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E29: Bob is not your uncle
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We talk about Jerid's first Cumai and how things went. Fun with folders and hollow grinds and everything else in the shop! Come check it out!
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Transcript
Introduction to Triple T Podcast
00:00:15
Speaker
What's happening, everybody? This is Jared from Echo Blades, and you're tuned in to the Triple T podcast for knife makers. As always, I have my co-host, the smash YouTube sensation, Dennis Terrell, from Terrell knife works. Coming at you live. You'll only need the edge of the sea. You sound like the announcer at Monster Jam.
00:00:42
Speaker
in a world where podcasts are lame. Here comes Triple T to save the day. That's tools, tips, and talk. That's probably one of my favorite things to do is do that intro. That's tools, tips, and talk. Yeah, it's the best. Pretty discuss info for the knife maker. In this episode, we're going to be talking about bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh, bleh. An extra bleh, bleh.
00:01:11
Speaker
Yeah. What's up buddy? How are you? Um, well, you know, I've had some ups and downs this week.
Dennis' TV Shopping Frustrations
00:01:18
Speaker
Uh, I've had to, had to purchase a new TV this week, which I was not pleased about. Um, that was an expensive, uh,
00:01:30
Speaker
fucking TVs, and like I'm going to sound old, but this this used to be like, you know, you could look at like four different computers and they all look, i the names of them are identical and they vary by like thousands of dollars. That's what I feel like TVs are. If you don't look up and research what every fucking little acronym means, they vary from $3,000 to $300 and they all sound the same.
00:01:55
Speaker
It was very frustrating. It took me two hours to figure out what TV I wanted to buy. What did you get? I don't know. Like some LG OLED 4k 65 inch TV.
00:02:13
Speaker
but there's like Sony or sorry, Samsung alone has like 65 different variations on that same size of TV. It's so confusing. yeah I made a mistake. I, when we got the house, that was like a big thing for me was I wanted to finally get a big screen TV out of like a status thing. Like, you know, Hey, I've arrived. I'm a real adult.
00:02:39
Speaker
I'm a real boy, you know, like and um I ended up getting like the entry level into the high end TVs. And I will never do that again. It was a complete waste. Like I remember standing in front of the and at the wall, the TVs at Best Buy. And I looked at my kids and I'm like,
00:03:03
Speaker
Do you guys notice a thousand dollar difference between these? Just yeah like, you know, because they they blast the full 4K, the best ah the the TV can produce. You're never going to see that, you know, like your internets or your your cable or whatever your streaming is going to come in at like 720 or something stupid, you know. And yeah, but I still went with it like a dumbass.
00:03:28
Speaker
So I believe you could have spent about 800 bucks to a thousand bucks and probably got a really good TV. See, I was debating between $1,000 and like $1,400 because anything below like $900, it's like crappy overseas brand that, you know, it's going to break in a year. It's like and yeah in in the right the insignia ones. I have those in the RV. Um, but.
Switching from DirecTV to YouTube TV?
00:03:58
Speaker
Um, I actually went on because I have a YouTube business account. I went on the YouTube business account and this LG TV. Cause I looked at it, um, without a business account and it was like a thousand dollars off.
00:04:15
Speaker
So I ended up getting like a 20, $2,300 TV for like 1300 bucks. So that's what I ended up going with. I mean, it's not a good day, but I'm just sitting there watching TV and all of a sudden TV goes black. And I'm like, is this just a really slow scene? Just out of nowhere. Uh, I was really pissed off and.
00:04:41
Speaker
Yeah. It was not a good day. Yeah. And it was, and it was Sunday and my wife wanted to watch football. So she had to watch it in the, uh, in the bedroom. She didn't like that. that sucks Yeah. Well, you know, you probably got all the bells and whistles and all the cool shit that you don't know how to use. So that's cool.
00:04:57
Speaker
Well, our TV was so old, we didn't have like Disney plus and all those, like we had YouTube and prime and Netflix, but not Disney plus. And we have a Disney plus account, but I have to like watch it on my phone or plug my phone in the TV. And it's like a big thing. It was pissing me off. So now the new one will have all that.
00:05:18
Speaker
Now your hips looking cool, dude. Look at you. I know, right? About YouTube doing it for you. I love this. You know, okay. i years's Since we're talking about TVs, you have Comcast for your TV? Yes. Okay. Cause we have a direct TV, which I've always been a big fan of direct TV. I've always liked the interface, you know, never had a problem with it, but it's expensive. And a friend of mine, actually we're going to talk about Dan later on, but um ah he's got YouTube TV and he was telling me about it and then I'm like, Oh, you know, maybe I'll actually switch to YouTube TV. But then it's like, what about,
00:06:01
Speaker
What about all the shows I watch? What about HBO? What about, I'm sure you can probably get all that stuff on. Yeah, you can. Yeah. It's just, it's a totally different interface. Like he was, yeah, I'm i'm a little hesitant. I'd have to try it for a bit and see if I like it first, I guess.
00:06:19
Speaker
Yeah, I know a lot of people that have gone away from cable and just did the the streaming networks and they, it's substantially cheaper, but you know, like you lose live TV, local TV, sometimes that's a challenge. Um, but they say they've got it figured out.
00:06:34
Speaker
Um, my wife just is really about her Comcast DVR and all our shows and like, she's not interested in switching. So I'll just keep supporting them. So by Comcast stock folks, they're shitty. And I pay for like 1200 megabytes of internet and I get like 20% of that right now. So I'm not happy with them.
00:06:58
Speaker
Yeah, I boycotted Comcast a long time ago, so I don't have anything on Xfinity, whatever it is now. Same thing, same same shit, different smell. Yeah, I smell what you're stepping out.
00:07:13
Speaker
Right on. Well, the appliance hour is over. That's cool. Uh, yeah. So that was, that was the start of my week yesterday. Um, figure out the TV didn't work. So that was a pissy, but it got better.
Jared's Kumai Forging Journey
00:07:30
Speaker
Um, you know, someone I know came over and we forged a Kuma. That's right. I'm fired up for that. Yeah. I'm i'm actually pretty interested in see what that's going to look like.
00:07:44
Speaker
Yeah, me too. Mr. Jared did his first attempt at Akuma, which is weird because like, I'm buddies with like, Mr. Kuma. And it it it dawned on me like, I think it was a couple weeks ago, you were talking, we were talking about, I'm like, I've never done, I want to do one, I want to do one.
00:08:05
Speaker
And I was the one that suggested it. I'm like, why don't you do a kumai and you're like, yeah and at first you sound like you poo pooed it. Well, well, I kinda, I, I don't have any, I don't have a rebuttal to that. I just, you know, I think, how do you say this? A lot of people do it, right? So I think enough people would do it and people probably do it better. So I was in no rush to get to it. I knew I would, but, um,
00:08:35
Speaker
very challenging experience. I must say that it's not like it's, um I mean, like I said, it, I always say it's, you know, a huge plus having you in the corner, even though you make me do everything, um which is lame. I'm just handed to you on a platter. Yeah, why not? But a lot more stress. You know, you hear all the horror stories of people, you know, pollution, copper all over everything and, uh, you know, checking the temperatures and, uh, constantly or not. So I have an attention issue, right? So, uh, easily get distracted. And, you know, I think you were saying like,
00:09:20
Speaker
Every time I failed on Akuma, I've not been paying attention for a fractional period of time, like very small 30 seconds or something. I walk away and I just didn't get back to it in time. and yeah And then it's done. Yeah, I mean, and for everyone else, this is the very first time and I was guinea piggy Jared here. ah We did Akuma with only tacking the corners.
