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E103: Cream sauce is the best
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We're back to the trusted 2-man show! Jerid is still busy with golf and Denis is taking the day off. Come listen into the shenanigans.
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Transcript
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echo_blades
I mean, what could go wrong?
00:00:15
Denis Tyrell
Oh.
Introduction to the Triple T Podcast
00:00:16
echo_blades
What's up everybody welcome to another episode of the Triple T podcast for Knife Makers. My name is Jared from Echo Blades and as always i have my good friend and awesome maker Mr. Dennis Terrell from Terrell Knifeworks and also the YouTube extraordinaire and creator of the triple T that's tools, tips, and talk for those just joining us in this week's episode. We're going to talk about absolutely nothing again.
00:00:44
echo_blades
And we so appreciate you coming along for the ride.
00:00:48
Denis Tyrell
I was like, why are you blowing smoke on my ass? But you brought it in at the end there.
00:00:52
echo_blades
That's right.
00:00:55
Denis Tyrell
How are you, sir?
00:00:56
echo_blades
I am good. How about yourself, Mr. Terrell?
00:00:58
Denis Tyrell
I'm good. I took my first day off in probably three weeks today. felt good.
00:01:04
echo_blades
That is very good.
00:01:07
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
Welcome Baby and Funny Facebook Moments
00:01:08
echo_blades
i do want to get you out of trouble right out the gate and congratulate you on the birth of your newest family the member.
00:01:16
Denis Tyrell
Thank you. Thank you. Yes.
00:01:18
echo_blades
i had a good chuckle. When I cruised through a... I was actually checking the Facebook marketplace, but and before I get to the marketplace, my feed pops up.
00:01:29
echo_blades
And I saw you say, I think he looks like Papa. And I just chuckled to myself pretty damn hard.
00:01:39
echo_blades
Because that's not possible.
00:01:43
Denis Tyrell
That's the joke, dumbass.
00:01:44
echo_blades
yeah Oh, I get it. Yeah. I mean, it was...
00:01:47
Denis Tyrell
Yes, i for everyone else, my stepdaughter had our second grandkid on Friday.
00:01:47
echo_blades
it
00:01:55
Denis Tyrell
She was in labor for a long time, like 36 hours, and then they did a C-section.
00:01:58
echo_blades
Yeah, i saw that.
Cooking and Naming the Episode: 'I Love Cream Sauce'
00:02:02
Denis Tyrell
So that kind of sucked.
00:02:02
echo_blades
Ooh.
00:02:04
Denis Tyrell
But all is well, baby's healthy and cute as a
00:02:09
echo_blades
Nice.
00:02:09
Denis Tyrell
Very cute baby. You know, some babies kind of look like lizards.
00:02:13
echo_blades
ah Yes, I'm very vocal about how ugly some babies are.
00:02:13
Denis Tyrell
speak
00:02:17
Denis Tyrell
And I'm not biased. This baby's very cute. So it looks like me.
00:02:17
echo_blades
That is.
00:02:22
echo_blades
Yeah. yeah
00:02:25
Denis Tyrell
Even though it's my stepdaughter, it's not physically possible, but.
00:02:27
echo_blades
they named and They named it Lawrence?
00:02:28
Denis Tyrell
miss ah All right. That would have been funny. No, Colton Ray Webb is the the full name.
00:02:32
echo_blades
Yes.
00:02:35
echo_blades
All right.
00:02:37
Denis Tyrell
So.
00:02:38
echo_blades
Welcome, Colton.
00:02:39
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, congratulations to my little grandson. and my wife is still out in Colorado and will be for another week. So I'm still slumming in as a bachelor, having to make my own meals and all that bullshit.
00:02:53
echo_blades
Your microwave's on fucking overtime right now, huh?
00:02:56
Denis Tyrell
No, actually, I made, Logan and I made a fancy fettuccine last night. So it was pretty good.
00:03:03
echo_blades
Oh shit. I should came over. It's like, that's traditional, um, Italian food.
00:03:05
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:03:10
Denis Tyrell
Well, yeah, I know it was cream sauce, Alfredo. So yeah, I guess it was tradition.
00:03:14
Denis Tyrell
It was yummy.
00:03:14
echo_blades
I think it's, that's my favorite and only thing out of Italian.
00:03:20
Denis Tyrell
I love cream sauce in pasta.
00:03:22
echo_blades
Say that again, my friend, say that again.
00:03:23
Denis Tyrell
as my That's my jam.
00:03:26
echo_blades
Oh my God. That might be the name of this episode. I love cream sauce. My man.
00:03:33
Denis Tyrell
a dick.
00:03:36
echo_blades
and
00:03:37
Denis Tyrell
ah a dick
00:03:38
echo_blades
Yes. That's yes. That's yeah okay. I'm going to stop.
00:03:46
echo_blades
it I didn't even intend for that to happen. Good job.
00:03:51
Denis Tyrell
Especially after last week's episode name.
00:03:55
echo_blades
Yeah, that was a good one. Sausages.
00:04:00
echo_blades
I still haven't had the opportunity to to order any sausages.
00:04:00
Denis Tyrell
Oh, man.
00:04:04
echo_blades
And I thought about it afterwards because i had the wonderful pleasure of ah playing golf with my Jeff and I's buddy, Tony, who is Scottish.
00:04:16
echo_blades
And he ah Yeah,
00:04:17
Denis Tyrell
Didn't they invent the sport?
00:04:20
echo_blades
it did. They did, actually. And... Yeah, so his name is And I... and i to To my own ignorance of other cultures sometimes, I put him, his his contact name is Tony English.
00:04:41
echo_blades
And...
00:04:41
Denis Tyrell
Oh, that's an insult.
00:04:42
echo_blades
Oh man.
00:04:42
Denis Tyrell
but
00:04:43
echo_blades
I mean, it was, I didn't, I did that after I learned about, you know, some, some history to where, you know they're, they're not big fans of the Brits there. And, um, yeah, so that was, uh, that was good.
00:04:58
echo_blades
Um, I forgot where I was going with that. I did.
00:05:02
Denis Tyrell
I don't know.
00:05:04
echo_blades
Dude, help me. Oh, that's what it was.
00:05:06
Denis Tyrell
i don't know.
00:05:07
echo_blades
i was saying. So we, uh, we golfed.
00:05:08
Denis Tyrell
You're going to a Braveheart reference?
00:05:09
echo_blades
Yeah. I was going to do brave. Yeah. Some men are longer than others. Ah, your mother's been telling stories about me again. Oh,
00:05:19
echo_blades
a
00:05:21
Denis Tyrell
Some my favorite movies.
00:05:21
echo_blades
that's good. Meet me at the Grove. Ride. yeah Come on, hit me. You're not William Wallace.
00:05:28
Denis Tyrell
I cannot.
00:05:29
echo_blades
If William Wallace was here, he'd consume English with balls of lightning from his eyes and balls of something from his eyes.
00:05:39
Denis Tyrell
Balls of something from his... isn it Lightning bolts from his arse.
00:05:41
echo_blades
It's balls of fire from his eyes and lightning bolts from his arse. Oh, it's fucking great stuff. But I ordered breakfast and I got bacon instead of sausages. So that was that was the bummer.
00:05:58
echo_blades
But anyways, yeah, it was good time. a shot fucking super good this weekend. So the game's going around and I got new clubs coming. picking them up this week, brand new irons and a driver.
00:06:12
echo_blades
So I'm fully prepared for my game to take a giant shit.
00:06:14
Denis Tyrell
So you need another bag to carry all these clubs around or what?
00:06:17
echo_blades
No, Jared got my, my old ones. So um that's, Oh, he loves it.
00:06:21
Denis Tyrell
Oh, hand-me-downs. does he feel about that?
00:06:24
echo_blades
He got a brand new driver cause I'm getting a new one and yeah, he gets all the good shit. It's good to be Jared Jr. Cause he did.
00:06:33
Denis Tyrell
Didn't you just get that driver like nine months ago?
00:06:37
echo_blades
It was about a year and 12 months ago, but I literally gave it to you.
00:06:41
Denis Tyrell
yeah a year in twelve months So not two years, but a year and 12 months.
00:06:46
echo_blades
That was totally not not my intended.
00:06:47
Denis Tyrell
at
00:06:49
echo_blades
Good call. I deserve that. It was about a year and a half is what I was trying to say for about year and 12 months.
00:06:57
Denis Tyrell
You just trying to fucking stretch it out or what?
00:07:01
echo_blades
No, it was about a year and a half ago, but I only used it for probably three or four months and then I let him start hitting it. So I didn't hit that club very well at all.
00:07:12
echo_blades
And then, but anyways, he, yeah, it's ah it's a tailor-made.
00:07:13
Denis Tyrell
But the new one you're going to hit better? Hmm.
00:07:17
echo_blades
So that's, that's what I did. And then I went back to the, yeah to the fitting tent and, oh man, I laid, I laid the sponsorship on him.
00:07:27
echo_blades
I got contacts this time. It's going down. I just got to follow through.
