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E15: Yo soy a thieving Viking TeleTubby
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Come join us for a Cinco de Mayo celebration! Learn about how we're thieving animals and who won the Viking Challenge!! SO much stuff that it'll blow your mind! Worth every penny of that $0.00 you spent to listen to this episode!
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Your hosts:
Denis Tyrell of Tyrell Knifeworks:
IG: @tyrellknifeworks
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TyrellKnifeworks
Website: https://www.tyrellknifeworks.com
Jerid Sandoval of Echo Blades:
IG: @echo_blades
Maker's Spotlight:
https://www.instagram.com/parableknives/
https://www.instagram.com/nolanknifeworks/
Our sponsors:
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Podcasts we love:
- Work For It (well kinda...)
- Fire and Steel (back on the list!)
- Hustle and Grind
- KnifeTalk
- FullBlast
- ForgeSideChat
- Artisans of Steel
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Transcript
Introductions and Celebrations
00:00:16
Speaker
What's up everybody. You're listening to the Triple T podcast for knife makers. My name is Jared Sandoval from Echo blades. And always I have my buddy, Mr. Dennis Terrell from Terrell knife works. Yo Tango El Gato and El Pantalones. What's that? I have a cat in my pants. Yeah. Yo Tango El Grande Diablo and El Pantalones. That's the most, the most Spanish I've ever heard you say.
00:00:46
Speaker
This is as funny as pickles saying dumb shit in French. That's right, buddy. From the worst Mexican in the world. I'm wishing you a very, very, very merry Cinco de Mayo, sir. Oh yeah. I did my share. I had tacos and beer today. Uh, tacos in Corona. Okay. Good.
00:01:15
Speaker
I had tacos as well. I'm sure, I'm sure that completely annoys the shit out of every real Mexican. Not that you're not real, but like that. All we do is mock their holiday by eating tacos and drinking beer. But I like to think of it as celebrating, but either here nor there. How you been? What's new?
Knife Crafting Challenges and Techniques
00:01:40
Speaker
Oh, not much. Just, uh,
00:01:43
Speaker
Did I really, really, um, well, it's actually frustrating, but I did have a pretty, uh, good amount of time in the shop this weekend. And, uh, that was frustrating. Got some stuff done. I really have like these, what I'm realizing are goals that maybe aren't so based in reality with like what I'm going to get done. Oh yeah. And, you know, I end up with what I end up with, but yeah, that's the frustrating part.
00:02:13
Speaker
Kim knows when I say, yeah, I'll just be half an hour in the shop. She knows that means an hour and a half or two hours. Yeah. Everything takes longer than you expect, right? Dude, everything takes way longer. And then when you're nervous about some things, so I finished up the, well, not quite finished, but the tactical tuba cabra is pretty much a wrap, dude. All I got to do is
00:02:43
Speaker
lube it up with some uh Pelican oil sharpen it and then uh laser pecker that thing and it's up lubing it up with oil and laser in your pecker that's right that that might be the title of the show i love that yeah that's all that's left though and i i went ahead and and did the re-etch on it uh last night after uh finishing up the handles and
00:03:14
Speaker
I don't know why, but etching Damascus is stressful for me. I mean, you sounded stressful earlier on the phone. I was, I was pretty stressed. I was like, I didn't want to, you know, it's just, there's not enough, um, application, you know, yeah. I've, I've watched a billion fucking YouTubes. I've seen it a bunch of times and, you know, but for whatever reason, it's still, uh, just nerve wracking for me, but, uh, I did, uh,
00:03:43
Speaker
by a very cost-effective, uh, bubbler. And, uh, I was talking with, uh, Noah and, um, I put the little thing in there and I was just like watching it in the Gator piss and like, I dunno, those little tiny bubbles in the Agua. They were calming to me, dude. It kind of like chilled me out and, uh,
00:04:06
Speaker
But it came out great, man. I'm glad I switched it up and, um, went with the, uh, the goal. So boats and did the, uh, got the thing, the spine all edged up. So it looks good. And it always looks better. Well, not always see on for Damascus. I think it always looks better. I think sometimes the, the stone wash with the silver edge can look really cool. Yeah. Who was I talking to? I was talking to, um, Donny Dulevich. He had just done one and he had the, the silver spine.
00:04:37
Speaker
And I asked him what his thought was and what he was thinking, just out of curiosity, man, the knife came out great. And I liked his response. It was he was saying that there was enough 15 and 20 in the pattern to like, that popped the spine and kind of worked it out. And I was like, I can dig that I can dig that. So it came out really good. So I guess there's a there's a application and process for
00:05:06
Speaker
for every single build. Yeah. I mean, when I do classes, cause I just finished another class this weekend, um, you know, we don't have time to go. So boats and all that shit. So, but the, most of them like to do the, uh, stonewash, but when we do the spine, because they're doing the handle, they actually buff the spine. And for some, for some reason, like buffing the spine and it's nice and shiny that that does it for me. I like it when the spines are nice and shiny. And then you get the,
00:05:37
Speaker
the stonewash over the knife. It looks good. 100%. I completely agree. But that really does make it pop here. So after putting this knife together, right, so you know, I've had it for a long time. My plan too long. Yeah, whatever. When I, you know, when I initially, you know, dreamt it up or
00:06:04
Speaker
or, um, was putting the handles that I picked for it. Um, I have some purple, uh, box elder from Rob's wildwood and I chose like a purple liner. And I had, I think I had purple pins too, but they were, it was not, it's not like a dark purple, purple. Yeah. It was like a weird purplish colors. You'll see. Um, and I'm not against purple, whatever dude.
00:06:33
Speaker
Um, you just fucked me all up. Oh, the good thing is the purple Teletubby. Like that's you now. I do look like a purple. That's great. That's great. Now I'm going to be a Teletubby meme. Fuck off.
Jared's Sobriety Journey
00:06:49
Speaker
Bobby, that's your cue. Teletubby and Crocs. Thank you. Yo soy Teletubby.
00:07:02
Speaker
Oh, I'm going to put that as the show notes. That's pretty good. Anyways, back to what I was trying to say, asshole, um, the, uh, you're planning, you know, the scheme for, for your knife, uh, really doesn't play out well when you wait a long time. Right. And then you come up with like an entirely new edging process that you didn't even, I don't even know if it was around when I started. That's how fucking old this is. But, um,
00:07:31
Speaker
I really intended to do ferric and I have been and we'll probably do more, but I kind of liked it when you, uh, you etch it in ferric and then you sand it back down and you get that like low contrast. Um, you take the, so it's more gray, darker gray and with the 15 and 20. So I thought that would go good with the, um, with the box elder that I had, but the shit came out super dark. Yeah.
00:08:01
Speaker
like really awesome dark. And then I was kind of like looking at it and I'm like, I don't know, you know. And then when I finished the box elder, this shit came out so nice. Like it almost looks like a rock. It doesn't even look like wood. I was thinking the same thing when I saw it on the today. It looks like a like a polished stone kind of thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Community Feedback and Engagement
00:08:28
Speaker
It came out like.
00:08:29
Speaker
crazy. So, um, I mean, it is what it is. And the customer is happy with it. So that's all that matters. But that's a block from Oleg, right? No, that's Rob's wild. Oh, it's Rob. Okay. Yeah, that's, uh, some just box sale or rural. I mean, it just came out like, I was like, I always take them, uh, I mean, it's still my favorite. Yes. It's still my, it looks awesome. Yeah. And then I'll, I'll go and I'll show them, show my son and my wife and
00:09:00
Speaker
I'll show them the shitty one and be like, this looks great, huh? And then I'll show them the other one. They're like, are you messing with me? Yeah, it just looked like a rock, dude. So it was pretty cool. And I started thinking about how you really have to envision these things for the end product. Absolutely. I guess it just comes with experience with how many times you work with a certain material and how it all comes together.
