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

Brian.Evans said:
Yeah, I don't work moo either, except for some pretty basic stuff like notebook covers. I will try to find a hide cheap enough and take it to a local guy I know of. Sounds like a plan. I hate the cotton one I have, it collects shavings and grit like no other.
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Brian,
Put the finished oiled side out with the brush side in. That way epoxy is a lot less likely to stick on the Apron.
 
jobasha11 said:
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:
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Hah! That wasn't steam! That was aerosol-ized superglue! When superglue and cotton come into contact there is an exothermic reaction that partially vaporizes the superglue. It's one of the ways that cops "fix" fingerprints to surfaces to keep them from rubbing off! Careful with that stuff, it's bad for your lungs!
 
When you mix the epoxy, have the pins ready, fit everything in place and there are no clamps around or where they should be...


Pablo
 
When a pin in a stainless steel bolster returns from its polished and invisible state to say Hi! on your finished knife...


Pablo
 
Hey, that's what a bench vice and a couple of shop rags are for. :D
 
When you're profiling a blade and it gets too hot and burns your finger. Then while shaking your hand to try and cool the burning you sling your wedding ring off. Now you have 900 square feet of garage floor to search! If I can't find it I'm gonna have some splainin' to do! Guess I shouldn't be wearing it anyway while grinding.
 
When you knock your $100+ dollar vice off the table while you are preparing to mount it on your drill press and it breaks. Oh well looks like i got a new paper weight.
 
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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these are called "one of a kind" knives... just keep working at them and go through the size chart until you get one that works... they go from
chopper, tactical, hunter, now maybe a bird and trout perhaps? ...Nailed it!
 
When you drop your freshly honed Kiridashi while showing it to your friend,and in attempt to prevent it from breaking the surgicaly sharp tip (again). You do manage to catch it, but with your inner tigh. :what:
 
When you try to blow the dust off the handle scales you are sanding only to realise you're wearing a respirator and the pile of dust remains untouched by your efforts. No harm done but you feel a bit of a muppet. :o
 
just keep working at them and go through the size chart until you get one that works
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Sometimes they may turn into nails. :eek: Jess
 
When you're hogging out that profile and drive your nuckles straight into a plentum backed 34 grit ceramic belt (Saturday)
 
when you start keeping a rare earth magnet on a wire next to you dunk bucket to fish out all the crap you keep dropping in.

when two out of every three detent balls ends up lost on the floor.
 
ridges said:
When you try to blow the dust off the handle scales you are sanding only to realise you're wearing a respirator and the pile of dust remains untouched by your efforts. No harm done but you feel a bit of a muppet. :o
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A ham fisted knife maker would never wear something as girly man as a respirator. :D
 
for a reason you don't remember decide to not put in the pin yet when glueing up a hidden tang knife and put the clamped knife on the central heating to harden and an hour later the GF askes why there is glue running out of that hole in the handle?
 
jdm61 said:
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
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Speaking of drill presses, anyone left the chuck tool in the drill press and then turned it on like an idiot...... Let's just say it hurts lol

Also, you might be a ham fisted knife maker when your have stripped your umpteenth torx screw and you just can't anymore, so you just cut a flat head in the top of the screw with a Dremel so you can call it a night at 2:00 in the morning
 
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Of course. Its even more fun on one of those little mill/drill machines. :D
Ballon Corp said:
Speaking of drill presses, anyone left the chuck tool in the drill press and then turned it on like an idiot...... Let's just say it hurts lol

Also, you might be a ham fisted knife maker when your have stripped your umpteenth torx screw and you just can't anymore, so you just cut a flat head in the top of the screw with a Dremel so you can call it a night at 2:00 in the morning
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If you've ever epoxied your clamps to the knife handle you are gluing up, you might be a ham-fisted knifemaker!!!
 
Or applied super glue to the surface of some nice mammoth scales to fill a few small cracks and left them on the bench to cure fully overnight...only to find them glued solid to the bench top the next morning.
 
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