Life Lessons through Golf
00:07:32
echo_blades
I mean, it's a fucking shot in the dark of never going to happen, but I was having a good time.
00:07:37
echo_blades
Got it. Got a couple of followers out of it.
00:07:38
Denis Tyrell
How pissed would you be if I called these people up and offered to make like a Damascus club or something with their name on it and got a sponsorship? Oh, God, you'd be so mad.
00:07:46
echo_blades
Oh, I'd be, no, I'd be, I'd be down. I'd be down.
00:07:50
Denis Tyrell
yeah cause you know i wouldn't use it and you would get it all
00:07:51
echo_blades
i Yeah. Yeah. No, I wouldn't, I wouldn't mind at all. That would be fucking super cool. But, um, Yeah, I got a couple followers out of it and got to talk. Because I don't really do the whole, ah not lately anyways. I know you a while back you were talking about how normally I can i could i could lead into the conversation about knife making and try to do that. But um you know when you're not really producing much, it's kind of hard to sell yourself on things. So I don't do it that often anymore right now. But it was a good good transition into that. Yeah.
00:08:28
Denis Tyrell
Oh, that's good.
00:08:28
echo_blades
It was cool. Yeah, I'm excited for stuff to to happen. And then we played with, ah last weekend I played with Jared and his friend, the kid that's like 17.
00:08:38
Denis Tyrell
That whooped your ass.
00:08:38
echo_blades
And yeah, he he's he shot like 76 or something stupid um this weekend.
00:08:38
Denis Tyrell
Okay.
00:08:46
echo_blades
But we played a game with a buddy of mine. And it was the old old guys versus the young guys. And we fucking tore them apart. they They just absolutely melted. They were fucking fighting each other. what's the You're playing teams, right? And had some handicaps involved. So um to make it you know competitive. But yeah, oh it was it was great. We just were stepping on their throats. And it was it was a lot of fun.
00:09:13
echo_blades
It was a lot of fun. it seems like bully type stuff. But they're both better than me.
00:09:17
Denis Tyrell
What happened to Mr.
00:09:18
echo_blades
So.
00:09:18
Denis Tyrell
I'm not competitive?
00:09:20
echo_blades
Huh?
00:09:21
Denis Tyrell
What are you? You're like, I'm not competitive.
00:09:23
echo_blades
Yeah, I think it's more of a lesson for them because the one kid's playing high school, so he's going have to learn how to play, you know, when it matters in competition.
00:09:24
Denis Tyrell
oh
00:09:32
echo_blades
And my son, I'm um endlessly trying to, you know, give him life lessons and try to teach him, you know, that you got to persevere through, you know, you can't just in anything.
00:09:39
Denis Tyrell
Sure.
00:09:43
echo_blades
I use golf with him because that's what we do the most of right now. But, you know, you can't try to do something be super good at it. And then when you got to start like focusing and and trying to get better and learn and, um, and then get pissed off and, you know, quit. So he's, he got, he got so good so quick though, that the golf is just golf, right? So sometimes you're on, sometimes you're off.
00:10:08
echo_blades
Um, and he'll quickly just throw a temper tantrum if he starts hitting bad shots and it
Home Improvement Challenges
00:10:14
echo_blades
drives me nuts. So, um, that's kind of, kind of what it was, but it was fun. So we got a We bet them $1 and they had to sign the dollar bill to to give to us.
00:10:29
echo_blades
So it was fun.
00:10:29
Denis Tyrell
i I used to do that with my buddy Greg. um We would play heads up poker and whoever lost had to sign the dollar bill and and and it was always the same dollar bill.
00:10:41
Denis Tyrell
So it was like how many signatures were on, how many of your signatures on it versus the other guys.
00:10:43
echo_blades
Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. and There's something to it. I mean, you know, a little, little friendly comp is something, but I, I didn't get upset at all. Um, when they beat us pretty bad the first time we played. So, um, it was cool.
00:10:57
echo_blades
It's good time. Good weekend. And then going to hijack this show for a minute. So no transition into something,
00:11:04
Denis Tyrell
Not a about golf though, right?
00:11:09
echo_blades
no one else wants to talk about either. But, uh, so have we've had this dog gate, a little cheap one that kind of is like tensioned against the two walls.
00:11:21
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah.
00:11:21
echo_blades
And we have, uh, we have two smaller dogs and then we have, uh, know, she should be about 40 pounds, but she's probably 60 pounds now. But, uh, she's tries to bulldoze her way through the gate.
00:11:33
echo_blades
So we wanted to get a more permanent one.
00:11:36
Denis Tyrell
Mm-hmm.
00:11:36
echo_blades
And, uh, So we got it. And then I kind of was procrastinating putting it up like honey do's. And it really dawned on me that how much I absolutely despise like home improvement projects and of of any kind. And I think like my wife's probably more frustrated than I, but I, and I used to say this in, you know, or a lot early on is that I have to remind myself and I, and I've said it here handful of times too, is like,
00:12:07
echo_blades
Before knife making, I did nothing with my hands, like no building of any kind. And I was telling my wife the other day because she was pissed that i I wasn't doing it. And then I was like sitting there thinking about it. And I, you know, she wanted to put it here. It wasn't working out. And she thought I was like making excuses on to why I just didn't want to do it.
00:12:26
echo_blades
And I'm like, it's just not going to work. But how much I really, I said, I make knives. It doesn't mean I'm just magically turned into a fucking handyman overnight. Right? Like I still suck at all those things that I never was good at before. i have a little bit more tools and resources to do some stuff, but it's just not my thing, man. And I know you're, you're,
00:12:55
echo_blades
you're pretty much the opposite. Like there's a lot of, you know, home improvement stuff and things that you'll do yourself. And obviously from all of the the DIY stuff that you've become known for.
00:13:06
echo_blades
um But I, I, I struggle with that shit and I still do. And I think I will forever. um And it's just not my bag.
00:13:14
Denis Tyrell
i don't I don't, for most things, I don't struggle at doing them. i struggle at getting motivated to do them. Like, the you notice, the ever since you've known me, the railing in our house is bare wood.
00:13:22
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:30
Denis Tyrell
Like, I had, like, the the iron slats put in the railing, our stair railing.
00:13:35
echo_blades
Okay. Okay.
00:13:37
Denis Tyrell
Well, the rest of it is just plain wood. It's supposed to be white. We're going on five years when...
00:13:42
echo_blades
You just got to paint it.
00:13:43
Denis Tyrell
that I just have to paint
00:13:44
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:46
Denis Tyrell
Maybe um I might actually break down a dude this weekend and surprise Kim. So she'll come in and then she probably won't even notice and she'll just walk in the living room.
00:13:56
echo_blades
Yeah, no, but I was at camp. I can't remember. i was probably Brent, but I was talking to us. It's like, I can't stand that stuff. Like there's a handful of things around here that have just been not gotten done for for a long time. It is just like it's a I don't know necessarily know how to do it. And I'm always more afraid of fucking something up and then calling so having to call somebody in. And I'm like, why don't I would rather pay somebody.
00:14:19
echo_blades
That's just I would rather do that.
00:14:20
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:14:22
echo_blades
I don't have any. you know, ego or masculine macho shit to where, you know, I, I, I have a problem with that. Um, but yeah, I still, I, I struggle with that and I still will.
00:14:33
echo_blades
Um, I got the gate up, but through, yeah, I mean, it's, it is what it is.
00:14:36
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Is it going to stay up? Is the dog going to crash through it?
00:14:41
echo_blades
It's, it's into some wood and some, some mollies but yeah, I mean, it, it'll be fine, but man, it was such a fucking bear though, to, that neurodivergence
Preparing for Blade Show Texas
00:14:52
echo_blades
brain was like, Oh, I hit a roadblock.
00:14:55
echo_blades
I'm going to stop like, Oh, that's not going to work. Okay. Let's do it tomorrow. Like, I mean, every, it was in full fucking effect. Like it took, it took an act of, uh, of, uh, Lynn to get it done.
00:15:08
echo_blades
So yeah, basically.
00:15:08
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, her and putting her foot down in one of those. Yeah.
00:15:11
echo_blades
Yeah. But I don't know.
00:15:14
Denis Tyrell
You mentioned Brent. And I got to say, Brent was on the podcast last week.
00:15:18
echo_blades
Sure.
00:15:19
Denis Tyrell
I think Brent has got a little beard envy. The last couple of videos I've seen, i think he's got some Jared beard envy. I think he's grown his beard out because you are.
00:15:29
echo_blades
Yeah. You know, I, I i was, uh, in hindsight, we talked about that after that. I, I missed a, an opportunity to, uh, comment on, on his, his wonderful beard.
00:15:41
echo_blades
I fully support it.
00:15:42
Denis Tyrell
I
00:15:43
echo_blades
Yep. I fully support it.
00:15:45
Denis Tyrell
i wonder if Liz does.
00:15:48
echo_blades
I don't know, but I just trying to tell him like, you know, like I never thought I could grow one and here we are now. And, I just said, do it. Just let it go. See what the fuck happens. I mean,
00:15:59
echo_blades
You can shave it and go back to the same.
