New Years Resolutions 2009?

Stay healthy with your loved ones and enjoy what one is doing...

All the best,
David Darom (ddd)
 
I don't usually tell my resolutions because it doesn't take me long to break them. This resolution is a little different. This is one that has been a while coming and was difficult to make. Charlie and I after a lot of discussion and thought have decided to stop taking custom orders. All of our current orders will be completed. Our delivery time has gotten longer than we want it to be and we aren't excited about knowing exactly what knife we will be making a year from now and all the months in between. It has been very difficult for us to make knives for shows or our available page when we have customer orders waiting. In order to catch up on our work as well as change our focus to some other areas of knife making that we are interested in, we felt that this was the correct move to make.

All of our customers and their past custom orders have been appreciated more than I can tell and we hope to be back taking custom orders one day on a limited basis. Only time will tell if this is a resolution we can keep.
 
ok, I resolve to keep my nose to the grindstone, business-wise. I have several irons in the fire, and my intention is to bring each to the next level over the coming year.

I also resolve to make a knife. The steel is one the way, and I have a plan of attack to get it going. Put all those years of art schooling and trail building to work for me, and get a tangible result in steel.

But most importantly, I resolve to be the best father and husband that I can be.:)
 
1) Somehow convince my wife that I really "need" to have a knife making set up. Barring that: tell my wife that I am going to set up a knifemaking shop. Hope that I will still have a place to sleep.
2) Break down and buy the all important grinder. I have severe sticker shock at this point, but know that I have to commit to getting a good one.
3) Find the anvil I want. Barring that: buy an anvil that will work.
4) Build/buy a forge
5) set all of this up in a corner of my shop
6) buy all the ancillary items that I will need for this venture. Barring that: beg my buddy Rodebaugh to use his equipment in the mean time.
7) Finally meet the dream that I have harbored since I was a boy and make knives of my very own.
8) Try to make something that I can post here without too much ridicule from the masses...hope that I am not too old when this occurs.
 
learn how to make knives with the simplest tools- the theory being that if i can make knives to a satisfactory standard from basic tools and skills, then wehen i buy more complex tools and gain more experience, the qusality will improve
 
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