Random Thought Thread

[Jason M D.]

Holiday for me, so I'm just grinding my balls...
(trying to make domed pin heads from ball bearings, tediously checking each with a height gauge)
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How will you attach the pin?

 

[Richard338]

How will you attach the pin?

Next step is to see if I can drill pin holes. It gets worse, some of them then need to be bent at a particular angle, but I'll make a little jig for that.

 

[Jason M D.]

Next step is to see if I can drill pin holes. It gets worse, some of them then need to be bent at a particular angle, but I'll make a little jig for that.

Please post a few pics of process when done, I enjoy stuff like that.

 

[yoko]

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Back in the saddle again. Working on magna cut heat treat optimization.

This is less fun than you might think.

Is it proving to be difficult ?

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Is it proving to be difficult ?

If it was easy, everybody would do it.

There's just a lot of steps and in order for any of the observations to be meaningful there's a great deal of care required for each step. It's not just producing the samples and heat treating them, the validation steps are quite time-consuming.

Making actual knives and actually testing them as knives is important when evaluating difficult to measure characteristics like edge stability. These extra dimensions are the most important but also the most time-consuming

 

[yoko]

Well here's to your hard work Nathan the Machinist and cpk crew

Should fit the theme music playing lol

 

[woodysone]

If it was easy, everybody would do it.

There's just a lot of steps and in order for any of the observations to be meaningful there's a great deal of care required for each step. It's not just producing the samples and heat treating them, the validation steps are quite time-consuming.

Making actual knives and actually testing them as knives is important when evaluating difficult to measure characteristics like edge stability. These extra dimensions are the most important but also the most time-consuming

This is why I have stayed a loyal consumer of Carothers knives, you go the extra mile to optimize heat treat, edge geometry and after the sale follow through. That and they look kind of cool.

 

[Alone]

If it was easy, everybody would do it.

There's just a lot of steps and in order for any of the observations to be meaningful there's a great deal of care required for each step. It's not just producing the samples and heat treating them, the validation steps are quite time-consuming.

Making actual knives and actually testing them as knives is important when evaluating difficult to measure characteristics like edge stability. These extra dimensions are the most important but also the most time-consuming

Chief, I'll gladly do my part "beta testing" on some South Texas hardwood...

 

[The Amazing Virginian]

Random thought: When CPK is doing heat treat development work, the theme song for Knight Rider plays in the background. There are no speakers doing this, it just occurs naturally.

Question for Jo. When that happens, does NTM turn into a 30 year old Hasselhoff?

 

[yoko]

Don't hassle the Hof hahaha

 

[Hammer67]

NTM @ 3:01pm on a Friday, having sold 30 knives in under a minute:

 

[yoko]

Question for Jo. When that happens, does NTM turn into a 30 year old Hasselhoff?

After the night rider music stops...... Jo the Machinist starts playing the baywatch theme music

Nathan starts slow motion running around standing water

 

[Alone]

Yeah, that little "Basic" SDFK just took a proper beating through some South Texas hardwood...and then sliced paper like a hot knife through butter...

 

[toker]

Question for Jo. When that happens, does NTM turn into a 30 year old Hasselhoff?

Let's hope it's not the 55 year old Hasselhoff.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Question for Jo. When that happens, does NTM turn into a 30 year old Hasselhoff?

30-year-old Hasselhoff becomes NTM

 

[stjones]

Huh.
Just realized I’mma need a SS SDFK.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

NTM @ 3:01pm on a Friday, having sold 30 knives in under a minute:

... for the record, that last one was 40 in under 30 seconds...


I'm just saying.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

30-year-old Hasselhoff becomes NTM

 

[yoko]

Hmmm just had a thought to look through all my tints/toners for paint....

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I haven't found magenta yet lol

 

[Alone]

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That does it!


...I'm calling the Mental Health District.