00:15:59
Denis Tyrell
i had I had to shave mine the other day. i hate it when it gets like like half an inch long and that drives me nuts. When it gets like Half an inch, three quarters, then I got shave it. and
00:16:14
echo_blades
yeah, there's a, there's a spot where it's, it's almost unbearable for sure. There's a thing, but it's been since, since um I have not shaved since both right before blade show last year.
00:16:18
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:16:28
echo_blades
So I'm at least going to blade show.
00:16:31
Denis Tyrell
To a blade show.
00:16:32
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:33
Denis Tyrell
Which is what? Which blade show?
00:16:37
echo_blades
Atlanta. Yeah, for sure.
00:16:39
Denis Tyrell
Because we're officially booked on Bladeshow Texas.
00:16:43
echo_blades
Yes, we are.
00:16:44
Denis Tyrell
So that's good. if Assuming you booked the hotel, which you probably haven't.
00:16:49
echo_blades
i took care of it. It got done.
00:16:50
Denis Tyrell
know you You delegated.
00:16:53
echo_blades
I did. Well, no, no. Oh, in a way I did, but yeah, I had to, I got a little creative with it, so I'll tell you later. But hats off to to the yeah so the who will remain nameless.
00:17:07
Denis Tyrell
Okay, I'm curious to remember what that means.
00:17:10
echo_blades
Yeah, it was cool. But yeah, it's taken care of We're all booked. We're ready to go. i was really surprised at how much the damn plane tickets were because i was I had to tell Brent the other day that, you know, my bad, dude, because I was busting his chops about not going.
Knife-Making Projects and Poker Night
00:17:25
echo_blades
And he's like, man, it's, you know, plane ticket hotel you blah blah blah he's it's gonna add up it's expensive and i'm like bullshit it's it can't be that bad we were like booking the flights i was like oh god
00:17:36
Denis Tyrell
I don't know what's going on in Fort Worth because or or Dallas, whichever, because flying in Wednesday was like 320 flying in Friday was like 320 flying in Thursday was $600.
00:17:45
echo_blades
yeah yeah it was bananas so i don't know but we're we're good
00:17:48
Denis Tyrell
That's
00:17:52
Denis Tyrell
crazy.
00:17:56
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:17:56
echo_blades
All ready to go.
00:17:57
echo_blades
And, uh, yeah.
00:17:58
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. I'm excited. i just got to get these, uh, builds done. I got them.
00:18:04
echo_blades
What are you bringing?
00:18:05
Denis Tyrell
Um, I'm bringing the feather buoy, the dagger that I'm working on. So I got a month-ish, more than a month, month and a half to finish that.
00:18:18
Denis Tyrell
And one more if I can get another one done, like a fancy one, but I don't see it. Maybe I'll bring the full. I need to bring at least three knives for the...
00:18:31
Denis Tyrell
KnifeMakers Guild review thing. But the the big two i want review I want to get some feedback on from some MasterSmiths.
00:18:40
Denis Tyrell
So, yeah. but I don't know. If I still have that Kumai folder that I just finished, I might bring that. I don't know if it's going to last that long, but we'll see.
00:18:41
echo_blades
Nice.
00:18:52
Denis Tyrell
But... Yeah, I like it. it's um It came together nicely. i i don't know. i was i I had the coffee mixed, and I was going to black it out.
00:18:52
echo_blades
Yeah, that came out good.
00:19:05
Denis Tyrell
And then um and i did my you know I etched it, and then I did my step of like buffing it so that the 15 and 20 stays really shiny. And i just I just love the really like the high buff mirror.
00:19:21
Denis Tyrell
polish on the on the blade i just thought it looked really cool so i just decided to leave it that way which i haven't done in a long time um
00:19:30
echo_blades
Yeah, I'm kind of mixed about that because the the bolster and everything are all darked out.
00:19:35
Denis Tyrell
yeah i i almost um and i still could actually um i was thinking about um sandblasting the bolster
00:19:36
echo_blades
I could see it looking good both ways.
00:19:51
Denis Tyrell
i I want to do this and just see what it looks like. Sandblast the bolster and then buff it. Just to see what that buffing after sandblasting looks like. Because it's going to have that kind of roughish finish. But then some of it will be really shiny. I think that might be a really cool looking finish.
00:20:10
echo_blades
Yeah, I'd be interested to see.
00:20:10
Denis Tyrell
And I did the, you didn't see it, but I did the Kraytex swirls on the inside of the liners. You following what I'm talking about?
00:20:21
echo_blades
Nope. Not even going to pretend.
00:20:25
Denis Tyrell
uh crate texas um it's like a um a really flex flexible it's i don't know how you describe it it's like if you took i don't know
00:20:39
Denis Tyrell
some kind of like almost like epoxy and then you embedded it with um abrasive so it's a consumable you put it in your drill press it's a cylinder so it comes in like quarter inch and then you you know You hit it with your drill, but you spin it in your drill press. I actually use the mill.
00:20:58
Denis Tyrell
And then every quarter inch, you do a little spiral. Since it's got abrasives, it does a little like a circle, right? A perfect circle, a shiny circle because it's got abrasives. Then you move over a quarter inch and you do another one and you move over and you do another one. It does these perfect little swirls on the titanium.
00:21:17
Denis Tyrell
It looks really nice.
00:21:20
Denis Tyrell
You're looking it up with Kratex's.
00:21:23
echo_blades
Yeah, I'm coming up with a bunch of video game texturing. All right.
00:21:27
Denis Tyrell
And yeah I'll show you.
00:21:28
echo_blades
Well, yeah.
00:21:29
Denis Tyrell
it It looks cool. I should, I might even do a video on it at some point. It's very easy though.
00:21:33
echo_blades
Okay. Okay.
00:21:36
Denis Tyrell
But, um, uh, yet again, dropping small parts on the floor is fucking bullshit.
00:21:47
Denis Tyrell
And it's always right before. so I had a class this weekend and i always like clean the shop before the class and I'm putting this knife together on Friday. um And the back bar is kind of sticking and I'm trying to get it off to, I don't forget what I was doing, but I had to disassemble it.
00:22:04
Denis Tyrell
And I did one of those, like pull it apart and then half of it goes flying. I lost like a bearing and a stop pin and the the bearing I lost, like I don't even know where, and I didn't even find it while I was cleaning up.
00:22:13
echo_blades
lost lost yeah oh man that's a bummer well it's good thing you know where to go to get all that kind of stuff right
00:22:19
Denis Tyrell
So I have no idea. It could be on my table somewhere. i have no idea. Yeah. But I wanted it.
00:22:29
Denis Tyrell
That's right. um if i'm If I'm looking for folder parts, the first part place I'm going to check is Maritime Knife Supply.
00:22:37
echo_blades
mm-hmm
00:22:38
Denis Tyrell
They got everything you need for folders and anything else you want to make.
00:22:43
Denis Tyrell
They got abrasives, they got tooling, they got grinders, they got a steel, you name it.
00:22:43
echo_blades
Anything.
00:22:48
echo_blades
Steal.
00:22:50
Denis Tyrell
They got everything over at Maritime Knife Supply.
00:22:52
echo_blades
Mm-hmm.
00:22:52
Denis Tyrell
So go check them out. The particular... um ah bearings that I lost were actually skiff bearings. And you should go, if you're looking for high quality bearings, you should go check out the skiff workshop. And while you're there, go check out the drop point and put your knives up on the drop point newsletter. That is a weekly newsletter from the minds at skiff workshop. And they will get your knives out there to real collectors and real buyers. And it costs you nothing.
00:23:28
Denis Tyrell
So skip the skip the social media bandwagon and use the Drop Point newsletter.
00:23:29
echo_blades
Zero.
00:23:35
Denis Tyrell
It goes out every week. So get your knives on it.
00:23:39
echo_blades
Mm-hmm.
00:23:40
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, but I was I wanted to get that knife done Friday because I was playing poker with the boys Friday, which was awesome. A couple of guys I haven't played with in geez over 10 years. So that was fun.
00:23:55
echo_blades
Did you implement the strategies from the novel of poker by Dennis Terrell?
00:24:02
Denis Tyrell
Well, you know what? We actually were playing limit poker too. So that was, my book was on limit poker, but I,
00:24:09
echo_blades
Oh my God. Chapter one, limit poker.
00:24:11
Denis Tyrell
no, the whole book is on, but actually the first, I haven't played limit.
00:24:16
echo_blades
It's a one chapter book.
00:24:17
Denis Tyrell
ah Yeah. I haven't played limit poker in so long.
00:24:19
echo_blades
ah
00:24:22
Denis Tyrell
And it, it, I think it took me a good hour to like, remember how to play. Cause I'm usually playing no limit. And, um, yeah and I was getting no cards.
00:24:35
Denis Tyrell
ah The last two hours, I was getting hit with the deck. Like, I was starting to feel sorry for everybody else at the table because, yes i was I was literally getting every card imaginable and kicking everyone's ass.
00:24:43
echo_blades
What were you trying to feel? Sorry? Sorry?
