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E38: All the things are brown
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Switcheroo 2 continues with Jerid and Noah on the final crossover. We talk about what’s thinking outside the box, fake news, traegers, knives and of course give Denis a bunch of shit.
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Transcript
Introduction to Triple T Podcast
00:00:15
Noah B
Welcome to another triple t podcast. For those just join us. That's tools, tips and talk where we discuss info for the knife maker. In this episode, we're going to go ahead and talk a little bit about um all different kinds of
00:00:30
Denis Tyrell
in a world where the number one and number two podcasts collide in an extravaganza of crossover
Guest Introduction: Noah Bloemberg
00:00:37
Denis Tyrell
madness. This week on the Triple T, we have the one and only Noah Bloemberg from Anyark River Forge and the Hustle and Grime podcast.
00:00:50
Noah B
That was, that was dramatic.
00:00:51
Denis Tyrell
That was so good.
00:00:52
Noah B
I don't, I don't feel like I deserve that kind of an intro, but thank you.
00:00:59
Denis Tyrell
And there's also another guy on the podcast with him named Ryan. So that's less dramatic.
00:01:04
Noah B
Wait, that was a little bit better.
00:01:04
Denis Tyrell
this was Was that what you were looking for? Okay, good deal.
00:01:09
Noah B
Well, welcome guys.
00:01:09
Denis Tyrell
What's up, man? How are you?
00:01:10
Noah B
Hey. another Another crossover episode. This is the end of the crossovers. so If you guys are listening to this, it's Tuesday. It's fresh. It's new. The day is just opening up for you and you have the Triple T podcast to listen to. and Then, like we said last week, Dennis is over on Hustle and Grind. so The Hustle and Grind podcast has Dennis and Ryan as usual.
00:01:34
Noah B
And they are going to be doing a really cool interview. And once again, I'm not going to tell you who it is that they're interviewing. It's going to be a fun surprise that you're just going to have to go listen and find out.
Jared's Experience on Hustle and Grind
00:01:44
Noah B
Jared, what was your experience like when you were on Hustle and Grind last week and you got to interview somebody? Like what what was it like? Was it new? Was it fun? Was it special? What was your favorite thing about it?
00:01:55
Denis Tyrell
I think you nailed all of it. Let's go. Yeah, that was it. I think you nailed every single one. It was a really cool experience. um I have, the only interview style show that we did was with Koi.
00:02:09
Denis Tyrell
And most,
00:02:09
Noah B
Yeah.
00:02:13
Denis Tyrell
I think, good yeah see here, you want to start the damn show off and you're going to make me compliment Dennis. This is not the fucking way I wanted this to go.
00:02:18
Noah B
Oh, geez. That's, we can't do that. That sounds terrible.
00:02:20
Denis Tyrell
No. Yeah. There we go. Tobacco break, restart. Let me hit this again right now. Hold on. This is an emergency broadcast. No, no. Fuck off. Dennis Terrell.
00:02:34
Noah B
Okay, well without mentioning Dennis Terrell and his interviewing skills that you know he probably doesn't have, even though you were about to say that he did have them, ah what were you about to say?
00:02:41
Denis Tyrell
I love that. That's a great transition. Yeah. It was pretty cool because he carried the, the, the heavy lifting on that, but rightfully so. It was really based on what those two guys are good at, right?
Effective Interview Techniques
00:02:54
Denis Tyrell
So that was, it was good.
00:02:54
Noah B
well here's I was gonna say like let's not give him any undue credit like most of that interview was him trying to like sneak like tips and tricks out of koi the entire episode because he wants to make his own copper Damascus and and that's really where his his interest wasn't you know It wasn't innocent. It wasn't like he was just like, hey, I'm going to, you know, interview Koi to make, you know, for great content for, you know, to help out our listeners. It was all selfish. Like it was just him just trying to like weasel information out of Koi the whole episode. That's all it was.
00:03:28
Denis Tyrell
it's like he has a YouTube channel or something he's trying to get content for. her Sorry. Yeah, but he did a great job. And ah this one, I was really excited to, to get to talk to Seth because Seth, like I said, on, on the hustle and grind last week. um Seth is our neighbor at blade show. And he's just a banger of a maker.
00:03:52
Denis Tyrell
Cool dude.
00:03:52
Noah B
Oh yeah.