00:09:47
Speaker
yeah We did not weld up the sides. Just tacked the corners and did the whole thing that way and I kind of liked it because you could see the copper. You know if the copper is melting. Oh yeah, that's what you're saying. i yeah So for me, every time we go through this stuff, like yeah you got Dennis talking to me, telling me what should I look for and what you know what to pay attention to and all that stuff. But when you have no reference to what you're familiar with, sometimes it's a little difficult. So I do say, am I seeing this right? And I wasn't quite picking up what you were putting down. um
00:10:23
Speaker
until you kind of were just discussing what you were discussing right now. You're like, Oh, you could see the, you know, the ribs of the, the copper on the ends of the billet. And only because we didn't completely seal it up. Yeah. which was And, and I had, my thermocouple has been going in my forge. Like I knew it was off by, cause, um,
00:10:49
Speaker
I had um screwed up a billet because it got too hot, but even though I had the PID set at 1800 degrees, so that's like 180 degree like fail safe, right? Cause it's 1980, 1984 where copper melts. And then I melted it out. So I knew, I knew my thermocouple was going. And so during this, sorry, Peter, I misspoke buddy. I told my buddy that it was 1800. I tried to set him up. I was like, so what's the difference? what What's the melting point of copper? And I was pretty sure it was 1800.
00:11:31
Speaker
And then I told him, you know, Oh, and then I said, what's the, what is steel melt at? And he was real quick, 2,200. And I was like, no, no, no, that's Forge. Well, I don't know. 24 50, 2,500.
00:11:49
Speaker
Oh, so not that much more. Okay. Yeah. I mean, relatively speaking. Anyway, sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off, but my bad. But, um, where was I? Um, yeah, so it was good to, so with the thermocouple is going. So we had to do everything by eye. So Jared was doing it. I took him through the first few heats.
00:12:08
Speaker
But um then he got to do it by eye while I was changing the thermocouple, which was done by the time we finished. Like I literally I think I put it in and we we figured it out at the very end. It really was. It was challenging. Every time we do something, I get to do something. There's always something fucked up going on, right? you're The breaks, right? Because we're taking advantage of the, you know, the the tools.
00:12:35
Speaker
at our disposal and thermal couples going out. So we have no PID or we can't trust it. Right. And then you run out of propane in the middle of it. Yeah. And we got to switch out the bottles and yeah, it was, uh, it's always, yeah you know.
00:12:49
Speaker
Yeah, but that was after it was already welded, braised, whatever you want to call it, together. So we were just drawing it out at that point, so it didn't really matter. But um but yeah, you got you got to see what it was like to do it by eye. And the big thing is leave the forged door open and stare at the billet and turn it every minute, every 60 seconds. um And that's I think that's the key to a good a good kumai is just to get a balanced heat don't overheat it and by turning it you're just you know you'll obviously you can't have your forge running at 2000 degrees but but um yeah but you did well yeah i made towards the uh in the beginning i i was clueless right i was you had made a reference to you know like a color on the um on the side of the forge that
00:13:45
Speaker
It should be, you know, but there's, you know, like a rainbow of colors on the side. So I wasn't trying to be a Dick at that moment, but I was like, bro, that doesn't help me. Like right there on the side of the Forge. It's super glow and orange all the way down to a, you know, a kind of a ah hot red, you know, but, um, I think the big, the moment that it kind of all came together for me was the first heat.
00:14:13
Speaker
We thought we had it hot enough. Um, and we had the, the long guys in and when we tried to set the first, uh, set the first forge weld, um, I didn't quite get that the billet buried in. So the front half where the handle was, you kind of spotted it. You're like, I don't think that one kind of stuck. And I was like, Oh shit. And so we were a little bit of concern. And then when we put it back in, this was key for me anyways. Um, I could, I could.
00:14:43
Speaker
visually see
Exploring Knife Patterns and Copper Pinstripes
00:14:45
Speaker
the parts of the billet that were welded. All, you know, um getting the same color throughout. And then there was that one little spot on the front of the billet that was... Yeah, the clamping was ah definitely a different color than the center. It was great at that part. It was hot. Hot as shit really quick. Far hotter than the rest of the billet. and So for me, that was a bit i was a like a big aha moment. like Um, so we switched the dyes and got it, uh, got that part nice and hot and, but it all stuck together. And yeah, came it's cool. Yeah. Have you, you haven't grown the edges on that thing yet? No, I haven't done anything. I just, uh, been staring at it. Yeah. But it's really, really, really, really cool. But I do like the fact that you can only see those, those three spots, you know, and middle and where all the, the, the welds are. Um, so.
00:15:37
Speaker
Yeah, it I mean, I will be doing it this way from now on um because it's a pain. It is one of those things I like I dread. um It's like when I'm doing them um a mosaic and I have to like grind the um the sacrificial steel off like I hate that step.
00:15:59
Speaker
And I hate the step when I have to grind the edges of a kumai to see, to get into the billet before I profile anything. So just not having to do that step, uh, is, is a big bonus. Yeah, I could see that. um Although I've never done it any other way, but.
00:16:18
Speaker
Yeah, but you were setting me up. I know you were. You were like, Koi doesn't do it. Well, i that was kind of the thing like, okay, Koi's not doing it that way. I did a reel about it today, which is like the first reel I've done in a long time, dude. ah Apparently I've been taking a break. I didn't realize I was taking as far as content making. And yeah, come on, get off your ass. Put some stuff on social media. I can't somebody had mentioned that though. Oh, nice to see that you don't have to weld the entire thing up. Yeah, I saw it. I haven't read any of the comments on it though. Yeah, actually, I saw it on Facebook. I didn't see it on Instagram.
00:17:00
Speaker
Oh, oh, yeah. I still haven't fixed that. Yeah. I think I posted it to the echo blades page, though. Yeah. On Facebook. So but it is a couple of stories here and there. and And now it's like I don't mean to if you do follow about put a story on echo blades and then something on the the triple T. And then I look go to my my personal Facebook and I got the same real doubled up because they're all linked. Everything's like my bad.
00:17:32
Speaker
Yeah, I've been trying to do some more um YouTube shorts. I've been putting up a bunch more shorts lately because I put up that one about the Condersal. I put up one on that Kumei Bowie, um the Bowie knife. um Yeah, I'm trying to just get more content out there. I'm noticing that it's it's even putting up shorts is causing more people to see my stuff because they're clicking on the what's next or the linked videos so it's actually helping so I need to do more of the of the YouTube shorts and really
00:18:12
Speaker
Like ive I've been I like the editing on Instagram. So I've been editing on Instagram because I can put the captions and all that stuff and then downloading it and putting it on YouTube shorts. So that's kind of my my methodology now. OK. I don't ever see those. But I don't use YouTube like that. And my guess, my the rest of my.