00:24:55
Denis Tyrell
Like, I think I, like, near the end of the game, um you say, okay, we're going to play, like, X number of hands or whatever. We're going to play until this. I won like the last four hands in a row everyone was like, uh,
00:25:08
echo_blades
It's like when people can make knives with you. there It's like, it's cool for a minute. And then they're like, get out of here, fucker.
00:25:14
Denis Tyrell
I mean, we were not playing high stakes by any means, but, uh, still walked home with like 250 bucks. So I was happy.
00:25:21
echo_blades
What is high stakes? You, I just, just, just so we're clear here, there's not a fucking chance in hell. I'm going to spend 250 bucks or what what's the buy-in.
00:25:34
Denis Tyrell
Um, it, this is not a tournament, so you can buy in for whatever you want. Most people bought in for a hundred bucks.
00:25:40
echo_blades
So a hundred bucks. You see, that would be, that would be pushing it for me. That's a lot of tacos. That's kind of how I think about it. That's a lot of tacos to lose.
00:25:50
Denis Tyrell
But it's a, an entire evening of entertainment.
00:25:52
Denis Tyrell
You would drop that on golf in a, and a heartbeat.
00:25:53
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:25:55
echo_blades
Yeah, absolutely. There's no question about that.
00:25:57
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. And I get to sit around and shoot the shit up with a bunch of guys I haven't spoken to. Some of them I haven't spoken to in years.
00:26:06
echo_blades
Nice.
00:26:06
Denis Tyrell
So, yeah, it was good.
00:26:07
echo_blades
They're not going to talk to you now for another couple of years after you took all their money. yeah
00:26:13
Denis Tyrell
um Yeah, it was fun. it was I mean, I had fun. I don't know if everybody else had fun. but
00:26:20
Denis Tyrell
And and yeah usually I'm like, I'm a very different person when I play poker, like, especially if it's people, if it's with people I don't know and I've had a few drinks.
00:26:33
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Can be a bit of an asshole.
00:26:36
echo_blades
I, I,
00:26:39
Denis Tyrell
Come on, say it.
00:26:41
echo_blades
I, what, where's the news flash here, dude?
00:26:44
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:26:47
echo_blades
A bit of an asshole. I, you may have a lot of people fooled, but it ain't this guy. I'll tell you that.
00:26:52
Denis Tyrell
No, it just, I, I don't, I don't know what it is when I'm playing, if especially when I'm playing poker in Vegas. I love pushing people's buttons and, uh, giving them nicknames that irritate the shit out of people.
00:27:01
echo_blades
Hmm.
00:27:04
Denis Tyrell
and
00:27:04
echo_blades
Oh, geez. Yeah, you go in.
00:27:05
Denis Tyrell
if Oh yeah.
00:27:08
echo_blades
Are you the guy that gets mad at the player that doesn't know what he's doing or you just you like that guy because he makes you money?
00:27:13
Denis Tyrell
No, I like that guy.
00:27:14
echo_blades
Yeah, okay.
00:27:15
Denis Tyrell
just tell people, uh, you know, when someone, When someone like makes fun of someone who doesn't know how to play and gets lucky, I'm like, dude, I'll whisperr whisper to him, like, don't tap on the aquarium.
00:27:16
echo_blades
All right.
00:27:22
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:27:27
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:28
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:27:31
Denis Tyrell
If you know the poker reference, rookies are called fish.
00:27:33
echo_blades
I got something good.
00:27:35
Denis Tyrell
rookies Rookies are called fish. And don't tap on the aquarium and scare them away.
00:27:42
echo_blades
I did not know that.
00:27:42
Denis Tyrell
But yes.
00:27:43
echo_blades
It means you dropping the frickin' poker knowledge.
00:27:47
Denis Tyrell
But yeah, it made me, you know, got me jazzed up. Made me want to play more.
00:27:52
echo_blades
Cool.
00:27:54
Denis Tyrell
have to pull some dollars out of Jared's wallet and get him to play.
00:27:57
echo_blades
It'll be very little.
00:28:01
echo_blades
I have the attention span of a fish. So keeping me locked in, there better be some funny stories.
00:28:12
Denis Tyrell
Jared's like Dory.
00:28:14
echo_blades
Yeah. a hundred percent. And I got to take my pants off to count to 21. So that's, that's harsh.
00:28:21
Denis Tyrell
20 and a half.
00:28:22
echo_blades
Yeah. Fair enough.
00:28:26
Denis Tyrell
Oh, but yeah after poker, I stayed up a little too late. It wasn't too bad. It was like one in the morning or something like that. And then had a course this weekend with, um, great student.
00:28:40
Denis Tyrell
He contacted me like, cause I was supposed to be at Rick's for the, um, the auto class, the one that got canceled.
00:28:47
echo_blades
Oh, that's right.
00:28:48
Denis Tyrell
Cause Rick hurt himself. that Jared laughed about last weekend.
00:28:51
echo_blades
I'm not laughing. i don't know what you're talking about.
00:28:54
Denis Tyrell
um
00:28:55
echo_blades
Some people made me feel bad.
00:28:56
Denis Tyrell
Oh, Rick thought it was hilarious.
00:28:58
echo_blades
Good. Thank God. Cause I haven't, I never talked to him, but yeah, some people I can't forget. It was that they're like, do you really laugh? I'm like, yeah, but you gotta understand. That's, that's how we talk.
00:29:10
echo_blades
I mean, that, that,
00:29:11
Denis Tyrell
Well, there was Noah and Ryan giving you shit, too. Yeah.
00:29:14
echo_blades
Yeah, that was the one, who the the reference I'm thinking of was, I was like, Rick speaks my my love language, so he gets it. But yeah, there's a handful of others. that Yeah.
00:29:26
Denis Tyrell
Um, but, uh, it was actually, um, the guy he's made like 10 knives wanted to get, um Fresno.
00:29:33
echo_blades
Local dude?
00:29:36
echo_blades
That's, okay. Okay.
00:29:36
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. So he drove up and got a hotel whatever. Um, but he's cop in Fresno. So that was, uh, yeah, was got some good cop stories of, uh, shit happening in Fresno.
00:29:42
echo_blades
Okay.
00:29:45
echo_blades
Nice.
00:29:47
Denis Tyrell
So that was, uh, but he was, he was a great student and, um, there's only been maybe,
00:29:50
echo_blades
Awesome.
00:29:55
Denis Tyrell
four or five times where we've had enough time at the end of the two day course to make a kydex sheaths. So not only did we have time to make kydex sheaths, we had an extra hour and a half.
00:30:10
Denis Tyrell
So we threw some San Mai in the forge and we forged out some, we he forged out some San Mai. So we, yeah he took a billet of San Mai home.
00:30:17
echo_blades
Oh, very cool.
00:30:20
Denis Tyrell
look Look at the value in that course.
00:30:23
echo_blades
I'm seeing top, top, top level value here, dude.
00:30:28
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:30:29
Denis Tyrell
But if you can't take a course from yours truly, and you really need some steel, you should go see the boys at Baker Forge and Tool because they have the most premium steel out there.
00:30:37
echo_blades
Mm-hmm.
00:30:42
Denis Tyrell
This week's... Is the note up to date? This week's is is the Firestorm Damascus Core, which is one of my favorite patterns that they do.
00:30:47
echo_blades
It is up to date.
00:30:54
Denis Tyrell
um Yeah, awesome. um So get the app so you can actually get some of this stuff because the app guys, they steal it all. So you got to get in there with the app and order yours as soon as it comes out.
00:30:54
echo_blades
Yeah, it's a banger for sure.
00:31:10
Denis Tyrell
And while you're there, pick up some ah some Gator Piss products and some Grime Reaper because you got to clean it, etch it, and then protect it with some gator skin. So go give the boys at Baker Forge some love and use the discount code TTT10 so you know it came from us.
00:31:29
echo_blades
That's right. Where all the value is in the discount code.
00:31:31
Denis Tyrell
That's right.
00:31:35
echo_blades
I got a very special FaceTime call from Koi this week.
00:31:38
Denis Tyrell
Oh, really?
00:31:39
Denis Tyrell
Aren't you special?
00:31:39
echo_blades
I did.
00:31:40
echo_blades
Yes. And you will see that I was at work and it's all come through and i was I was in the middle of something. I said, yeah you know, I got but better we better take this. So I answer it. And right before I hit accept, I remembered that I talked a little shit on last week's episode.
00:32:01
echo_blades
And in and true in true form, i was greeted with the middle finger.
00:32:02
Denis Tyrell
Why, what did you say?
00:32:09
echo_blades
He goes, there it is, fucker. So, ah no, it was good, man. It was good to to catch up with them for for a quick minute. But, yeah, i was busting his balls about ah last year at Blade's dinner thing.
00:32:22
echo_blades
So,
00:32:23
Denis Tyrell
Oh, but you didn't you didn't elaborate on what that was.
00:32:25
echo_blades
no, I didn't. I'm not going to. But, yeah, it it it it was between him and I. And, yeah, he he answered the call and in in good form. So, yeah. Yeah.
