A Hunter, a Boner, and a Chef Don’t Walk into a Bar

Kevin Zito said:
ah it took me a while to figure out what in the world you were talking about here. However, I do know 100% who Lorena Bobbitt is lol. She’s the lady who sliced off Nancy Kerrigan’s husband’s (Evander Holyfield) ear off. Duh
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Right . Good to see that the younger generation does pay attention. Somewhat. BTW, Kerrigan was shot in the knee by a rapscallion by the name of Kato Kaelon , who later escaped to San Francisco and became Suzanne Summers. Or Donna Summer . I get them cunfused. They look too much alike.
 
Dennis Morland said:
Kevin - Your knife making and leatherwork have come a long ways. Each knife, each sheath, just keep climbing up the hill. Most excellent!
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Thanks, Demo! Greatly appreciated! Means a lot to me. You have played a huge role in my progression to say the least. I try to learn as much as possible with each knife and not make the same mistakes on the next one. I remember @John Wilson saying do each part to the best of your ability then go to the next part. I took him very seriously, and I’m glad I did. I have also found that studying the work of big dogs has helped me too. I have pieces of paper knives all over the place. I mix and match blades and handles until I find something I like.

I would say that above all else the “thing” that has helped me the most is self awareness. I try to be as honest with myself as possible. If the knife isn’t the best I can do, it gets thrown in the trash. I really didn’t want to fall into the trap of gluing garbage together, passing it on a buffer, take 600 pics of it, and pick the best one to post. I was close lol, but I know that eventually I will have to make a real knife. Still trying ... one part at a time. Thank you and the many, many others who have taught me so much. Yesterday I was thinking to myself -hmm, I went to school for the first 30 years of my life, and learned a tremendous amount of stuff lol including the fact that I was “good at school” haha, ... but it took 5 minutes of knife making to show me just how ridiculously stupid I am.
 
Kevin Zito said:
Thanks, Demo! Greatly appreciated! Means a lot to me. You have played a huge role in my progression to say the least. I try to learn as much as possible with each knife and not make the same mistakes on the next one. I remember @John Wilson saying do each part to the best of your ability then go to the next part. I took him very seriously, and I’m glad I did. I have also found that studying the work of big dogs has helped me too. I have pieces of paper knives all over the place. I mix and match blades and handles until I find something I like.

I would say that above all else the “thing” that has helped me the most is self awareness. I try to be as honest with myself as possible. If the knife isn’t the best I can do, it gets thrown in the trash. I really didn’t want to fall into the trap of gluing garbage together, passing it on a buffer, take 600 pics of it, and pick the best one to post. I was close lol, but I know that eventually I will have to make a real knife. Still trying ... one part at a time. Thank you and the many, many others who have taught me so much. Yesterday I was thinking to myself -hmm, I went to school for the first 30 years of my life, and learned a tremendous amount of stuff lol including the fact that I was “good at school” haha, ... but it took 5 minutes of knife making to show me just how ridiculously stupid I am.
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30 YEARS? Sheesh.
 
Kevin Zito said:
Well, 29, I think. Quit high school at 16, got my degree in pure mathematics at 19-20, first masters (in Math Education) at 21, second masters (in pure math) at 23, and PhD (pure mathematics) at 29. Yep, I spent a few hours in a classroom lol.
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Well see there. You and I have something in common: I graduated high school at 16, joined the Navy, got my degree for sonar technician at 17, got my degree in submarine sonar, At 17 1/2 got my degree in submarines, after which I went to war. So,we're not so far apart except I'll just bet you are hell on wheels balancing your checkbook!!
 
Bruce McLeish said:
Well see there. You and I have something in common: I graduated high school at 16, joined the Navy, got my degree for sonar technician at 17, got my degree in submarine sonar, At 17 1/2 got my degree in submarines, after which I went to war. So,we're not so far apart except I'll just bet you are hell on wheels balancing your checkbook!!
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Actually, I’m terrible at balancing my checkbook. However, you are spot on with applied mathematics. I’m not an “applied mathematician,” per se, but my work does have applications. For example, my most recent publication solves and old equation known as Abel’s equation. One of the applications of this solution allows oncologists to have a better idea of how radiation spillage gets absorbed by surrounding tissue when administering radiation treatment to cancer patients. All of my other studies have been focused on financial (foreign exchange prediction and modeling) as well as my true interest which is the application of something weird called “convolution” to the models that involve instantaneous creation.

Yep there’s a many a days that I wish I would have spent less time in the classroom and more time working with my hands. I probably would be able to make a halfway decent knife by now if I had real world work experience (with my hands). It’s been a struggle at times ... I have to double my efforts to try and catch up to ol’ timers like you.
 
Kevin’s over here winning a Fields Medal in his spare time and John’s looking up youtube videos to try to remember how to do trig functions to help his son do homework LOL.
 
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