Makro, between the grinders, re-tooling, wood stabilisation and zillion other things that all cost you time, I can not stop but wonder how do you find time to make knives Do you actually sleep or just reserve the less demanding tasks for the night hours?
Making knives more efficiently while preserving quality HT, and quality grind is my end goal, so I am willing to sacrifice some time now to retool my shop. And I like to do everything in the house. It's not as much about saving, as about convenience. Plus I like to control all variables.
The grinder project took longer than expected, but it has been worth it. The machine we offer might not be for everybody, but a few of you will appreciate it. For me personally it has been a super fun project to help design, and to get a machine/s with features I want in my grinders.
Wood stabilizing has been an interesting project, and I have learned quite a bit along the way about things I knew nothing about, and still learning. I get a very good results with equipment that I have, and am wondering what the result will be once I get my super high-pressure chamber delivered. I am also experimenting with different polymers, so it's an ongoing project.
As for making knives, I made some, but not at the rate I am capable of making them. Once everything is in place, I will double my output, but now it's pretty modest (new work) as I need to deliver work that has been bespoken.
I have a dust extraction project left, but it's a weekend project, so I am almost done!
So all in all, to stay interested, one has to spice the work life with fun projects and in my case, they are all related to knife making, and I plan incorporate what I have learned into my overall process of knife making.