00:09:30
Speaker
Um, yeah, it was, it was weird. It was a kind of like a, a moment where I was just like, this is nothing like I originally planned, you know? So yeah, I usually pick out the hand material. If I'm going to do liners stuff like that, I'm thinking about the hand material. Um, like when I'm doing the Damascus or I'm like, before I'm hand sanding the blade, I'm thinking about what the material is. And I usually have it picked out already at that point.
00:10:00
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, you for for pattern welded, I you kind of got to let the pattern kind of speak to you. You know, yeah. For mono steel, I think you can make whatever you want look great, but. Yeah, cool. What have I been doing this week? Oh, it's it's Kim's birthday tomorrow for you guys. Listen would be yesterday.
00:10:29
Speaker
Uh, so my wife's birthday. Yay. She tells her birthday. She tells everyone she's 32, but not close. Oh, 30. It doesn't matter. Neither one's right. But I'm not going to tell you the actual one cause she'll yell. I said 21. I mean, you're just cause you're a Brown noser. That's why Ken's awesome. That's all. So did I, did I tell you that we went, uh, indoor skydiving this week?
00:10:55
Speaker
No, I picked up somewhere on the socials that that happened. Cause I think originally it was, we're potential like cruise or something dinner cruise on the Bay, right? Yeah. Yeah. Well, we, we changed, but this wasn't for her birthday. Oh, you just get the shit out of her for no reason. I'm going to tell you the quick story. So when we were in December in Cabo with our friends, Dan and Demay, she knows I don't like pedicures and
00:11:24
Speaker
I don't want a pedicure to manicure that is not my thing. And so she signed us up anyway, cause you get a free pedicure manicure massage and she knows I just want the massage and we get down there and the lady goes, okay, so I have you set up for four pedicures. I'm like, no, I'm not doing it. And she's like, no, no, come on, do it. I'm like, no, I'm not doing it. And we had this like five minute argument in front of like this, this beautiful spa. Um, and I'm like, no, I don't want to do it. And then I finally caved and I said, fine.
00:11:55
Speaker
You have to do something that I pick. So that's finally that this was her payback. Uh, the four of us went indoor skydiving because I knew it would kind of freak her out, but she would still kind of like it. She says she hated it, but I know she didn't, but it's pretty fun. Have you ever done it? You got a pedicure. I did. No, I, yeah, I did get a
Intellectual Property and Industry Challenges
00:12:18
Speaker
pedicure in December, but that's good.
00:12:22
Speaker
That's how you make your Crocs playing. You're on your way, bro. You're on your way. No, it's not going to happen. Oh, man. Speaking of not to I have not been indoor skydiving. I think skydiving is. I don't want to be disrespectful to people that do it, but so wise person once told me there's only two things that fall out of the sky. That's bird shit and idiots, so.
00:12:47
Speaker
I don't fuck around. Lynn wants to go like really bad. And, uh, I, yeah. Yeah. This was indoor skydiving for a vote. I didn't hear that. You're in like one of those tubes with a, like a, it's like 10 feet across and there's a big fan under you. And, and how high up to the roof do you go? You just stay like five feet on the ground. Yeah. You're like, Oh yeah. Yeah, that's okay.
00:13:15
Speaker
But you're floating like you would if you were free falling. It's really fun. If you haven't tried it, you should try it. Where did you go? Union City. It was Union City. That's what I was going to say. Yeah, it's still the closest one, I think, is Sacramento or something. Yeah. Oh, that's cool. Yeah, that was good. Nice. Yeah. Now I don't think it's that bad. See, don't be a pussy. Well, I am.
00:13:44
Speaker
This isn't news here. All right. So we got a lot of stuff to talk about. Where are we going to start today? I don't know, man. It was kind of a boring week, to be honest with you. Not much happened. I mean, I heard some rumblings here and there, but nothing interesting. That's for sure. Yeah, I agree. Nothing interesting happened. No. I mean, I do want to point out the fact that you completely fucking botched.
00:14:14
Speaker
the fire and steel thing had me reconsidering all kinds of stuff. And then I'm like, you know, the next day I started reading some, uh, some posts and I'm like, these fools are not serious. And here I am. I got, uh, what's the word you used? Hoodwinked is that well, to be fair, I, okay. So for everyone, fire and steel podcast is not over. Um,
00:14:41
Speaker
They basically were saying they ended the show. They only ended their second, whatever they call it season or whatever is bullshit. But I sent Toby and owner a message saying, I've only listened to the first five minutes. Uh, I'm thinking you guys are either full of shit or whatever. And, uh, I can't believe you're throwing in the towel. And then, um, they even responded back to me like,
00:15:09
Speaker
they didn't confirm or they didn't deny that they weren't ending it. So that's what kind of sealed it for me. So it wasn't just me. And it's, they only, they only told everyone in like the last 30 seconds of the show. And I'm not the only one because they lost two patrons because they thought the show was ending. So they canceled their Patreon. So I'm pretty sure the joke is on Toby and owner for that.
00:15:37
Speaker
Well, they were committed. I mean, full send on the commitment there. I did talk to them. Uh, it was like Thursday and he said, Oh yeah, we're, we're recording right now. Do you want to come on and do the winners? I'm like, the voting's not even over yet. I can't come on and tell you who the winners are. So yeah. So you still got your way. Well, yeah. So that's good.
00:16:04
Speaker
Toby, the owner wankers and, uh, we will continue, uh, your wankers from the triple twats. So we will be announcing the winners of the, uh, Viking challenge to day on this podcast right here. Wow. Yeah. But we're going to save it to the end of the show to make you fuckers. Listen to the whole thing and no fast forwarding that's cheating.
00:16:34
Speaker
There's not even a fast forward option on this episode. Oh, there isn't. Oh, we took it away. Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah. All right. I didn't know I had that power. It's our form of clickbait. Keep pushing it. Just try fuckers. Oh man. So some other exciting stuff happened this week. The sand shark sanding machine went up for pre-order and I am
00:17:02
Speaker
tickled pink, thrilled, any other kind of euphemisms you want to say for being excited that they sold out the, for the pre-order was 25. Cause they didn't want to go crazy. Um, 25 sold out in like eight hours. Uh, so it was, I was blown away. I did not think I thought maybe 10 or 15, but I didn't think all 25. And then I'm getting messages from people, Hey, I can't buy them. They're all sold out. Uh, so.
00:17:31
Speaker
I'm probably gonna, I am gonna open up another drop next week. I wanted to get parts ordered, the machining of the parts underway. I didn't want to be like, get too ahead of myself. So sometime next week and you'll see messages and IG posts and all that shit about the second drop opening up.
00:17:56
Speaker
But I do have to say that I do my website through GoDaddy, and they froze my account because they're like, what's going on? What do you mean pre-order? And I basically had to send them proof of my bank statement, my invoices for parts that I ordered, when it was going to be available, because they want to make sure I'm not scamming people, which
00:18:23
Speaker
You know, it was, you know, I was not upset that they were, they were verifying this, but you know, they turned it around in a day. So it was pretty good. Wow. That's a trip. Well, congratulations, man. That's, that's a big deal. It's been awesome. I've been super excited. And now there's going to be like a truckload of parts coming to come into the house. I don't know where I'm going to put them, but yeah.
00:18:52
Speaker
Damn. Yeah. I had a couple of people messaged me that they got in on the, on the pre-order and I was like, man, right on. Yeah. Yep. I mean, I wasn't hoping it bombed, but that'd have been funny. So much for your second version. I'm going to keep you on that old prototype. Yeah. Oh geez. No, that's really freaking awesome, dude.
