Random Thought Thread

Jo the Machinist said:
Yep, it is a Kershaw Leek. I have a couple of them. I LOVE the assisted opener. :D
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I'll be honest with you, after having gone through thousands in folders through buying, inspecting and them mostly selling and just keeping a few which I bought brand; I've got to tell you that your KL would do 99.9% of every day tasks that all these other fancier > $250, in some cases > $500, or even > $1K will do. Although the same can also be said about fixed blades, I just buy from you and Nathan because I love you two (in a brotherly way) for being the epitome of a small American manufacturer outfit blessed with integrity, honesty and absolutely GREAT products. Your knives also offer tremendous valued for money and I know that I could not go wring putting my hobby fund$ into your cutting tools.

At the end of the day, you don't really need me but I do need you. Yes, I'm a very needy fanboy of your CPKs :D
 
I love my cheap folders i never feel bad beating on them at work and if it gets lost or broken who cares ill just get another one. Ive brought a few more expensive ones but they always just end up sitting at home. Im currently carrying a benchmade bugout, which took over for a steel will cutjack, which replaced an Ontario rat 1.
 
Here is the tip on my EDC folder. Just destroyed and hasn't been in to the sharpening station yet which is packed up due to renovations. Scraping schmoo off some wood last night really did it in.

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This one gets abused WAY more than any of my CPK.

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This is a pic of knife who's blade is pictured above. It's been dropped twice on asphalt now. :oops: When I do get it apart when the renos are done I'm gonna align the fasteners in a more aesthetically pleasing way.

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The random thought of the day is: Goddamnit!

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Drawbar cylinder assembly on the pig broke. @#%!ing hell.

Have to make a new coupling. It's a precision ground hardened steel piece. Got a chunk of S7 on order. That's gonna set me back a day or two...

...what a pain in the ass...
 
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That's a gnarly crack! How did that happen? Metal stress / fatigue due to age and use?
 
We had the spindle rebuilt a few thousand hours ago and they put in a pretty stout Belleville washer spring stack for the draw bar pull studs. The retention is very good, but it's all the system can do to compress that new pull stud retainer and this coupler sees all that force as tension for each tool change. It's an old mill and they weren't built for the kinds of pull stud tension used today. I guess this was a weak link. It's a nice piece, the bit I mill as a replacement probably won't be quite as "nice" but it will be a fat piece of S7 with fillets in stressed areas and a very good heat treat so I don't expect it will fail again.

OMG what a pain in the ass though

This is the pig. My 4th CNC mill. I have a love-hate relationship with this machine. It was an old low hour mill when I bought it. Very old and very low hour. Early 90's. Less than a year of production on it (when I got it, lol). Almost 9,000 pounds of iron and well made. Slow and pokey as hell. I love this machine, it's almost like an old friend at this point. It's slow as hell and can't get out of it's own way, but the screws and spindle are silent and smooth and you can sweep the entire table and not see more than .0001" deviation. <--- that's really uncommon. The lubrication in the spindle was old when I got it and it didn't last long so we had the spindle rebuilt about 8 years ago, but other than that it has been steadfast reliable. It took a lightening strike about that same time frame and suffered some real damage to an input-output board with the control parameters on it that bricked it and I had to "nurse it back to health" (involved soldering in some new microchips on a board and reloading all of the system and diagnostic parameters from an old yellowed paper copy). I've made so much stuff with this old mill and it has earned it's keep and paid for itself so many times. I've run new Haas, Onsrud and Romi machines and they are linear way, noisy and rough, and lacking in the smooth precision of the Pig. Even the Mori, as badass as it is, it has 9,000 hours on it and can't hold a candle to the quiet, tight precision of this old pig. It has had a few hiccups here and there, and it can't get out of it's own way sometimes requiring slow feedrates to accommodate its prehistoric electronics (which is frustrating when you have a schedule to keep), but it decks difficult alloy steel to a dead flat mirror finish, can plow a straight even fuller across anything without any wobble anywhere, and holds tenths when I need it too. I really ought to replace it with something more modern but it's almost like family. Jo addresses it in the morning "hello Bridgy!" When my kids grow up, they might not remember much about their dad's shop, but they'll remember this old mill.

But goddamn it's a pain in my ass...
 
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Sorry to hear that it has set you back and that the task is gonna be a real PITA. But as always, thank you for taking the time for that kinda explanation :thumbsup:
 
Alright, who was this - 'fess up! This was a pretty difficult video to watch. 2+ hours of CPK FK abuse!!! :eek:

I commend his determination, though! :)

EDIT - I didn't know there was a whole thread about this already, good job on the video and testing @on_the_edge!
 
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There is a thread about this already! This was an FK which Nathan had agreed to send out to the tester for the sake of this destruction test.
 
I hadn't seen that one, only Nathan's videos. Pretty intensive testing for sure - I'm glad he had a donor knife to use and not one of his own! :)
 
Benson X said:
Alright, who was this - 'fess up! This was a pretty difficult video to watch. 2+ hours of CPK FK abuse!!! :eek:

I commend his determination, though! :)

EDIT - I didn't know there was a whole thread about this already, good job on the video and testing @on_the_edge!
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How do i get this honor. I would love to do some destruction testing on a knife
 
Anyone here remember Cliff Stamp? He was/is a very unpopular fellow on the forums, but to his credit, he liked Busse knives. I remember him and several other people destroying a Busse Basic 7. It took 2 years of extreme abuse, but it finally gave up. The first picture shows the worn condition of the knife with an unmodified Basic 7.

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