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peter nap

peter nap

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Today was a nightmare. For one thing this was collections day. I hate doing this and it just wears me out to talk to accounts payable people who all say the same thing "I didn't get a bill, could you fax it to me"
I, in turn have to look at the date on my drivers license to see if I really was born yesterday. :barf:

Anyway, I decided to work in the shop tonight. I have 9 of the hatchet heads to make and was going to mill all the eyes at once. They have to be very close because I have a router template that cuts the handle to match the eye......anyway, I milled three and was making good time until I realized I had milled all three about 5 degrees off center........Damn. :footinmou :( :grumpy: :mad: :grumpy: :(
 
Pete, that I can relate to. I'm working on a knife that I just put the second set of bolsters on and it will be the third set of scales when I'm done. The first one I screwed up were mammoth ivory, then a nice burl now I'm trying to get some mammoth on this one again. If I mess this set of ivories up, I'm stepping out of the shop for a couple weeks.
 
I was just gettin stuff done left and right in the shop today and it started to rain, looked like it might build to a pretty good storm so I had to go bring in the horses from the pasture. Had 10 of them spread out in 4 different pastures. Tried to start with the 2 yearling colts and they didn't want caught kept running away and the pen was just big enough I would have to run myself into a heart attack and never get one cornered. So I brought in some of the other horses and went and tried again, still nope. Raining harder now.
So I saddle up another horse and chase the little bastards around the pen at a dead gallop for about 15 minutes till they're good and tired and then herd them into the indoor arena in the barn. They still don't want caught but its small enough I can lasso them.
Caught one on my first throw and wouldn't you know it he thought he could drag me, well he could but I'm stubborn and he has to breath so after skiing a few feet behind him and finally stopped and I dragged him to a stall. The other one was my best friend then, walked right up to me and followed me to the stall without me touching him. I got the rest of the horses in, but the colts were both pretty worked up and hot so I figured I better hose them off, that turned into another wrestling match and I spent an hour working on that and getting them to quit fighting their halters and let me lead them.

......so I finally get back to the shop over an hour later, and I'm pretty worn out. I've got a folder blade profiled and marked to drill holes. I drill the pivot hole....in the wrong damn spot! so as is it will have a 4 inch handle and 2.5" blade :grumpy: I put the damn thing in a drawer and went in the house.


edit: just in case you wondered that innocent looking little guy in my avatar is one of the little bastards I was referring to.
 
Well I spent my formative years on a dairy, and while I wouldn't trade it for the world I've discovered that livestock have an uncany ability to know exactly when the most iritating time to get themselves in a bind is. A cow with there head and nose just above mud in a gully during a drowning rain in the middle of winter comes to mind.

Peter it happens to all of us, I find that if I stay in the shop at all I have clean up, orginize or some such, or the old standby, go shoot the cap n' ball colts, that's always a stress reliever.
 
Dang, fellas, you all had a worse than bad day. If it was contagious, I'm glad I just paid bills today and then went to work. I hope your luck changes tomorrow.
 
I don’t know if it means much to you guys but it seems that there are some days that it doesn’t pay to get out of the house or even the bed. My mother several years ago discovered a thing called biorhythm. It is something like this (I think?). When we are born a set of rhythms start. I believe they are psychological, mental and physical. They go up and down like a sign wave at different rates. The wave will be up for days not hours and then cross below the middle to a negative and so on. It doesn’t matter whether the wave is on the positive or negative side but it does matter if it crosses the middle, which is called critical.

The system says that when a person is critical they are, (for lack of better words) off that day in that specific area. Now we get to the crucial stuff. If a person is critical in two areas (double critical) they usually have a rough day. And if a person is critical on all three in one day; they usually have a really screwed up day. I know several of you will read this and say Bah-Humbug but it may not be pure crap.

When I drove a truck in the oilfield I would have some days when nothing went right. I know some of you know what I mean. When I got off I went by my parent’s place and would have Mom work up the rhythm for that day to see what it was. They were either double or triple critical every time. I didn’t keep a chart or go by them so I didn’t know that the day was supposed to be bad before it happened. I have also read that several of the pro athletic teams watch the biorhythm of their players to cut down on injuries and so on. Maybe there is something to it.
 
I did better than that...by the way, other than knife making my day is worse today than yesterday.....anyway....

I shortened and narrowed the blade on them so they were in line with the eyes, heat treated them. Put one in the vise and broke it..that went well.

Took one and made a thrower out of it and started to make an Ed Ames type target of Hanover Deputies (until I remembered they don't have any>>>>>>)

and the third I put on the Acetal handle I made and I have been having a ball trying to destroy it. I'm not having much success either.

I give this stuff an F- for historical appeal and an A+++++++++++++ for being tough!
 
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