finger 5 ounces of acetone and alot of pain Im FREE free at last lmao. My rubber gloves were 10 inches from me just never put them on lol
 
I usually post the idea then wait for everyone to tell me how bad of an idea it is. Thus, the foundation of Snidely Whiplash Cold Forge Cutlery!
 
I dive in and do it. If it does not come out as planned then I know what I did wron and do it right the 2nd time. Or mark of as a bad idea. It is experience of these things that make for improvement.
 
I'm not sure where the boundary is between innovative thinking and hair-brained ideas. I like to think the border shifts as someone tries out a hair-brained idea ... and succeeds.

That said, I do recognize that some ideas are more dangerous than others. This field of ours, which involves NUMEROUS hazards, is not one in which our less thought out ideas ought to be tried with impunity. The combination of high tmperatures, corrosive and volatile chemicals, high powered equipment, and the resulting sharop instruments and tools should give anyone many reasons to pause before moving forward on an untested idea.

However, if you choose to throw caution to the wind, you mat take some small solace in the fact that many people will read with amusement about your exploits in next year's Darwin Awards presentations. So you got that going for you.
 
Explain it to us first so we can make wagers on whether or not you will be injured in the attempt;)
Seriously, I have tried some pretty screwy things and some of them have actually worked. It helps to spend some time considering the possible pitfalls before actually trying though. Not all ideas are good ones.
 
Before powering your hare-brained idea, run it past the forum for a safety-nanny check. If one of our friends had done that he might not have done something that almost killed him recently. Some of us old farts got that way by either surviving or avoiding the hare brained ideas (either way, age and experience)

-Page
 
For a knife, design or whatever, just do it. All you're wasting is a piece of metal and time. That's how I did my first tanto. For anything dangerous, think twice, and make sure you haven't been drinking when you decide to do it.
 
Hair brained ideas that start with
"Here hold my beer and watch this!"
Usually do not work out well.
 
When a new idea comes up I think it over, what are its advantages, the possibility of failiers, best and worst outcomes. If its a gamble rather than a possibility I pass up the idea. Its better to keep all ten fingers and toes, body parts, and the project involved.
 
This thread has taken the approach that new ideas have safety problems. Thats another issue.
 
DanGraves said:
This thread has taken the approach that new ideas have safety problems. Thats another issue.
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Only because JT said he was worried :)

A new idea, properly thought out, and with use of appropriate safety measures is an entirely different thing....

-d
 
tryppyr said:
Yes, but by definition that isn't a hair-brained idea.

;)
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the idea can be hairbrained, even if the execution isn't ;)

Just remember JT, if anybody is standing around, don't say "Hay ya'll! Watch this!" just before you give it a shot...that guarantees a Darwin award :)

-d
 
Are you afraid to run the harebrained idea past us because it is clever and you want to be the first, or because you are unsure of the outcome? Or is it the safety issue many have alluded to?
Tell us! I can't stand the suspense!

~Alden
 
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