Random Thought Thread

darsk20 said:
I realized that my degree and desk sitting has not quite prepared me for farming. Back to the office I shall go.
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Give it a few months? It takes a body some time to adapt.

Folks that pick lettuce for example. I hear that takes some getting used to.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Give it a few months? It takes a body some time to adapt.

Folks that pick lettuce for example. I hear that takes some getting used to.
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That I am sure of, but this was just 4 hours of volunteer work for the United Way. Not planning to start my micro farm yet, but it has crossed my mind.

Also shows the difference in working out, working in an office/plant and physical work. I feel I am relatively physically fit, but not for that type of work. At least I know my limitations 😁
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I'm glad I let somebody talk me into making some of these SDFK in the signature series, they really have turned out very nice. I wish there were more than just the 90 of them

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Nathan,
I was wondering about the process that goes into making one of your knives, do you cut blanks on a water jet, if so, where do you have the service done, are they ground using a jig or are they machined, or are they hand-ground, and are they glass beaded to get that matt-like finish ~ just wondering, because they look consistently perfect ~ nice product ~ "90 knives" ~ have to say congratulation to you on all your hard work and success ~ well-done
 
darsk20 said:
That I am sure of, but this was just 4 hours of volunteer work for the United Way. Not planning to start my micro farm yet, but it has crossed my mind.

Also shows the difference in working out, working in an office/plant and physical work. I feel I am relatively physically fit, but not for that type of work. At least I know my limitations 😁
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Your body gets used to what it does on a regular basis. I could run 10 miles with no issue. Ask me to swim 50 yards and I would be completely out of breath. :rolleyes:
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I'm glad I let somebody talk me into making some of these SDFK in the signature series, they really have turned out very nice. I wish there were more than just the 90 of them

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I sure hope future sales of the SS SDFKs will be in higher quantities. Gonna try this afternoon, but I'd say my chances of getting within the first 5 are about nil, from prior experience 😮‍💨
 
Grandpa Peter's and Grandma Betty's said:
Nathan,
I was wondering about the process that goes into making one of your knives, do you cut blanks on a water jet, if so, where do you have the service done, are they ground using a jig or are they machined, or are they hand-ground, and are they glass beaded to get that matt-like finish ~ just wondering, because they look consistently perfect ~ nice product ~ "90 knives" ~ have to say congratulation to you on all your hard work and success ~ well-done
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Thank you very much.

We have the steel sheet/plate made to our specs (dimensions and heat condition etc) and then process it here in house. The sheet starts pretty rough. We do every step to make it the finished product that you see. And, while we do still heat treat, we have Peter's run our protocol because our output is more than we could do properly in house.

We don't use waterjet. It is a roughing process and given the time and effort needed to blueprint the blanks, it's better to just do the entire process here accurately on CNC milling machines. This is important for us because our scales are interchangeable and they're designed line-to-line (no window boxing) and our pins are a tight fit, there is no adjustment, so everything has to be about perfect or there is a problem with the fit.

Many of our knives are as machined but these Signature knives get a hand grind after machining to give them the shallow S grind that we developed for Bladesports. It's a signature feature on many of our larger knives. The hand grinding is done without a jig, but the sharpening is done on a parallelogram to maintain a consistent edge angle.

The "perfect" finish is hand ground to a relatively fine grit and then tumbled. I don't like a blast finish because it rusts, it shows scratches and things can rub into it (it's like a nail file). The tumble finish wears much better.
 
Got caught up on 20(ish) pages of random thoughts - here's a recap for those who take a few days off from BF now and then:

- Murphjd25 Murphjd25 had to GTFO but it now seems like all is well? Josh, glad to hear things didn't take a turn for the worst. Sending you a PM shortly.
- I discovered Sparkle(something) beer is a thing 🤷‍♂️
- Some dude who fancies cheap whiskey, a terrible football team, and likes to talk to himself got splashed - fella could have learned to read the room better.
- More beer related stuff.
- Some flipper policing (for the record, I saw the sale when it happened and was a bit aghast - ballsy....) - glad it all worked out though.
- Pumpkin beer ftw
- Nathan includes dough sculpting amongst his many talents.
- I can't cuss anymore - darn it!

There, I think I hit all the highlights. Although 20 pages is a lot, I might have missed a few...
 
Pàdruig said:
Got caught up on 20(ish) pages of random thoughts - here's a recap for those who take a few days off from BF now and then:

- Murphjd25 Murphjd25 had to GTFO but it now seems like all is well? Josh, glad to hear things didn't take a turn for the worst. Sending you a PM shortly.
- I discovered Sparkle(something) beer is a thing 🤷‍♂️
- Some dude who fancies cheap whiskey, a terrible football team, and likes to talk to himself got splashed - fella could have learned to read the room better.
- More beer related stuff.
- Some flipper policing (for the record, I saw the sale when it happened and was a bit aghast - ballsy....) - glad it all worked out though.
- Pumpkin beer ftw
- Nathan includes dough sculpting amongst his many talents.
- I can't cuss anymore - darn it!

There, I think I hit all the highlights. Although 20 pages is a lot, I might have missed a few...
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Nathan the Machinist said:
Thank you very much.

We have the steel sheet/plate made to our specs (dimensions and heat condition etc) and then process it here in house. The sheet starts pretty rough. We do every step to make it the finished product that you see. And, while we do still heat treat, we have Peter's run our protocol because our output is more than we could do properly in house.

We don't use waterjet. It is a roughing process and given the time and effort needed to blueprint the blanks, it's better to just do the entire process here accurately on CNC milling machines. This is important for us because our scales are interchangeable and they're designed line-to-line (no window boxing) and our pins are a tight fit, there is no adjustment, so everything has to be about perfect or there is a problem with the fit.

Many of our knives are as machined but these Signature knives get a hand grind after machining to give them the shallow S grind that we developed for Bladesports. It's a signature feature on many of our larger knives. The hand grinding is done without a jig, but the sharpening is done on a parallelogram to maintain a consistent edge angle.

The "perfect" finish is hand ground to a relatively fine grit and then tumbled. I don't like a blast finish because it rusts, it shows scratches and things can rub into it (it's like a nail file). The tumble finish wears much better.
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Thanks for that, Nathan - always wondered when you tumbled, for instance. Now I finally understand what "SDFK is in the house" meant. :)
 
Blues said:
What did you learn from that experience, or were you dumbstruck?
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Apparently I walked out perfectly coherently and almost talked my mom into letting me drive home (I was still on my learner’s permit) until I started talking about bears…I also learned that when you have gaping cavities in your gums tortilla chips are a bad snack.
 
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