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Well today marked a milestone for T.M.Hunt custom knives. Since the beginning of the year its been crazy, not only as far as work load for Blade, but its gotten even crazier after Blade. With the M-18 coming out in a couple of magazines and the exposure from Blade, I've been hit with orderes left and right. Good right, well, yeah but the problem is filling those orders. While this experience is awesome. I'm the guy that gets to lose sleep at night worrying about how to uphold my promises, keep my good name, and give the best product I can.
Now I'm the type of guy that don't like to let to much out of the bag. I play my cards close to my chest. Knowing that things can and often fall through. But today, a lot of stress, was lifted from me. I have been working on a project with a company for the last couple of months and today, when I got home from work, the fruit of that labor greeted me with open arms and I think its pretty awesome.
What is it you ask?
27 ready to grind and go waterjetted M-18's! Hell yeah!
Now I have never done anything like this at all, I do know that getting a idea out of my head and making into something a computer can do is a long process, but very neat for lack of better term. It was impossible for me to keep up cutting these out by hand even with Murph and myself both sitting at the bandsaw for hours on end. My piece of sh!t saw yields one per about 2 hrs. And eats about 1 blade per. So this is freeing up about 60hrs of work not to mention saw blades.
My long term plan is to do all of my workhorse line. The M-9, the Tradewater, Yuma, Magua, and Hornet. But my thought process was to knock out the big boy first, and the rest will be a piece of cake.
So, I got them cleaned up and oiled ready for the work to start. Do not attempt to adjust your monitor. These are stacked 3 deep.
So, even though a lot of people just see a bunch of metal hanging in a old dirty shop. I see success, I see promise, I see a vision coming clearer. I see all of the poeple that have supported and believed, And today I am one smiling S.O.B.
Now the work begins! :thumbup:
Now I'm the type of guy that don't like to let to much out of the bag. I play my cards close to my chest. Knowing that things can and often fall through. But today, a lot of stress, was lifted from me. I have been working on a project with a company for the last couple of months and today, when I got home from work, the fruit of that labor greeted me with open arms and I think its pretty awesome.
What is it you ask?
27 ready to grind and go waterjetted M-18's! Hell yeah!
Now I have never done anything like this at all, I do know that getting a idea out of my head and making into something a computer can do is a long process, but very neat for lack of better term. It was impossible for me to keep up cutting these out by hand even with Murph and myself both sitting at the bandsaw for hours on end. My piece of sh!t saw yields one per about 2 hrs. And eats about 1 blade per. So this is freeing up about 60hrs of work not to mention saw blades.
My long term plan is to do all of my workhorse line. The M-9, the Tradewater, Yuma, Magua, and Hornet. But my thought process was to knock out the big boy first, and the rest will be a piece of cake.
So, I got them cleaned up and oiled ready for the work to start. Do not attempt to adjust your monitor. These are stacked 3 deep.
So, even though a lot of people just see a bunch of metal hanging in a old dirty shop. I see success, I see promise, I see a vision coming clearer. I see all of the poeple that have supported and believed, And today I am one smiling S.O.B.
Now the work begins! :thumbup:
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All of what I've been experiencing as far as knifemaking has been pretty stressfull ever since I took on Blade and all that's happened since. I feel like this is a turning point as far as stuff getting easier. So, hopefully I can devote a little time to taking off those extra pounds I've put on lately. 
