05-11-2006, 01:31 AM
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| Cutting Tangs
Or why you NEED to wear Safety Glasses | 
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05-11-2006, 01:45 AM
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| Hmm... I generally use a vice grip and saw the tang off.
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05-11-2006, 01:56 AM
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| This is a good reason to have someone take a pair of pliers and hold the tang. It falls off harmlessly. And everyone is cool. There's an alternate method if no one is availlable, I just can't remember it off the top of my head b/c I haven't had to do it in forever.
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05-11-2006, 02:09 AM
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| Wear your fencing mask. | |
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05-11-2006, 02:51 AM
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| That's nuts, man. What did you cut that thing with? An industrial skillsaw?
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05-11-2006, 05:02 AM
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| Others have suggested holding the tang in the vice instead of the blade, taping some sort of chain/string/rope to the end, etc. Or using a hacksaw or other method to cut the tang itself. | |
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05-11-2006, 06:35 AM
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| Or take a saber headcord and attach one end to the blade and the other to the tang above the cut.
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05-11-2006, 12:30 PM
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| You can also drape a towel over the tang. Or a glove when one is not available.
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05-11-2006, 02:04 PM
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| I really don't think Safety Glasses would have helped much if that had hit you. 
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05-11-2006, 02:30 PM
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| Actually, assuming they hit the glasses, I'm sure they would. | |
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05-11-2006, 03:18 PM
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05-12-2006, 09:47 PM
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| Duct tape/cloth tape. But I use a dermmel, rather than bolt cutters, so it just dropps. But I wear safety glasses anyway besause they make me look cool. - Or not, but, well, I wear them anyway | |
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05-13-2006, 03:23 PM
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#13 | | Perpetual Ephemerist
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| Clamp the blade in a vice and then clamp a small vice-grips to the loose end of the tang before using bolt cutters. It will fall down instead of up that way. If you are just trimming a 1/4 inch or so, run a piece of masking or gaffers tape across the tang tip after putting the bolt cutters in place. | |
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05-15-2006, 09:44 AM
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| I don't understand why everyone is talking like it is such a bad thing. I have a largish trash can beside and slightly behind my workbench. Every time I get a rebound off the cealing and into the trashcan I feel very happy. Happens abou 7 in 10 now. 
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05-15-2006, 03:39 PM
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| Dremel + reinforced cutting disk= fast and easy
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05-15-2006, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by epeeisky Dremel + reinforced cutting disk= fast and easy | Except if you are in a venue that doesn't recognize that it is a non-fire hazard proceedure.
Right Sam?
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05-15-2006, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Mergs Except if you are in a venue that doesn't recognize that it is a non-fire hazard proceedure.
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05-15-2006, 07:09 PM
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| We prefer to avoid the bolt cutters. Safety glasses or not, that would have done some damage. Wow! Those pictures are classic.
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05-16-2006, 03:54 AM
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| What IS the obsession with speed? Unless you're cutting tangs by the dozen or something, what does it matter that it takes you 2 seconds or 30?
A good hacksaw takes all of about about 4 or 5 strokes ( oh the horror! ), the waste bit just falls off docilely, you don't need an electrical outlet and it's exercise.
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05-16-2006, 06:50 AM
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| You're the one always talking about the time value of money, why can't we talk about the money value of time? | |
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