00:32:34
Denis Tyrell
that the one where he made you walk all the way around town? That one?
00:32:37
echo_blades
No, that was our our own accord.
00:32:38
Denis Tyrell
Well, that was Lawrence.
00:32:40
echo_blades
Yeah. that will yeah There's two of these fucking restaurants in Fort Worth.
00:32:46
Denis Tyrell
Yes, I remember.
00:32:47
echo_blades
And we were having the Uber issues. And yeah i don't know. However, but it took us to the wrong one for the first time. And then oddly enough, though, we ended up walking to the other location because they're that fucking close together.
00:33:02
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, they're not they're not that far.
00:33:02
echo_blades
So. No. um But yeah. So anyways, yeah, i got to, got to catch up with Koi for a minute and yeah. Looking forward to, to see him. He'll be there. The whole crew will be there and ah just a, I guess it's still two months away. yeah
00:33:22
echo_blades
Month and a half.
00:33:22
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, i mean, one month and a half-ish, something like that.
00:33:23
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:26
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it's the second right now. um so yeah. like a month and three weeks.
00:33:33
Denis Tyrell
Something like that.
00:33:33
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:33:35
echo_blades
So anyways, looking forward to it. So I told him we're going to do that best in beard building selfie for sure.
00:33:37
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. A lot of,
00:33:43
echo_blades
Yeah, and i i i will be I will be second place.
00:33:43
Denis Tyrell
I think he's, I think he's got you.
00:33:46
echo_blades
to
00:33:46
Denis Tyrell
unless Unless you're going to get a weave by then.
00:33:48
echo_blades
No, this is...
00:33:49
Denis Tyrell
ah
00:33:51
echo_blades
It may come... It may be a little bit better, but yeah, no. That thing's a work of art, so...
00:33:58
Denis Tyrell
ah hear both of the hustle and grind boys are going.
00:34:01
Denis Tyrell
Even Brian is coming out of his cave and he's going to go.
00:34:01
echo_blades
That would be...
00:34:04
echo_blades
Nice. That's cool. I support this.
00:34:06
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Yeah. He's got to go.
00:34:09
echo_blades
That's going to be so much fun, man.
00:34:09
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:34:11
echo_blades
I'm i'm looking forward to it.
00:34:11
Denis Tyrell
That's going to be a good one. Cause it's a little smaller venue. It's a little, ah you know, it's not, we don't have a table. we don't have to, you know, we get to walk around and be nomads and
00:34:21
echo_blades
Yeah. Find a home base and then, yeah, get out.
00:34:24
Denis Tyrell
that's right. It's Koi.
00:34:26
Denis Tyrell
Koi doesn't have a table though. No,
00:34:26
echo_blades
and
00:34:28
echo_blades
I don't know if he does or not.
00:34:30
Denis Tyrell
I don't think, I think I asked him, i don't think he does. Yeah,
00:34:34
echo_blades
Yeah, I don't think he does either.
00:34:36
Denis Tyrell
because, right, that's what it's saying.
00:34:36
echo_blades
No, yeah, because it's like a logistical nightmare to get all this shit there. Yeah.
00:34:39
Denis Tyrell
He can't drive all that shit down.
00:34:41
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:43
Denis Tyrell
mean, he could, but yeah, yeah, he's going to be there, wandering around.
00:34:44
echo_blades
But he's there, though.
00:34:49
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:34:50
Denis Tyrell
But, cool, cool.
00:34:54
Denis Tyrell
So what would you do this week besides golf?
00:34:57
echo_blades
I had a really shitty, honestness i had a busy week at work and, um, I was pretty whooped. And so I really did just, just golf. Um, I, and the gate.
00:35:10
echo_blades
So that was a Sunday, but ah for whatever reason, like every now and again, it doesn't happen to me very often. Um, but I run, pretty lean on, on sleep and, you know, uh, operate a high stress and, you know, just always got a lot of shit going on. And, um, whether it's in my head or, or, you know, physically too, but, uh, every now and again, i get these, these weekends, days or something where it just, it hits me.
00:35:41
echo_blades
And I got home from, uh, golf on like Saturday at like two o'clock. And then I, lay down on the couch and i was out like a light till probably four 35 o'clock.
00:35:59
echo_blades
And then I started doing the gate thing. And, um, like I said, it gets, I ah put it aside. started it I installed it in one location and it ended up not working.
00:36:13
echo_blades
And so i I stopped there. But I think I was in bed by like 7 o'clock and and out by like 8. And then... So I got a lot of sleep this weekend. And I kind of did the same thing on Sunday, which was which was cool. So I was a little disappointed I didn't get out in the shop this weekend.
00:36:31
echo_blades
And then it's I didn't... I was so busy during the week I didn't get over... to to your place either. um But yeah, so it was pretty low key, not, not much way of, of shop things for me, but it was restful. And I think I'm good with that. I'll take that as a win.
00:36:52
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, when Kim's not home, I tend to stay up later and I'm either working later in the shop and then staying up later because I'm like relaxing and watching TV and I get very little sleep when she's not home, which is weird.
00:37:03
echo_blades
Yeah. I would, it would be the same for me, but i just, it's, it's weird. Every now and again, I'll just say, I'll hit these, these moments where and my body's like, all you're, that's it.
00:37:15
echo_blades
You're shutting it down and I don't have any control, but I did watch this, uh, I rewatched it. Cause I remember watching it once before. um I watched this documentary on, on Arnold Schwarzenegger, uh, dude, it's just called Arnold, bro.
00:37:27
Denis Tyrell
Love that documentary. It's good just Arnold. Yeah, it's awesome.
00:37:31
echo_blades
It is, it was fantastic. Like,
00:37:34
Denis Tyrell
It's very motivating. Um,
00:37:35
echo_blades
Yeah. So there ah one thing that stood out to me and I wanted to talk about it was, you know, because he's he's got an inspiring story, right? that The way they broke it up really kind of highlights, you know, the the athlete part, the actor part and then the the politician part. Right. And for one life, I mean, that's just like that's ah just a whole bunch of winning. Right.
00:37:58
Denis Tyrell
yeah.
00:37:58
echo_blades
Uh, and then there was one in the very sometime in the first episode, it was saying that he, he mentioned it was very brief, but he was like, he he was already a millionaire while he was still doing the bodybuilding. Cause he started buying up real estate.
00:38:12
echo_blades
Like before he got into acting, he was, he was already financially well off. Right. And I thought that was like, I was like, wow, that's great. Although it was like in the sixties when everything was a fucking half a cent for, for everything. But, um,
00:38:26
Denis Tyrell
But having a million back then is even more impressive.
00:38:28
echo_blades
ah Yeah, true. mean, it was like, yeah, I had already you know owned a couple apartment buildings and you know i was like, wow. um Somebody told me that too. He's like, if you want to get rich, you got to buy things that they're not making any more of.
00:38:43
echo_blades
And obviously land, real estate, that's property, like that which is kind of ironic because they are making more
00:38:47
Denis Tyrell
yep
00:38:51
echo_blades
property, but the land they're building on, right? Because everything now being in construction, there's no new land. They're just tearing old shit down and building on top of it. That's that's the story of my life right now.
00:39:02
Denis Tyrell
Apparently gold and silver is what you should be buying right now
00:39:05
echo_blades
Yeah. Forever. gone Yeah.
00:39:06
Denis Tyrell
Holy fuck.
00:39:08
echo_blades
But anyways, at the at the end of it, he was done to doing a recap on his life and he mentioned something about his dad is his mother and father weren't like very emotionally supportive they were kind of strict and all that stuff but he said you know basically all i did most of my life was apply one thing that my dad told me and that was be useful do something useful and um it was more like about like
00:39:42
echo_blades
Feelings, like it doesn't matter if you're feeling good. doesn't matter if you're feeling bad, right? Get out and be productive. Go do something useful, right? And the way he was applying it to it in his retirement age was like today, the you know, a lot of the opportunities I have to be useful is I get up in the morning, I'll go feed the animals. I'll shovel their shit and, you know, do that. I go work out and, you know, do a couple other things. But I think it hit me because...
00:40:07
echo_blades
ah me personally being in recovery and trying to deal with feelings and understanding that, you know, my, my using was to cover up feelings for a long time. You get it so wrapped up in like, am I to have a good day? Do I feel good? Do i have my bad mood? Am I in a good mood?
00:40:24
echo_blades
And like the, the very simplistic way that he delivered that message was like, it just doesn't fucking matter. Just get out there and be useful. It's just like like a ton of bricks for me um as I was you know laying on the couch doing nothing and sleeping, watching it. But it I think that was on, I started watching on Friday and it took me all weekend to actually stay awake through
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Inspirational Documentary
00:40:48
echo_blades
the whole thing. But I've been carrying that around with me all week.
00:40:52
echo_blades
And I think it's just, that it's a good message to Yeah. You could not be in a good mood, but you can still get out there and do what you got to do. Right. And get busy. You could be happy doing it. It's probably easier and more enjoyable, but it really doesn't matter.
