Random Thought Thread

[JustinFournier]

A twist of fate:

Fairly common. People catch big groupers with live sharks/rays as bait all the time.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

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These are great

 

[JJ_Colt45]

Picked up a sandblaster for $50 and some rock sliders from a buddy on a Toyota forum built for me.

Got 2 coats of self etching primer and 3 coats of topcoat. Will probably install before a trail ride this weekend.

Looks good !!!

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Random thought. The very last standard configuration Utility Fighter is on the machines right now. It's being beveled on the new Mori right now and will go over to the other Mori for trim out and swedge by the time I post this. Then I'm modifying the tooling over the weekend to make some of the dagger grinds. Since the tooling will be changed I won't be able to go back and make more of the original. So that puppy is good and truly done. It feels weird because these are tools I made years ago on machines I don't even have any more. It's a little like reaching back in time.

 

[Casinostocks]

^ that is not a random thought at all. It's a solid piece of public information now: no more standard configuration CPK-UF in the mold of what is currently known as the CPK-UF!

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

^ we did make a few hundred first though...

 

[TommyGun56]

Random thought. The very last standard configuration Utility Fighter is on the machines right now. It's being beveled on the new Mori right now and will go over to the other Mori for trim out and swedge by the time I post this. Then I'm modifying the tooling over the weekend to make some of the dagger grinds. Since the tooling will be changed I won't be able to go back and make more of the original. So that puppy is good and truly done. It feels weird because these are tools I made years ago on machines I don't even have any more. It's a little like reaching back in time.

Sad day for sureBut it's time to move on to the DAGGER Grinds

 

[WValtakis]

 

[Casinostocks]

^

 

[Cap’n Smudge]

^

Great movie!

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Sad day for sureBut it's time to move on to the DAGGER Grinds

Since the design was never originally intended to be a dagger I'm taking the opportunity to make a few minor tweaks to the design. Dropped the point to be more in line with the handle, removed some of the belly, added a little to the spine. They're minor tweaks but it's nice and daggy.

 

[TommyGun56]

Since the design was never originally intended to be a dagger I'm taking the opportunity to make a few minor tweaks to the design. Dropped the point to be more in line with the handle, removed some of the belly, added a little to the spine. They're minor tweaks but it's nice and daggy.

Nice and daggy sounds great to me

 

[TRfromMT]

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"Hello! My eyes are up here, mister!"

 

[UffDa]

 

[moparsbob]

So, might it be possible for us to send in a non-sharpened swedge UF from a previous sale, and have the swedge sharpened?

 

[Lorien]

my life! I have it back!
the next year will be devoted to knives

 

[WValtakis]

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

^that's awesome

 

[Murphjd25]

Let me know if this works...this was a 5.7 liter LS1 motor on a hot saw from the logging competition today.

 

[WValtakis]

That's freaking nuts Josh!