Time to get back to the grind

george tichbourne

george tichbourne

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The holiday season is over and it is time to get back to the grind.

I don't know how it is in the warm sunny south but in Canada winter is the main knife designing and making season, not much of anything else to distract me in particular. I find myself looking at the knife magazines that have been laying around for months unopened and getting all stoked up to try out ideas that I see there. After all, hunting season is a long way off and the Christmas rush is over, so there is time to play around with new patterns a bit.

Am I the only one or is it like that all over the world?
 
I agree George - we don't have weather here like yours. I find myself playing with new things this time of year also. I also take the time to clean out my inventory so I can start offering new things.
I'm really enjoying working with damascus now. It was 74 yesterday, but that's still better than forging in July. :)
 
I had a taste of Texas in August already, can't imagine working in that heat day in and day out all summer. When I was a youngster I worked in the steel mills in Hamilton in the summer when I was going to school, the open hearth furnaces. That was hot but you got to go home after 8 hours.

Being Canadian I enjoy working in the cold more than in the heat.
 
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