00:18:41
Speaker
you doing viewing is so. Vast that I got my the home screen is always full of weird shit, so I don't I don't really the shorts I see aren't like really knife related, so I don't catch those. I'll have to check those out, though. But if you don't want to make kumai, what do you do? I would go to Baker Forged and steal and go check out Koi and the voice. It's Bakerforged and Tool, first of all. like I'm reading Steel. I'm really looking at the word Steel. My bad, Gordon. God, worst read ever. Geez, good Lord. You know what we just did? We just really, really, really, really drove home that it's Bakerforged and I want to say Steel so bad.
00:19:39
Speaker
My bad. Anyways, what do you, where would you go? Did you go to the same place? I think you should. Yeah. I mean, if, if if I didn't want to make Kuma, I would definitely go to Baker Forge. They have some of the most amazing patterns. Um, what they got up on the website now, they are dropping some, um, elite copper my ripple tiger may raindrop and chevron copper my and these are all going to be in thin um thin billets for chef knives and folders so definitely go check them out um
00:20:18
Speaker
Those patterns, like the copper my, I think it's the copper my ripple. That one is my favorite pattern. ah like It's like a, well, oh no, it's the Chevron copper my, I'm sorry. It's the Chevron copper my that I like, um that I think just looks amazing. I mean, they're all amazing, but that's probably my favorite one is the Chevron. Yeah, they're bad. They're so good. I said they're bad, but like badass.
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Jared's Golf Tournament Adventures
00:21:43
Speaker
So buy a shit ton of it.
00:21:46
Speaker
and put in that code and you'll see a shit ton of discount. That's official, in case you're wondering. Go do it. Oh. So besides doing Kuma, what else is new in your shop? Get into the shop at all? Mm. Little bit, not much. I did some cleaning. Cleaning. That was more than anything. My shit's still a disaster, so.
00:22:13
Speaker
Um, where do you want to say, where's Jared Jr? Isn't that his job? Yeah, he kind of fell off. Cause dad forgot about it.
00:22:25
Speaker
i know damn good point that is a damn good Son, we're going to change the way we're doing everything. He's just going to wait it out. Dad's going to get busy and mess around. We forget.
00:22:40
Speaker
Yeah, the the weather switched up really nice. And it's kind of come down to like normal temperatures now. And um on Saturday, the reason why I didn't get in there Saturday was I i had that golf tournament. And it was a good time. A course is really, really, really narrow. and And the excuse is starting already. Not forgiving. So what course was it? Redwood.
00:23:10
Speaker
redwood. Where's that? Oh, that's the, oh, yeah that's the one in Castro Valley. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You said you had played there. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, it's been a long time. I don't remember, but and autoris love really narrows I lost a lot of balls. Yeah. So I, I, I entered that with a 30 handicap and on any given day that could be a,
00:23:38
Speaker
a really bad sandbag, like, like major cheating, because I can golf good sometimes. But ah since I've just been kind of getting back into it, it was it was right on right on par. So I golfed, I think I shot 114, which netted me 84. I was nowhere near competing. But with that high ass handicap, I took a 12 on a whole.
00:24:06
Speaker
Like a 12. Oh, yeah. So I, I hit my first ball off the tee into the fucking woods. So you drop to hit three from the tee again. I hit that fucker into the, so drop four, I'm hitting five and I haven't even got off the tee yet. And it was a par five. So it took me another seven to get the ball in the hole. And I was pretty pissed, you know, but the thing about golf is like, I was talking to somebody about it and he's like, man I couldn't do it after nine holes, I'd be done. I'm like, yeah, well, the the thing is like you hit one good shot and then you feel like you got it all figured out in your back and it's great again. So the next hole I ended up just parring. So I hit a decent drive, got up there and I part it, which netted me because of the handicap, a two, which is an eagle.
00:24:56
Speaker
And I ended up winning like eight skins, seven or eight skins for like 35 bucks, I think, which is about half the round. So I still made some money and it made it everything worth it. So now all the frustration and it was good. I got to golf with Jeff. Uh, I haven't seen him in a while cause some old bastards been fucking keeping him busy, making sand minnows. But, uh, yes, I got to hang out and do that. And that took up the day pretty much.
00:25:26
Speaker
And then Sunday was cool my day. Which I did want to say. I think it was really cool. And I know you've already done it. And I'm not saying you should do it again. But I think the explanation of the the thirds on the billets was like I said, sometimes you receive more and sometimes you receive less when you're talking to people and how much retention kind of comes back in. But, you know, I try not to just nod my head when people are saying things that I don't I mean, I
00:25:58
Speaker
I may understand it right there, but um I think that's one of the biggest disservices you can do to yourself is to like nod your head yes when you really don't get it. you know So that's why I came in with my little etch and sketch.
Deep Dive into Kumai Forging Techniques
00:26:12
Speaker
I was like, we're going to draw this and I'm going to ask the dumb questions. And that's what we did, but it it really kind of drove home some stuff. so Yeah, maybe I should redo that video. I actually just sent that video to someone who had the same question on on Facebook on a Facebook forum. And then I realized I had to go way back in my videos to find that one. Yeah, it's been a while. I remember it's been a couple years. least Over a year. least Over a year. Yeah. yeah um Yeah. But what I was you do that one. Yeah, what I was trying to get at was that, you know,
00:26:49
Speaker
when we were setting up the billet, right, I know that I wanted to do a Gomai. And you were explaining, you know, the, the copper has to, you know, you have to have a copper in between every piece of carbon, right. And in my mind, what I was seeing wasn't What you were explaining right? It's gonna come out just like this the the intermediate No, the intermediate wasn't that that was just a kumai one. You just yeah, it was the just a kumai movie and the krambit It was the same as the krambit. Yeah, so in my mind, I was thinking that the the copper should have been thinner and
00:27:29
Speaker
And there should have been thicker 15 and 20 in there. So we got to talking and what I wanted to do and what I want to do, what I think is going to be what can be really cool is to try to get. Excuse me.
00:27:42
Speaker
a billet that the copper is super, super thin. And we we came down to some ridiculous but thinness that it would need to be. But to kind of have like the copper like kind of pinstripe, a thicker layer of 15 and 20 in the across the bands. And we got to talking and old Dennis pull a pulls the pulls as fabulous Dennis movements like Oh yeah, I think that's pretty cool. I think, I think I'm going to do that. Well, I'm gonna do it with nickel and bubble. And I'm like, you bastard. Cause I think of something. And then the reality is, is that he's going to do it. Right. I think about a lot of shit. I don't ever, I don't ever really do them, you know, like complete the task or something. I mean, multitude of excuses and reasons, but.
00:28:35
Speaker
I was like, okay, all right. i I accept this because there's nothing I can do about it. All I ask is that you just say, Hey, I stole this from Jared.
00:28:48
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, it's hard to get thinner because the copper I use is 20 thousandths, 20 thousandths of an inch thick. It's hard to find copper that's thinner than that. I mean, I guess you can. um It's hard to find it in sheet like that was the thinnest that I could find in a reasonable size kind of thing like you can but because that they use that for roof sheeting. So it's say yeah it's cheap. It's easy to get.
00:29:16
Speaker
yeah Yeah, that's what comes in that big ass roll, right? Right. That's what's in the big ass roll. And it's not that expensive. um But to get it thinner than that, then you're working with like 12 inch strips and it's just and then it's a pain in the ass. um So to combat that when you want the pinstripes, you just make your core like quarter inch thick or three eight stick and you're cladding thicker and then you draw it down and then you'll have the copper will end up being the pinstripe because you're going to forge it. You're going to draw it out that much thinner the whole billet. Yeah.