00:19:18
Speaker
Yeah, it was good. I was pretty shocked when I read that you got them off that quick, man. That's cool. Yeah, it was good. So what else? What's on your side? Well, you know, I had a pretty big day on Thursday for me. I was fortunate enough to wake up
00:19:47
Speaker
for the 6,210th day consecutive without the use of drugs and alcohol. And, uh, that, that math converts over to 17 years. Um, thank you. I do appreciate that. Um, you know, I've, I've thought about for a long time, you know, I've learned over the years that, um, it's something that I don't necessarily just share, um, as opposed to when I, when I first got clean.
00:20:16
Speaker
I used to just run around telling everybody, Hey, I'm an ex dopamine. Yeah. Right off the cup, you know, right off the rip and, and just sharing because, you know, you're. You live a life where things are bad, right? And you make a change for the good and you start, you know, participating in, and, uh, positive things, right? And you get a support group and different people in your life. And then, you know, as opposed to all the negative feedback that I used to get when I was, uh, using.
00:20:45
Speaker
Um, you know, you want to share and, um, but I've learned over the years that not everybody is very, um, open-minded and, you know, understanding when you, you know, just voluntarily blur shit out like that. Um, you know, and I, I'm a recovering addict. Uh, not that there's anything difference between a recovering alcoholic or alcoholism. Um, it's all the same to me, but when I say recovering addict, you know, I get it, you get a different look, right? So, um, I, uh, I.
00:21:14
Speaker
I share when it's appropriate, right? But I do feel that we have a responsibility as people in recovery to share that, you know, it is possible, right? And that's kind of my, I mean, that's the whole reasoning for the program that I used is to, you know, to give back and
00:21:42
Speaker
And share, you know that that we we can change and people do so But leading up to that every year every time that it's been it's always pretty emotional Time for me, you know real a lot of nostalgia a lot of It's not guilt or shame but it's a trying to firmly understand and and remember how shitty things were and
00:22:09
Speaker
that it's not like that today. Right. So I don't ever want to forget how it was when I was actively using and how shitty everything was and what a scumbag I was. So it's a it's a pretty emotional week, I should say. And then that day is really something else. So it's really good to feel all those feelings, though. You know, it's not that I want to make this about the, you know, something that this show is not really about, but
00:22:39
Speaker
I think it's important because there may be somebody out there that's, you know, maybe even thinking or, um, contemplating, you know, and I can just tell you that, um, today, my life is infinitely better and, um, I'm a better husband, a better father, a better friend, a better employee, a better just all around. Um, I laugh just as hard as I ever have. I mean, you can see, you know, I'm pretty, uh, pretty happy go lucky guy, you know, and I do that with all, without ever, you know, um,
00:23:08
Speaker
using. So life is good, man. And I just appreciate all the people that if you are listening, and you've been a part of this from before, during, or, you know, in the future, you know, I appreciate the support. And I just special shout outs to my family and my wife and my kids for loving me through all that. And I love you and I thank you. So no, I'm super proud of you. And I didn't know you before. I know you now. And
00:23:38
Speaker
You know, I can't imagine what you went through back then and how you felt, but hearing you talk about it now, we've had tons of conversation about it and I'm happy you talked about it. I think you should. Um, you know, it's a part of you, it's behind you and I'm super proud of you for, you know, for you and your family and, you know, good job. Thank you. I really appreciate it. And the important part is that it's, it's, it's not behind me, right? It's a, it's a choice that we make.
00:24:06
Speaker
every single day. I just kind of want to make sure that that's not clear. Like I don't have this thing licked. I don't feel like I have this thing licked. You know, there's moments where I'm in situations that I got to make these very basic fundamental, you know, the tool bag that you build to make a decision every single day, because that's how you get here is just just for today. Every day you make a decision. I think I heard somebody put a post is probably Brian, but
00:24:34
Speaker
It was about, you know, like every time it gets real shitty, I'll think, you know, I'll just get I'll just get fucked up tomorrow. Right. I'll tell myself that every day that that happens. Right. And I reconsider. My sponsor used to tell me, just just justify it to me, Jared, and we'll get we'll go get hammered together. You know, and I can never, you know, I can never rationalize it. Right. Yeah. And, you know, and the next day, you know, all these feelings are temporary. And I and I end up thankfully waking up and with a new friend of mine and
00:25:04
Speaker
Yeah, that's good. Like tell me how it's going to make you feel better. And yeah, I was going to make it anything better. Anything, right? You know, change. That's a really good. I've never heard that before, but that's a good one. Yeah. So it takes work and it's, you know, a commitment and, you know, I wish I was more active in the process than I used to be. But, you know, the lasting recovery, longevity of it all, you know, it's a, it's a
00:25:33
Speaker
definitely a journey, but just no disillusion that, you know, every morning, it's a choice, you know, and I just I'm grateful to have, you know, to consistently make this choice. You know, to allow me to be here right now, drinking sparkling water. Well, I'm glad you made the good choice. So yeah, you don't want to see me after about six or seven sparkling waters, boy. In the bathroom peeing.
00:26:04
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, but yeah, that was cool. That's, uh, that's good. I'm glad it's over. Uh, more John here. Yeah. On to 18. Right. Yes. Yes. Yes. Um, cool. I had a couple of feedback things too, that I wanted to, to talk about was, um, the really importantly team Crocs.
00:26:34
Speaker
is growing. Where's, where's your mute button? I'm going to mute you. It's here, dude. It's a fact. Team Crocs is growing. Team Fresh and Clean is growing. I got a couple more people jumping in on my side. What, are you going to make t-shirts for Blade or something? I'm just going to, you know, just let everybody know, you know, if you want to wear Crocs and have a nice fade, then, you know, come hang out.
Community Practices and Material Sourcing
00:26:58
Speaker
Those two things should be polar opposite. No, no.
00:27:03
Speaker
But the, the, the major one was, uh, our, the question that we asked about leaving the belts on the ground. So, um, at first I got a bunch of people that were, yeah, of course you take them off. Of course you take them off. Um, but, uh, my buddy Noah at Antioch, um, we,
00:27:30
Speaker
We're discussing the project, the concept or the topic. And so we reached out to a abrasive supplier that just look at you doing research. Yeah. And you're full of shit. That's what it comes down to. There's no basis. I told you I had no it was like personal belief. I didn't have any facts. Yeah. So Jeff's had a had a had an interesting take on it, too, that he
00:28:00
Speaker
at his company, they actually have a machine that they when the belts, you know, you get the belt that's a little wonky, and it's not tracking, right, they actually put it in a tensioning machine for a little bit to like help stretch it out. And sometimes that brings it back. That's what he was sharing with me that actually, by stretching it out, or keeping in tension, not stretching it by any means that
00:28:29
Speaker
It actually is beneficial for those wonky ones. And I think the only one that, you know, probably makes sense not to recommend to keep on is like a leather for a strapping. I could see that one, you know, blowing out. So, yeah, but there was quite other people that felt
00:28:58
Speaker
the opposite way too, but, um, so I think it doesn't matter. Oh, we should call miss busters and get them to do some actual, uh, scientific study. Yeah. Uh, I will still continue to take them off tension. I don't know. Force of habit. I just see it on there and I'm like, even my, my compound bow, it always freaked me out at first when I got my compound bow. I'm like, that I couldn't take the string off.
00:29:28
Speaker
Just feels weird. Yeah. I don't, I just, I've never noticed it. I didn't ever pay attention to it until I got back and I looked and I had two belts intention on my grinders. And I was just like, Oh, maybe there's something there. But I guess if you're, if you're not leaving them there for like weeks and weeks and weeks, it really doesn't, I don't think it matters, but I don't keep it coming. Let us know. Yeah. And if there's any other dumb shit we need to talk about kind of like that, let us know.
