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How old are you guys?
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All these young knife makers are making me feel OLD.
I feel old enough with my broken body parts and you guys aren't helping.
I feel old enough with my broken body parts and you guys aren't helping.
BillHanna
Gotta get ready for ARM
See ya in a month
A young 59 (at the beginning of a shift). An old creaky 59 (after the shift is over)
"We can make him better than he was....better, stronger....faster"
(you have to be my age to remember that television reference)
Old enough to know that I’m spending too much money on knives (27)
Change 59 to 43, and this is me.
Which is funny to me. When the younger workers are pooping out around 8/9pm, I'm still going.
They think I'm on drugs.
No, I'm just not hungover and crashing off of Red Bull or Monster's.
I'll chalk up this blasphemy to youthful indiscretion.
I thought I was pretty hip at 37 and then needed hip surgery at 38.
My 30s were fine. Everything started going to hell in my 40s. Started with heart surgery.
Yikes that doesn't sound good. My hip was a longtime issue, apparently, part of the femur wasn't shaped right and was mashing the cartilage of my hip socket. They reshaped the bone but i have some permanent cartilage damage, technically osteoarthritis. Doesn't hurt but bound to worsen over time. Will probably need a hip replacement a couple decades from now. So it goes!
I've had the same heart surgery twice. At 41 I was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation. When it would kick off, my resting heart rate could be anywhere between 140 and 180. The first surgery didn't work but it took a number of years before it became serious enough to do the surgery again. This last time (a year ago) seems to have done it, but there were some healing issues that kept me down for the about 6 months afterwards.
That's really scary dude, sorry to hear. My father in law just had surgery for A Fib, too. Sucks that the first procedure but fingers crossed that the second one holds! I think there's often pretty good results from the surgery?
Atrial fibrillation is especially tough because it’s so darn stubborn. It tends to come back frequently and the treatments (whether it’s ablation or the medications/thinners) aren’t benign and without risk either. Really the best thing one can do is manage the main underlying causes like heart disease, alcohol and sleep apnea. My dad’s been struggling with it for a long time :/
Kids these days can't hang. They grew up with respect for their work/life balance, and never got conditioned to the Orwellian workhorse grind that you and I excel at.
We're a dying breed. Maybe for the best.
The surgery I just had was on a different level than the first one. Much more advanced in the mapping and they worked at getting at the spots that were causing it. The surgeon told me that they loaded me up with adrenaline to try and get me to act up the surgery and he couldn’t. I’d been in a-fib for 8 months straight prior to the surgery. I have a lot more faith in the second surgery than the first.
Prior to my surgery, I’d been through about 10 different drugs to try and control it. It is hard which is why I did the surgery again because nothing was really working.
Glad to hear it!!
I forget people can be grandparents at 43 lol. My parents are 72 and 74 while I’m 28 and my kid is 18 months
Michi
I dislike attempts to rewrite history
So, I'm curious, what is the age range we unearthed so far, youngest and oldest?
@Hardentknives is probably the youngest I know, I once saw a Aussie or NZ maker that is 14 years old but forgot his name
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Wasn’t there a 13 year old? Or was that a joke…
drendon
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themobilesharpaner
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Just turned 58 on Friday, feel like 70
parbaked
Senior Member
This guy turned 60 recently but doesn’t act it…
I'm actually big on work/life balance. I make sure my team gets their breaks. I don't contact them when they are off, unless I absolutely need to.Kids these days can't hang. They grew up with respect for their work/life balance, and never got conditioned to the Orwellian workhorse grind that you and I excel at.
We're a dying breed. Maybe for the best.
It's amazing how one little trick, of not partying every night before a work day, can make such a huge difference.
C'est la vie
I think I saw someone else on one of makers’ instagram feed, which is amazing there are multiple super young knife makers out there. You can’t even legally buy knives under 18 in some places….
