You might be a Ham fisted Knifemaker when.....

How many of them end up being considerably smaller than what you originally intended? :D My turning point was when I decided to stop trying to 'fix" blades and throw them away if i screwed up. That is what happened to a most of knives 20-50. That eventually made me work slow and careful. This was knife 51 or so that I gave away in he KITH.
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Cajun Kamikaze said:
I recycle all my screwed up blades and turn them into screwed up blades that work and look like shit, like my latest kitchen knife...
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When you squeeze out way too much epoxy and have to find something to do with it because you dont want to waste it.

When you hit yourself on a C clamp hanging off of the table for the umpteenth time but wont move it out of laziness.

When the only time you clean off your table is a desperate attempt to find a fresh belt.
 
When you realize that you haven't actually seen much of the floor of your shop in at least 6 months? :D
jobasha11 said:
When you squeeze out way too much epoxy and have to find something to do with it because you dont want to waste it.

When you hit yourself on a C clamp hanging off of the table for the umpteenth time but wont move it out of laziness.

When the only time you clean off your table is a desperate attempt to find a fresh belt.
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... after spending a day grinding out a 10" gyuto on my 1x30 in Hitachi Blue, heat treating, admiring... then deciding to give it a quick little bend with my hands to take a very slight bow out before tempering- clink- two shop knives for the price of one!
 
Your thumb and first digit fingernails are always ground off. They also have burns from not wanting.. To.. Screw.. Up.. The.. Perfect.. Smooth.. Pull...
 
You pick up a hot piece of steel, curse, dance around a little, treat it;


then come back and pick up the same piece...still hot.
 
I once knocked a 12" bladed Bowie knife off of the work bench and almost pinned my foot to the floor. It cut through the leather shoe I was wearing and pieced in about a full inch into the top of my right foot! :eek:
 
if you have ever had to fabricate a pressure dressing from a clean shop rag and duct tape.......and then tried to finish what you were doing before you almost cut your finger off. Bonus points if you drove to Walgreens to buy real bandages only after you put your blades in the oven for the second tempering cycle. :D
 
jdm61 said:
if you have ever had to fabricate a pressure dressing from a clean shop rag and duct tape.......and then tried to finish what you were doing before you almost cut your finger off. Bonus points if you drove to Walgreens to buy real bandages only after you put your blades in the oven for the second tempering cycle. :D
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Paper towel and electrical tape. You can't stop while you're in the middle of something!
 
Superglue. But don't use the accelerant. That hurts like a son of a gun
 
Horsewright said:
Superglue. But don't use the accelerant. That hurts like a son of a gun
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I was trying to get the cap of a small ( like .5oz) bottle (un-knife related project) and it broke and spilled all over my jeans. A bunch of steam came off of it and it burned quite a bit. It hurt more when I took the pants off though:eek:
 
jdm61 said:
Ah, yes. the infamous "shop knife" collection. How many knives does one guy need in his shop? I probably attempted to make close to 50 blades before I finally put one out into the public domain (KITH knife was first one sold or given to another person). I kept like 15-20 in varying states of completion for a while to remind me how bad I was back in 2006. I finally threw away most of them. I still have some more recent ones, mostly unfinished blades, that will probably never get finished. Only like 2-3 that could be sold.
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I hang them on the wall above my grinder. My kids call it the "wall of shame"..... May have to reinforce that wall soon.
 
I had some blades come back from HT and the pin holes had shrunk during Cryo.
So I was going to just ream them out on this one blade so I could get this one handle done.

I had just cleaned it all up and taken the edge down to zero when I saw that the pins wouldn't fit.

No big deal! I put the blade on the drill press after I had put a 3/16" carbide bit in the chuck. No stop on the work plate and no glove on my hand. The Helicopter of death opened my left hand from the first knuckle to the second all the way to the bone. :eek:
Clean shop rag? I've had to grab what was there and use it as a pressure tourniquet with masking tape, Then to the ER.

The ER Doc that stitched me up complimented me on my knives. You must make very nice knives Mr. Segal! This is a clean surgical cut. LOL I have a stop on the work area on the drill press now.:D
 
Yep. Spinning Blades of Death!!! Fortunately, the first time that happened to me, it was a small knife so I was abel to get out of the way. After that I started using a huge screwdriver dropped into one of the slots in my drill press table as a stop. :D
Rhinoknives1 said:
I had some blades come back from HT and the pin holes had shrunk during Cryo.
So I was going to just ream them out on this one blade so I could get this one handle done.

I had just cleaned it all up and taken the edge down to zero when I saw that the pins wouldn't fit.

No big deal! I put the blade on the drill press after I had put a 3/16" carbide bit in the chuck. No stop on the work plate and no glove on my hand. The Helicopter of death opened my left hand from the first knuckle to the second all the way to the bone. :eek:
Clean shop rag? I've had to grab what was there and use it as a pressure tourniquet with masking tape, Then to the ER.

The ER Doc that stitched me up complimented me on my knives. You must make very nice knives Mr. Segal! This is a clean surgical cut. LOL I have a stop on the work area on the drill press now.:D
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I bolted a half inch bolt into the tables of all three of my drill press tables right after that little incident! LOL
 
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