The "Ask Nathan a Question" Thread

^ Everything always exists. Anything that has ever happened will have always have happened. Anything that will ever happen will always will happen. Time is an illusion. We're three dimensional entities existing in a multidimensional universe. The linear passage of time is merely a matter of perspective.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
^ Everything always exists. Anything that has ever happened will have always have happened. Anything that will ever happen will always will happen. Time is an illusion. We're three dimensional entities existing in a multidimensional universe. The linear passage of time is merely a matter of perspective.
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You must have watched the same episode of Star Trek Next Gen when all the U.S.S. Enterprise iterations met up at past / present / future which was a great episode, if I may opine!

What about the theory of being conjured as 3 dimensional beings but only existing in a 2 dimensional universe like in a video game? If so, I'm Donkey-Kong!
 
xxwarderxx said:
If you weren’t a machinist, what would your chosen profession be instead?
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Something to do with making stuff.

When I was a kid I wanted to be an inventor when I grew up. I went to school for product design and worked as a prototype machinist and design consultant while going to school. When I graduated I went to work for a contract manufacturer as a design engineer. I opened shop as a little one-man job shop and got my first cnc mill in 2001. I later worked as a design consultant for an engineering company also involved in manufacturing where I built up and ran cnc machining. My own shop grew and when that gig was up we were a pretty good job shop. The knife end of my business (always an interest but never the original goal) grew and became viable and I never looked back. We re-organized last year to focus on knife production and have streamlined our process, increasing our knife output and reducing other kinds of work. My chosen profession has always been technical hands-on kind of stuff. If I weren't making knives I'd be making something. Probably erotic lawn sculpture...
 
Have you given any thought to how you envision a CPK Kukri?

Would you lean towards larger blade with massive chopping potential or a medium sized blade that could perform smaller knife duties yet chop above it's size?

What blade length and thickness makes sense to you?
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
Something to do with making stuff.

When I was a kid I wanted to be an inventor when I grew up. I went to school for product design and worked as a prototype machinist and design consultant while going to school. When I graduated I went to work for a contract manufacturer as a design engineer. I opened shop as a little one-man job shop and got my first cnc mill in 2001. I later worked as a design consultant for an engineering company also involved in manufacturing where I built up and ran cnc machining. My own shop grew and when that gig was up we were a pretty good job shop. The knife end of my business (always an interest but never the original goal) grew and became viable and I never looked back. We re-organized last year to focus on knife production and have streamlined our process, increasing our knife output and reducing other kinds of work. My chosen profession has always been technical hands-on kind of stuff. If I weren't making knives I'd be making something. Probably erotic lawn sculpture...
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Probably erotic lawn sculpture. Like this?

article-2337137-1A3040BF000005DC-39_634x478.jpg David Smith's gargoyle rear view.jpg
 
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