Simple Simon met a Pieman

Ha, sitting still is what would be the death of me. Time is never on my side.
 
protourist said:
The key, like the cowbells just might be your key to success. If others try to copy it with an inletted shield it will be seen much like the shield on slipjoints. If you don't do it right it will be frowned upon. You are obviously doing it right.

Peening in the wee hours beats weening in the pee hours. I think. :confused:
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Good times and good people is success and we got that covered so far. This is gonna sound like some cheesy crap, but I'm not doing anything right, we are. The cowbell, the keys, designs, only thing I'm doing is trying to listen.
 
Peening pins under the watchful eye of Quality Control.
 
Pins are peened, at 15-30 minutes a pin, it's time consuming. Especially with the blackwood, peen a little too far and crazack! Insanely dense, but no such thing as a small split, it's all or nothing. These all survived, the keys are next.
 
Those are really turning out nice. Quality Control can be bought off with treats.
 
John, When do you sleep?? You can go insane you know! ;) (Seriously though) but I guess you got your QC monitor in there to help ya! :D.
Those are looking great!!
 
protourist said:
The key, like the cowbells just might be your key to success. If others try to copy it with an inletted shield it will be seen much like the shield on slipjoints. If you don't do it right it will be frowned upon. You are obviously doing it right.

Peening in the wee hours beats weening in the pee hours. I think. :confused:
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I agree Mack... When you first let me know about these knives, the first time I saw the picture, I quickly assumed that the key
was a shield :o
While I thought a shield was a very cool touch, when I found out it is a key, and has a true purpose, I was immediately hooked
for a couple reasons.
One, it is very different and serves a purpose. Two, because I've built and fabricated enough things over the years
to really appreciate the time it takes to do something like that, and do it right.

lessismore said:
Good times and good people is success and we got that covered so far. This is gonna sound like some cheesy crap, but I'm not doing anything right, we are. The cowbell, the keys, designs, only thing I'm doing is trying to listen.
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It's easy for us on the sidelines to be critics John. Executing those ideas is the difficult part...

When I built my first race car, I had lots of ideas and different designs. It was frustrating and humbling because when I started I
quickly realized that I had a lot to learn about making those ideas come to life. Putting things on paper is easy...

My dad always told me, don't criticize someone else's work, unless you are damn sure you can do better. That wisdom was cemented
during the building of my first car.
During the build I was fortunate to have quite a few people in the racing community compliment me on my work, and some even asked me
to work on their cars. That was a huge motivator and confidence builder, but in all honesty, it also created a slightly swollen ego :D

Fortunately a very good friend I raced with kicked me in the nads and got my head back where it should have been. After that, I learned
that instead of criticizing others work, if I could do it better, I would help them. It was a lot more productive and gratifying.

Damnit....:grumpy: I drifted completely off topic and just kept ramblin :D

My apologies. I don't want you to think I wrote this wall of text because I find fault in your work. It couldn't be further from the truth.
I guess it was just my long winded way of letting you know that many of us understand and appreciate how hard it is to make things nicely.

lessismore said:
Peening pins under the watchful eye of Quality Control.
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:cool:

lessismore said:
Pins are peened, at 15-30 minutes a pin, it's time consuming. Especially with the blackwood, peen a little too far and crazack! Insanely dense, but no such thing as a small split, it's all or nothing. These all survived, the keys are next.
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Lookin good John :thumbup: That has got to make your heart sink when you hear the sound of wood splitting, when it's not supposed to.
 
protourist said:
Those are really turning out nice. Quality Control can be bought off with treats.
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:thumbup: :D
mitch4ging said:
John, When do you sleep?? You can go insane you know! ;)......
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It may be too late for that. I have an odd schedule to say the least!

Mike, what you said about the shield vs. key is spot on. If something doesn't have a purpose, then I don't have much use for it.
 
Speaking of race cars, most of us have seen it, but this video is mesmerizing to me, this guy has some insane driving skills.
[video=youtube;5qanlirrRWs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qanlirrRWs[/video]
 
lessismore said:
Pins are peened, at 15-30 minutes a pin, it's time consuming. Especially with the blackwood, peen a little too far and crazack! Insanely dense, but no such thing as a small split, it's all or nothing. These all survived, the keys are next.
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Looking real good John!!! :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
lessismore said:
Speaking of race cars, most of us have seen it, but this video is mesmerizing to me, this guy has some insane driving skills.
[video=youtube;5qanlirrRWs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qanlirrRWs[/video]
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Later this year he has a video coming out of him in a similar Mustang drifting up Pikes Peak. Same basic car just twin turbos added for 1400 shaft horsepower.
 
Yeah, can't wait to see that. :cool: Wish I could have been there IRL. Didn't know it was happening. :(
 
No kidding. They keep forgetting to tell me when they film this stuff.
 
Mike should appreciate this one.
[video=youtube;O5x0Ac6-f5M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5x0Ac6-f5M[/video]
 
protourist said:
Mike should appreciate this one.
[video=youtube;O5x0Ac6-f5M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5x0Ac6-f5M[/video]
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Thanks Mack. That made my day :D

I have only truly raced a motorcycle when I was in a car once. I was 16, had my 69 SS Chevelle 396, and raced a Kawasaki
three cylinder 500...
I knew I was going to lose, I just didn't know how badly I would lose. I had ridden one of the 500's, so I knew it was a fast bike,
and well, I got my butt kicked big time :D
 
I was going to do the Bocote one last but I thought I'd better get some practice in. An hour and thirty eight minutes to peen the key. I think I'll shorten the others up, this one was .0625" proud on each side before peening, I'm gonna take the rest down to .05", that should cut about 40,000 taps out!!

Tigger approves.
 
The key looks good, did you knock the corners off a little before peening?
 
Yeah, I curve out the inside corners of the scale so that only the surface is square, and the key corners are smoothed out. The corners of the key under the surface are radiused more so they don't push on the inside corners of the scale. If that makes sense:confused:. Kind of like the key under the surface is slightly hourglass shaped.

The center has some divots as well for the epoxy to grab into. As I peen, I try to move the pin back and forth, a couple of taps, check, a couple of taps, check. It doesn't get much outward pressure, when I get to the point where you can barely feel a tiny movement, I quit. The epoxy is a good tell as well, when it's very close to being done, it will ooze up around the edges, just a tiny bit.

I can try to take some pictures of the next one I do as I go along if you guys would like. Boring process, but might interest some. I need to get a tripod that I can set up for stuff like that.
 
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