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Finally forged my first proper integral bolster knife last night after 4 failed tries
I used to always weld on bolsters separately but after watching a guy at the guild do it in one piece at a demo in March, I figured I'd try it myself. Took me about 6 hours of hammer work and a lot of cussing but it actually came out balanced and I didn't burn the edge. Anyone else find integrals way harder than they expected or was it just me?
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spencer40712d ago
Nah man integrals are actually easier once you stop overthinking the geometry.
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spencer40711d ago
Overthinking the geometry is exactly what makes integrals click for me, so I gotta push back on that. If you ignore what the function is actually doing on the graph, you're just plugging numbers into a box and hoping it works. How do you know if your answer even makes sense without picturing the area you're measuring?
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