2019 S.W.O.R.D. Game

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Nice! A finely executed sequence. Rising false edge cuts are always a fun challenge!
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Not sure how to upload my YouTube video. But I got the shot. It's at Taylor Steiner on YouTube January 4. I'll keep trying to post the link. But i did do it today around 1200pm mountain time. Cheers friends!
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I'm not finding it with an initial search. If you can put up a link in a post. I can help show you how to embed it here.
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TaylorSteiner wrote:https://youtu.be/csrdV8627fU
Alright, so what you need is the youtube button above the posting field. When you hit that, this will appear:

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[youtube][/youtube]
Paste the url from your video between the two sets of bracketed text, like this:

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[youtube]https://youtu.be/csrdV8627fU[/youtube]
NOW, delete everything from the last backslash forward, like this:

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[youtube]csrdV8627fU[/youtube]
And the result is this:



Nicely done! You responded first...start thinking about your challenge once we're all caught up.
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Well that was performed with authority!
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Odigan wrote:Well that was performed with authority!
A cheesy grin is across my face. Thank you :mrgreen:
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https://youtu.be/dKyP7INP10c

Sadly I get an S. My first cut rocked the stand and the far left bottle began to tip so I hurried to catch it and fudged my edge alignment on the horizontal and cut near the caps. As a Result I cut the last two bottles but did not leave the bottoms standing. The shame of it.

Sorry mines in URL form I’m recording and posting from my phone.
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For what it's worth, I may not have made this terribly clear:
You have two weeks to pull it off. There's nothing in the rules that says it has to be on your first attempt! Keep going!
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I may yet give it another go but for me personally I will probably keep my first attempts on each new sequence. It seems more sporting to me in that way, to each their own.
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Coming in under the wire on this one. I fixed up one of the cutting stands (well sort of). Enough to take the first challenge, anyway. It's been about 8 or 9 years since I've cut except for one or two isolated incidents.

First attempt was with my two hander (wanted a challenge).

https://i.imgur.com/u0E9RgD.mp4

https://i.imgur.com/vuI8tCk.mp4

Failed miserably !!!!!!!!!!!!

Switched to a Hanwei AT200

Did a little better but the deck I put on the top of the stand was too flexible and the right hand bottle flipped off when doing the second cut.

Live and learn. I never used a deck on my stand. I went to one cutting party (the only one) and had the misfortune of seeing that after repeated cuts the nail holding the deck on raised up and a cut (not mine thank God) hit the nail and took a piece out of the blade. It was a brand new custom Atrim and one of the prettiest I've seen. It looked like GIJoe took a bite out of the blade.
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Holy smokes that's one mighty blade!
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Peter Remling wrote:Coming in under the wire on this one.
You have until Friday the 18th, if that helps any.

That blade is ENORMOUS.
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Greg wrote: That blade is ENORMOUS.
Agreed :mrgreen:
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Peter Remling wrote:I went to one cutting party (the only one) and had the misfortune of seeing that after repeated cuts the nail holding the deck on raised up and a cut (not mine thank God) hit the nail and took a piece out of the blade. It was a brand new custom Atrim and one of the prettiest I've seen. It looked like GIJoe took a bite out of the blade.
I usually avoid metal fasteners in that region of the stand for this reason, as I've seen the same happen several times! Deeply set screws are a pretty safe bet, otherwise I prefer just pegged in place, which also makes it easy to break down for transport (or can be glued as well if permanent).
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