Unfinished projects box?

Osbourn

Osbourn

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How many of you have one of these? You know how it goes, you get started on a blade, then set it aside because something else makes itself a priority, the customer cancelled, or you just start getting that feeling that you're about to screw it up?
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I wish I could say this is all of them...

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Oz

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BOX!!! Whatta mean box, my whole shop is one big unfinished project, how come you get to have yours in a box? :P
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If you have any you want to get rid of or need more space, let me know!
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Oz,

Just an idea but why don't you send one knife each to anyone who would like to try their hand and finishing a knife? I'd be happy to be such a lucky person. Just let the person know what the steel is, has it been heat treated ect, ect, ect
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Rick
 
I am a new maker, so my box only has a few in it, so far. My mentor had about a dozen in his until he started teaching me. After about two months his box is nearly empty. The main thing he is teaching me is what to do right after "Why did I do that?"... His box was an excellent start for me.
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Mine hang on the wall waiting patiently to be finished. Eventually they do get finished. Maybe not as what they originally started out to be(turned a spear head into a bowie), but even years later they do get done( my record so far is about 4-5 years for having a knife hang on the wall).

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What about all those "tool box" knives that you couldn't even give away? You know, the ones with uneven grinds or the "waves", or the vascowear that you got just a little too hot. The ones you just can't salvage regardless of how much work you did to them. These are the ones we have ruined and aren't fit to open a can of paint! My tool box runneth over.....

C Wilkins
 
CL, I don't put those in a tool box. They end up in my Yogi wall. I call it that because thats where all my BooBoos end up. I actually hammer them into the wall, because I figure they're never coming back out. After my last booboo, I might start a new trend, the nub box. What was a 4 1/4" bladed drop point ended up about a 3/4" nub after I messed it up and then shoved it into the grinder and just held it there till it was eaten away. I guess when you consider how many of our knives end up good ones, we shouldn't get too poed when we mess one up. Take care knifenuts! Michael

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well hagar i got you beat...i got some that have been hanging on the wall for 18yrs. fun to look at.....will never finish them as I dont make knives that look like that any more, thank goodness.....have a box under my workbench too....its full of knives that i make into littler ones...
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Mine is not a box but a drawer. And it's pretty normal to have some dozens blades there, as i never work on just one knife. So sometimes i don't finish a knife for 2 or 3 months and then there come 10 or 15 in two weeks.

Tom, maybe you should get out the box from underneath your workbench and try to make these litter pieces into a block of decent damascus....
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Achim
 
I'm just to the point with some of these that I've done so well so far that I feel like I'm pushing it. The two drop point are my first hollow ground blades, and I'm still working up the courage to finish them up. The three tantos all have viable hamon on them, the really little one on the end is the friction folder I've been working on, and I've already ruined one handle for it. The one with the long thin handle is the ugliest piece of damascus you're likely to see, but grinding on it still scares me.
RA, I'd love to pass them on for finishing, but that's where I need the most work. I LIKE forging and grinding, it's the fit and final finish that I need the most work in. I'm starting to think I should have started out with kit knives and gotten good at that first. These are all on hold until I finish my part on the pass around, though. Most of my quality shop time is in working on those three pieces of brass right now. :>
My rejects box is much larger. I don't think I want to post any pics of those...
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Oz

"I'm politically opposed to the word 'Impossible'."
http://www.freespeech.org/oz/

[This message has been edited by Osbourn (edited 07-07-2000).]
 
I just remembered...I have a shelf started of them! My first 3 of 0-1...4" blades of 3/16" thick stock just didnt work...
 
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