“ I HAVE CONSULTED WITH MACHINISTS WHO HAVE BEEN IN THE GAME FOR MORE THAN 60 YEARS, ENGINEERS WHO BUILT THE MARS ROVER, DESIGNERS WHO HAVE BUILT RACING CHASSIS. ” How do you get to space? By being well-grounded.
This year, while at the 2017 BLADE Show in Atlanta, Georgia, I got to spend some time with Jake Hoback of Jake Hoback Knives. As we ate lunch and talked, I was immensely impressed with the vast wealth of knowledge Jake has about all things knives, metallurgy, folding mechanisms and other topics I can’t even remember enough about to comment on. But what really impressed me the most, was how humble he was, in spite of his near-computer-like brain. Or so I thought.
It was when the topic turned to the…