OFF TO TEST:Wish me luck!!

happycat

happycat

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Well here it is :THE BIG DAY!!! I'm heading out to my JS test in just a few minutes. I've bent 4 blades in the last month and am as confident as I think I can possibly be.......But wish me luck anyway.....:eek:
I'll let you know how it goes when I get back.
Now to go and touch up that chopper one...last...time.........:D
Ed
 
Good luck! Maybe you could post some pictures of your test knives when you get back?
 
Good luck and please,please, please do yourself a big favor and try to take some finished work for the testing smith to critique. It is too often overlooked, yet it is the one thing that could save the most folks the most ammount of grief in Atlanta. If you have anything they could nail you on, that smith will find it for you and allow you to correct it ahead of time.
once again, good luck
 
best of luck Ed please share the details when you get back. I plan on goint to the school in july so I'm trying to look at the JS test now and make every blade as though I'm testing. Please post pics!
 
:D :D :D Wow, what a wonderful thing to come home to. Thanks for all the support and encouragement! Well, I did it. Everything went great. Joe Szilaski tested me and he and his wife Laura were wonderful. Very nice folks. She even managed to get a great action pic of me chopping through a 2x4 with the two halves in flight. I'll post it when she emails it to me.
I only had hree finished pieces to take for critique and only one that I plan on using for my JS judging. He gave me some excellent advice and pointed out a few things that I hadn't seen that need fixing (but thinks that the one WILL fly with a few slight corrections ):D
ON the way home, I stopped at a garage sale and got 30 feet of 1" rope to play with. It was about 60 degrees here today and sunny. I actually drove with the windows down for a bit. All in all a pretty perfect day.
Thanks again for all the support and help over the years. I could't have done it without you guys.
Ed
PS: I'll post a pic of the first JS judging knife when I get the pic resized.
 
Heres the first (almost) finished JS knife. Flat ground 5160 with stainless dovetailed bolsters, mosaic pins, and stabilized, dyed box Elder scales. Blade is 4 1/4" , 8 3/4" overall length.
Ed
 
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