Tom,

Could this have been the post(s) you were referring to:
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Sam;
Since you aren't going to let this slide on either forum, I'll try to explain why it would be IMPOSSIBLE to give you the names of who EXACTLY worked on your particular knives...I'm going to use numbers to represent the current RMK employees by order of seniority...

RMK produces somewhere between 150-170 knives a week, and this is kind of how they progress along...(sure hope I don't time out on this post--

#'s 7 and 14 pull the steel from the blade bins and cut to length needed for this particular batch to be produced, then...
3&8 then forges,
14 & 18 then rough shape,
14, 18 & 8, and sometimes #3 forge grind,
#8 heat treats and stamps,
8 and 3 QC before turning in to the bade bins, (no comment here #9),
#8 pulls the weeks bladelist from said bins, 150 plus ASSORTED blades and final shapes,
8,12,4 and sometimes #2 grinds to front room finish,
12 and 4 stone them to smooth the grind lines,
16 & 17 first hone,
#3 sands to smooth finish establish front room lines,
4,9,12, and newbie 17 first polish,
16 sands and polishes backs and cutouts,
16 then pulls and sands hilts and puts them on the correct (mostly) knives,
#2 fits for soldering,
12 & 17 clean them for soldering,
#4 solders hilts and lugs to blades,
2,4, 17 and 12 layout weeks knives for handle markings,
17 drills handles,
15 and 4 ream handles,
2 fits handles,
4 joins 2 for final fitting of buttcaps,
cont....


Edited by Dirty_Water (06/08/09 10:54 PM)
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#63326 - 06/08/09 10:53 PM Re: Randall shop history [Re: Dirty_Water]
Dirty_Water
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Loc: central fl. 12, 15 16 and 17 and sometimes 13 put handles together, (this use to be a 2 man job...never mind...
4 & 13 shape handles,
2 final shapes handles,
16 & 17 file handles,
9 & 15, and later 4 sand hilts and handles 3 times to finer grits,
2 lays out weeks worth of knives again,
13 & 15 2nd hones these knives,
(meanwhile 16, 17 are 1st honing next batch again, usually there are 2 batches running each week at the same time)
4 & 9 second polish and re-2nd hone blades,
3 final polishes and final hones blades,
13 adds fg, ci, and wt to finished handles,
13 & 15 final polish handles and blades to turn into office,
5 & 6 hone, sheath, polish (blades and handles) and FINAL hone,
5 wraps and ships knives to you...

Meanwhile; #1, 10 & 11 are doing almost the same routine in the 14 room, (watch it #9),

not forgetting:
making of the stock (hilts, fibers, buttcaps, etc...etc...)
marking steel,
forging tangs,
final shaping of bowie blades,
grinding the tangs,
the initial layout of the knives,
countersinking the buttcaps,
grinding off of said nuts,
marking for fg, ci and wt's,

and of course bringing up the weeks screw ups because of soooo many steps...

Now, you see why it would be IMPOSSIBLE to tell you EXACTLY who worked on YOUR knife?!?--

whew...DW...whew
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Michael Mason
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