What happened to JTKnives

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Hey guys, I know it's off topic, but what ever happened to Jared Todd (JTKnives)? I haven't seen him on here in a long time, I always enjoyed his posts and projects...
 
You know I was thinking the same thing recently. It was like he fell off the face of the earth all of the sudden! :eek:
 
I saw some posts on his scribe thread a little while back. He said he's been very busy at his job.

--nathan
 
saw him online in an unrealted space recently (like, minutes recently) looks to be doing okay.
 
He's grown obsessed with his stainless KMG clone and spends every minute that he's not eating or sleeping polishing it?
("NO! NO! GOOD GOD MAN, DON'T GRIND WITH IT!")
 
koyote said:
saw him online in an unrealted space recently (like, minutes recently) looks to be doing okay.
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Please send him our regards!

I wondered this a few weeks back and tried searching around for him a bit. It looks like he's been inactive on his website too.
 
I think he is one who moves from thing to thing real fast. He starts a lot of projects and ideas, but starts other things before finishing. I hope he is doing well,too.
 
I read those posts.

Teacher dien't get the plastic sleeve that was shown with the scribe.
He hammered JT with posts & messages on that until JT's ADD kicked in and bailed to get away from that.

His youtube account is still active.
 
I wondered the same thing the other day??? I thought he took people on the center scribes and was hung some where!!:eek:
 
As I recall most all of his sales were stalled by something or another. I have at least one friend that had to request a refund for items ordered and not delivered within any sort of reasonable time frame.

He was always looking to "provide" something to the community, at a fee, of course. I always got the impression that his biggest reason to be here was to try and make money off of knife makers. For anyone who thinks it's out of line to say that because he's not here, don't worry, I said it to him when he was around too.
 
JT is a cool guy. He is a little scatter brained and bounced around a bit, but no different than I was when I was twenty something.

He may have tried to make his hobby more than just a hobby, but without the time to really devote to it, it probably just took the fun out of it and ruined his hobby. So he moved on to another hobby. Not unusual at all really.


Or.... his girl friend was smokin hot and one day, while blowing another hour on the computer he looked around him and said "what the hell am I doing?" and ran over and jumped in the sack with his honey, never to return...
 
JT always reminded me of somebody but not sure who it was! But he had the potential to be a great knife maker if he would just concentrate on one thing at a time. Last I remember from him he was suffering from burnout and was taking a break and then nothing!

Wow :eek: at twenty something losing a girlfriend like that is either a career maker or breaker, it all depends on which career he was most dedicated too! :D

He will probably be back at some point in his lifetime. Once a knife maker always a knife maker!:rolleyes:
 
JT reminded me of pimpinsquee (JT McDonald), in that he had a new Bigger-and-Better idea every week. The huge exception is that JT actually made things and had the ability to do most of what he thought up. Pimpinsquee never made or finished anything to speak of.

ADD is a big problem for talented.....Hey! Look! a squirrel is digging something up out in the yard.
 
12345678910 said:
Not a sin in my eyes, you can say the same thing for Aldo, or Rob Frink too
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I don't think it's a sin, I give lot's of retailers my money. The difference is that they establish themselves as businesses providing goods or services to the community, not "just another guy trying to help you out".

Often his ventures seemed to be under the guise of "I'm just doing this for you guys, not because I want to make money". Aside from the occasional unsafe and terrible advice, I always felt most of his time spent here was cooking up ways to make money off of people here and painting it as something he was doing out of the kindness of his heart. If you've never met someone in your life who is always chasing the next easy payday, you might not see what I saw in him. Hey, who knows, I could be wrong, but he's not someone I'd have ever done business with and that scribe thread seems to underline why.
 
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