00:03:53
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, he's you know, we've text every now and again and been in my corner helping me all the time. But just a super, super awesome dude. And I was interested in having the opportunity to interview him.
00:04:06
Denis Tyrell
And ah being that we don't do an interview show, I was wanted to and I'm going to do this right now is I wanted to compliment ah Ryan on how I guess you I don't, I don't notice it because I think it flows really good between the two of you guys, how you guys are, you know, going back and forth between questions.
00:04:30
Denis Tyrell
Um, but how easy he makes it for, for me, because, you know, I was new to the show too.
00:04:38
Noah B
Sure.
00:04:38
Denis Tyrell
And for, uh, Seth as well, he kinda transitioned through those spots that were, you know, maybe some unnecessarily silence that could have happened. And then randomly talks about, you know, not being are asked
Innovation in Knife-Making
00:04:52
Denis Tyrell
to not wear deodorant in California. So I thought it was great, dude. And it really um it's not like we don't. I saw a different part and of Ryan and getting a little a newfound respect for ah what he does, because I think most people don't understand that doing a podcast, although we are just sitting here to two dudes talk and chat and having a good conversation.
00:05:19
Denis Tyrell
Um, as the numbers creep up, you do find that there is, um, you know, some strategy and, you know, definitely some learning, uh, that needs to be done in order to try to, you know, get a little better. And it was cool to see somebody with that, that kind of experience to just kind of transition and roll right into the next thing. So good job, Ryan. I appreciate it. You you really helped, uh, smooth that out for a couple of times.
00:05:43
Noah B
Wow. So now you're going to go ahead and compliment my co-host after you just try to get away from complimenting your co-host. Like this is, oh my gosh, this is terrible.
00:05:48
Denis Tyrell
Fuck that guy. Yeah. and Yeah.
00:05:51
Noah B
Now you're wrong. I'm just messing with you. Ryan does a great job. Of course, obviously, you know, he's my co-host.
00:05:54
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:05:55
Noah B
We know we've interviewed tons and tons of different makers together. And it's just—it's just one of those things. It's just like anything else, man. It's reps. You know, you get that repetition in and—and you—you kind of get it.
00:06:06
Noah B
So, yeah.
00:06:06
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. It was cool, though. I enjoyed it, man. I thought it was. I hope ah everybody that listened to it and had a good time. um You know, as always. um If I had to redo.
00:06:18
Denis Tyrell
There would have been a couple of things and I would have more questions I would have asked, you know, maybe yeah tried to um I guess not do any different, but there was some more things that I think we could have.
00:06:32
Denis Tyrell
I'm really kicking myself in the ass for not getting him to talk about his the bills that he had for the art knife and infatational, because I saw some pictures of those things ah this week.
00:06:44
Noah B
Yeah, me too.
00:06:44
Denis Tyrell
oh Oh, my. Oh, my God. It was insane.
00:06:47
Noah B
Uh, unreal. Yeah. The, uh, what was it? The triple keyhole thing that he made. What the hell, man?
00:06:53
Denis Tyrell
Dude, I can't. Yeah, I think that's yeah. Well, well put because I mean, you got a keyhole on the horizontal and the vertical access like I don't know it. Trinity, that's the name of that build.
00:07:06
Noah B
Yeah.
00:07:07
Denis Tyrell
That thing was insane.
00:07:07
Noah B
Beautiful, beautiful work, man. Yeah.
00:07:09
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, so I'm curious to to see how he did, but.
00:07:11
Noah B
pretty and pretty inspiring, honestly, like you see something like that. And you're just like, okay, I got to go make something like, and then there's certain types of certain types of builds that I see that do that, you know, sometimes you're looking at something and you know, because we're on Instagram all the time, you know, we we see our our fellow makers work.
00:07:26
Denis Tyrell
Sure.
00:07:29
Noah B
And you know, sometimes you see something you're like, wow, that's, you know, that's amazing. I could never do that. Or that's cool, or you know, whatever it is that you think when you see other people's work, but like something like that, it was just like, it's inspiring to look at something like that, you know, this is, this is achievable, you know, somebody made this, you know, like, that's something that you can do, like, that's freaking awesome. And I love the fact that you know, maybe it was because it was it was out of the box in that it was building on something that people have already done, you know, people have done keyholes, people have done oddly shaped keyholes, you know, people have, you know, and but just like taking it up another level, like, I don't know, just the fact that like, there's another there's another level to achieve, you know, once you like you can't plateau, like you can just keep going and you can just keep that innovative
00:08:17
Noah B
spirit alive. you know it was that's I think that's what it was. It was inspiring to me.
