Poll: If You Won POWERBALL...

[jhiggins]

...Would you still make knives? Be honest!

 

[Guy Thomas]

Oh, hell yeah, and I'd visit every country in the world too! Can't tool around the world sharing a brew with every knifemaker you can look up if you aren't a maker too!

Besides I'd hope I would use the lion's share to set up a foundation of some kind, the rest would be used to insure I didn't have to work any job that I don't want to and take care of my children's and grandchildren's retirements. They'd still have to work at something but I'd hope with retirement income taken care of they'd be free to work at something that makes a difference or that makes them happy.

 

[Burchtree]

Hell yes. I would get some very nice equipment and build a huge area just for hammer-ins. I'd also do a little traveling and finish up that great American novel.

 

[watakipoma]

...Would you still make knives? Be honest!

Yeah, I'd make knives....

but I'd buy a whole hell of a lot more!!!

 

[Danbo]

Yes, and I would have one heck of a shop too. Hydraulic press, power hammer, etc....

Once you get the knifemaking bug in ya, I think it stays forever.

 

[Matt Shade]

Yep, I'd build a big shop on a little 1000 acre or so ranch somewhere and make knives all the time. All the time I wasn't riding horses, hunting, shooting, fishing etc. that is

Ok there's my answer, now send me my check

 

[B . Buxton]

nope, not for a good long while anyways. Eating metal dust and starring into the glory hole of my forge would come to an end. We (wife and I) would buy the biggest, baddest motor home and do some site seeing and fishing of places I have only dreamed of, the days of cold winters and hot summers would be over. And we would make friends from here to there.

Come on lucky numbers, I'm ready to go.

Bill

 

[Dan Gray]

yeahup when ever I wanted too. between what ever I wanted to do
I have a list you know, a big one too.

 

[jhiggins]

I guess I would probably go the same way as you, Bill. I've spent my life fabricating and machining, and wrenching. It does indeed get old after a while. Knifemaking is thrilling - to be sure - but when it becomes a chore, or when you've mastered certain parts of it, well... time to move on.

I probably wouldn't do the motorhome thing. My wife and I are from the Maine coast, originally. I'd probably buy a house up there on the shore. I used to paint a little. Maybe I would take that up again, maybe just settle down and do some artmetal-smithing. If the call of the blade stuck my fancy, well maybe I would make one of those occasionally, too!

Probably buy me a ranch down in Texas, too. I got that state under my skin.

 

[Mark Williams]

Could you put a #100 power hammer on a Yacht?

I'd also build a great big mansion and set Chuck and Linda Burrows up with a dream shop to teach his craft., he shouldn't have to really work. I'd bring in Sandy Morrisey also. Heck , Carl Reichsteiner, Chuck fogarty, John Costa. And Most of the guys here. Get that knifemakers village going somewhere in the Northwest. Ahh to dream.

 

[Snixon]

I think I read in Wayne Goddards book about someone else.
"If I won the lottery I would make knives till the money was all gone"

Myself?
Yes sure would
You have to do somthing to fill in the time
Stephen
http://members.iinet.net.au/~snixon/

 

[jhiggins]

You have to do somthing to fill in the time...

That's why there are:

Asian Women
Beer
Bourbon
Italian Women
Fish
Motorcycles
boats
Spanish Women
Scotch
Thick, juicy steaks
panoramic sunsets

 

[Greg Obach]

That's why there are:

Asian Women
Beer
Bourbon
Italian Women
Fish
Motorcycles
boats
Spanish Women
Scotch
Thick, juicy steaks
panoramic sunsets

Errr... same as the above.... just add a little more women...

Greg

 

[Pete Allan]

I don't think we would need to look for any women. Remember all those ladys that never quite had time to go out with you. I bet a lot of them would suddenly remember what a nice guy you were.

 

[Fox Creek]

Gee Whiz, that's a toughie. I'd buy a farm in a a semi-undevelopeable outer Bluegrass County. 'build a big rambling funky new-old farm house where I can sit out on the porch and watch the hogs below the road (have to have some geodes and potted cactus on the porch for decoration. Petunias in old white washed truck tires in the yard. ) Big shop. a good CPA and lawyer. Feel free to fish all night for catfish and shoot my cheap shot gun at varmits. Listen to the Metropolitan Opera on Saturday. Take a vacation to the big apple once a year for the Opera and Gallery season just before Christmas. buy good coffee and chocolate. Buy lots of books. Give a lot of money to the local library...... PS I gotta wife.