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The "Ask Nathan a Question" Thread

Casinostocks said:
Nathan, FYI someone has posted a question to you on your profile page which shows on the Forum's main page. In case you haven't seen it yet.
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I get all sorts of stuff posted to that profile page. It's not a PM or email, it's just a permanent, and open, profile page. There are plenty of good ways to reach me, but that ain't one of them.
 
fatfrog said:
Since there's been a couple questions about edge cut vs standard cut micarta, I'm just curious if there's a reason why the modern stuff isn't edge cut?
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The antique material is being slabbed from blocks of bearing stock, mid century surplus from a boat builder. I can cut it in any direction, it's all the same difference it doesn't matter.

Current production material is made as a sheet, not a monolith. Its orientation is set as I get it. I'd have to buy really thick stock and slab it to change the orientation. That would be a lot of work and waste for no real benefit. The antique material isn't a sheet so I have to do the work anyways in order to harvest useful material from the shape, so it's moot. But I'm not doing all that for the standard materials, I'd get nothing else done.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I get all sorts of stuff posted to that profile page. It's not a PM or email, it's just a permanent, and open, profile page. There are plenty of good ways to reach me, but that ain't one of them.
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It was just very odd, at least to me, that a brand new poster or someone who had never posted, at least under that ID, had managed to find your profile page to post a message on there! You have one serious (25 YO) fan ;)
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
I don't know. Not my wheelhouse. You'd have to ask Jo, I'm not involved in that aspect of production. I'm not good at keeping up with things...
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You are way too hard on yourself. I hope that this new chandelier-swinging hobby which you seem to have taken up, will offer you some form of therapeutic relief.

Thank goodness for Jo / NinJo :thumbsup:
 
From 10/20/2016 sale, while I was looking down the memory lane researching something which I wrote about last night. Here is the Q:

The African Blackwood scales offered with the UF/DEF preorders look very different. You had said that the ones which you used for UF/DEF was from a really old block, "good stuff". What made these presented in below look so different? I would've never guessed these (top 2, EDCs only) to be AfBW!

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Casinostocks said:
From 10/20/2016 sale, while I was looking down the memory lane researching something which I wrote about last night. Here is the Q:

The African Blackwood scales offered with the UF/DEF preorders look very different. You had said that the ones which you used for UF/DEF was from a really old block, "good stuff". What made these presented in below look so different? I would've never guessed these (top 2, EDCs only) to be AfBW!

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They look fine to me.o_O:p:D
#notnathan
 
Casinostocks said:
Is the EDC one of those which I had posted earlier which got much darker with age and exposure?

Yep, they both look super fine. I had not meant it otherwise, just wondering why they looked so different!
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Yeah I was just messing with you Mat. I guess they’ve gotten a little darker, but it really just depends what light you photograph it in. I could catch some brown figuring in the DEF too if I catch it in the right light.
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You can't get really good black blackwood anymore. It's protected and the stuff you can get now is brown. Even really good ABW is brown (dark brown), but the stuff you can get today would be better descried as African Brownwood. I have some old stash I've been using, but once it's gone it's gone.

Good Cocobolo is getting hard to come by too, they're not importing any more of the good stuff of that either. Some of that last batch was bought from some guy who'd been sitting on it for 30 years.
 
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