BK-2: the best knife made in its price range.
That is all.
Yeah? Well I said the same thing with ten times as many words.

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BK-2: the best knife made in its price range.
That is all.
Yeah? Well I said the same thing with ten times as many words.![]()
Engineers... sheeesh.
laughing too hard to type.
yeah? you outta see what i can do with a pencil.
Oh, and I love my BK-2, no problem with the BK-7 sheath I keep it in.
(gotta stay on topic.)
By the way, what does one use a pencil for nowadays?
okay, i will try to stay as off topic as possible. i am a mentor on a f.i.r.s.t. robotics team. our robot had a structural element that was WAY overbuilt. so, i did a structural analysis on it... by hand... with pencil. it was displayed in our pits and actually made quite a hit. nobody does that by hand. we cot probably 2/3 of the element away and used the weight savings to do other cool nerdy things. ha
did i mention that i like my BK-2?
I understand (which is scary in itself). It's good that you're able to do nerdy things (never touch the stuff, myself).
Okay, I'll admit that I use pencils to make rough sketches, although nowadays I tend to use apps that understand Cartesian coordinate systems better than I to make quickies that I can rotate.
Well of course you like your BK-2. Any reasonable person would.
i never learned any of the design software. NONE of it. and i'm amazed my what it can do. our top design student on the team this year did some amazingly brilliant things, then did an amazingly stupid thing. got offered a part time job as a cadd tech and dropped out 6 weeks before graduating.
i can't recall the name of the design software. i'll facebook the team and find out.
did i mention i keep my 2 in a 7 sheath.![]()
Tell your student to get his butt back in school. He can always play with software later.
Say, don't you carry your BK-2 in a BK-7 sheath? I think you've mentioned it a time or twelve.
the year is over. he doesn't come around the team anymore. understandable. i was one of the few that was able o connect with him, student or mentor. it was too late by time i found out. good kid, bad decision.
ya know, i think i'll try that!i really did like the solution. i like the pouch for a folder, firesteel, whatever. i got a new old stock camillus BK-7 sheath and that's where my 7 resides. the liner in the KA-BAR 7 sheath is more than wide enough to take the .25" BK-2. odd really.
Say now here's a thought I wonder if a BK-2 would work in a BK-7 sheath? It might be worth a try. If it works, I'll bet you could get all kinds of goodies in the pouch.
Too bad about the kid. It's never too late though: he can always go back.
dawsonbob,
the software the kids use to design the roboparts is Autodesk Inventor. anything similar to what you use?
And that's the story as far as equipment. Oh, I left one out... it's the thing between my ears. I have very good design sense, and can think spatially about conjunction of parts in XY and Z.
i need drawings. i'm usually not so good at visualizing how parts interact.