Winners #27 & #45 - Dumb Contest - Drawing 8/22

Second dumb thing.... regretfully.... So I was making wooden knife handles for my Ontario Rat-7 today using a very low powered mouse sander. Well that alone is dumb since it takes me 4 hours for each handle, but on top of that I left one handle on my work bench. Needless to say when you have a chocolate lab that loves playing around, leaving wood out isn't the best idea, because an hour later you find it in hundreds of small pieces in your front yard.

P.s. I will post pictures of the handles when they are done on a separate thread, just may take longer than I thought :)
 
I was making scales for a knife and split them when I drove the pins through and then when I made a new set I accidentally epoxied them on backwards (the handle was nearly symmetrical) so now it has an exposed tang just like them fancy ones at the store :p
 
My first... make that my second attempt at making a knife, I decided to take my hand held belt sander and clamping it into my vise upside-down. Worked fine until I bore down a little too hard and it grabbed the blade and shot it into the wall about 8 feet away. Thankfully I had the belt moving AWAY from me. Bought a stand alone belt sander the following week. God must watch over the feeble minded!
 
Never made a knife before, but after reading, watching, thinking, and selling a bunch of no longer used items, I bought a NIB KMG, $200 worth of belts, will be ordering a couple hundred bucks worth of steel, and now trying to figure out a way to buy a HT kiln, all for fun and hopefully profit eventually.

A-
 
i was etching a knife and i put the etching in a aluminum pan and ya after about 1 minuite it was at a rapid boil i was running around yelling aluminum aluminum!!! trying to find my welding gloves!! lol
 
one time i was buffing a knife and i wasn't holding on very tight and wasn't paying attention and slap whacks the work bench and flies on the ground and there is a huge chip out of the blade :(
 
2nd stupid move post:

I can put a good edge on a knife, always have been able to, but I wanted my Spyderco Military to be be sharper than I could ever make it on my own with the equipment I had at the time. I ended up sending it off to a knifemaker/sharpener a few towns over and got it back with a note saying "Careful Troy, she's SHARP", now this was a note from a buddy of mine who has let me handle his knives that were far sharper then mine, but I had never cut myself with any of his knives or any of my own. It felt like a swift kick in the nuts from a friend. So I popped it open and shaved my arm hair for a good 6 inches......... along with the 4 layers of skin under it. It HURT! I still have a nice scar to prove it. I will see if I can find the pics of the healing process, this was back in 06 or 07.
 
drilling pin holes for sales through a tang with lots of "weight" release holes of the same size.... drilled one scale then the other....when I put them together I noticed on one side I used different holes then on the other...nice set of coco scales out the window.

The really bad part oft he above was I put the blade away for a few months due to this as I needed some very large scales. when I finally got some new large scales in...I made the same mistake again....

3rd time did the trick :)
 
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Being very careful with the glue up of a knife, I take extra care in getting all assembled, and cleaned up.

as I am about to head in from the shop for the night I make a last pass of the table and my elbow catches the blade pulling off the table to the concrete floor tip first....

boken tip.

bah.
 
last one....lol

HT'ing my first few blades in my forge by eye I got a little too close....

Lucky I was wearing a hat backwards so it only took about 1.5" of hair off the front of my head.

needless to say it looked hilarious and a shaved head ensued :)
 
When I was stationed in Korea, I had a Case pocket knife that I kept razor sharp. For some reason I thought it would be a good idea to scratch the bottom of my foot with this knife. It felt so good until the blade got hung up on a wrinkle and filleted the bottom of my foot; it cut a 1" by 3" patch off of the bottom of my foot. To make this even worse, it was the day before we were going to the field to hump through the Korean mountains supporting the infantry. That was dumb, and painful.

Same knife different story. When the movers came to pack my stuff up for the move from Korea back to the states, the mover picked up mu sharping kit and asked me what it was. When I explained that it was a sharpening kit, he wanted to see a sharp knife, so I handed him my Case pocket knife. I was in the process of telling him to be careful because it was so sharp when he cut four of his fingers with it. His moving buddies though it was the funniest thing that they had ever seen, and they all laughed like hell as blood spurted everywhere.

I still have this knife to this day. It is Case bone handled trapper that my dad gave me about two years before he died.
 
I was at home from work for lunch when I decided to make some shade tree knife handles out of some canvass and epoxy resin like I have seen in some online tutorials. (a fun project by the way) Since my work is in the Army, I was in my Army uniform. Somehow after getting the batch all set up, I ended up with a Styrofoam coffee cup glued to my ass. I went back to work, stopped at the on post gas station, interacted with dozens of people and nobody told my about this until the end of the day when I went to the Sergeant Majors office for a meeting. Yea that was dumb and embarrassing.
 
I haven't maimed myself yet. Just getting started.
Just bought 2 blade blanks off of ebay. Should be here this week.

Now I have to figure out if 'knives' are something I want to make. Doing things backwards as usual.

Mark
 
I was finishing up a small knife with matching wooden sheath. It was looking great so I decided to do a super glue finish. yeah the sheath looked great glued to my surface plate. Sheath and surface plate now ruined.
 
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After correcting my miss sized pattern that I copyed off the 'puter I got it wrong again. Cut out 5 blades, wrong size again.
 
I was filling a crack in some desert ironwood with thin CA glue. It was a particularly 'thirsty' crack and kept drinking up the glue to where I started to wonder why. I tried to shift my grip on the piece to have a look around, and realized it was glued to my fingers (crack went all the way through to my fingers on the other side.)

Thanks for the contest, Mark!
 
Soon after I bought this old Norton surface grinder about 5 yrs ago, I picked up a cheap 4"x8" magnetic chuck (not electromagnetic, but a cheapy from Harbor Freight) to use with it. When I got it, I bolted it to the surface grinder, and I was pretty sure I was ready to start grinding away. Not familar with how much to take off with the machine, and unaware that the magnectic chuck couldn't hold really much more than a few ft-lbs force, I cranked down the head unit and got ready to start throwing sparks. Well, I did start to throw sparks, if you count 3 or 4 sparks as a plural form of sparks, until it caught the blade and shot it across the room and stuck it into the wall. I was glad no one was there at the time to see it, but then again, the secret is now out :o
 
I was MIG welding a fixture. Got everything fitted up real nice, tacked it all in place, re-checked the fit, everything was good and ready to run the final bead. I ran the bead, one of my nicest ever. Just then I slipped and landed forearm first right onto the fresh still glowing weld.

Loud sizzle, odors of cooking bacon, what? huh? Ohhh... that hurts! OUCH!

Charred my own flesh and learned why a New Guinea tribal word for human translates to 'long pig'. Human flesh smells like bacon when it burns!
 
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I was at a friends shop using his lathe, which I hadn't done in many years. He gave me some instructions, and kept repeating one of them in particular "make sure you remove the chuck key before you turn it on." That warning sunk in for about the first 5 or 6 times, then I had a brain lapse...next thing I knew I heard a loud bang and had a dent in the top of my foot. The embarrassment was far worse than the pain!
 
Ive pulled off the majority of the previous boners myself.My latest is i had a nice looking piece of damascus steel with a gorgeous pattern.Only problem,it had some flaws on one end.Bad enough i could have sent it back,but i thought,what the heck,its going under the handle and noone will see it.Well,of course i then proceeded to grind the blade on the wrong end.I also am good at making two of the same side handles for folders.:o O well,its great to know im not alone.:D
 
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