00:29:52
Speaker
I think it'd be cool. I think it'd be, you know, I'm sure it's been done. It's not not like, you know, I mean, it's essential. If you look at a lot of toys patterns um at Baker Forge, they do a lot of very thin copper, but lots of layers. Yeah. Because most of their patterns have lots of layers of copper.
00:30:11
Speaker
Yeah. Um, and I, I've never asked him what the kind of the starting star steel layer thickness, that'd be a good, if we ever have them on again, I'm going to grill them on that. Or let us know, send us a private message and we will tell us all your secrets, boy. Yeah. We will never share any of this proprietary information with anybody. Yeah. Except in a YouTube video.
00:30:39
Speaker
This is not working in my advantage here, Mr. Fucking share everything.
00:30:47
Speaker
Well, I think it would be good to without having the the Damascus cladding, though. It would really you could kind of really highlight that that pinstripe if you could pull that off, you know, not be all busy with all the looks better with the Damascus. How do you know? Low layer is great. So it's all what you like.
00:31:07
Speaker
I, for the kumai, Dennis, you can't do that. You cannot do what you just did. Some people like other things than you, Dennis. I'm saying I was going to correct myself when I do kumai. I like it with the Damascus cladding or, ah or sometimes in Damascus core. I just think it sets it off more, but I mean, it looks okay with just copper in. It's definitely cool. Yeah. I'll show you how it really is done here.
00:31:37
Speaker
Yeah. I don't know the cool thing, man. I learned a lot. Thank you. It was a, it was a good time. A lot of fun. Um, but you're not bullshitting about, and I think you scared the shit out of me too. So I literally stood in front of that fucking forge for way too long. I never walked away. I was a good little boy. I kept turning the thing like.
00:31:58
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Oh man, like it was marshmallows on the freaking roaster. It was like Jared in front of the oven when he was a kid. Yeah. Watching the cookies baked. It was exactly that. I was just like.
00:32:14
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didn't give the bad Nothing, man. I was like, man, when we do regular stuff, he could walk around and grind something and do all kinds of shit while you're waiting around this. No, no, no, no, no. I was not going to have that thing. Yeah. Fail on my watch anyways. Yeah. Yeah. The most times where I've had an issue, it's because I've looked at my phone and got immersed in something on my phone and had it fail.
00:32:40
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yeah I would say there was a there's always a ah probability of failure, but I wasn't going to have it fail because I wasn't paying attention. I'm totally OK with fucking something up or squishing it too hard or, you know, like doing something to mess it up. But it wasn't going to be because I was looking at my phone. Well, good down down the road.
00:33:02
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that much was here. So it was a good time, though. I learned a lot. And I'm super happy with it. I had a I use two inch stock. So I got wide. Yeah. Yeah. Two inch wide stock. And so I got I got a pretty big billet. Yeah, it's like what to two and an eighth.
00:33:19
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wide the billet because we mostly drew it with the mill, um, with the rolling mill, but it's like, well, what do we say? It was like 16 inches long. It's a lot of steel. Like overall, it's like 18, but I think we've got about 16 usable and it's just over, we'll probably have just over two and an eighth for, for way. So.
00:33:39
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Yeah, that's great. That'll be a great person. I would have made it wider if I if I wasn't so focused on not messing it up. But yeah, we could have done a couple more presses with the flat dyes and drew it out a little, you know, wider before we went to the rolling mill. But yeah, I just think you with with it being just a ah tad wider, you can maximize the use of the steel, you know, yeah you know, kind of because I'll I'll just ah
00:34:09
Speaker
ah stock removal something. Yeah, you know, out of it. So yep. Yeah, that was cool. You know, if you have a little ah a little piece, you don't know what to do with and it's about the size of a folder and send it my way. i'm I'm definitely more conscious now with saving those pieces that are, you know, you can't really make a knife out of but you can make a folding blade out of some definitely paying attention to those more.
00:34:36
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Yeah. And I'll make sure to use every single bit of that bill. but
00:34:43
Speaker
Absolutely. 100% or I'll send it to somebody. Uh, yeah, which I'm excited. I'm excited, dude. The, the, the stuff you're working on. Are you talking about that? Or is that top secret?
00:34:57
Speaker
What the folding knives? Mm hmm. No, no, definitely. um So I've been working on a folder, a design of my um I have that sand tiger, which is the what are you pointing at yourself for? I just you keep saying a folder. Let's say yeah just call it what it is. Oh, you mean the one here is folder.
00:35:25
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anyways good there's so my it's like the my little recurve tanto kind of edc knife i'm turn that into a folder um so that's i kind of designed it on knife print ah who is the sponsor of the apocalyptic challenge, by the way, so go check them out. They have great prizes for the viewers in the apocalyptic challenge. um But I designed it in knife print and flipping around and do all kinds of cool stuff with it, which has saved me so much time.
00:35:55
Speaker
um an effort of not screwing something up. um But I'm pretty close. I'm actually just, I'm waiting for parts actually, because I screwed up an order and I forgot to order something. So I'm waiting for some washers and I think I have all the other bits. But um once I get this one done,
00:36:20
Speaker
And I've got the steps in my head, like I know what I'm doing and I've proved out all the steps on my hardware, like my mill and all that stuff. ah I'm going to do a multi-part series on making a liner lock in on triple T, which I think will, I've been asked for it so many times. So I think that'll be a really popular series.
00:36:44
Speaker
of, um you know, how do you make a folder? And I think I'm gonna do it so that folks won't need a mill. There's one part that um I think you could get away with not doing it on a mill. um Mostly 99% of it is gonna be drill press.
00:37:10
Speaker
i'm goingnna just all use the I'm going to use my mill as the drill press, but it doesn't matter. um You could use whatever true drill press you had.
Making Liner Lock Folders on YouTube
00:37:20
Speaker
um But i'm gonna I'm gonna go through that whole series as if there's only one part, which is doing that, the crescent slot on the knife that you kind of need a mill for. I mean, I think you could probably get away with putting a, um um maybe putting an end mill, you know just for that operation, putting an end mill in your drill press. I know you're not supposed to, but you could probably get away with it
00:37:50
Speaker
like drill a bunch of holes and um and then just pivot it. You'll see in the series, but I'm going to try to make it so folks can do this without a mill. Well, that's super cool. Yeah. So I'm excited about that. I think that's probably going to start in two or three weeks. I'll start that series and it'll be like, cause it's going to be still a little small little installments. Like the first one's going to be the design and doing the design and what's important. What is a liner lock? Why, what are the things you need to look for in the design? It's mostly going to be the design and what you need to.
00:38:28
Speaker
how you set up your design um to be successful and then also what what tools what you're going to need and I like I warn people um that you're going to need to buy a lot of drills that you probably don't have and they're expensive because they're all carbide. um So if you're going to get into folders, be prepared that it's going to cost you some money just in the drills and in the tooling. And I'm not talking about a mill, so be prepared on that. But um yeah, but that that knife's going well. um I had a little hiccup trying to get the slot
00:39:14
Speaker
for the liner ah done. I had to go buy a little Dremel piece to to use but um um oh that that's one thing that well, I think you could probably do without a without a mill as well. But anyway, I'll talk about it in the series when I do it. I think that's gonna be really cool. Yeah, there's not I can't think of any like tutorial type things for a liner lock that you're gonna just randomly come across on YouTube, you know? the The only one I can think of is the one that Yikum knives did, but it's like a... What ever happened to that guy? Yeah, I don't know. I think he got out of knives, but it was like a 15 part series. And yeah ah it was great. Like he went in depth, but I found it a little hard to follow because there was so many parts. And um yeah, like you had to be dedicated and watch all the parts and stuff. But I mean, it was good stuff. I mean, he you know, he went he did a deep dive. It was great.
