The "Ask Nathan a Question" Thread

Nathan the Machinist said:
Can you imagine flying into Europe with a K20 in your check on luggage?

We have a couple of K18 that are going into this first heat treat too. We're able to fit approximately 30 swords into the oven so we are going to finish the last of the K18 in this first run of K20.

I hope to have swords by the Outlaw cut. Actually, if we don't, I'm probably going to be ready to be institutionalized. Just put me away somewhere.

I swear to God this is the last time I'm doing swords
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Just say it’s for religious purposes. Maybe grow a black beard.
 
Matthew Gregory said:
I actually bothered to log in specifically so that I could quote this specific statement so that I could call bullshit on it. You can’t help yourself. Even when those of us who try to reason with you offer sound arguments, you can’t.

It’s like watching a fifty car pile up from a thousand feet. Astoundingly, you manage to navigate it relatively unscathed. And, by ‘unscathed’ I mean barely alive and at least ten years older than you really are.

But, you manage.

Which is why I call bullshit. You’ll totally do it again.

Also, you’ll ask me for help on pricing, but only when I’m somewhere on frigging vacation with almost no cell service, and then you’ll only barely listen to me, and you’ll immediately post the preorder and I won’t be able to participate because I don’t have cell.service. This is how it ALWAYS happens.

And, it will happen again. With swords.
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I have now crashed my horizontal machining center THREE TIMES because of this project.

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I'm on a first name basis with multiple Mori repair techs now

I honestly think the door will never close again, this shower curtain is going to be permanent. 😫
 
Would any of the lucky folks attending Outlaw Cut be willing to proxy a K20 for me? I'll definitely make it worth your while. Unfortunately, my schedule just won't allow me to make it.🙏😭
 
All of this sword talk has me tempted to miss my daughters 13th birthday to be there… “Sorry honey, daddy is on a space mission to drill a hole into an asteroid in hopes of splitting it in half so it will miss the earth. I left a telescope under your bed, I’ll wave.”

Alas I suspect there will be a tear in my piece of birthday cake instead 🥲
 
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