00:41:06
Denis Tyrell
yeah it's that that is a really great i'll call it mini series but a really great series um both production value the story the message the format
00:41:07
echo_blades
I just like the concept.
00:41:20
Denis Tyrell
Um, but the, I agree the message and I gotta say, I, I was trying not to be, cause I was lying on the couch, watching it, literally lying on couch, watching TV all day.
00:41:21
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:41:30
Denis Tyrell
And, uh, and by like noonish, I started to have that guilt.
00:41:30
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:41:35
Denis Tyrell
And then I'm like, wait a second. I just worked all weekend. i just worked for like the last two weeks. I can take the whole day off and not, uh, not be guilty. Um,
00:41:46
echo_blades
So, which reminds me is that we had this wonderful episode last week about, you know, being full time. And, uh, you know, I was busting Dennis and and Brent's balls about, you know, like,
00:42:00
echo_blades
having to go to work and, you know, and they were trying to lay it on thick about how, how it's not that easy to be self-employed and to be, you know, this and this and that. And ladies and gentlemen, all four of you, I FaceTimed both of these fuckers.
00:42:18
echo_blades
On Wednesday or Thursday at 7 o'clock.
00:42:20
Denis Tyrell
It was Okay, yeah.
00:42:22
echo_blades
And a they were fucking... And Brent's three hours ahead. so what's his excuse? They were both they were both fucking in bed.
00:42:31
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, 7 a.m. m Yes, I was in bed.
00:42:33
echo_blades
After... um
00:42:33
Denis Tyrell
I don't know what Brent's excuse was, but...
00:42:36
echo_blades
Oh, it was cold probably, but this is after they send me this reel about, Oh, you think it's easy to have a, to be a full-time maker? i just, I just puked in the garbage can on the way here from the stress.
00:42:47
echo_blades
pua but I was like, you fucking, you whiny little bitches.
00:42:49
Denis Tyrell
That was me. That was Brett.
00:42:53
echo_blades
i thought that was hilarious. I should have screenshotted it and did a post, but I promised both of you I wouldn't. So I didn't, but yeah.
00:42:59
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Oh, yeah. I need to get out there. Actually. Oh, the other thing I did this week is made some more gradient bar stock because I'm working on a new pattern since I'm still on hold with the dagger.
00:43:17
echo_blades
Nice.
00:43:17
Denis Tyrell
So I might be forging tomorrow.
00:43:17
echo_blades
One,
00:43:21
Denis Tyrell
um Yeah, have a this would be that other that other pattern.
00:43:23
echo_blades
two.
00:43:25
Denis Tyrell
If I get my ass in high gear before Blade Texas, I might get this one done as well.
00:43:31
echo_blades
Nice.
00:43:32
Denis Tyrell
But yeah, I was going to do it today, and then meh, I didn't want to.
00:43:34
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:43:41
Denis Tyrell
But...
00:43:42
echo_blades
But it did look at I did look at some of my two intrepids I got coming up, and I'm going to do one of them in Griptek Stormtrooper ah theme.
00:43:42
Denis Tyrell
um
00:43:54
echo_blades
So if you are looking to get yourself some cool handle material, go check out Griptek Composites, IG. That's Griptek Official, griptek.com. You get yourself some Gripex.
00:44:08
echo_blades
Grip X 3D, limitless, and also still going right now is the ah the color of the week.
00:44:17
Denis Tyrell
Thank you.
00:44:17
echo_blades
um You can sign up for Matt's ah weekly newsletter and each week there'll be a discount code in there for a featured color. This week is classic blue, but you can use that discount code and then you can double up with the, the triple T 10 after you've took advantage of that featured color and a whole bunch of other good stuff.
00:44:41
echo_blades
um Get yourself some awesome, uh, grip tech. I'm trying to work in the the stranger, but get strange with get you with grip tech.
00:44:52
echo_blades
But he was having this, he's doing this other cool thing where he's doing this um like a bracket tournament between colors and everybody's voting on the two colors.
00:45:01
Denis Tyrell
Okay. Yeah.
00:45:03
echo_blades
And the one that I caught on was black and teal and then orange and black. And I just have a, an absolute,
00:45:17
echo_blades
disdain for the color orange. And I think anybody that voted orange, we're going to have to reconsider some things. because There is no shot that black and orange is cool.
00:45:29
echo_blades
This is not cool.
00:45:30
Denis Tyrell
just gives you the the the the giant, is it the giant?
00:45:36
echo_blades
It's the Giants. It's the Giants.
00:45:37
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:45:38
echo_blades
It's the Giants. like I mean, I don't like Halloween. like this This shit runs deep. The only thing I hate eight worse or equal is the damn Seahawks, which means i don't give a shit about this this Sunday.
00:45:50
Denis Tyrell
but So still blue and green is not your jam either?
00:45:54
echo_blades
No, I do like both of those colors, but I actually made uh, a knife. Um, I did a, uh, the first, one of the first folders I ever bought was, uh, uh, spider coat tenacious.
00:46:07
echo_blades
It's like a $50, like an entry knife. Beautiful Um, but I made a a fixed blade version of it and I used some resin handles, um, that were like really cool blue and I put green liners on it and I thought it came out great. And I handed it to, to a buddy of mine to to look at it and he's like, Oh, Seahawks.
00:46:27
echo_blades
I, I, I have, I put it down. I don't think I, I won't even give that thing away.
00:46:34
echo_blades
It's the fucking coolest thing I hate that I've ever made. Yeah.
00:46:39
Denis Tyrell
sell it to a Seahawks fan.
00:46:41
echo_blades
Yeah, I know I should take it up there. I'm going there in a couple weeks.
00:46:44
Denis Tyrell
Oh, there you go.
00:46:45
echo_blades
so Yeah, it's a travesty.
00:46:47
Denis Tyrell
ah yeah You know, right before the show, our buddy Jeff Carey sent me, did did you see this one he just did? Wait,
00:46:59
echo_blades
It's a travesty. It's shame.
00:47:00
Denis Tyrell
of
00:47:01
echo_blades
You know Game of Thrones fans? Shame. Shame. Not a single reference to Ain't It Grand in this thing.
00:47:05
Denis Tyrell
where are we talking?
00:47:11
Denis Tyrell
Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see what you mean. Yeah. um But what he did, he he did a ah Frank Machado action figure video with, I don't know, whatever he uses, chat, GPT or something like that. It's pretty funny.
00:47:29
echo_blades
I couldn't even get it. I looked for for the tagline. I'm like, there's no way. How does this not make this?
00:47:35
Denis Tyrell
yeah I don't know. But it's actually, it's Frank's actual face too. It's not like a ah likeness of him. It's him. Yeah.
Jeff Carey Video Discussion
00:47:42
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:47:42
echo_blades
That's like that hole-in-one thing with me.
00:47:44
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:47:44
echo_blades
i we i went back and rewatched it.
00:47:46
echo_blades
He's even got my fucking bone conductor headphones in that reel. like It's really my head, too. yeah he's he's He's getting good with that stuff, for real.
00:47:52
Denis Tyrell
yeah Yeah. But the the one with Frank made me laugh. um I thought he did good. He did he didt miss a chance to... should hat If you want to get really vile, he could have put He could have put a real peen in...
00:48:04
echo_blades
You could have.
00:48:06
echo_blades
Franken beans like there's all kinds of good stuff.
00:48:11
echo_blades
yeah Oh, geez, Dennis.
00:48:12
Denis Tyrell
ah
00:48:13
echo_blades
I was thinking Franken beans.
00:48:13
Denis Tyrell
and
00:48:17
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. i don we He wouldn't want to be distasteful, but it was pretty funny.
00:48:22
echo_blades
Yeah, it's a good idea.
00:48:22
Denis Tyrell
But...
00:48:23
echo_blades
It's cool.
00:48:24
Denis Tyrell
if um If you guys are in the market for a hammer, you got to go check out Two Bastards Texas Smithian Supplies for all your hammer needs. Again, it's my go-to.
00:48:36
Denis Tyrell
My student used it all all day Saturday or well half the day Saturday and when we were forging.
00:48:42
echo_blades
you shared You shared your pain?
00:48:44
Denis Tyrell
I shared my pee and we both we we took turns touching it and slamming it against the anvil.
00:48:45
echo_blades
You shared your fat pain. That's really sweet.
00:48:51
echo_blades
oof
00:48:51
Denis Tyrell
But, yeah. So, what yeah, I know you are.
00:48:53
echo_blades
Sorry I missed it.
00:48:56
Denis Tyrell
um So go contact Frank. Look him up on Two Bastards. And get yourself a peen because ain't it grand?
00:49:06
Denis Tyrell
All
00:49:07
echo_blades
have a fat pain in your hand.
00:49:10
Denis Tyrell
right.
00:49:11
echo_blades
That's right. You got get in a grand to have a fat peen in your hand.
00:49:16
Denis Tyrell
like Say like a number.
00:49:22
echo_blades
One nine hundred grand.
00:49:29
Denis Tyrell
1-900-BIG-PEEN.