00:08:21
Denis Tyrell
I, I a hundred percent I'm with
Importance of Innovation in Knife-Making
00:08:24
Denis Tyrell
you. Um, that kind of brings me to something that I was going to, um, kind of chat with you about. So I think there's no better segue than to just go right there as soon as I find it. Cause I'm super prepared, but it takes the, so I was driving to Genesis this morning, cause we were going to do some forging and I was talking, chatting with a a buddy of mine, Derek miles.
00:08:50
Denis Tyrell
Um, from, uh, miles knife and tool, I think is just tag. Yeah. Um, and we were, we were just trying to, I can't remember what it was, but I had this, this concept where I started thinking about like my time at maker's camp, which I kind of want to go over a little bit too, but, um,
00:09:11
Noah B
Oh, yeah, for sure.
00:09:14
Denis Tyrell
I had this feeling where when I first started making, I made a lot of my own tools, right? I say I, but my buddy Jeff and I made a lot of our own. We made a grinder. We made all attachments. We did all this stuff. But during that process, because I was so inexperienced and I had no like I had nothing to kind of base Like he's like, well, what do you want it to do? I'm like, I don't know. I know this looks like it's supposed to do this. Right. But I had no experience behind actually using a two by 72. So I didn't know what I liked or what I didn't like. Right. So I was just like, I want this thing. Right. This one. um And we did that build. And it was very, I think Brian House called it the Frankenstein revolution, like, because it was
00:10:07
Denis Tyrell
based off of of that, but you know, put together by all this different, you know, whatever scrap material we had. And then on and on and on with that kind of scenario, because both the one thing and Jeff, I think I've told you this and enough, I haven't here, here you go, buddy, there's, there's a lot of ideas, because he's a machinist doesn't come from this world of knife making entirely into a precision based, you know, production type industry, although his particular company does art, which is amazing. Right. um But he would say, hey, how about this? How about that? Let's try to do it this way or I see it this way. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, I want to do it just like this, because this is what the example of, you know, the the roadmap to what I'm seeing as an example. And then, you know, a couple of years later now down the road, I start thinking to myself and I'm like,
00:10:59
Denis Tyrell
god You know, Jeff had some really good ideas because and the point I'm trying to make is that. Just like what you were talking about with Seth, like, you know, you you get to a point where, OK, you're going to do a keyhole, but is there's.
00:11:13
Denis Tyrell
apparently more than one ways to do keyholes, right? You can keyhole on the and entire access of the handle, right?
00:11:19
Noah B
Sure, apparently.
00:11:20
Denis Tyrell
I mean, you can his keyholes had keyholes on that, right? So, but, ah you know, just like thinking along those lines of of daring to think outside of the box and and not kind of go with the grain of what's acceptable or what's, you know, already out there.
00:11:36
Denis Tyrell
um And I think it takes some experience. It takes some, you know, ultimately just like experience in order to be able to express yourself and think outside of the box and do things like, you know, make a like the three inch wide platen from the tsunami from Brian, right?
00:11:54
Noah B
Oh, yeah, sure.
00:11:55
Denis Tyrell
It's such a simple concept, right? But It's so outside of the box or the, uh, you know, the Apollo of the ribbon burners versus the Venturi. And, you know, you have purists that think one way and and the guys that are trying to innovate and do things another way. And I think I love that process. Um, and I'm finally recognizing that I, and I think it's, like I said, it's taken some time and, and in the process of making in order to be comfortable with saying that it doesn't have to be done this way. And that's what,
00:12:27
Denis Tyrell
I was picking up ah as I'm looking at Seth's and all these people that innovate. And I think that's what's inspiring is people that, you know, utilize the the things that are readily available, but they innovate and compound on that and then they create new, which will then become a standard at some point and, you know, on and on and on.
00:12:46
Noah B
Yes.
00:12:47
Denis Tyrell
So um the long story and or the short answer to all that is that During that process of making all those tools, Jeff had some really cool ideas and I just poo poo'd them because I was like, no, it has to be like this. He's like, yeah, why? I'm like, I don't fucking know, just do it. And I regret that.