00:29:58
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely. If you ever would just want to disagree with Dennis, send me a message and I'll be sure to call him. We'll create a topic around it. And you could anonymously say he's full of shit. No. You want to know who's not full of shit? Tell me. Mr. Lawrence Lake at Maritime Knife Supply. He's not full of shit.
00:30:28
Speaker
And I, it was funny cause I just, I was taught, I was, I had the guy in the shop today and was talking about maritime, of course. And, uh, and, um, I told the story about blade show and how Lawrence and I were standing beside each other and we look really alike. And I'm like, okay, me, maybe we don't really look alike. And then I get on Facebook and I see that Lawrence updated his picture. I'm like, fuck yeah, we really do look alike. No, you do. Especially if he's got a hat on, cause you know, I got a little bit more hair than him, but.
00:31:02
Speaker
Uh, but if, uh, if you need anything knife related and you want to get it from a really good looking guy, you need to go to maritime knife supply. By the way. Well, in his twenties, come on. Um, go to maritime knife supply again, all you need.
00:31:22
Speaker
Uh, I pulled out the kydex for, uh, the sheath for the, the class today, maritime knife supply, uh, pins, you name it, everything I get at maritime knife supply. So you should too. Absolutely. Same. The tactical Chupacabra is brought to you by steel from maritime pins for maritime liners
Blade Show and Design Controversies
00:31:45
Speaker
from maritime and, um, scales I got from Rob's.
00:31:51
Speaker
Gator piss. Did you get the Gator piss from maritime? Sure. Yeah, I did. Excellent. That's right. Via Coi, but yeah. Wow. So yeah, go to maritime nice fly for all your knife making needs hands down. One stop shop. And I can't wait to blade to get there because we always hang out and have a great time. Yeah. Good dude.
00:32:21
Speaker
We'll do the compulsory picture in the pit of, uh, Lawrence and I. Yeah. Brothers brothers. All right. I think we need to get to one of the two major topics of the podcast. Um, that I missed out on trout opener last week too. That's something I meant to talk about. You missed out on trout opener.
00:32:47
Speaker
Yeah, it's every year for many, many, many years. I go up to June Lake for the seasonal trout opener. But it's May. I know. So I missed it. It opens the last last week of April. It was last week. You know, the fish are still there the first week of May, right? Yeah, but they're not as hungry.
00:33:13
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I mean, there couldn't be anything more important than that. And also, I mean, I do need to tell you that the Oakland athletics went on a six game winning streak out of nowhere. So like it was the only thing that, uh, you know, stop the presses. Everybody just stop what they're doing and listen to Jared's favorite team six in a row, six in a row.
00:33:40
Speaker
There may be the last six they win, but it was fantastic to watch. Every day I get updates. I'm like, Oh, they got their ass whipped up together. Holy shit. They won. Did they just sweep the pirates? Whoa. Does that team side? Obviously. Yeah. So I don't know what else I mean.
00:34:03
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I think we can end the show now because those are the most important things for sure. Oh no, no. We have to talk about the work for it guys and us, me mostly, you mostly got shrapnel, uh, getting called out on the work for podcast by my friend, Brian house. So, uh, where do we start? You're a thief and the liar.
00:34:33
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So for anyone who does know, we're talking about maybe we should reel it back in and tell them what happened. Sure. You going to play the clip? No, I'm kidding. No. I'm kidding. So in our, our podcast last week, I talked about getting the spoon making kit, which is the two swage blocks, the top, the bottom block, the, the copper for the spoon and the handle and the rivets.
00:35:01
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You can buy that kit from housemaid and make a spoon and scoop, spoon, whatever, spoon. I called a spoon kit, but I guess it's a scoop. But, um, so, and I, in last week's episode, I talked about, you know, I was excited to get it. And then I, before I made the scoop, I took it upstairs and I went to fusion 360 and I,
00:35:29
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made some, I wanted to make, you know, I was going to make, and I am making these, I wanted a bunch to sell it, like some local fairs here and stuff like that. And I get called out and they played that clip on the Work for a Podcast in the opener. And basically Brian was like, I can't believe someone from the community is stealing and thieving my work and blah, blah, blah, and
00:35:59
Speaker
Okay. And Brian and Brent and I had already talked about it. And for everyone, don't worry. We're all friends. We all worked it out. Uh, but they basically did, I think the whole half or 75% of the show on, you know, other people's work and copying other people's work. But I do want to defend myself here. And I told Brian and Brent the same thing. There's no going back, dude.
00:36:28
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Oh no, I got it. And I told them this on the phone. They know all this. So I'm telling you guys, the audience, the 20 people out there that are listening. 19 now. Yeah, right. Don't fuck with Brian. So don't send me hate mail about how I'm dissing Brian. I'm explaining what happened. So months and months ago when, when Brian started the scoop project, by the way, where did the scoop project idea come from Jared?
00:36:58
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I don't know, speaking of like stealing ideas, but I know there was this time that, uh, you know, I mean, it really brought up a very emotional time for me. Cause, uh, you know, during this whole, you know, uh, scenario that we just experienced here with, uh, with the work for it, because, um, you know, last year at the foundry, um, we were sitting around the table in Florida, hottest fuck, no matter what time of day it is.
00:37:29
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sweating our balls off. What is that thing called outside? Weather? No, the fucking in case you I don't know where you sit outside that little. Oh, Lani. The Lani. Yeah, that's right. You lie in the Lani. This actually happened in the shop, by the way, was not in the Lani. But go ahead. At any rate, we're standing around. I think it was at the Lani because
00:37:57
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I told everybody that I wanted to make a spoon and I got laughed at, made fun of, called just the horribleest names, only to find out that this guy wrote it down in his pocket and took it and created an entire billion dollar industry of making scoops. So I don't know, man, I'm a little pissed off, but you know, I guess.
00:38:28
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100%. This is 100% true. Cause I was one of the people making fun of Jay, like, what are you making spoons? Like, what are you like? Like, come on, making spoons. Oh, I said, I wanted to make copper. Copper spoon. I remember. Yeah. And we, we all did laugh at you. I had a good laugh. Brian was just snickering. Cause I think he was writing at the same time. This is true. Yeah. It was weird. He was like, Oh no, I'm not. I'm just doing something else. But yeah. I mean,
00:38:58
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I'm calling. I'm calling some reverse thievery here. But that did happen. But in all seriousness, back to the story. So a couple of months ago, I said, Brian, so like, are people like, what do you expect out of this? Like, he's like, Oh, yeah, I totally want people to get them and buy them and make spoons to resell. So that was my plan by the little kid. And
00:39:25
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Jared can back me up on this. I had all of the materials to make the swage. I have, and I still have the ball bearings and everything. So I had all that material to make the switch, but I saw that Brian had it. I said, I'll just support Brian and I'll buy it from him. Unbeknownst to me, I'm going to get all this shit for, I didn't know that Brian was selling and expecting people to buy the materials from him.
00:39:55
Speaker
Meaning the actual spoon, like, okay, you buy the making kit, but if you wanted to make more spoons, you were supposed to buy them from Brian. I didn't know that. I didn't know he had them for sale. So I thought he expected us. If you wanted to make more spoons, go fucking find them yourself and go do it. So, and that's what I told him and Brent on the phone. Like, I didn't know you guys were selling those. I thought you wanted people to go do that. So.
