Random Thought Thread

Nathan the Machinist said:
These pig swords have been particularly challenging. The grinds are largely freehand ground (there is a twist) and a long double edge piece like this is the exceptionally difficult to do well. If you go to the show and start picking up stuff like this, you won't find very many good examples.

We're bringing some swords to the show and instead of having a uniform price structure like we usually do, I'm going to price the best pretty high and go down from there.


I just shot this video of the best before bringing it in for Jo to assemble. This is the best example of this kind of geometry that I have ever seen and I'm really proud of Mark and myself for pulling this one off as well as we did.


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Nathan the Machinist said:
These pig swords have been particularly challenging. The grinds are largely freehand ground (there is a twist) and a long double edge piece like this is the exceptionally difficult to do well. If you go to the show and start picking up stuff like this, you won't find very many good examples.

We're bringing some swords to the show and instead of having a uniform price structure like we usually do, I'm going to price the best pretty high and go down from there.


I just shot this video of the best before bringing it in for Jo to assemble. This is the best example of this kind of geometry that I have ever seen and I'm really proud of Mark and myself for pulling this one off as well as we did.


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WOW!
 
Regarding odd EDC items: In my youth and young adulthood, I got myself in the habit of carrying a small handful of guitar picks in my pocket. I spent a lot of time hanging with friends and going from house to coffee shop to house, etc. Always a guitar around but picks were scarce so I just started carrying my own. It's a habit I've maintained to this day.

Oh, and I also carry a handkerchief - it's not pretty because I actually use the damn thing. It will win no pocket-dump-on-Instagram-or-reddit awards.
 
Murphjd25 said:
Wow! I just spent my pigsticker money on new prescription sunglasses 🤣
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The sword in hand is more useful than the dark glasses on the face.

- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address

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toker said:
All this condom talk just brought back a long lost memory. I learned the word "prophylactic" from Leisure Suit Larry before I even knew what a condom was.

I still remember learning what a Spiro Agnew was after my friend and I had to do the age verification tests dozens and dozens of times just to play the game. All for 8-bit pixelated nudity...

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I remember this too. I would have to ask my dad all of the random trivia questions to get in.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
No

We looked at a lot of variations and the variation that looks cool, functions and balances out is a variation of what we originally did with our first double edge shives which was modifying the swedge into a bevel and sharpening it part way back.

I'll have to post some screen dumps of the different designs that we considered before settling on what we had done in the first place
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