00:13:10
Noah B
Well, that's man, that's really interesting you say that because it's it kind of goes a little bit along the lines of something I've been thinking about this week. and i And I say a little bit because it really is only a little bit. But I definitely see where you're coming from there.
00:13:21
Noah B
But I think the issue that you're talking about here is preconceived notions. Because you had these preconceived notions about the way that you thought it was supposed to be, and therefore rejected ideas just out of hand.
00:13:25
Denis Tyrell
Uh-huh.
00:13:34
Noah B
um But I think you hit the nail right on the head with saying that experience is sort of the answer to that. You know, once you have a certain amount of experience, you're able to think freer because you see more of the picture. um And without seeing more of the picture, you just have this this very narrow view. And obviously, there's just there's just no replacement for experience. But um that sort of thinking can invade your life in different ways than just knife making. So that's really interesting, uh, real. And I don't know where I'm going with this, so I'm just going to go ahead and try and remember it. Um, but the guy was like, uh, you know, here's, here's ah an interesting test. Um, look around the room and, uh, and then find all of the things that are Brown and then, uh, close your eyes and then tell me what, what the things are that are Brown.
00:14:25
Denis Tyrell
ah just pointed to myself guys sorry
00:14:30
Noah B
And so so the guy that was ah was was and the in the real, he's like, okay. So he's like, well, okay. So ah you got all the things that are brown like in your head? and He's like, yeah, okay. And his eyes are closed. He's like, all right. Well, how many red things were there?
00:14:41
Noah B
And he's like, well, i don't I don't know. I was looking for brown things. He's like, well, obviously, yeah. Okay. So you didn't see the things that were red because you were looking for brown things. He's like, okay. Now look around the room and tell me what things are red.
00:14:52
Denis Tyrell
I just pointed to myself, guys, sorry.
00:14:52
Noah B
And he's like, all right. So now you got all the things that are in your head that are red, but now you didn't see any of the blue things. And how many of the things that were red were actually like you know pink or like purple, but you just kind of decided to think that they were red because you wanted you wanted to succeed in what I told you to do.
00:15:09
Noah B
And so this is one of those things where I'm watching this reel and I'm doing the same thing along with the reel because I kind of wanted—I was invested in it. Like I wanted to try this out. I did the exact same thing. There was something pink and I'm like, okay, well that counts because I couldn't see anything else red.
00:15:21
Noah B
I couldn't see enough red things so I just made up something to go along with it.
00:15:22
Denis Tyrell
Right.
00:15:25
Noah B
And then I got called out by the guy in the video that I'm watching on my stupid phone, right? For—for having this—this confirmation bias and then not only the confirmation bias, but also just this this this wanting to succeed even though it has no value whatsoever. Like there was no value in me saying, oh that's pink but I just wanted to succeed because I wanted to do what was in front of me, you know. And so it's really interesting, you know, the way that people look at things like that in life where you're you're looking for all the brown things in the room but you're ignoring all of the other things because you're just so focused on that one thing.
00:16:01
Noah B
And I think that that ties in a little bit to what you're talking about because you're like, well, no, no, no, it's supposed to be brown. And you'll call something that's black brown just so that you can feel like you've succeeded in the task.
00:16:12
Noah B
And, and it and it happens in like a lot of different things in life where you have these preconceived notions of way the way that it's supposed to be and you try and fit it in the brown box, even though it doesn't fit in that box.
00:16:13
Denis Tyrell
Yep.
00:16:23
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:16:24
Noah B
There are other boxes out there and uh,
00:16:26
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, absolutely.
00:16:28
Noah B
and I just thought that that was really interesting. and it kind of made me It gave me a little bit little bit of a different perspective, I think, when when thinking about things.
00:16:36
Denis Tyrell
um The point to not lose sight of is like we're we're trying to achieve an end goal, right? And obviously for me, making tools to make tools was a concept that like I think really opened my mind and freed me into the ability to understand that although I wanted to make a knife when I first started,
00:17:02
Denis Tyrell
I had zero intentions on building a grinder, making a grinder, using an angle grinder, you know, and how vast the amount of tools that were needed in order to achieve this end product, right?
00:17:15
Noah B
Sure.