00:40:24
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Or else I'm not a dumb ass. I wouldn't have told everyone on the podcast. Oh yeah. Hey, this is what you do. You go to fusion 360 and you do this and then you order them from send cut send. You know, it was crazy. It was so crazy. Yeah. I'm giving Brian and Brent the big middle finger on the podcast. Like, yeah. So, but we all worked it out. I do think this, you know, a learning experience on both sides, first of all,
00:40:52
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Don't tell Brian what you're doing. I'm kidding. Well, yeah. I mean, secretly I have an Etsy page where I stole Brian's idea and I have a really big announcement right now. I am with all of the money that I made from the copper spoon treachery design thieving. I am now joining Dennis Terrell in retirement after blade show. I just made a fucking killing on these things. So, um, buddy, thank you for the inspiration. I, uh, I really appreciate
00:41:21
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We're going to call it Tyrell echo blade knife works. Yeah, exactly. All right. Yep. Let's do it. Um, but I do think there was some learning on both sides. I think Brian has learned that, you know, I they're a little, the kits he sells are a little overpriced. If he expects people to buy them to resell, they just don't think there's enough money in it for people that want to do it that way. So, and he's looking at other avenues, getting a page set up with send cut send. So.
00:41:52
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good has come out of this. And like Brian has said to us, like the equivalent of like, no publicity is bad publicity. Like this got so much attention on it, so much more attention on the scoop project that it's all good. We're all good.
Viking Challenge Highlights
00:42:08
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You know, it, uh, but it was, it was certainly like, it's one of those moments, like, wait, someone's mad at me for what, what, what did I do? Um, so, uh, there was like,
00:42:21
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I get a message from Brent saying, can we chat? And I'm like, sure. And I'm thinking he's going to ask me some questions. And he's like, fires out of the gate at me like, so what's your opinion on stealing designs? And I'm like, what are you talking about? And he's like, this is a good project. This is a good project. You just, it's okay to just steal the, I'm like, what are you talking about? You guys don't even sell those. He goes, yeah, we do.
00:42:45
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I'm like, Oh, I didn't. I mean, seriously, while we were talking on the phone, I had to look it up in a house, man. I'm like, Oh, fuck you guys do sell those. Uh, yeah, no idea. Didn't know, but, uh, you know, I'm on the vein. Uh, and then they got into talking on the podcast and, uh, be cone said something about, Oh, I wasn't sure if I was going to, in my class, want to teach my, uh, my class with my K-tip Kyoto and Brian correctly.
00:43:14
Speaker
Set them straight and said, there's no original designs. And Brian, I'm going to bust your balls a little bit. Like everybody has Kato Gyoto that's full tank. Like there's nothing original there, right? Come on. Um, so, uh, I give away my designs. All my patrons have my designs. I've seen my designs from people making knives and I'll usually send a little test or comment and say, Hey, that looks really good. And they're like, Oh yeah, of course it does. That's your design. And I'm like, I love that. I make, I have no problem with that. As long as they're not going to like put
00:43:45
Speaker
Terrell knife works maker's mark on it. Try to sell it as mine. All right. Yeah. So I think, you know, make it, make your version of whatever the design is, the end product should tell the story. Not does that profile look like my profile? Come on. There's not that many designs out there. And especially if you're talking about like full tang knives,
00:44:13
Speaker
There is not that many designs out there that are unique. There just isn't. True. I think it was, I mean, to kind of bring it all around. I think it's really, really important and it's a good topic. And I think I may have heard like it's something that should be talked about, you know, for our community to just kind of
00:44:39
Speaker
It's not like a quit your bitch in type thing, but it's a, you know, like chill the fuck out because let it go. Let it go. Oh my God. Do it. That's as much singing as your. Oh my God. Oh my God. You hold it back anymore. You're my designs.
00:45:02
Speaker
See, that was the year that you're the Lyricmeister, not me. Catch me in the pit. Maybe I'll sing you a song. Oh, my God. That was beautiful. I live for those things. But I think it's really important. It was important for me. I'll just talk for me to kind of to hear that, you know, because even my dumb ass will
00:45:25
Speaker
see things or I'll post something or I'll do something and then and I get this, you know, I know it's just in our everyone's mind, I'm hoping but you know, like, Oh, that that looks similar to you know, I really got to check myself and understand that, you know, for one, somebody like myself who hasn't been making that long, right? It's almost impossible to have an original anything, right? You're gonna have your style, you're gonna have your take on it, you're gonna have your, you know, whatever you are,
00:45:55
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your your style. But like for the newer guys, like we're all just coming into what is what is Echo Blade style, right? You know, I put a little swoop in the top of mine, like a thumb ramp, right? I just I started doing it. And I fucking know I saw it somewhere. I don't know who, what, when, why and how I'm not the first fucking one to do that. Right. But, you know, that's kind of something that I tried to put in my knives to make it look something different. But that's not mine forever. You know,
00:46:23
Speaker
Um, like Sarah coding, the storm trooper, there's a lot of Sarah code stuff, you know, like happening now and coming out, um, you know, and the, the biggest part is like, we're in competition. We are right. Ultimately there we're in business and, uh, you know, for the full time guys, you know, a lot, right. But not many of us live by each other, right? There's plenty of, uh, you know, nobody stealing like money out of each other's pockets and.
00:46:52
Speaker
You know, I, I was thinking to myself too, if I was going to, to, to literally steal Brian's design and sell spoons, like it would take me a lot of dollars to break even with how many, how much I've spent supporting housemaids. Like I literally am like a housemaid fan boy, like marketing. Just, I mean, I should have a housemaid, you know, I should fucking, uh,
00:47:20
Speaker
Ryan was talking about getting the gator piss on there. He said have housemaid. Yeah, get the lightning bolt in your neck. Yeah, that would go really well, especially today. Get one on each side, you'd be Frankenstein. Yeah, there's a lot of implications to those lightning bolts, buddy. But yeah, so I thought it was, it was cool. It was a little bit like, oh, fuck, right? Because
00:47:45
Speaker
Well, the first five minutes, I was like, man, they're really giving it to us. Yeah. These guys. And I'm like, but I'm with you. You know what I mean? Like we get, you know, I'm a firm believer, you know, the the ship sinks, the rat jumps first, but I'm going down with you, buddy. Don't you worry. We're in this together. But I was like, God, I wish I would have did something, you know. And, you know, when obviously you're not going to like for knife designs.
00:48:15
Speaker
Right. Everyone's, there's only so many knife designs, right? And there's the, you know, you see, you can, and you do, everybody does this, they'll pick, oh, I kind of like that. Even if it's subliminal, I like that part of the design. You don't remember where it came from, but you kind of incorporate that into your style. And then you pick something else and you incorporate that into your style. Maybe the, the, the way the back of the handle flares or like there's little things.
00:48:41
Speaker
And eventually all those things morph into your style. And at the end, people are like, Oh yeah, that's the Tyrone efforts, or that's an echo blades, or that's a Claudio Sabral, or, you know, we, these makers, you get to recognize their styles. They didn't start that way. Nobody starts with this magical style that everyone recognizes, right? It always looks like something else. Yeah. But when it comes to tools and machines and stuff like that, like.
00:49:09
Speaker
You know, the only way to not get stuff copied is to patent it, but that's only good. Okay. And it was, Oh, you should just patent it. Right. Patent it costs patenting costs of fortune. Okay. Um, it only patent is only useful if you're willing to litigate over it. Right. If you're willing to spend the money and get a lawyer and sue someone over patent infringement, that's what it's good for.
00:49:40
Speaker
Maybe there's a little thing like, Hey, I have a patent. Here's the patent number. Go look it up. Cease and desist without having to get, maybe that works, but you know. Yeah. What do they have to change? Like it's a small percentage of. It's like 30% or something. I don't know. Like some deviation. And it has to be significant. And what you patent.
00:50:02
Speaker
If you try to patent something, and by the way, guys, I have five US patents, so I do know what I'm talking about. What the fuck did you patent? When I was at Oracle, I have five US software patents, plaques and everything. And I've had to fill out the paperwork for a patent, and it's fucking endless of justifications. And part of a patent is
00:50:32
Speaker
Why, like, is there anything on the mark? If there's anything on the market that's similar to your thing, they won't file the patent, right? So it's like, oh, you can't file a patent for a two by 72 grinder. There's no fucking way. Like, or a surface grinding attachment, or you name it, it would have to be something absolutely unique that isn't on the market. And you haven't talked about publicly and, and, and, and. So yeah. And when people say, oh, you should have patented it. No, no.
