One of those days... everything went wrong

[scott kozub]

Had a whack to do today. Fired up the oven and started grinding. Once the oven was to temp I checked my liquid nitrogen only to find out it was all gone. Ok, shut off the oven and keep grinding. Then while grinding my belt flew off and ran across the shop floor. My upper wheel which is a coated wheel exploded! I was able to peel of the remaining rubber and keep going. Then my tracking adjustment screw stripped. Fixed that up. Decided to work on a nikiri I epoxied scales onto yesterday. Pulled it out and realized I set it down bad and the epoxy ran around the bolsters all over the blade and the front of the bolster last night. I'm about to loose it this point. Grt it all cleaned. Then for the grand finale I removed the tape from the blade only see that something must have been on the tape and caused 4 rust spots with deep pits. AEBL blade. Of course it was on the etched logo side. Gave up and helped the wife in the garden.

 

[REK Knives]

Oh man I feel for you, that suuuucks to have that many things go wrong in on day! Order what you need, get a good night sleep, and focus on one thing at a time and you will get it all fixed brother

 

[3fifty7]

I feel you, sometime it seems like you can do a lot of rowing and end up in a worse place than where you started.

 

[A.McPherson]

Man, that sucks!
When you have days like that, you've got to change your perspective!

Did anyone die?
No?
Mission success!

 

[scott kozub]

Still in a good mood. Golf is finally legal here again so I'll be on the course tomorrow.

 

[scherf68]

I feel you, current knife build has bad karma, nothing has gone right and ready to chuck it into lake. I have walked away from it for days to clear my mind, didn't work. I had to reach out to my buddy who is buying it for a friend, asked him if the guy has evil spirits, lol.

 

[john april]

sorry man ! i have been there.. i am surprised i have not thrown a blade right thru the shop window out into the woods yet

 

[weo]

Bummer...we've all been there it seems. Sounds like you have the right attitude though. Nothing like a good walk ruined to re-focus....


Going to quote one of my favorite artists now as we fade to black....

"That's the way that the world goes round,
You're up one day, then next you're down.
It's a half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown,
That's the way that the world goes 'round."

 

[scott kozub]

Managed to get back at it and cleaned up the blade. The customer just picked it up. Hopefully get some more LN on Friday and back to the grind... pun intended.