00:17:15
Denis Tyrell
Just all of this has been a byproduct of me just one day sitting here, you know, focusing on a folder k knife and like thinking, I can i want to make make a knife.
00:17:28
Denis Tyrell
And then how you go about learning is the YouTube videos where, you know, like how I interpret those was like their instruction was look at the brown things.
00:17:42
Denis Tyrell
Right.
00:17:43
Noah B
Sure.
00:17:43
Denis Tyrell
And that's all I was able to do was, you know, like just focus on that. So like the first person that I ever watched, uh, do anything was, um, I read beer Dobbs YouTube channel.
00:17:53
Noah B
Yeah.
00:17:55
Denis Tyrell
Um, great.
00:17:55
Noah B
Great YouTube channel.
00:17:56
Denis Tyrell
And his like, make, make a knife from cheap tools was like, boom, that was that was the thing that's yeah, that set me off.
00:18:03
Noah B
That was awesome.
00:18:05
Denis Tyrell
And then through that I ended up meeting, you know, the makers challenge came apart and then I ended up, you know, finding Dennis's channel and and then all the other are that are now, you know, a good portion of them are now my friends, you know, which is which is crazy.
00:18:19
Noah B
It is crazy.
00:18:19
Denis Tyrell
um Yeah, that you know, but it started with just that singular focus on one thing. But in retrospect, I think the way that we learned today for me anyways, really put me in a box of, you know, that this was the set process.
00:18:40
Denis Tyrell
And although I do believe that we need to find a set process in order to be successful in doing things. And then like the experience part comes in.
00:18:47
Noah B
and in in order to grow further. Yeah.
00:18:49
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. I think it's part of my, my, the trepidation behind not wanting to, go against the the mold or from what was standard with when we were building the tools was I needed as a ah functional tool, right?
00:19:04
Denis Tyrell
So I didn't want to be like, you know, hey, we've kind of gone as far as we can go with this build and then be like, hey, Brian, this this doesn't work.
00:19:05
Noah B
Right.
00:19:12
Denis Tyrell
And he's like, well, why the vote didn't you do it this way?
00:19:13
Noah B
Mm hmm.
00:19:13
Denis Tyrell
Or, you know, but so anyways, I just think there's a lot of things happening right now in our community that are We're, I think we're in the transition into some really cool shit and people are going in some really cool directions.
Evolution in the Knife-Making Community
00:19:27
Denis Tyrell
And I think overall, I think the purists always have problems watching the evolution of things, you know?
00:19:34
Noah B
Mm.
00:19:36
Denis Tyrell
And I'm, I'm trying to be open-minded to the fact that
00:19:43
Denis Tyrell
The growth and the journey is healthy for the community and overall all of our abilities you know to to widen for us to be more creative and you know more secure in expressing ourselves with the ideas that we have.
00:20:01
Noah B
I think that's a great way to put it because what what you're describing with the – with you know not wanting to go all out with the 2x72 when you're building it, what I'm talking about when you're – the confirmation bias, you know it's – I think a lot of that's rooted in fear you know and –
00:20:03
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:20:20
Denis Tyrell
Absolutely.
00:20:23
Noah B
I don't want to get too philosophical and do the my Jordan Peterson impression again, but, ah you know, once once you're once you have that experience, that that overcomes that that fear to to fail. And, you know, it's important, I think, to the listeners and to ourselves, you know, when we're looking at something that, you know, something like Seth made with that keyhole, we're just going to keep bringing that up, apparently. um you know, you look at that and you're like, wow, but you don't see the failure. And there's been lots of failure, ah guarantee I I have met Seth once. And I've never really talked to him other than that one time that I met him.
00:21:03
Noah B
I guarantee you he has failed so many times to get to that point where he was at with that blade.
00:21:09
Denis Tyrell
Absolutely.
00:21:10
Noah B
And and so that that fear of failure, once you get a little bit of that experience, the fear of failure starts to go away a little bit and you feel like you can overcome it to try out and like you're saying expand ah beyond it.
00:21:23
Noah B
And I think that's that's important.
00:21:25
Denis Tyrell
And I think the harsh truth behind all of that is that either you're going to participate or you're going to watch it happen.
00:21:35
Noah B
Oh, man, you're stabbing the listeners right in the ears. But yeah, umm I'm.
00:21:40
Denis Tyrell
I'm talking to me, you know, just all all eight of you that are listening.
