My Dumb A%$@& Commentary -

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rlinger

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Sometimes I wonder about me. I believe I will begin posting my 'dumb ass' commentary of the year. This one will be this year's.

A lot of us use those 2000 degree refactory bricks in our furnace to set our blade(s) upon. I have had one for about, I don't know, four years or better. You know how they crack, especially if you do a lot of high alloy steels. Mine is and has been a jig saw puzzle in about 7 pieces now. I call it my Rubic's cube brick since every time I take it out of the furnace I have to figure it out again. For years I have been saying I have to drive down the road and buy another four dollar brick. Never do though. So yesterday I have a little yard job to do and out to the storage shack I go to see if I have any Quick-Crete. NO but I did find the bag of 3000 degree (at that time $50 a bag) refactory cement I used to make my forge years ago, and had forgotten about having. A quick trip next door to the ball park to borrow a couple shovel fulls of sand to make a mold and a little water and I should have in a couple days a 3000 degree brick and one that is only one piece!!! The solution was right under my nose for years and I didn't even realize it.

That's my 'dumb ass' of the year tale on myself.:)

rlinger
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I've got that beat in spades, Roger. I'm admitting to this only because through further ridicule will I hope to learn to be less gullible.

Last night I went to a buddy's steel fab shop to weld up a fullering tool. While I was there I asked to look around for a scrap piece of stainless tubing to make a muffle for heat treating in my forge. I happen across a clean piece that would work perfectly, show it to my friend who responds with:
Joe: "That's not stainless. It's carbon."
Me: "Sure looks like it could be. How the heck can you tell?"
Joe: "Smell it."

Now, dammit, I KNOW better than this, but even before I had a second to redeem myself that frigging bar was under my nose and I knew I was doomed.

Of course, as he knows my interest in metallurgy, he follows with:
Joe: "Well, is it martensitic or not!"


My guess is that I deserved this on numerous levels, and had it coming for a long time. So Mace, Kevin Cashen, Darren Ellis, and the countless others tat I've been bullying for the last several months, I'm sorry. I've been slapped.
 
Roger, well, at least you saved some money and got it to work. By the way, it's sure good to see ya here, I was getting worried about ya.
 
John Andrews said:
Roger, well, at least you saved some money and got it to work. By the way, it's sure good to see ya here, I was getting worried about ya.
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OH!!! Great Redskin Hunter, it's sure glad to c'ya here too.:thumbup: :D
Shot a Boar lately????:thumbdn:
 
Hi there big John. I was also wondering about you ol'buddy. Very glad to see you here again. Take a look at the collaboration thread. The display case is finished and Dan G. posted some pix of it. I hope to ship off to Master Bruce this Wednesday. All is well.

rlinger
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Matt, that one of yours really makes me jealous. I have tried and tried to think of another one of my dumb ass moves that might come up to snuff. Looks like you da man Matt, so far:cool: . I am hurt:grumpy: . Well done Matt and you are a good sport. (there is a bunch more I have done much worse than yours but I ain't saying because they are not knife related.)

rlinger
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Hmm... nothing like that in a knifemaking way for me. My "shortcut" that ended up as a long complicated task involves firearms :D

I was out the back of the farm rounding up some of the dairy goats one time when they had started cycling onto heat, and saw a bunch of wild billygoats eyeing me suspiciously from the bushes a couple of ridges over. Back at the house I checked my ammo stocks, no .303 left, and the scope off the .308 which doesnt have any iron sights.
I ended up grabbing some .350 brass rod and duckign around to the neighbours who had a lathe, a bit of work and I had it down to .311 and the end drilled down as a hollowpoint and pointed down in a parody of an ogive. Hacksawed that off the end of the rod and stuck it on the digital powder scales. a little light so drilled and shaped the next section of rod and cut it longer. a little over weight. Making up a half dozen projectiles it was back hole to file the bases till they were all 150 grains, and loaded up a few rounds of .303 with my homemade brass .311 projectiles.

Some time later, 3 dead lecherous billygoats and another couple dissapearing over the hills in a hurry :D

Would probably have been faster to have driven to town and picked up a box of cheap rounds.
 
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