Too dang cold to work on knives!

Wade Jones

Wade Jones

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-11 here last night.
Wanted to get into the garage to work on a piece for my son for Christmas, but it wasn't happening. The cold sneered at my tiny space heater.
 
It was 10 here when I got up. Walking in to work hurt my teeth! (about 1/8 of a mile from the parking lot to the building :rolleyes:)

--nathan
 
14" here, and still snowing. I think I will do some work with the forge before I start back on the knife handle.
 
all the water buckets in my shop are now a block of ice . 12 degrees and our water lines froze in the pump house . Spent the day with a hair dryer and heat tape .
 
-11??? Yikes... that's the kind of air that hurts going into the lungs!

It's 8 degrees this morning, and that's pretty freakishly cold for us around here.

It's a tropical paradise compared to -11 though! :eek:
 
Come on now guys; its way to early to be talking about how cold it is. What are you going to do the end of January, Move to Florida:eek::)
 
Geez Fred, just because we bitch now doesn't mean we can't bitch more later! I recently made a combat knife for a friend and now he wants 2 more like it. My first thought was "Great!" a satisfied and repeat customer all in one shot. My second thought was "Damn, it's gonna be cold out there!..."
 
-11 is our high for the day low will be -20 tonight, I converted it to fahrenheit for the amaericans, celsius is just too cold looking -24C and -29C
 
Mark Redmon said:
Geez Fred, just because we bitch now doesn't mean we can't bitch more later! I recently made a combat knife for a friend and now he wants 2 more like it. My first thought was "Great!" a satisfied and repeat customer all in one shot. My second thought was "Damn, it's gonna be cold out there!..."
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Thats an excellent position. I was just joking anyway; I bitch all year round.;)

Fred
 
Unky, what is cel....celc.....celsius? Is that one of them euro-peeun ways of scrawlin somethin? ;)

I don't envy my brothers up in the frozen expanses of the north, though I DO love snow. Someday I need to get a cabin in the mountains of Colorado where I can go and get my snow fix. Then leave when I've had my fill. :D

Yesterday, when I awoke, the roads were covered in ice and there was frost and ice on everything. By lunchtime the temps were in the 50's, the wind was blowing 40mph sustained with gusts up to around 63 (that's 101 KPH for my northern bretherin ;) ), and there was more dirt in the air than on the ground. Felt like spring. And today the high is going to be around 30. :confused:

--nathan
 
I was working outside yesterday at -22 Celcius (-35 with the wind chill). Right now I'm working on knives in my unheated shop at a balmy -9 or so........ But then again, I am from Canada, we like the cold. And touques we love touques.
 
I think it was only 42F here when I woke up this morning and I thought I was going to freeze to death when I went outside. With a forecasted high today of only 58F I'm really dreading the thought of going to the garage and doing some hand sanding!
 
Maybe I should clarify.... I love snow. Watching snow, skiing in snow, playing around in snow. But shoveling snow is work, and we all know work is no fun. :grumpy:

I had my fill of snow shoveling the one time we got 12" here on the south plains.

--nathan
 
Man it got down to 39 the other night and the high was 49. thats way too cold fer me --marekz. Its time to get all my wood out of my freezer and put it in the garage-save on the electric bill-. man i say some stupid shite sometimes
 
I can relate to you Wade. Its 10 degrees in my shop and the space heater has "Aloha Breeze" written on it. Still doesn't make me feel like i'm down there on the Island with Farmer Phil. Water buckets haven't even thought about thawing in a week or so.


Peat
 
Man, if it was that cold here....every winter I would burn up all my handle material to heat the shop ;)

(It was 30F this morning...maybe I will move to Chandler?)

Brad
 
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