The 'I ❤ Nathan' Thread

The Carothers Brothers...

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"Mom always liked you best..."
 
Casinostocks said:


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Really, Mat? Boney M???? Really????

Good lord, man.


Only song I remember from them is ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’*

Ugh
At least pick something from 1975 that works for Nate, man…






*everyone needs to go listen to that. For real. Listen to the whole thing. I assure you, you will not be able to remove it from your head for weeks. Pure awful. Give it a try.
 
Matthew Gregory said:
Really, Mat? Boney M???? Really????

Good lord, man.


Only song I remember from them is ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’*

Ugh
At least pick something from 1975 that works for Nate, man…






*everyone needs to go listen to that. For real. Listen to the whole thing. I assure you, you will not be able to remove it from your head for weeks. Pure awful. Give it a try.
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Yeah the mix that I picked started out with Captain and Tenille. It had Freddy Fender too! I was so excited.
 
Matthew Gregory said:
Really, Mat? Boney M???? Really????

Good lord, man.


Only song I remember from them is ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’*

Ugh
At least pick something from 1975 that works for Nate, man…






*everyone needs to go listen to that. For real. Listen to the whole thing. I assure you, you will not be able to remove it from your head for weeks. Pure awful. Give it a try.
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I had thought that the theme was disco, no? I just chose Boney M because they had debuted in 1975. I guess that I should have gone with KC and the Sunshine Band (That's the Way) or Donna Summers (Love to love you) instead 🤣
 
Richard338 said:
1975... that's Rhinestone Cowboy by Glen Campbell, and Stranglehold from Uncle Ted.
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I was heartbroken when I found out he didn’t sing that.


Casinostocks said:
I had thought that the theme was disco, no? I just chose Boney M because they had debuted in 1975. I guess that I should have gone with KC and the Sunshine Band (That's the Way) or Donna Summers (Love to love you) instead 🤣
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ANYTHING has to be better than Boney M.


Seriously, go listen to ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’.

Like, four times in a row.



Awful.






Now I gotta go listen to it.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
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The fat bastard has been a little bit a process here. Lol

I was going to have them for sale here in October at our Outlaw cut (they were done) but there was something about the heat treat response that wasn't 100% so we did a full spheroidized anneal and ran them again. That's twice this year we've done that. Dirty little secret in the knife industry, sometimes things aren't completely perfect. I feel that we are unusual because we are looking for problems and finding them and fixing them. But anyways, all of the fat bastards have had 15 specific heat processes before you get them. 15 is bigger than average.

I did not want to start sharpening them until we had sheaths in numbers. I'm not blaming the sheath maker for us being slow (I AM SLOW AND I WILL TELL ANYONE AND EVERYONE THAT WILL LISTEN TO ME. I AM SLOW), but I have been putting off finishing the process until we actually had a bunch of sheaths here in stock because a lot of sharp knives with nowhere to go is a problem.

The knife is CNC sharpened with a CBN cutting tool grinding wheel used to make things like endmills. I like to CNC sharpen when I can because the resulting geometry conforms to the design intent perfectly. This is being performed on a ten ton, low hour, high performance Mori Seiki machining center. And the cycle time on this particular process is 45 freaking minutes. Which is way way way more than normal. That's a lot of spindle time. This is not a good looking process from an efficiency point of view from where I'm sitting but there's a lot of material to remove on these fat bastards and, even under 10 GPM flood coolant, there is the risk of overheating the edge if I'm too aggressive so we're just dusting it off in fine increments until we get to the burr. The alternative is to have Bo sharpen these. Bo sharpens thousands of knives for us here but these are a little different, this is almost a bevel and that's a little outside of his comfort zone, but the alternative is me or Mark sharpening these and we already have our hands full doing our regular jobs. I'm not really sure the answer here. It'll probably end up being a mix.

But anyway, these ridiculous fat bastards are coming together now. I thought we were going to ship months ago but, we're going to start to ship this week.
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Damn, that's crazy Nathan! Redoing the HT and taking the extra time to carefully grind these Fat Basterds that you didn't want to make in the first place. That's dedication to your fans/customers!

OK, I take it all back. This thread isn't weird...

I ❤️ Nathan!!! :thumbsup:

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Nathan the Machinist said:
That is a good question

It depends on if they are all already built and ready to go or if we are still building them as the orders come in.

The intent here was to just build them and box them, but the reality is, they are being made at the same rate they are being shipped and we probably can accommodate different scales options. I don't see a problem with that.

This was supposed to be just a quick and dirty sprint run at the end of the field knives, but the reality is they are kind of time consuming to produce. It's 7:30 at night before Christmas Eve and I'm out here sharpening these fat bastards. It's kind of a slow process unfortunately. I had envisioned a shelf of these ready to go, but that isn't what is happening
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We LOVE you Nathan!!! Thank you for your hard work!!
The work.
The extra work.
All the work.
YOUR work!!
 
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