00:51:02
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That it's not that easy. Only big companies with lots of money patent things. Typically, but anyway, that's my spiel on patents, but it's all good. We're all friendly. You know, I don't think Brian's in the poor house by people stealing, you know, his scoop projects. I wasn't the only one. And I think I wasn't the only one that was confused that he expected people to buy the materials from him. I think there was some confusion there. We worked it out.
00:51:32
Speaker
You know, yes, I have 10 from Send Cuts End that I got and I'm going to sell them and they're going to be, I'm actually going to get Brian. I think I'm going to get Brian to autograph one. Um, we'll call it the house made copy spoon. But, uh, yeah, there's a better name there. Give me a minute. Yeah, I know. Right. Uh, it's not house made it's house stolen. Yeah. We'll come up with something.
00:52:01
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But Brian, yeah, I need I need your signature on that, you know, because people have been asking you to to hand make those and sign them. I need you to sign these. I hope he charges you. No, he's going to kick me in the nuts. He's going to charge you the Delta for the money you saved on the blank. Right. Oh, man. Yeah, no, that was interesting because I. I think subconsciously,
00:52:30
Speaker
somewhere down the line. It's going to happen, right? You're going to say something. I'm going to say something and we're going to piss somebody off. Oh yeah. You know, it's going to happen, right? And I was just like, I didn't think 15 episodes in, you know, we were already going to be, uh, causing problems, but I'm surprised it wasn't episode five. I think we did pretty good. I guess so.
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00:52:52
Speaker
We're ready for you fuckers. Come on. Oh, oh, something else I do want to talk about from last week's episode. So,
00:52:59
Speaker
You were making fun of me because maybe I was, you know, I had a couple of glasses of wine and you're like, Oh yeah. And, uh, you were saying that, uh, uh, that everyone gets to hear the real me. I think everyone's used to hearing me on YouTube and I'm all super serious and, you know, but Jared always says, Oh yeah, you get to see the real me when we're shooting the shit in the shop or we're talking and, uh, all you guys need to come to blade show and, you know,
00:53:30
Speaker
Yeah, you'll be super annoyed with him. Talk shit about the dumb shit he says. No, that's just you. Oh, my bad. That's just you. I'm talking about everybody else. You make the whole don't don't meet your hero.
00:53:50
Speaker
Yeah, but for everybody else, not Jared, for everybody else, come talk to me at Blade and you'll hear the real me. You may not like it, so get ready. Yeah, exactly. Now, I think the YouTube persona, I mean, you have to be, right? You're not. Yeah, it's not a pussy ass bitch fest, you know. So come listen to the Triple D and you'll get that. Right. Oh, that had to be said. All right.
00:54:19
Speaker
Well, we got to get to the Viking challenge. We've, we've drawn people out this long. Uh, anything else you want to get to, uh, before, uh, uh, we get to that. No. How about you tell us about how you finished the handle? What did you do to that tactical Chupacabra at the very end? What did you do to it? Well, I haven't done it yet, but I do have plans to use this, uh, premium.
00:54:48
Speaker
wax from Pelican paste our buddy over at Pelican paste. I just fuck that Travis. I use Pelican paste over at Pelican paste. If you use Pelican paste, go check out the Pelican paste from Travis Haynes, the premium wax, which I did. I did do a test on the first part, but I'm gonna
00:55:15
Speaker
Like I said, I'm gonna lube it all up with that oil and give it a nice shiny coat, food safe, corrosion resistance help, all kinds of goodness from this stuff. And it smells like, dude, citrusy, California oranges. So I had Mr. Nick Tobin. He said to send me from people cutters reached out to me and said that he was
00:55:42
Speaker
just absolutely shocked that he was in Florida and went to go buy some oranges. And they said they were from California and he didn't buy them. And I was like, I don't blame you because we send all the shitty ones over there. So he said the same thing to me and I had to set him straight that most Florida oranges are used for juice, but eating oranges come from California. That's right. Cause the, you know, the pretty oranges that you eat, those come from California.
00:56:10
Speaker
There's a joke there. I'm going to leave it alone. Don't. However, when you're done with anything, leather, your blade handles, make sure that you hook it up and show it some love with some Pelican paste and make sure you go check out Pelican paste for all of your premium wax needs. That's right. And since we're doing sponsors, I want to shout out
00:56:40
Speaker
Uh, Frank Machado over at two bastards, Texas Smithy and supplies. Uh, I was showcasing his hammer to my student this week. Uh, he hammered out his knife with a two bastards fat peen straight peen hammer, and he loved it so much. He called up Frank or is calling up Frank to get one of his very own. So it's that easy folks. All you have to do have that hammer in your hand and it will become your favorite hammer. So go get one.
00:57:11
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00:57:40
Speaker
And thank you for the text message and the message, Frank. I appreciate that, man. All right. Let's get to the Viking challenge. Um, where did we start? We got, we got to announce the part, the participating channel winners. We got to talk about the top judges and the top viewer. Um, the viewers that won in the viewer entry, where did we, where should we start Jared? I want to.
00:58:11
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I want the viewers, you want the viewer. Yeah. See everyone wants the viewers. So let's do that last. And then tell me, uh, about the participating channels, the participating channels. All right. So I'll remind everyone how this works. The viewer votes. So viewers vote for the, their favorite YouTube build of the 15, 14 that there were. Um,
00:58:39
Speaker
Viewer votes, so the viewer voting counts for 50% of the waiting, and then the judges, and there's five YouTube channels that are judges, their votes count for the other 50% of the waiting. Okay, so I'm just gonna break it down and give you the final, after all that stuff's been calculated, and I'm gonna give you the top four, because the top four become the judges in the next challenge,
00:59:09
Speaker
And then the winning judge of the current judges stays in the judges tier. Okay. Makes sense. Gotcha. Yep. I'm following you. And by the way, I have zero idea who won. Nobody. I haven't told anybody, even the participants. Nobody, nobody knows this. This is it. Okay. So at number four, we have Matt Duncan at mystic mountain forge for his
00:59:38
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Spectacular axe. Uh, I love it. Looked really cool. Loved it. It's a good job, Matt. Yep. Love this channel. Um, number three and third place, uh, relatively new or smaller, one of the smaller channels, harpy and knives did a fantastic build. Really loved it. It just looks really cool. So go check out harpy and knives in third place.
01:00:08
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In second place, Spectacular Build, loved it. Blackbeard Projects did just an amazing sword and he did a bunch of videos leading up to this. This video was really the last part of the build. So he did a bunch of videos leading up to this sword build and he kept it really authentic.
01:00:36
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Um, so really nice, beautiful. It turned out beautiful. So I kind of laughed when I listened to his video. Cause I, he doesn't very talk that much, but when, when he did his little intro, like he was, you could tell he was pretty passionate about and, and, and really wanted this thing to go. Cause he was like, I need to get in here. So good for you, man. Yeah. So great job. Um, in number one.
01:01:03
Speaker
some dickhead decided to make a sword and has taken number one, and that would be yours truly. So. Spencer. No, these guys don't want me in the bracket next time. So yeah. So I made number one on this one, so I will be a judge on the next one. Congratulations, sir. Thank you. Thank you. I had a really fun time doing this blade.
01:01:33
Speaker
It's always weird, you know, if I win the challenge because then I have to announce myself. So it's weird. But, um, you guys voted, the judges voted out of my hands. I appreciate it. Uh, I did spend a lot of time on this build. So, um, yeah, thank you all for, uh, for the encouragement and it was fun. Bill, I'm pretty sure it all came down to the pictures. Uh, what you don't like to build. You just like the pictures.
