How to get Murphy out of the shop?

NickWheeler

NickWheeler

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Boy he's been sitting on both shoulders lately. :grumpy:

I have a clay-hardened, W2 integral in the works for famed knife photographer Jim Cooper.

I hand sanded it to 1500 grit and proceeded with etching. I started with vinegar and then tried lemon juice. It was looking good, but something wasn't quite "there." Ended up over-doing it, and had to go back to 600 grit stones to remove it all.... then 600x paper, 1000x paper, 1500x paper...

Several hours later I was back to a, clean as a whistle, 1500 grit base finish.

After several etch/polish sessions I finally had it where I wanted it.... and it slipped off the bench and onto the floor.

Oh the gut sinking, heart wrenching feeling of seeing a blade you've been polishing with 3 MICRON POWDER falling toward the floor!!!!!!!!! :(

SCRATCH SCRATCH SCRATCH!!! :grumpy: :foot: :eek: :grumpy:

It's finally back to a 2000 grit base finish and I really want Murphy to get the hell out of my shop so I can finish this knife!!!


I'm just venting. I know some folks here can appreciate this. My family just thinks I'm nuts. ;) :)
 
maybe you should sit on the floor and polish it....that way it can't fall anywhere!....just kiddin....hope it goes smoother for ya boss....ryan:thumbup:
 
...shoulda stopped it with yer foot..! What the heck, yer foot will
heal...the blade won't..!

You could always take on an apprentice, so Murphy has something
else to do...
 
Probably scared Murphy shitless. The Dreamy One actually making progress on a project?
What's next, the elusive WNotIP turing into WIP. :p;)
 
Hey Nick, I know the feeling. I am in the process of making a presentation box for a project, that I am just finishing up. I was trying to do a little trimming on the box bottom section. The table saw grabbed it and slammed it into my arm and across the shop. This was yesterday after when I normally stop. After viewing the damage to the box I arrived at a fix that improved the thing. I am happier with the results than I would have been.:thumbup:
Maybe your knife is better than before. (It's hard to imagine because your stuff is flawless.)
Remember, you will prevail!:)
See ya.
Alden
 
Well, at least you were working on a hardened blade (though I would have NEVER finished re-sanding/polishing a blade up to that point TWICE! :D...it would have just been thrown to the back burner indefinitely). I was working on a finely ground blade keep for myself when Murphy knocked it out of my fingers. I actually DID try to catch it with my foot (it wasn't sharpened yet, and I don't *think* the tip would have penetrated my work boots :D), but it hit the floor anyway and bent the nicely tapered tip over about 80 degrees. :grumpy:

Murphy sure has a manly name for being such a little bi@%#.

--nathan
 
Russ Andrews said:
...shoulda stopped it with yer foot..! What the heck, yer foot will
heal...the blade won't..!
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Been there........ Was showing one to a customer a couple of years ago. Dropped it........ tried to break the fall with my foot........... Cut through my shoe, sock, and a nice 1 inch gash to the bone. Super glued it up and both the knife and I survived.

Murphy sat on my shoulder laughing his ass off the whole time.

Robert
 
I don't know why, but for whatever reason I've always had really good luck. Murphy doesn't come around much. Great example: a while back I set a part up on the mill for a one off prototype. I touch off the tools, I load the program, hit the start button, see that everything is going okay and walk off for a visit on the throne. I come back to the mill about the same time it was finishing up, only to have it occur to me that I had never zeroed out the work piece! But I had set the stock on the table in just the right place and height relative to whatever the last piece had been that not only did I not get a crash - the material had cleaned up and there was a good part sitting there. My entire life has been this way. Just really lucky. *shrug*
 
you need to get yourself one of those padded rooms. Hard to make knives while you're wearing the special jacket to go with it, though
 
Well you suck Nathan! ;)

I've been working on it all day and things are looking up. *knocking HEAVILY on wood* ;) :D

Thanks for appreciating my rant. :)
 
This thread is cracking me up :)

Here's my humble addition. A few weeks ago I was also trying to bring out the hamon in a blade (the one I'm doing a WIP for right now in the custom forum) and after polishing it and giving it a soft etch in some hot vinegar I wrapped it back up in a paper towel and went to bed. A day or two later when I went back to work on it, I removed the paper towel only to find that I must've gotten some of the vinegar onto it, because a large section of the blade was rusted - deeply. I had to go back to the grinder at 120 grit to get those pits out.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I don't know why, but for whatever reason I've always had really good luck. Murphy doesn't come around much. Great example: a while back I set a part up on the mill for a one off prototype. I touch off the tools, I load the program, hit the start button, see that everything is going okay and walk off for a visit on the throne. I come back to the mill about the same time it was finishing up, only to have it occur to me that I had never zeroed out the work piece! But I had set the stock on the table in just the right place and height relative to whatever the last piece had been that not only did I not get a crash - the material had cleaned up and there was a good part sitting there. My entire life has been this way. Just really lucky. *shrug*
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you probably had a beer in your hand. Murphy really likes beer. preferably a nice Guiness....spent too much time drooling over the Guiness and not enough time paying enough attention to what he can screw up.... best Murphy deterrent ever!
 
How about this?
After getting my first blade back from hardening, my appartetement building (inc. my workshop) burns down.

The firefighters did get the blade out and I got it re-hardened and finished.

I like to piss off Murphy as much as he tries to piss off me ;)
 
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