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Terry's pick of the draw
Terry and I went to a hammer in at the ABS about 6 years ago.Terry was excited about entering the knife cutting contests. They pick from a hat who you go up against. Check out this picture.
Thats Bill Moran on the right. Guess who won? Dan Graves theknifemaker.com Last edited by Dan Graves; 08-27-2002 at 09:27 AM. |
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I've never seen that picture, but I remember that day quite well. I believe it was the first ABS Cutting Competition ever held.
I had been making knives for a few years, but had been a stock remover and was brand new to forging blades. I was still a starry eyed newbie. I remember going into the steak house in Hope, Arkansas and seeing all these legendary makers I'd read about in the knife magazines. It was like, "Hey, that's Jerry Fisk over there! Look that's Joe Flournoy with him! Oh man, see the guy at the salad bar? That's Jimmy Crowell! Whoa! Here comes Bill Moran -- Bill freaking Moran!". It was like a kid in little league baseball stepping into a place where all the Major League players were hanging out. On the day of the competition I ended up on the 2x4 chop with Mr. Moran. The method I employed was the machine gun technique. I was hammering away at that board like Ron Bushy of Iron Butterfly playing the drum solo on In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida. Bill, on the other hand was using a slow , steady rhythmic swing. I could hear the "thunk... thunk... thunk...". On the sixth "thunk", I heard the bottom half of his board hit the ground, and the croud roar. Me? Oh, I was maybe half way through my board. I don't know what my time was, but because of the pressure and nervousness, I felt sure that Bill and Margaret Moran were half way back to Maryland by the time I got through my board. |
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Very interesting!!!!! Man I like this kinda stuff.....any more?
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Terry, were those the good ol days or what? If that was not our first one it was close to it. But that day Bill Moran changed the course of the 2x4 cut forever. We had been getting what we thought were very respectable times of 40 to 60 seconds. Every body was using what jerry and I called the woody woodpecker technique; whaling away in rapid fire. Bill stepped up and very carefully placed his chops. A new time record. Everybody who was there learned a very important lesson. With age comes wisdom. Youth will not overcome technique. That man can make a knife that cuts. You had to have been there, it was too #### cool. I had forgotten terry; til I saw that picture that you were the man who faced of the legend. We were rehashing this very incident at MI over the weekend, those that were there still speak of it. Dan, thanks for sharing that with us. mike
__________________ even a blind hog will find an acorn every once in a while |
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I am reminded of an old quote, wish I knew who first said it.
" age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill. " __________________ Jerry Oksman ~ Cogito Cogito Ergo Cogito Sum ~ |
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what jerry said
terry - you can't feel badly about having been shown up by the best __________________ wayne things get better with age ... i'm approaching magnificent |
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