Hunting Knife Trouble

by John

This is not really a safety story but more so of common sense. I'm only a average welder on my good days and am still in high school, but any ways I was at my dads shop making a hunting knife when I snapped the handle of my knife, and the only welder he has is just a plain arc welder and I feared that would be to hot. so the next day in my welding class i asked my teacher if I could bring the knife in and use the tig welder. She said yes so the next day I brought it in and fixed and ground it down. About three minutes until the bell rings i manage to be screwing around and snapped the handle again. so my last hour class i asked my teacher if I could go to for the shop class for a couple minutes to fix it. so i get down there weld it back and not feeling like going back to class stayed and improved my knife. well apparently my teacher thought a couple minutes was up so they called me to the front office. My luck when they did I was behind the grinder and couldn't hear it. So another 20 minutes later the knife was on the table and i was looking at it. When out of no wear my principal shows up. He says " well do you know your teacher is looking for you", "no why", "Well right now you have a deadly weapon and are loose in the school and no one knows were your at", "really" "really so you better get to class".... now this may not sound like a serious story but this scared the SH*T out of me at the time so always be friends with the man in charge which because I was a freshman at the time and had done nothing to make him hate me yet I was getting off easy.