00:40:21
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Yeah, which is to say, you know what I mean? Like the the series won't take the place of going to take a class like you did. You know what I mean? That's right. A hundred percent. Like is if you have some experience, I'm sure it'll be really good for refreshers and, you know, yeah get you dialed back in. But there's no substitute for that. Yeah. And to be fair on the Yikum Knives series, I don't think I was at the level to absorb that information when I watched it. Like I i watched that before I had a YouTube channel. um So that was way back in my knife making career. So I don't think I was at the level to absorb that information. You know, you can just be, you know, things just go over your head sometimes and that kind of went over my head.
00:41:11
Speaker
Oh, don't I know. No, don't I know. Yeah, but um yeah, but this um this past week I did the i was working on the um the dagger that basket split dagger. That's right. Yeah, did my first hollow grind, which went great.
00:41:34
Speaker
um i That was another one I showed um on on Instagram, just how that looked. I think it went really well. The heat treat went oh well. There's a tiny, tiny little warp near the tip. That's subtle. Yeah, I could probably grind out. I might just give it a few whacks with a straightening hammer um just to see if I can take a little bit of it out. But yeah it's it's definitely grindable because I left that thing really thick, like it's quarter inch thick.
00:42:01
Speaker
um because I knew I wanted a big medial ridge in that thing. No fuller, right? No fuller. No fuller. I i want to show off the the hollow coming together in the center of the blade. so i might even I may even leave a little bit of a flat spot in the center. I'm actually debating if I want to lake um laser something in the center, like a little pattern in the center, um but it's over top of Damascus. so i don't say yeah You could just re-edge the Damascus.
00:42:40
Speaker
Yeah, but it just a cool little like a line or so' something subtle. I've never done that before. I know. Neil's has done this before on on blades and it it does look kind of cool um on the flat part of a dagger. So, but I don't know. I haven't, I haven't really thought about it yet.
00:43:02
Speaker
So, gotcha. But I was so excited about how the, um, the hollow grind turned out. I had three, you know, those three blanks or those blanks I brought to blade show the hardened blanks. Yes. Yeah. and So I remembered, I still had some of those. So I took three of my silver tip models and, uh, um, ground through all three of them with hollow grinds and, uh,
00:43:30
Speaker
They actually turned out really well. Oh, and I, by the way, when you saw the member, the, the edge was a little thick cause I wasn't, I was paying attention more to the hollow, less about the edge. I reground them and now the flats are stonewashed, but I left the, the, um, ah men said the, uh, blade silver. So it, uh,
00:43:55
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You probably can't even tell here, but the, the blade, I can't see the hollow, but I can see the the contrast. Yeah. That looks cool. Yeah. And now it's like a razor. and So the spine silver and.
00:44:11
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Yeah, spine silver, um the hall the the flats are stonewashed and the the bevel is, the hollowed bevel is like 400 grit, like satin finish. So those will be up on the, three of those will be up on the website tomorrow. Good good for good for you for taking it back to the grinder, because those bitches were thick.
00:44:36
Speaker
Yes, they were not both of them. Just that one was Yeah, it was probably 30,000 sat the edge. i It was pretty thick. Yeah, and I wasn't, I wasn't happy with it. So I knew I was gonna mull it over my head and end up going back. But I liked the way it turned out. And, and um it was cool. Yeah, when you see them in person, I think you'll like it with the two tone. Cool. Yeah. So like that.
00:45:07
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Yeah, so I got a working on those. So but between the dagger and the sand tiger, that's kind of what knife wise would have been working on.
Updates on the Intrepid 2.0 Knife
00:45:18
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Nice. I did I did do some finish up the handles on the on the. ah
00:45:26
Speaker
Oh my God. The Intrepid 2.0. So I'll probably finish that one out tomorrow. I just got to finish sanding and sharpen and sharpening Bob's your uncle. That's the term I never heard before. Knife making. You never heard the term Bob's your uncle? Never. It's like, you know, the cat's ass and Bob's your uncle. Yeah. I've never heard it. and I think Jeff was the first one to say it. I was like, Bob is not my uncle. So what are you talking about?
00:45:57
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I think that's the name of the show. Bob is not my uncle. yeah okay What about Bob? now let move ah yeah You know what I ended up doing this morning?
00:46:08
Speaker
So, um, my stepdaughters, dumb ass, ex boyfriend, ex whatever his not, sorry, he's not the dummy, his cousin who borrowed my jet ski. Um, you know, this is the issue with having jet skis. Everyone wants to ride them and a lot of people don't know how to like,
00:46:31
Speaker
how to steer them, how to yeah how to ride them. And he ran it into a dock. um So there's a whole. I don't remember that. I think I remember that. There's a hole in the front of the jet skis. So I'm on the phone.
00:46:49
Speaker
um but Sorry, I'm emailing. I'm getting quotes to get this fiberglass and gel coat repaired. And it's probably, okay, at first I thought it was maybe six inches across. That's how big the hole, like the the area that needs to be fixed. okay And I sent pictures to the guy and the guy comes back and says, yeah, it looks like about 22 or 23 hours of labor. And you know, like these guys have like a crazy rate. So I asked him, what what is the total cost on that?
00:47:24
Speaker
And he says, it's probably going to be around 25, 23 to $2,500. Like this, this is a 2003 Polaris jet ski. Like it's not worth that much. So then I'm like, um, you know, and I'm like, really to make this viable, like it's gotta be under 1500 or Lee, you know,
00:47:46
Speaker
So I sent him that email and then of course I go on YouTube and I started researching fiberglass gel coat repair and I'm like, screw it. Do it myself. So, um, I got the stuff and I did first the fiberglass repair on the jet ski this morning, which actually went pretty well. Um, it didn't take you 23 hours. It did not take me. It took me about an hour.
00:48:11
Speaker
Um, and the the great thing is like, um, while I'm watching this stuff, all I'm thinking to myself is I have that tool. I have that tool. I have those tools because it's all like sandpaper air tools, uh, grinders. I'm like, I have every single tool that they're showing in the video on how to do this.
00:48:30
Speaker
so yeah got the grinder out just ground down the gel coat ground off the gel coat ground down the the fiberglass sanded it with all the sandpaper that I have um so yeah now tomorrow I'll do the gel coat and maybe it won't look like shit so we'll see as long as it doesn't leak I'll be yeah yeah So yeah, I thought that was an interesting adventure into something non knife related, but, uh, yeah. Now, and I kind of like, well, it'd be kind of cool to learn how to fiberglass something. Uh, so now we know how to do it. Good for you. yeah Cheap bastard. I'm not spending that much money. I don't blame you, man. That's, that's ridiculous. that oh
00:49:20
Speaker
It's kind of, it's kind of funny though that you, when, when somebody gives you a price that you, you know, knocks you back a little bit, right? And then, but I always try to remember too, you know, like, will we give a price. Yes. oh i Totally. You know what I mean? It's like, totally i I get it, but fuck you. No, I'm not doing it. Not doing it. Yeah. But, but what we do.
