I hate making stupid mistakes.

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Don Nguyen

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Yesterday was the last opportunity for me to be at my school's open lab (at least until next semester, which is a month from now). I got all sorts of progress done. Finished up the grind for my knife, got the scales drilled and shaped.

I got everything so perfect, at least for my standards. Crisp lines on the scales (using two different woods). Then I realized, I shaped the WRONG SIDE OF THE SCALE. I wasn't even rushing. Not too big of a deal, but now the holes drilled are all wonked up. Maybe I'll shape the inside of the pin holes, or sand down some of the sides to get them more even.

Who knows. I'll figure something out, because I'm dying to finish this near-finished knife. I just hate that I made such a duuuuuumb mistake. I even had the scales marked too, showing which sides is which, but I guess I sanded that down without thinking.

Duh.

Thanks for reading.



-Don
 
Did you at least figure it out before trying to epoxy them on? I got as far as trying to epoxy on some scales before I figured out that they just weren't matching up right.
 
Ugh....that is a bummer.

I glued up some scales on a knife. And when I went to shape it I saw for the first time the front edges were not perfectly even.....wtf? I bet some shop gremlin came in at night at and sanded one more then the other.....lol

Keep up the good work Don!
 
No not epoxied yet, thankfully lol.

I'll take pictures later too. I honestly was so proud of all my work until I realized :( Still proud of it, because I was trying something new, figured out that I was completely capable of doing it, and almost got it down. But yes, I learned my lesson...
 
I thought I was the only one who did things like that.

Last night I was bending some mild steel bar stock to make the feet for a Zoeller style simple gas forge and I made one of the bends completely backwards the wrong direction. Oh well it was easy enough to correct.
 
It's nice to know that I'm not the only one here... :)

Sanding down the insides of the pin holes is working. I'm making sure only to sand the inside parts, or else there will be big gaps visible when I epoxy them....
 
I did that once with a $40 set of awesome desert ironwood scales. Afterwards, I threw several things across my shop, felt better, and went home.

--nathan
 
We've all done that at least once, maybe more;) If I make two left or right sides I just save one for another knife. That OK unless you are using book matched wood:cool:
Don Nguyen said:
No not epoxied yet, thankfully lol.

I'll take pictures later too. I honestly was so proud of all my work until I realized :( Still proud of it, because I was trying something new, figured out that I was completely capable of doing it, and almost got it down. But yes, I learned my lesson...
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We all have done that exact thing.

When picking out scales, mark the inside with a sharpie - "INSIDE". After any sanding or work, re-mark if needed. That stopped the problem for me.

I have made two right scales and no left one for a folder with a diagonal bolster more than once :)
The above "INSIDE" tip has saved me from working too fast and forgetting to check which side the scales go on.
 
I will be sure to remember that Stacy.

I had the scales marked like that too, but I wasn't thinking very smart and thought, "woah, it's not straight on the inside, I'll just touch that up real quick." Then blunder ensued :(

Thinking back on it, it's kind of funny. But I will work on it later today and not think it's funny...
 
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