OT: Old dog, old trick, new throwing knife

Two thoughts:

1, You are already a knifemaker.

2, When you take a hobby and make it a business, most often, you lose something....
 
You could always just make it a hobbie, then sell off what you made for some beer money.
Grind out a few tree stickers, forge a few flint and steels, bead up a couple medicine bags. Just have fun with it. Once you get a stockpile of experiments just stick them up on a webpage and say "Here's what I've got." I'm sure you'd sell out by the weeks end just from forum members buying your stuff. Don't take any special orders (unless you want the challange). Just make what you want, keep what you want, and sell the rest to the sharks. You've got the gift, and your background is perfect for a knifemaker. There is something poetic about a son of Texas serving his country, seeing the world, learning the lessons of the Great Heart. Then retiring with plenty of the warrior spirit still left him making tools that reflect the way things used to be done. Fire from flint and steel, tools to make bowls and forks, stickers for mountain man passtime. Very cool stuff, indeed:)

Jake
 
When you take a hobby and make it a business, most often, you lose something
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Kis is right. I did that with photography and still haven't been able to find my way back to doing it for fun. I used to do it for the stillness, and one-pointed concentration I was able to achieve. Now, it just reminds me of a failed business and makes me feel bad.

Gee, wasn't that an uplifting story? :rolleyes: :D
 
Kismet said:
Two thoughts:

1, You are already a knifemaker.

2, When you take a hobby and make it a business, most often, you lose something....
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I'll echo that. I know too many musicians who'll never take their instrument out of the case for fun anymore ... only when someone offers them $. That's a terrible loss.
 
Sarge said:
I'm still not coping real well with being a has been master sergeant. I think, hell I know, they pulled me out of the fight while there's still a lot of fight left in me.
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Hang in there young man...I went through the same thing when I separated after 17 years to become a Teacher. It gets easier...but I failed to heed Jake's words:

Steely_Gunz said:
Idle hands do the devil's business, right Sarge?
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And left teaching to become a contractor on base working for the Air Force once again. I have to watch young pups going off on their own without a decent combat qualified SNCO to watch out for them and know deep down that I should have stayed. We all walk the direction that seems right at the time...and can rarely backtrack our own trail.

Keep busy...make stuff...avoid paying work as long as you can.

Heck...I need a good throwing knife...
 
Nasty said:
Sarge = Hang in there young man...
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wowza...them's fightin' words.....



I think I'd pay good money for front row seats to that bout....:eek:
 
As a former SNCO, "Sir" is *OFF* my list of words to use...

Dan...maybe an event at a future MWKK? ;)
 
Nasty, I found that out the hard way. Will never forget, though. So a valuable lesson was learned.
 
Daniel Koster said:
wowza...them's fightin' words.....



I think I'd pay good money for front row seats to that bout....:eek:
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Lordy day Dan, in 26 years of traipsing around the world in uniform I've been called way worse things, and by not near as good of guys. Anytime I ever whined to Uncle Bill about getting "long in the tooth" he'd scold me and tell me I was just a damned kid. I miss Uncle Bill.

A fight huh? Y'all need to be advised, my stunt double is Bruise Lee, and he packs a wicked, duct tape handled, shiv at all times. :eek: :D

Sarge
 
I'm out of this one then...Bruise has had me in stiches since I first met him!
 
That crooked knife looks sharp . For years I couldn,t throw from the handle . Then I went to an event where they didn,t like it if you threw gripping the blade . Its tough to break old habits . Then I learned if the blade is heavy throw with the handle and vice-versa . None of my knife throwers have handles on them . They would just get knocked off /banged up . I agree that it does finish up a knife . If that big bowie style point can take the abuse it looks like a keeper . Have you made any hawks ?
 
I've never been able to stick anything throwing by the blade. I learned over time using the same knife, regardless of the blade to handle weight ratio, that I could get it to stick just right using the handle. I used to practice hours and hours as a kid with a hatchet, a cheap smatchet-shaped throwing knife, a butcher knife, and a sharpened piece of 1/4" bar stock. I used to load them up on my person and throw them on the draw sticking them into an old 3 forked tree from 30'. Man, I wish I had the time and the stump to get back into that. It was probably my favorite hobby. good fun and taught you to respect your sharpies.
Please post pics of whatever you get finished, Sarge:)

Jake
 
Sarge,
Most importantly, you got the heart to do it right.
Plus you've got a half-way decent support group :D Go for it, pal. Watcha got to loose? :D
 
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