00:49:47
Speaker
You know, almost, you know, okay. I'm going to like puff up our chests here as knife makers. Well, people can't do what we do. They don't have forages. They don't like, you know, like a guy that wants to buy a knife is not, you know, does not have these tools at home. Whereas a grinder and sandpaper and, you know, a a scraper. Uh, yeah, most people have those tools at home. Yeah. And I get it. Yeah.
00:50:15
Speaker
But yeah I had my gardener like wanted to quote me like cutting some branches off a tree and and wanted to put in bark. Yeah, I wanted to put in ah bark in my yard and he wanted to charge me like $700. It's like, are you insane? You fired him, huh? I did fire him.
00:50:40
Speaker
now Now I'm the pool guy, the the the landscaper, the jet ski repair guy. About to be the roof guy too.
00:50:54
Speaker
No, but thankfully I don't think our roof needs repair. Good. That's cool. I had an interesting thing happen, which is not uncomfortable, but it's definitely not anything I ever thought would happen to me personally was I got, I got a message last week and, um, two parts of this, uh, Bob Gore,
00:51:21
Speaker
sent a package to you, I guess, but it had it was like a. Add some stuff in it, and he mentioned it was my birthday was just a couple of weeks ago or month or whatever, wherever the hell we are. But it had this this croc. That was I haven't put the picture up yet. I'll put I haven't either. I haven't I haven't either yet. We have to do that. But it's like this truck truck croc. They have this Like a reel that's going around where this dude has a pair of crocs on and he's like, ah I got zippers and he's pulling like an EDC thing. He's got like everything under the sun inside of this croc, right?
00:52:04
Speaker
So, uh, Bob makes this thing, puts it on, uh, on, uh, what hell would you call that? little le ah A A lay. Yeah. And this it's like an actual Crocs, like a kid's Croc and he put all this shit on it and he calls it the Swiss army Croc almost real Mexican neck knife.
Community Gifts and Running Challenges
00:52:23
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Happy birthday, Jared.
00:52:27
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yeah I got to send you the picture and you got to do the post on that. I will. Yeah. It's great. I have one. So I told him I'm hanging it up in my shop and I got a picked a spot for it. It's going to stay there forever. I love it, dude. It's super cool. Thank you. But on there, it has that that freaking picture of me with the the nice Crocs.
00:52:49
Speaker
And the sticker. Yeah. The sticker. Yeah. And, um, but some of a listener of ours sent me a message and sure and shows the picture and he's like, so I'm at the Sydney, um, knife show. You mean Sydney, Australia? Yeah. I'm at the Sydney knife show and look what I come across.
00:53:13
Speaker
It's my mug with the the nice Crocs thing on there. I guess he's from New Zealand too, but um yeah, and I'm like What a fucking trip, dude. Never in my life would I imagine that a sticker of me would be circulating across the world over in Australia. Especially here. Who was the guy? Who's table was that? I can't remember. I'll fucking lose track of what I'm trying to do right now, but when you're talking blabbering about something not important, I'll give it.
00:53:47
Speaker
But yeah, and it it was, it was just blew my mind. I was like, so so my yeah, there's a sticker of me and had circulating around there. I guess ah the sausage man had brought some back with him. Okay. So, but still, it's still cool nonetheless. And kind of just like, it was weird. Like,
00:54:08
Speaker
I don't know how to explain that, but I thought I'd i'd share that. I think that's ah pretty cool. Jared, Mr. Worldwide. Apparently, yeah. Apparently, I'm the size of the world, too, because I tried to... um i mean I've always ran throughout my life, especially over the last 15 or so years. Because you've been chased a lot?
00:54:31
Speaker
that too, but, um, I started actually just running for, for my own enjoyment, which is, sounds weird to say, but, um, so I started, uh, trying to start run six, eight months ago, but you know, I'm old and out of shape. I started running again. I got up to like about nine to 12 miles a week, doing a couple, three miles runs in the morning. And, uh,
00:54:57
Speaker
but I wasn't stretching and doing some things. So I ended up pulling a hamstring one time and then I was out for like three weeks a month. Then I went back at it again. I think the last time I started was in January and, um, I ended up pulling a hamstring again. So I've been doing nothing, just getting fatter as the days go on. So my wife and I started walking again. I'm like, all right, I'm just going to condition myself to just keep moving and start slow. So it was last Wednesday. Um,
00:55:28
Speaker
Lynn didn't get up for our our walk and we walk at like for anyway, between four 45 and five 15 in the morning. still weird Yeah. We're, we're the weirdos walking our dogs out while you're going to work. We get a lot of funny looks, right? So I make sure I don't have a hood on when, when we do that or a beanie. Cause you know, I don't want to get shot. Um, but, uh, so I was like, fuck it. I'm just going to do it. So.
00:55:57
Speaker
I got all pumped up and I go out and I run. I did a mile, slow pace, like 11, 12 minute mile. Feeling great. Um, I get back. I'm all pumped up and the next morning I wake up and my fucking knee dude just blew up, swells up. So I've been down. I don't want to down for the count, but it's like really weird. I've never had this type of knee pain, but, um, I, uh, I'm hurt.
00:56:26
Speaker
Well, get better. I'm hurt. The odd thing is though, and I'm only saying this because it only hurts when I'm sitting down, like at work in my chair and for my knee being bent. So I'm just, um maybe there's a doctor that listens at once. Knife maker slash doctor wants to talk about my, my medial, uh, need discomfort. Um, yeah, but it's, it's weird. It hurts like shit. So.
00:56:55
Speaker
Um, I don't know how I transitioned to that, but I just did. So there you go. Yeah. You need to go, go to a doctor and find out what's going on. I'm going to go to doctors. I'm just going to bust out my Swiss army croc, almost real Mexican neck knife and do surgery on that thing.
Crafting Straightening Hammers
00:57:13
Speaker
I got all the tools now. So do that. What else?
00:57:21
Speaker
Would you? Oh, so you're, you did the straightening hammer. I did made some straightening hammer sold a few. Um, yeah, I did a video on how to make them. Um, yeah, it was, uh, it was good. Um, Oh, and I have, that's a short video. It is a short video because they're not hard to make. I am surprised. I figured there was kind of more to it, but Well, I mean, there can be more to it. I think um if you have to
00:57:55
Speaker
um Again, guys, you have you have all the tools to make this very simple. Right. Exactly. That's what I was about to say. is Yeah. Because if you start with just a hammer and you want to make a straining hammer, then you have to um take the temper out of the hammer. um You know, you have to heat it up and soften it so you can drill into it, so you can put the bearing into it, and then some people braise the bearing into it.
00:58:22
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um which I personally think is overkill. You can just peen it in, which is what I did. And also, in fact, I didn't even have, honestly, I didn't even have to peen it into the hammers because I used a ball nose end mill.
00:58:37
Speaker
which was a quarter inch ball nose, so the bottom of the hole is perfectly round. So when I tapped just tapped the bearing in, it was its seats perfectly in that um in the hole that the ball nose end mill.
