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Walt2

Walt2

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Boy, some days it just doesn't pay for me to get around the grinder. Some days I spend as much time straightening out little screw ups as I do doing what needs to be done. Seems as though the "one of those days" incidents are getting to be more often the older I get.
 
i just step back and find something different to be working on for a bit and try not to let it get under my skin
 
Same here. When things go bad, they usually start bad and get much worse really quickly for me. I had one day of pure hell in my "shop" a couple months ago and now if something weird happens, I turn everything off, take my apron off and head right upstairs. Life is too short. Of course, if everyday is like that, then maybe you need a career change! :p
 
Kinda hate to say........... but since my bike wreck and problems with the legs right now......... I bee sitting on a stool and feels weird... But it is making me slow my grinding down which maybe a good thing.....but I am having some adjustment phase with grinding.... So I had to gripe,,,,take grip.....get a grip.....hit the "mountain Water" (if you know what I mean) and go at it again........

Sometimes age doesnt take into play.....hey I thought the older you get the better???????????????

Daniel
 
Ha! My work week has sucked so bad I haven't gone anywhere near the shop... Good damn thing too, I swear. I'd ruin two week's work in half an hour of the FUF looking over my shoulder. At least at my job nothing I do has any lasting value anyway, so who cares?

I feel for you though Walt, I know what it's like to take one step forward and three back. Spent most of my early knife making career doing just that thing. All those six inch blades working out to four inches... Kinda like IG's imagination.
 
I haven't lost more than 1/8" length due to my screw ups so far. So far it has just been small errors in position during grinding bevels. I've got a long way to go to do as many blades as some of you guys. Since I am primarily doing it as a hobby, you would think that I would have all the time in the world, but it never works out that way. I like to be able to take my time and not get in a hurry.
 
I try to cut my knives long for screw ups :) But the shrick some even when you plan for it :)
 
I have those days all the time. Gets really nerve racking. Alot of times I think its overconfidence. Things get to goin too well and you (I do anyhow) stop putting as much thought into what you're doing. Sometimes you just have too many other things going on to keep your mind on the task at hand too. Knifemaking is supposed to be a hobby for most of us, and you'd think its what you could go do to relax when things aren't going your way, but sometimes that isn't the case.
Thats a real bitch too. I'm pretty far behind in the shop right now, but alot of days I don't bother going out there because of how things went at work. So then I just sit and think about the idiots at work, and the think about how I'm getting farther behind on the knives and wind up even more stressed out. Sometimes I go out and just cut blades out, give the old hacksaw a workout and burn off some stress. Can't do that everyday though, I'd run out of steel :rolleyes:
Things will turn around sometime though :)
 
what I have been doing is simple cutting out blades when the grinding aint going well.....then when I get in the groove, grinding those suckers out.
Before you know it I have 11 blanks to grind and try to have 4 at one time ready to heat treat or just heat treated and ready to finish.

I was really surprised at how much more I could get done simply repeating the same task on 4 blades instead of 2. An extra 1 hr here and an extra 20 min there and an extra 2 hrs on handles..ect... and BAM. 4 knives instead of 2 done!!
 
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