00:49:33
echo_blades
Yes, it's fat peen.
00:49:34
Denis Tyrell
Oh, fat peen. Sorry. I needed three letters.
00:49:36
echo_blades
Yeah, yeah. That's good.
00:49:40
Denis Tyrell
Sorry, Frank.
00:49:43
echo_blades
Don't be sorry. I better get a shirt. We better get a shirt. I'm telling you.
00:49:49
Denis Tyrell
Oh, man.
00:49:51
echo_blades
That's good stuff.
00:49:52
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:49:54
echo_blades
Um, what else?
00:49:55
Denis Tyrell
What else?
00:49:57
echo_blades
Whoops. I'm in the wrong week. Sorry.
00:50:00
Denis Tyrell
I did get a lot of positive feedback on the ah Triple T last week on the um um on the should I go full time.
00:50:09
echo_blades
Mm hmm.
00:50:10
Denis Tyrell
so yeah, that was a bunch of people shared it, which is good. So, yeah, that was that was a fun one. Did better than I expected. um But a lot of people saying, oh, yeah, and don't forget this and don't forget that. And, yeah, everyone agreed with the warning.
00:50:30
echo_blades
Which was?
00:50:32
Denis Tyrell
have your eyes open when you, if you're going to consider it. So, but
00:50:37
echo_blades
Don't do it. it's not it's i don' I think we talked about it last week. but if If you're asking your question, you probably shouldn't do it.
00:50:46
Denis Tyrell
yeah. Yeah. But this week's, um, ah This week's Triple T is one I've been asked for a ton, and I'm finally doing it, which is making a mag chuck with switchable magnets.
00:51:02
Denis Tyrell
And if folks do want to DIY that, showing you how to do it.
00:51:02
echo_blades
Yes.
00:51:08
Denis Tyrell
But... um So check out that build this Thursday, assuming that my shipment of aluminum gets here on time tomorrow like it's supposed to.
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00:51:19
Denis Tyrell
Because I already have the magnets, but I need the aluminum.
00:51:23
Denis Tyrell
But if you want to use the best surface grinding attachment on the market and you don't want to have to DIY it, you got to go talk to the boys at Ameribraid.com.
00:51:33
echo_blades
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:51:34
Denis Tyrell
because they really do have the best surface grinding attachment that goes with the best grinder, the Fastback
00:51:42
Denis Tyrell
They have a whole host of attachments for that thing that really make it, I think, the best grinder around. So what whether it's the rotary platen, the surface grinding attachment, the drop-away platen on their new deep-sea platen, I think they're calling it.
00:52:01
Denis Tyrell
um Yeah, so many good things. So go check those out. While you're there, take a look at the HyperDisk. It's ah it's a buffer. It's a disk grinder. It's all kinds of things.
00:52:14
Denis Tyrell
So go check those out.
00:52:18
Denis Tyrell
um
00:52:19
echo_blades
Yes.
00:52:20
Denis Tyrell
Yes.
00:52:20
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, say yes.
00:52:20
echo_blades
Twice.
00:52:22
echo_blades
Do it.
00:52:22
Denis Tyrell
Yes.
00:52:22
Denis Tyrell
yes um Yeah, my student was Logan the Ameribraid as well. So, um yes, yours hopefully will be on route soon.
00:52:23
echo_blades
Do it now.
00:52:32
echo_blades
Soon.
00:52:38
Denis Tyrell
um What was the other thing? Oh, yes. i'm I'm at the point where I'm like dreading. i I'm usually on top of doing my bookkeeping.
00:52:50
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:52:50
echo_blades
Yeah, you're kind of a freak like that.
00:52:53
Denis Tyrell
I'm normally a freak, but um I think I haven't done my bookkeeping since like September. So I have a shit ton of it to do. So I'm going to i'm gonna have to take like two days. um Won't take me two days, but a good four to six hours to sit down and do bookkeeping for like four or five months. So that's not going to be fun. I'll have to do it for good old taxes soon.
00:53:18
Denis Tyrell
We are approaching the end of Jan. i like to get him in before the end of Feb.
00:53:22
echo_blades
Why does that irritate me so bad? Because it is febrero. The fucking Jan Feb.
00:53:28
Denis Tyrell
think
00:53:30
echo_blades
hey just... Is that the only month since you do that?
00:53:35
Denis Tyrell
ah
00:53:35
echo_blades
You do sept and oct and deck?
00:53:37
Denis Tyrell
the the one The ones that are are more than two syllables, yeah.
00:53:44
echo_blades
Oh, God. I don't know.
00:53:44
Denis Tyrell
I don't say it for June, July, because they're short.
00:53:45
echo_blades
just... Okay, I get that. yeah You do sept? Yeah.
00:53:50
Denis Tyrell
No, I don't, actually. ah Jan and Feb, I think, are the only ones I do for
00:53:56
echo_blades
I know. I hate those months when we're talking about doing things.
00:54:00
Denis Tyrell
Okay.
00:54:00
Denis Tyrell
Well, every time I'm, I'm near you, I'm going to start referring to months, no matter what month it is with the first three letters.
00:54:00
echo_blades
a
00:54:06
echo_blades
It'll only, it'll only, but it'll only bother me with those two.
00:54:13
Denis Tyrell
Oh, but yeah.
00:54:14
echo_blades
That's it. Yeah, but it is here.
00:54:15
Denis Tyrell
ah
00:54:16
echo_blades
it is here. Mar will be here very quick.
00:54:20
echo_blades
I mean, Yeah.
00:54:23
Denis Tyrell
Upper.
00:54:26
echo_blades
Oh, shit.
00:54:27
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Uh, I'm not, it's not that I hate doing, right well, who who loves doing their taxes, but yeah, I got get off my ass and do those.
00:54:40
Denis Tyrell
um Shall we do some Maker Spotlight or you have some other crap to talk about?
00:54:45
echo_blades
No, I think we can do that.
00:54:48
Denis Tyrell
All right, let's, who do you got? Let's hear it.
00:54:51
echo_blades
Oh, geez. Good transition. um I have, and I was just looking through ah a couple things. was going through my feed, and then i noticed that, I don't know how, but we've not ever brought up our ah buddy Nuge from Knives by Nuge. Tom...
00:55:12
echo_blades
tom I think we all we all know him, we all love him. Makes a wonderful knife, but I think it just kind of highlighting, um this is knives underscore by Nuj on Instagram. He's got 13.1 thousand followers.
00:55:31
echo_blades
But um I think over the last couple of years, watching him go from how he started to where he's at is just, you know, it's it's it's it's an inspiring story.
00:55:42
echo_blades
But um from being like, I think he was a full time, it was a cop at one point, and then, you know, decided to to jump into the full time game. but ah he's, he's taking it to the next level and and watching his success and everything grows. It's been awesome to watch. And he makes some really awesome, awesome EDC fixed blades, purposeful for hunting and outdoors. He's an outdoorsman. um And just thought I'd give him a shout out.
00:56:10
echo_blades
And if chances are, we already all follow him, but just wanted to say what's up and
00:56:15
Denis Tyrell
yeah You know what? I was not following him. That's crazy. I assumed I was, but I was not following him.
00:56:23
echo_blades
Oh, yeah. You got to go see it. The Wicked's the, you know, he just got he's got several models on magazines, but just you get in a conversation with him and ah you'll start talking, you know, business and and and and drive and and you can't help but be inspired walking away after having a couple having a chat with him. So, yeah, that's who I got.
00:56:50
Denis Tyrell
I hear he's related Ted.
00:56:53
echo_blades
oh
00:56:57
Denis Tyrell
i expected it. Oh, really? How?
00:56:57
echo_blades
oh
00:57:00
echo_blades
oh
00:57:04
Denis Tyrell
Oh,
00:57:05
echo_blades
Who do you got?
00:57:06
Denis Tyrell
I have, Ken Hawk, which is K Hawk, H A A C K K Hawk underscore cutlery.
00:57:14
echo_blades
It's what?
00:57:17
Denis Tyrell
Um, and, Ken has a lot of fixed blades. I think it's all fixed blades. didn't see any folders. Just cool stuff. Just came across my feed. um aye He's only got 466 followers. So what you should go give him a give him some love. He's ah um done a whole bunch cool stuff, done some file work.
00:57:41
Denis Tyrell
um Yeah.
00:57:44
echo_blades
Oh, he's a Condersol user. Condersol.
00:57:45
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:57:46
echo_blades
Condersol user. sir
00:57:48
Denis Tyrell
I think it's Condersal because I talked to the president the Duffy company and he referred to it as Condersal.
00:57:53
echo_blades
It is.
00:57:56
Denis Tyrell
So that's what I call it.
00:57:57
echo_blades
i would take his word for it. Yeah, I'd take his word, but I i love using Condersol, whatever I've made up and butchered like I do everything else. Yeah, no, he does some really good stuff.
00:58:11
Denis Tyrell
So, uh, yeah, go check out Ken and, uh, give him a follow. Let's pump him up.