01:02:03
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I think, you know, how you represent your build takes a really true photographer. Oh, yes. Yes. Cause you took the, again, I was trying to figure out your angle here, but there's a couple of builds. Like I want to talk about a couple of my favorite builds in the, in the challenge. Um,
01:02:29
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I got it. I got to tell you guys the story of so green beetle Steve at green beetle He had just a catastrophic failure on his press So he's on like the I don't know what the fourth Forge weld So he's got a big brick of steel like a big billet that's like three inches by three inches by whatever six inches and his press breaks and
01:02:55
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It's going to be weeks to get parts like he's dead in the water and this is a really complicated Damascus. He can't hand hammer it you know, he's dead in the water and he shows us the picture of this block of steel and Everyone almost in the discord chat says oh, no, you still got to do a video. That's your entry picture his video of like this block of steel and he did like a
01:03:18
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you know, the last supper and someone's holding the block of steel and like hieroglyphics with someone holding the block of steel and like superimposed it in like 20 different pictures about how it was historically. Waterloo. I mean, it was everywhere. It was so well done. It was really good. It was super funny. And Phil at PJT forging, he did the helmet. Loved it. Awesome. Loved it.
01:03:48
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And then one of the judges builds, all the judges builds are awesome. We'll get to the judges builds, but my favorite judges build for the comedic factor, of course, had to go to Tony and Bubba. And yeah, Bubba always makes a wonderful appearance on Tony Saverio's builds. And all of the builds were awesome. Like I'm, you know, I'm not leaving anybody out, but there was,
01:04:16
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It was so fun. I had such a good time and going into this challenge, like I didn't love the Viking theme because there's only, and this shows in the viewer entries and stuff. There's only, you know, all the viewer entries are a sax, a, uh, an ax or a sword. So there's like really three entries and that's all there were. But then again, you think of samurai challenge. There was only like three entries pretty much. So it wasn't any different.
01:04:47
Speaker
But, uh, so those are the participating channel, uh, channels. Uh, let's do the judges. Okay. So, and the judge, everybody votes on the judges, even the judges themselves, um, at number one, let's sorry. Oh, let's go number three. Okay. So wait number, the judges, both. Yeah. So the judges were, uh, Tony Saverio knives, uh, rain, Justin at rainy day forge.
01:05:17
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Uh, we have JP at JP's blade works. Um, John, who is the reigning champ, um, at old Hickory forge. And then my buddy Spencer at heavy forge. Okay. So those are the five judges. Okay. At number three, sorry, we have a two way tie for number three. Oh wow. Between Tony Saverio knives and rainy day forge. Okay.
01:05:47
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Okay. Both awesome builds. Good job, boys. Uh, and on it, there's not that many votes here. So the, the votes between third and fourth is really one vote. Oh, wow. Yeah. So, um, in second place, John at old Hickory forge. So the new champ, the new top judge, Spencer at heavy forge laying down the knowledge.
01:06:15
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If you watch his video, um, and I get Spencer on the phone and he starts talking like, you know, phase diagrams and carbide and I'm like, whoa, dude, talk to me like I'm an idiot. Cause, but he goes into so much about woots and doing that edge bar that he did for his sword is crazy town. Like that is such a hard, it's such a hard forge. Well that he did that kudos to.
01:06:46
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Um, to Spencer for making that sword. And I love it when he's, uh, he's tested and he's talking about at the end, he's like, yeah, you know, mostly these swords coming around two and a half pounds, but mine's closer to four. Uh, you know, but mere mortal men, they have swords that are like two and a half pounds, but you know, Spencer's arms are like two feet across. So yeah, we talked about that on a couple of episodes ago and congrats, man, that, that thing.
01:07:15
Speaker
The sword was beautiful. The video was crazy. I think what I was, what did I say? I felt dumb and smart at the same time. I was just like, he started going on with those charts and stuff. But yeah, that edge bar had me just in awe. So well deserved and congrats, man. Yep. I'm thrilled to be in the judge's bracket with Spencer for the next one. We'll announce what the next one is at the end.
01:07:44
Speaker
All right. Viewers. We had 37 viewer entries more. I think it was almost twice as much as we've ever had. So it's just bigger every time. Uh, so I think we had like 17 or 15, something like that in the samurai challenge. Uh, I don't remember exactly. I'm guessing, but around there and 37. So.
01:08:12
Speaker
Surprisingly, and this is how good these top five builds were that every one of the votes cast was for one of these top five builds. Wow. There was no votes for any like these guys, like their, their, um, builds were just stellar.
01:08:34
Speaker
So obviously on the podcast, we can't show you guys can go look them up. I'm going to have a video that's going to come out later this week, probably Thursday. You'll see the winners and there'll be all of the there'll be the winners, but you'll see a little montage of all of the the viewer entries. That's cool. Yeah. So again, we had a tie. So for the top five. Oh, what?
01:09:02
Speaker
How, how does this voting go? This is, uh, open to everyone. And then the judges, all judges, all participants vote. Okay. Okay. And we vote for, are your vote for your favorite first, favorite second and favorite third. So only the is so weird. Only these five God votes.
01:09:25
Speaker
For first, second, and third. It's not like even like some other one got like, Oh, my third favorite build is this. All votes were for these top five. That's how, you know, when you see them, you're like, Oh yeah. So there was a tie for fourth. Okay. Between yo, I could butcher some of these names, but Johann Fagerland and Clayton Tudor.
01:09:52
Speaker
Okay. These guys both tied for fourth. Okay. So sorry guys, you're on the bubble just out of the prize pool, but nonetheless, good job. Amazing builds at number three. Okay. Sean Bina. Okay. You took third. So you're in the, we need to talk about sponsors too. So I'm going to mention that. Yep. Number two. Uh, James.
01:10:23
Speaker
Uh, uh, off Seth. So James takes number two. And I think I called this one, uh, the number one about a month ago. When I looked at this one, I said, man, this one is definitely in the running and Jacob Christian sword with the, the wire, um, uh, braiding.
01:10:52
Speaker
Amazing build. So Jacob Christian took number one. What's his forage name? I don't I only have his name because I'm doing these three emails. So I don't have his forage name here. But if I have it, I'll put it in the in the video on Thursday. But Jacob, you take number one. So I want to talk about our sponsors. OK, Maritime Knife Supply of five hundred dollars.
01:11:20
Speaker
spread across the winners. I think it's 300, 200, 100. So maritime knife supply, putting up some gift certificate money to the winners. Awesome. Just awesome. Thank you, Lawrence. We got MoSA US that's putting up mosaic pins, which includes a custom pin for these guys. They can pick a custom pin.
01:11:46
Speaker
Uh, so there's a bunch of pins. I don't, I don't have it in front of me. So don't remember the exact numbers of pins, but it's really cool. And, uh, knife print, the folks at knife print supplied some amazing prizes, including for first place, a two by 72 grinder kit. Nice. Yeah. Plus some.
01:12:10
Speaker
A certain number of dollars for water jet cut, water jet services for all of, for everybody. So you guys can get yourselves some water jet cut knives. Go use knife print. So want a big shout out for our sponsors. Knife print. You know, I use knife print. Check it out. Knife print for all your knife designing needs and for water jet cutting.
01:12:36
Speaker
For all your knife stealing design needs, check out it. That's right. They do have a draw from image feature. That's right. There you go. Mosin, if you want mosaic pins to notch up your knives, that extra little notch, go get yourself some mosaic pins. And of course, we all know and love Lawrence from Maritime Knife Supply. Get all your stuff from Maritime. Fantastic. Best one.