00:58:55
Speaker
um ah Put in it. So I They're perfect. Um, they they work perfectly and they're nice and centered and and then I went and Next month I'm gonna do that second video on the the new laser um I love this I have the um
Efficiency with Laser Engraving
00:59:19
Speaker
Conveyor attachment and with that thing because it It will take a picture of what's under the laser and then you position your image and then you could just start putting the whatever those things are. So I was just putting hammers on the conveyor in whatever orientation I wanted and it would track it, put my maker's mark on it and
00:59:43
Speaker
just automate the process. So I didn't have to like line it up every time. it was That is the best feature of that F1 Ultra on the on the conveyor is is that feature.
00:59:56
Speaker
um if you like I did business cards on it, amazing. Because you can just slap business, you can just keep throwing business cards on the conveyor in any orientation you want. And the conveyor just moves and just lasers them.
01:00:10
Speaker
Boring. no It's cool. Boring. Your badass laser does everything for you. No, that's super cool. I like i saw i saw some ah video of of it happening. like they were They were doing like these little charms and they were just randomly all on the thing and it was just like,
01:00:31
Speaker
Yeah. Uh, so I'll do that video on the attachments, um, next month, but very, very cool. Um, yeah. And applicable. I I've been a little gun shy on putting a knife. Like I was going to do it with these three knives, but they kind of warn you that it's not guaranteed to like, it can be off a little bit and a little bit is really noticeable on a knife on a maker's mark.
01:00:59
Speaker
yeah i'm not So I'm not doing that. um You know, the last thing I want is to finish a knife and then like, it puts like my maker's mark, like between the bevel in the, you know, puts it on the handle or so. Actually, that wouldn't be that bad. But um no, I would start it on the blade and then go up the handle front. Ruined both of them. Yeah. Yeah. yeah But it's crazy. Yeah. Well, that's cool, man. I thought that was a cool little video and a interesting process to to show. Yeah, I'm going to be using that thing tomorrow on that dagger. Nice. But if you want to get yourself an actual forging hammer, you need to go to two bastards, Texas Smithian supplies.
01:01:46
Speaker
ah Frank Anita got you covered on anything hammer related, anything for forging, whether it's cross peen, straight peen, you name it. Get yourself a fat peen over at Two Bastards.
01:02:01
Speaker
Ain't it grand to have a fat peen in your hand? Oh, I thought you were. Oh, come on, man. I'm never going to let our boy down. Fat peen is on the scene every time we get there. And of course they have the Viqueiro, which is the hammer exclusively for maritime knife supply. That's right. So you can get all kinds of stuff over there at maritime to our boy Lawrence stocks it up.
01:02:31
Speaker
He's got, I don't know. You're going to hopefully talk him into carrying some, uh, even more exotic. Drill type things for, you know, you folder guys now since you're, yeah, that's weird. You're a folder guy. I know that's pretty cool, but he's got, yeah, drill bits, hammers, uh, bracelets, heat treating ovens, grinders, handle material,
Maritime Knife Supply Promotion
01:02:53
Speaker
steel. It'll cut your steel up, uh, pre-cut it for your, all your Damascus needs. If you're not going to see the Baker boys.
01:03:00
Speaker
Um, he has got it all. He has bigger Ford steel as well. He's got Gator piss. He's got, he's got it all. There's nothing that guy has. And if he doesn't have it currently, send him a message and he you will do his damnness and more than likely end up finding what you need and getting you, uh, all squared away. So make sure you go check out maritime knife supply and telling the boys that Triple T sent you I was just on there today looking for eighth inch carbon fiber because everything I have all of pretty much all of the the scales I have are meant for um for fixed blades which means they're all pretty much thicker so folders I need eighth inch stock so gotta go get some and I'll probably get it for maritime
01:03:54
Speaker
That's where I would go. That's where I would go. ah They also just had the ah the um Great Lakes custom knife show last weekend. I've finally saw some ah some pictures come through and I thought it was really cool, dude. Our our buddy ah Malcolm over at Stuart handmade knives. The the young kid. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah We featured on Maker Spotlight, um had his own table.
01:04:22
Speaker
And ah he posted a picture there, so I shared it to our to the the Triple T story and um shouted him out. They're just too proud of that kid, man. He's killing it. Really nice stuff on the table. And I just respect the the ambition and the hustle and the courage to get out there and put all your stuff out ah your first show and, you know, get after it, especially at that young age, you know.
01:04:49
Speaker
It's inspiring to us all. So good for you, Malcolm. Love this stuff. Love what you're doing here. Yeah, it was actually, that's one of the things I was chatting with Lawrence about is maybe going to that show next year and he's trying to convince me to make a pit stop in Nova Scotia. So we'll see if we can make that happen. Well, if you go, I go. So we hope you have two two beds there, homie. No.
01:05:17
Speaker
i I would go to Canadian. Yeah. It's a mystical place. It doesn't really exist until you're there, right? Oh, yeah, no, it exists. No, you're here. You're not there. Well, that's a good transition to Maker Spotlight because my maker this week is a Canadian. Oh, what do you think outside the box, everybody?
01:05:47
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We do have American makers, okay, that you can feature now and again tennis Box is not very big didn't I tell you I have to pick up the box My maker this week is Griffiths That's a hard one to say Griffiths handmade knives. I Not Grimace, Griffith. Griffith's handmade knives. And there's underscores between those. It's in there. He's got 1,043 followers. And what really caught me was his latest post, which has this, I don't know, it's like a dragon or some kind of
01:06:40
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thing on the end of the knife, which I thought was really cool. So it's a Damascus knife, a handle, and then it's got this kind of, I don't know. I'm saying it's a dragon, but maybe um I haven't read the actual post of what it's supposed to be. Um, but, uh, it looks really cool. No, it is a dragon. Yeah. Uh, fat carbon gold is centers. Yeah. So, uh, I thought it was really cool. It does. It it definitely looks really cool.
01:07:06
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Yeah, and it's got a mosaic pin as the dragon's eye. So yeah, I liked it. So yeah, go check him out and a suburban spark slinger. I like that suburban spark slinger to steal the proud Welshman and equally proud Canadian. Oh, there it is. So he's a Canadian resident. He's not actually a Canadian. So look at you world worldwide worldwide. I like this week.
01:07:36
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I don't like this stuff. um I have let me get my shit together here.
01:07:45
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Doo, doo, doo. I have our my buddy ah Ryan DeLong from Red Dot Knives. um Ryan was one of the first makers that I connected with ah via the Instagram knife maker I want to say dating circle, book because that's how I kind of equate every time i I would go, hi, my
Appreciating Knife Makers and Design Details
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name is Jared. I really like what you're doing. I'm a new knife maker. Will you please be my friend? like And I'm sure, I hope it didn't come off that way. And if you're sending us a message, it doesn't come off like that. But I'm just supremely insecure. That's kind of how I feel, because it's not natural to kind of you know put yourself out there, myself out there, I should say. But um yeah, he makes these EDCs, and he's
01:08:35
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just been locked in with these this style. um Little guys. He was super helpful when I first started. um Really good maker really into the the EDC community.