00:58:15
echo_blades
Nice. Pump it up. I owed him follow back and I just did that right now.
00:58:23
Denis Tyrell
Cool.
00:58:24
echo_blades
Awesome. What was that?
00:58:26
Denis Tyrell
But, oh, that was me hitting my mic stand.
00:58:32
Denis Tyrell
But this is the first week in a while I haven't gone into the week with like a full plan because I'm still waiting for that freaking ivory thanks to the snowmageddon that's happening up in the northeast.
00:58:45
echo_blades
Oh dude. Yeah. Round two this week.
00:58:49
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, that's what's...
00:58:52
Denis Tyrell
preventing my shipment or delaying my shipment. So hopefully I'll get a tracking number tomorrow and, uh, uh, he'll get it out to me later this week and I'll be able to start moving on that part of the build.
00:58:57
echo_blades
Hmm.
00:59:06
echo_blades
Hmm.
00:59:06
Denis Tyrell
But, um, so I'm switching gears going in back into Damascus mode, which, uh, which is fun.
00:59:12
echo_blades
You know, Dennis, if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
00:59:16
Denis Tyrell
Yes. So I've been heard, been, been heard, been told.
00:59:21
echo_blades
been herded. You
00:59:21
Denis Tyrell
I know I had a plan, but somebody fucked my plan. It was the weatherman.
00:59:27
echo_blades
should have bet on it.
00:59:28
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, right. Do we have anybody? wait do we Do we pay all the bills? No, no, we got one more. I'll let you do that one.
00:59:36
echo_blades
two Two more. get Two more.
00:59:38
Denis Tyrell
Two more.
00:59:39
Denis Tyrell
Oh, all right. Come on.
00:59:39
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:59:40
echo_blades
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01:00:10
Denis Tyrell
Nice. Does it smell like oranges?
01:00:12
echo_blades
It does smell like oranges.
01:00:15
Denis Tyrell
Even even the butternut? Is that your cast iron?
01:00:17
echo_blades
I don't know if that, the soap didn't.
01:00:19
Denis Tyrell
No, i don't think the butternut does.
01:00:19
echo_blades
don't
01:00:20
Denis Tyrell
I think he didn't put it in there.
01:00:21
echo_blades
Yeah, no. And I think i wonder I haven't seen the soap out in a while. I need some soap. We used up ours up all a long time ago.
01:00:27
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, stinky.
01:00:31
echo_blades
And then we got to put the get the orange up in that too. So for sure.
01:00:37
Denis Tyrell
Yes.
01:00:38
echo_blades
And then did you do any heat treating this week?
01:00:40
Denis Tyrell
yeah You know, that's another thing that I did in the class. Since my student has a heat treating oven, the first time I've ever run this course and we didn't heat treat in the forge.
01:00:50
Denis Tyrell
um We actually used the heat treating oven because, hey, that's what he's got. We might as well use it. So, yeah, I pulled out my, or pulled out, opened up my even heat kiln and used that.
01:00:50
echo_blades
Oh, cool.
01:01:03
Denis Tyrell
um
01:01:04
echo_blades
Pulled out and got it hard. Nice. Yeah.
01:01:07
Denis Tyrell
Got it hot. Got it all excited and hot. um even heat family and operated since 1948 building the highest quality heat treating ovens available um we even used it to do kydex i have one of those what are they nine by i don't know tone nine by 18 whatever those like like oven pans fits perfectly in the even heat um which is what i use
01:01:36
echo_blades
That's an interesting idea. I think I've seen you do that. And i don't know if we've ever talked about that, but yeah, I, I would never have thought to do that.
01:01:44
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I just, well, I put some.
01:01:46
echo_blades
And then you cheat too. And then you stick the shit in the press too, huh?
01:01:49
Denis Tyrell
Actually, I don't do that anymore. I have the the other press with the hand-squeezy whatever clamps.
01:01:59
echo_blades
Yeah.
01:01:59
Denis Tyrell
Ever since I added the little pegs on my forge for the kiss blocks, then I don't use the press with the the two pieces of foam anymore.
01:02:05
echo_blades
huh.
01:02:11
echo_blades
I strictly because I'm just an asshole, but I remember watching you do it one night and just judging the living shit out of you.
01:02:21
echo_blades
This motherfucker is using his hydraulic press to make Kydex. And it's not a bad idea. just, like I said, I'm being being a hater, but yeah.
01:02:30
Denis Tyrell
Hey, it works. when When you want that ultra good press on your Kydex, you need 30 tons of pressure.
01:02:38
echo_blades
Absolutely. You need 30 tons of pressure on anything. So that makes it better.
01:02:46
echo_blades
Nice.
01:02:46
Denis Tyrell
But get yourself an even heat and, you know, be be like the cool kids. as As much fun as he heating in a for ah doing heat treating in a forge.
01:02:58
Denis Tyrell
which is not fun at all. i'm being facetious.
First Homemade Forge Experience
01:03:01
Denis Tyrell
Get yourself in human heat.
01:03:03
echo_blades
You know, when I got my my new phone, um I had to
01:03:09
echo_blades
I was going through some old, I have like a bazillion pictures. Like, I mean, like, yeah, I, you want to picture count battle me.
01:03:14
Denis Tyrell
You do.
01:03:20
echo_blades
I guarantee you I'll fucking Trump your ass. Uh, I have, I have more pictures than I have profiled knives or Jared had knives. That's for sure. Um, but I was going through and, and deleting, um,
01:03:34
echo_blades
like duplicates and shit like that, that somehow get, get in the phone. I came across this old, the very first attempt at a forge that I, I ever had. And it was the, the soft brick blocks.
01:03:49
echo_blades
And I think it was from a from a red beard ops video.
01:03:52
Denis Tyrell
Oh, the propane forge?
01:03:53
echo_blades
with the With the propane forged, yeah, with the the butane, with the little slot in there. And i in the map gas, yeah, that's exactly it And I remember, you know, like how, how,
01:04:00
Denis Tyrell
The mad gas?
01:04:09
echo_blades
and that that Those things are fun for me, right? That that is not something that I you know had disdain about, but it was like pretty cool to like to do. That was like a doable project for me. But I remember cutting it out, making the hole, and then fuck the fear I had lighting this fucking thing.
01:04:30
echo_blades
is so, so out of proportion that it's, it, it made me laugh so hard because i it's like talking to but to the film.
01:04:30
Denis Tyrell
It's just a torch.
01:04:39
echo_blades
i All right, guys, here it goes. is Maiden voyage on the fucking, the homemade forge. And I'm like standing back, you know, ah far away, trying to click the fucking, uh, click the gas to get it going and you have to kind of leave it laying on its side and it was like rolling around I don't know the the fear was just like I said it was so unwarranted and ridiculous and I could literally see myself ah you know being fucking afraid of it but yeah a
01:05:04
Denis Tyrell
speaking Speaking of forge, remember the first time I had the, we were forging in my forge, the new like the one I have now, and we had the tube ignition?
01:05:09
echo_blades
and it blew up yeah
01:05:13
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it scared the shit out of us.
01:05:15
echo_blades
yeah
01:05:15
Denis Tyrell
a I had it twice, but the second time, um and I get a tube ignition, if I turn the gas too high, it's not enough air flowing um over the the burner, and it gets too hot, and then the gas ignites in the tube, which is why it's called the tube ignition, and it It's a contained space, so when propane lights up, it makes a loud pop, like a bang.
01:05:45
Denis Tyrell
Well, um Brian, my student, was standing beside it, and it was like a double one. It went, pow, pow! Like, really, really loud.
01:05:53
echo_blades
Oh shit.
01:05:56
Denis Tyrell
Scared the shit out of them. Like, i'm I know it is. Like, I expect it now, right?
01:06:00
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. When it happened to us, we were fucking, we were like running around, kill the forge.
01:06:00
Denis Tyrell
Okay.
01:06:07
echo_blades
that was fuck I did think we were going to blow up that day. That's only second, uh, eat to the glass was the other one that,
01:06:14
Denis Tyrell
To the glass? Yeah, I told him that story too.
01:06:17
echo_blades
Yeah, that one was fucking like we were clueless, clueless where the fuck this glass just.
01:06:22
Denis Tyrell
good 20 seconds we were standing around like, did someone outside throw some glass at us or something?
01:06:27
echo_blades
Yeah, like a Molotov or some shit. getss That one was fun.
01:06:33
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:06:34
echo_blades
Oh, the good old days.
01:06:35
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. No, just normal shit happens.
01:06:40
echo_blades
Yeah.
01:06:41
Denis Tyrell
yeah
01:06:42
echo_blades
All right. Well, let's get out of here, dude. ah Thank you all for joining us.
01:06:45
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:06:48
echo_blades
for another episode number 103.
01:06:52
Denis Tyrell
103 cream sauce is the best. That's what we're calling it.
01:06:55
echo_blades
That's right. That is what it is, buddy.
01:06:59
Denis Tyrell
All right. We're out.
01:07:04
echo_blades
Got to hit you with an Arnold.
01:07:16
echo_blades
California, California. That's a wrap.