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eli on June 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Guy makes a knife from scratch. He has to make a ...

Hey, I get it and I think it's actually a neat project. But "from scratch" is an entirely meaningless phrase.

stephen_g on June 13, 2011 | [–]

Would you rather the title was "Man builds knife from raw materials but using modern tools, and has to build a smelter first" or something?

eli on June 13, 2011 | | [–]

kind of

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