01:13:07
Speaker
Yeah. So last thing to announce is the next challenge. Besslyn blade works is Jacob. Oh, thank you. Thank you. And you did call that you called them out as a, as an armaker spotlight. So good for you. Yeah. And gray build, man. Yeah. Um, but the next challenge, which,
01:13:33
Speaker
I'm actually glad I'm in the judges, because I still got to do a build. But I don't like this challenge. You fuckers picked it. The guys in the thing were laughing at me. The next challenge is the apocalyptic challenge where you have to use reclaimed material.
01:14:00
Speaker
Um, and everyone in the discord is laughing at me, uh, saying that, ha ha, I want to see what Dennis is going to do with this one. Um, so yeah, it will be reclaimed material, apocalyptic, you know, fallout kind of theme on the next one. So that's cool. Yeah. I personally am smiling because I just watched the beginner series from the triple T.
01:14:29
Speaker
And we discussed, uh, you know, buying steel from a known source and you're fucked. Hey, I'm sure I have some leaf spring. I have some, uh, 51 60 from a, um, we want to see you rip a car apart, a bike chain, something, man. Come on. Yeah. I'm, I'm thinking I'm going to have to do something funny on this one. Um, because I don't know what the build is going to be.
01:15:00
Speaker
Maybe I'm going to reclaim some gold from something and do gold in life. That's what I'm going to do. Oh yeah. That's real genius. When does that challenge come out? Is that any dates yet? It's usually October-ish. October? We usually do them April, October-ish. So I don't have the timelines. Stay tuned. Join the Facebook group. If you're anti-Facebook, then
01:15:30
Speaker
just watch my triple T's. You'll see an announcement around July, August timeframe. And I'll do Instagram posts on and yada, yada, you'll hear about. So, so, um, or just join the Facebook group and make it easy. It's a really good group. It was really cool to watch everybody, uh, post progress.
01:15:57
Speaker
picks of the build and stuff and everybody did a fantastic job. Congrats to everybody to all the winners and participants. Really, really cool one. And thank you for putting this on. You do a fantastic job for this community during your late night thievery events, but you know, you still find time to give back and create these awesome, awesome challenges that just, you know, breed in and
01:16:26
Speaker
you know, focus on community. So thank you, Dennis. Yeah. Well, from, from the knife making community to you, from all of us, we thank you for this challenge. It's a lot of fun. Yeah. Well, you can't steal everything, right? Oh, one other thing I did want to update. I'm still collecting, still want to remind people, if you're going to blade show in Atlanta, I'm still collecting names and tables. If you want to be part of this scavenger hunt, all you got to do is say, I want to participate. I'll drop off.
01:16:55
Speaker
one of the coins at your table, let me know if you wanna be part of that. Otherwise, I'm just gonna walk around and put them on tables that I know. So if you wanna get locked in, and I think there's only gonna be 28 or 29 of these things, you want one of the coins to, and you want all these people to come by your table, because they're looking for the, to do the scavenger hunt, then let me know. Reach out to me or put it in the podcast IG.
01:17:25
Speaker
You're not going to hand out 29 coffee scoops, are you? Oh, fuck that. If you want a completely stolen coffee spoon, coffee scoop, go see Dennis and get in on the scavenger. Why did I think of that? Damn. Cause I'm a genius and you're dumb.
01:17:49
Speaker
We're going to give one to everyone except Brian. Yes. Oh, that's fucking great. Oh, all right. That's enough. I've had enough beating for one night. Oh, we still have a couple things here. Oh, what did you do for your triple T? What did I do for my triple T? It's like so long ago to remember. What was triple T last week?
01:18:17
Speaker
I'm just wanna highlight the fact that you don't know. The Sand Shark. I did the Sand Shark video. We talked about that already. What are you messing with me for? Jesus, it's so good. Your face. You're a dick. My brother, when I was golfing with my brother last weekend or whenever that was, he was, God bless his silly little heart, but he was like, you guys gotta do it live and show your faces and do this. It's the only way. And I'm like,
01:18:47
Speaker
No, we're not doing that. Nobody wants a moment. I wish we would have done that. That would have been great because you were like, well, oh, that's great. So who did you have for a maker spotlight? Oh, yeah, that's a maker spotlight. I had OK,
Spotlight on Knife Makers and Closing Remarks
01:19:06
Speaker
I even forget it. I go back and look at the notes. Who did you have? You go first.
01:19:14
Speaker
I had our buddy Manny over at Parable Knives. I absolutely love what this guy does. The reels are great. The information is great. Had several conversations with him about some stuff. Always dropping some tips and knowledge. Does a lot of, you know, testing of stuff of his knives on IG and just really
01:19:44
Speaker
really cool stuff and awesome maker. And I just thought, you know, he he's got 5,084 followers and it is parable knives. P-A-R-A-V-L-E knives and IG. So if you're not following him already, make sure you do go stop by, check him out and say what's up. Tell him Triple T sent you and but
01:20:14
Speaker
Yeah, really just awesome, awesome stuff. So I thought he he deserves some shout out and some love. So keep it up, Manny. This week I wanted. Oh, I also want to go for the comment. But this week I wanted to just highlight a maker that didn't have all that many followers. So I like I always do just kind of going through my feed and my
01:20:41
Speaker
notifications and stuff. So I'm picking Nolan knife works. 348 followers, but it's got some really cool knives. You know, it's been doing some, some stonewashing, some, some cool handles. So yeah, go check him out, give him some love. I think is Jesse at Nolan knife work.
01:21:06
Speaker
Uh, give him a follow. Let's get him up, uh, way beyond the, uh, 348 followers. Absolutely. Um, what good stuff. Because we're talking about Viking challenge. I wanted to do my, um, um, comment of the week is actually from Phil at PJT forging. Okay. He put this one in the discord chat and I, it feels a really funny guy. You got to go watch his video if you have it. Yes.
01:21:36
Speaker
good and uh so he puts this he pasted this comment into the discord chat and some guy solid underscore jackson whoever that is on youtube says to phil please stop trying to be entertaining you're not funny when you try you're obviously skilled and content is good but you're you're aping other creators excessively
01:22:01
Speaker
And then Phil responds with this super nice, hey man, I'm sorry you don't find my sense of humor to your taste. I've used humor as years as a coping mechanism and blah, blah, blah. It goes on for like another sentence. And then the guy responds with, interesting response, thank you. Just be yourself, don't force it. It will still be funny because you naturally want to be. Let your skills speak for yourself and don't copy others. And Phil responds with, just kidding, tool, I'm hilarious.
01:22:36
Speaker
Which made me laugh so hard when I read that. That's cool. Yeah, he's he's funny. He is funny. He's funny guy. I thought if I'm ever in the UK, I'm looking him up and we're going to get together for sure. I mean, if how many guys did I at least a couple minutes of him dodging lettuce?
01:23:03
Speaker
He was with some blades on that. I mean, every time I was like, he's going to get. No, he's got. No, he's going to. No, he's going to. No. I think he like sliced a couple of things here and there. But yeah, I wanted to see a big old patch. I had a lettuce stuck on the fucking on the horn there, but it didn't happen. Finally, he does finally do it in the side of the tree. Yeah. Doesn't it pulls out of it? Yeah, that's good.
01:23:29
Speaker
Yeah, that dude's a tool. He always makes me laugh on every video, especially his costumes. I love the press, the googly eyes and the fucking press just kill me, dude. I do want to point out that both Honor at Dies in Every Film and Phil had the same costume. So you guys must shop at the same store. It's really embarrassing. That is. All right, man.
01:23:57
Speaker
I think we're done. I think we're done. I'm done. I'm tired. Yeah. Well, hopefully we don't get canceled next week and we'll see you again. Yeah. I gotta go think about what else I could steal this week. Yeah. I'm exhausted from all my stealing. Just fucking full time business here. Oh.
01:24:35
Speaker
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