Stupid mistakes! I should have been patient.

[Don Nguyen]

I have already gone through the recent thread of Patrice about patience on finishing a knife. I should have taken it more to heart.

I was doing the handle for this knife, and ground too much off the taper. Now the G10 liner shows through. Guess I learned the hard way to take my time and plan things out more.

It wasn't the only knife I messed up this week, either...

 

[Eric Kidwell]

It's a shame that you ruined that knife Don
I'll be happy to take it off of your hands:thumbup:
I'm a fan!

 

[AVigil]

It is a custom knife.

Do it to the other side and say "I meant to do that!"

It is only a mistake to you. To everyone else it is cool

 

[FTO_dude]

Keep tapering and see where it goes.
got nothing to lose now

 

[rnbtexas]

Keep tapering and see where it goes.
got nothing to lose now

Agreed.

 

[Frank Niro]

If you don't want to send it to him, send it to me. Frank

 

[Foot Patrol]

My marketing staff would say that it is a new feature and raise the price 20%.

 

[Squashfan]

Just blundered into this thread off of the main page and somebody is going to have to point out/explain the defect(s) to me.

 

[Fred.Rowe]

Successful knife making will come to you in a rush, when you have all the processes in the correct order. When to do what and in what order. It becomes much easier when you can see the entire process needed, to make a given knife. There are so many different steps involved, knowing when to do which step, how long it will take and followed by the next appropriate step. Perceived errors is how you learn, its about accumulating the knowledge that makes knife making the wonder it is.

Send that to me I can make something out of it.

 

[Don Nguyen]

Thanks guys. I think I will leave this one as is, because if I try to tinker with it any more I will likely end up with a result I dislike even more.

I am still learning the ropes of efficiency Fred. I think I can make an OK knife, but to be actually good at making knives I'm still figuring the system out. I have to sit down and really think about which steps to do next a lot; maybe I should write a check list

 

[Josh Mason]

That still looks amazing, and I'm sure doesnt detract from the function of the knife. If you hadn't pointed it out, I probably would have never known it wasn't supposed to be that way.