You might be a knifemaker if......

[Hagar]

You plan your vacations around where other knifemakers live, so you can meet them.
You could pay for the vacation by selling the "scrap" metal your storing "just in case you need it".
Friends bring you their $2 souvenier knife from Kenya to clean up.
Friends give you old knives just in case you can use them.
You look at the onyx coaster set you were given and try to figure out how to use them for handles.
You have not bought a factory knife in 10 yrs.


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There is no such thing as "good enough", either your work is good or it is not. How is your work?

 

[Bill Bryant]

LOL!! I've done/do some of those.
You drive 20 hours total over a weekend to visit a knifemaker who's invited you to visit his shop.
Your family is woke up at 4:00am to the sound of pounding or machines running in the garage.
You're the only house in the neighborhood that hasn't raked their leaves.

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Bill
"There's nothing friendlier than a wet dog"
"The more people I meet the more I like my dogs"

 

[unocide]

HEY! my leaves aren't raked and i'm not a knife ma.... oh yeah......

never mind.

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Knives and Cars...
Simple but EXPENSIVE.

 

[L6steel]

Heres another one:
Your friends and customers bring you a $5 Pakistani knife and want you to turn it into a $250 custom.

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"Always think of your fellow knife makers as partners in the search for the perfect blade, not as people trying to compete with you and your work!"

 

[mike draper]

You might be a knifemaker if..
You've ever used superglue instead of stitches...
if at least once a month you recieve steel from someone..( don't know what this stuff is but it's harder than h*!! should make a good knife!!)
if you have to shake-down your childen for sharp pointy objects before boarding the school bus
if your answering machine has the message " I'm sorry , I'm forging, and can't come to the phone "
if you buy your wife a dust collector for christmas and live to tell about it! ( she's a knifemaker )
if your wife's home interior party invitations make mention of a hammer-in to follow
if your neighbors are getting used to the roar of a forge, whine of the press and the rap rap rap of a trip-hammer at 2am
if you clean off yer work bench and find a half a dozen unfinished blades
if you've ever reheated pizza in the Paragon..
GUILTY!!!
Mike&Audra

 

[RCC]

This has to be one of the best threads I have ever seen!

So many of the things listed here are so true, by far the super glue has so much truth!

Thanlks for starting it Hagar.

Ric

 

[Dr.Lathe]

L6,
What about spending a half an hour trying to sharpen whatever metal(can't be steel)a Pakistani knife is made off??
Or...... having no hair on your left arm????(right arm if you're a lefty)
Neil

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[L6steel]

Oh yes Neil!!
As soon as someone finds out you're a knifemaker, they ask if you'll sharpen their knives for them.

Super glue, hmmmm. I've always just wrapped it up with masking tape.

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"Always think of your fellow knife makers as partners in the search for the perfect blade, not as people trying to compete with you and your work!"

 

[Matt Shade]

I wish I was only right handed. I can use either hand, so both arms get shaved everytime I'm sharpening

At least I know I'm getting things sharp

The worst thing I've ever been asked to sharpen- A cheap toy throwing knife that had an aluminum blade! They got it at a renisance festival or something and thought it was real

Luckily, the people I know that carry those Pakistani who knows what they're made of $5 knockoffs don't know enough to realize they aren't sharp.

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Fix it right the first time, use Baling Wire !

 

[TimmyTheTalkingToilet]

If you teach yourself to shave your other arm. (IE if you are right handed, have your left hand shave your right arm)


or for that matter don't sharpen your knifes untill all of your hair grows back