01:08:50
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um All just badass like you know, so a pocket drops or something in the EDC community where you'll they'll take pictures of whatever they have on their pocket and you know, handkerchiefs and chains and knuckle dusters and all this stuff, but he has really good pictures and a good little Facebook group that I'm a part of as well. So um I haven't talked to him in a while and but I always am following. So I just wanted to give him a shout out and he's got seven hundred and nine followers. So I think we should ah lift that up there and go check out Ryan over at red dot knives. Good dude. Good stuff and a good follow. So
01:09:35
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Yeah, I like his stuff. I'm already a follower. Yeah, red dot knives and Griffith's underscore handmade underscore knives are our war makers spotlight for this week. That's right. i'll Show them some love. Yeah.
01:09:52
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Yeah, I just designed a new knife, a new seven inch chef knife um that I'm anxious to make one out of. I just don't have any, I wanna make a stainless version of it, but I don't have any stainless um stock right now. So I think I'm gonna get some from Mr. Lawrence Lake ah while I get place my order.
01:10:16
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Well, you know what? I don't know if you caught Salem's recent post about the keyhole he's doing. Have you seen that? I have not. Oh, man. So cool. There's, hey you know, the things to aspire to. um Not only is he doing a keyhole, but it's like this, it's like this bent kind of arrow and Oh, I see it. Oh, it's just and you know, that blade is going to be some crazy Damascus. um I haven't I might have missed a few posts if he did post what it what the Damascus was, but thick ass pieces.
01:10:58
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about the keyhole. and Yeah, well, he's he's hasn't ground any of that bolster portion yet. But, you know, he's got the pantograph and he's got all the tooling to, you know, make the make the handle to fit into that thing. But and it makes me think like the keyhole is still on my list to do. So why you haven't done on ah yeah, never done one.
01:11:23
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So yeah, that thing's amazing. Yeah, love to do it. and Just little things like I get this like I'll go through Instagram and especially like, you know, the more advanced makers, like I saw um um Jordan Lamothe one of his blades and just like the there's a yeah you know like there's a like a whatever a guard and then a bolster and I think it was a chef knife so it was a bolster but behind the bolster was like this little spacer he could have made the spacer flat but he
01:12:01
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made the spacer like an arc, um, which means now the handle has to match that arc. And it's just like so subtle. When I see little things like that, I'm like, that's so cool. Why did I think of that? Yeah, that's the best. I've said that. Why didn't, why didn't I think of that a few times this week, looking at knives. So.
01:12:25
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But all right, man, that's all I got. You got anything else this week? No, I did check out the, uh, the apocalyptic challenge, uh, Facebook group. And I started to see some pictures rolling of people with, they're not trying to get, uh, Dairy Queen ah posting their stuff. So I thought that was cool. I'm excited to see what you guys are all getting into and What's happening? ah i actually run sixty I actually have my first entry picture sent. So someone's already done. Oh, wow. Yeah. They like, over at the shiever yeah they really went to town. Um, so yeah, and it's pretty nice. So yeah, you guys, you guys pretty busy. Yeah, that's cool. Um, what I am going to do though, is, uh, finish up that, that intrepid.
01:13:25
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uh, 2.0 with the fat carbon, um, stuff. And when I do finish it out, I am definitely going to, I'm probably going to use the Pelican oil. Um, Oh yeah. Get my, cause I got a bottle of that. And I think that carbon fiber fat carbon is going to shine up really nice with, uh, with some Pelican paste there. So.
01:13:48
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01:14:14
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my My only other topic today is just a subtle little drop about this week's Triple T. And Jared's smiling and laughing. ah This weekend I went to my buddy Dan's house and Dan was the best man at my wedding and as a wedding present ah five years ago,
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I made Dan a, I'm using air quotes, knife.
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way back in my early days um as kind of a, you know, thanks for being in my wedding gift. And um so I'm going to critique this blade on this week's Triple T and show you guys my first Damascus. OK, this is this is the number of firsts I did in this blade. First Damascus, first hidden Tang, first guard, first pommel, because it was a through Tang.
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um And the first time I had used like, um, like a stabilized burl handle material. Had you done a fuller before? ah No, and I'd never done a fuller because it has a fuller kind of. So, um, it was it my wife bugged. She's been bugging me for months to show people this knife. It's horrible.
01:15:44
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Like I look at it and I cringe. So you guys are going to get a good laugh. ah We're going to talk about what's wrong with this blade, ah how I did it, what kind of tools I was using. But this is before the YouTube channel. This is before I had a press. i I made this Damascus by hand. um So you guys want to tune into this week's video. I think it'll be you guys will get a good chuckle over one of my early blades.
01:16:14
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Or you can go to EchoBlades on Instagram and check out the post I just made right now.
01:16:24
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Echo underscore blades on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok, I think? Did you really? No, I wouldn't do that. I was like, don't you scoop my video. ah You deserve it with all the shit you scoop from over here, buddy.
01:16:40
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Mr. Fucking bright idea tag along Tyrell in there. It is an absolute absolute freaking beautiful piece. So, so awesome. Like when I, I, I was checking it out this, this week. I do have a video of it, but I wouldn't do that to you, buddy. Uh, it is so cool to see. Oh man. How do you turn this into to something inspirational? The progression.
01:17:09
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of any of us, right? of course And, you know, like Dennis being Dennis today, you know, with the, with the type of work that you put out, it was very inspiring to see that you started somewhere on the other end of the spectrum. And I remember thinking that this was like,
01:17:32
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you know, thinking it was like it was amazing when I had I was so proud of it when I finished that knife and now I look at it i like I don't even want to look at it. My my favorite part about is is this thesuage the The swage is absolutely fair you guys are in for a treat when he gets when he shows that on there it is a thing of beauty and it is a thick ass bitch. That thing's a prank. It doesn't even need to be sharp. You could throw it at someone and give them a concussion. Oh my God. You can actually order that steel for maritime knife supply. You got a special order it because it's like half inch steel.
01:18:17
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No, it's, done it's cool though, man. But I appreciate you sharing. I think it's a great, that'll be a, that'll go over really good. Cause there's, there's plenty to talk about and then I'll and i'll yeah let you, let you have at it. I'm scared to put that thumbnail up. People are going to think I've regressed 20 years. I don't know, man. It just, I almost threw my first knife away cause I, I hate it so much. And I can't remember who I talked to, but somebody was like,
01:18:45
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Nah, you don't ever do that. You keep that thing and you cherish it and it is, that thing's horrible. Like I'll, I'll bring it next weekend or whatever to show you. Like it's a, it's a thing of beauty. You're the, yours is far better. So, well, I mean, it's not my first knife. It's a first of a bunch of things, but not certainly not my first knife, but, Oh, okay. And then that sucks for not being your first. You've seen my first knife, right? The, uh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:19:14
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But all right, man. Well, I think we paid all the bills. Everything's good. We got, uh, checked all the boxes. I got a couple of things here, but we'll hang over till, uh, next week and stay tuned for the, uh, Dennis Jarrell exclusive hidden tank review.
01:19:34
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I think Jared's going to be definitely tuning in for this one. I don't ever watch your shit anymore, but I'm going to watch that one. that Thanks for your support. I watch everything and thumbs up at all. All right. Click rate, man. Yeah. Click rate. All right. We're out. Peace.
01:19:57
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This week's episode of Triple Key. We're going to take a look at the world's shit this night. Brought to you by tools, hips, and talk himself. Mr. Dennis Terrell. Yeah. Can you do the intro? 100% I will.
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but This is a wrap.