00:21:41
Noah B
Oh.
00:21:44
Denis Tyrell
I just lost one. So back to seven. But yeah, no, that's really what's what's going to happen.
00:21:46
Noah B
ah
00:21:48
Denis Tyrell
And because I've had ah I've had a lot of ideas and a lot of things that I think that are cool. And I didn't have the time nor the apparently the motivation to to do them and then to watch some of those things become popular or, you know, accepted.
00:22:05
Denis Tyrell
um It's a it's an interesting ah ride to go on. And then you have to understand that, like I said, that that's why I said that what I'm talking about is you either you accept the ability or not the ability, but do you accept the inevitability of things are going to change. That you can be a part of that or innovate it, or you just get to watch it and you, you get to, you know, now it becomes acceptable because somebody else did it.
00:22:35
Noah B
That's a great point. And you know what? um We've gotten a little bit deep here. So I want to talk a little bit about innovative ways to do things. And one of the people that I know of who is really innovative um and is really innovative, like a whole new way of doing business is Mr.
Lawrence Lake's Contributions
00:22:53
Noah B
Lawrence Lake at Maritime Knife Supply because that guy has innovated marketing.
00:22:57
Noah B
He has innovated the fact that you can just have so many things on one website and just provide everything that you need for knife making. And he does that at maritime knife supply dot.com or dot.ca if you are in Canada. And that man has just about everything you could possibly need for knife making. And we love Lawrence, we talked about him on the last episode.
00:23:22
Noah B
He's a Smith himself, he makes knives, so he knows what you need. He's gonna stock all of it and you can go to Maritime Knife Supply and make sure that in that how did you hear about us box, you put in triple T podcast.
00:23:33
Noah B
Or actually, because you're hearing this, that's part of like a collab, you could just say, ah you know, ah Jared and Noah, or you could say the podcast guys, or whatever you wanna put in there, you know.
00:23:45
Noah B
Just make sure that they know that we sent you. That's all I'm saying.
00:23:48
Denis Tyrell
Absolutely. Absolutely. And when we say everything, that means everything. ah Right now, ah he is about to have some Razer Star products for the 1x30 and the 2x48 belt grind users.
00:24:05
Noah B
Oh!
00:24:07
Denis Tyrell
So keep an eye out for that um because I think yeah on both of our podcasts the last month or so we've all kind of had some experiences with with the Razer Star um that has only been available on the 2x72.
00:24:21
Denis Tyrell
So um the the smaller grinders, we're going to get some ability to try those out.
00:24:30
Noah B
That is some great news.
00:24:30
Denis Tyrell
in. Yeah, I'm i'm super stoked. that I still have a two by by 48 and one by 30.
00:24:41
Noah B
Oh, do you really? That's awesome.
00:24:42
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah, I. Well, the one by 30 is still up because I have a shit ton of belts and and apparently that's worth keeping the machine in there and I equally.
00:24:53
Denis Tyrell
I think I gave the two by 72 to my buddy Jeff, but as I'm. Talking about Lawrence, though, and him being a maker. He's just texted me a picture of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
00:25:12
Denis Tyrell
Forged, integral chef knives and lets me know that he's got a lot of Jared in coming up. Because, yeah, Lawrence is a good dude and a good buddy of mine, and I kind of transitioning into Lawrence's Makers Camp is one of those opportunities where we get to hang out. And I really look forward to getting to get into so just chill with ah with everybody. But Lawrence is, I mean, there is, as a one person on this continent, I guess, is he couldn't be farther away from me. Like every other person that I know,
00:25:58
Denis Tyrell
is somewhere in between us, but he's literally like the farthest away that you can be from this coast to that coast.
00:26:05
Noah B
That's, yeah, okay. Yeah, I can see that. I don't, honestly, I don't really think of like, Canadian as like a real country. Um, it just, it's sort of like a little fantasy land up there. So I know he's far away, but like, I don't even know where in the, you know, the tundra frozen area, whatever.
00:26:16
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:26:24
Noah B
Hoth. Um, I don't know where up there he is even.
00:26:28
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. And he's as far East and fantasy land as you can go.
00:26:34
Noah B
Really? um Okay.
00:26:34
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. And West being on the West. Yeah.
00:26:38
Noah B
I know he's on the east side up, you know, up somewhere, you know, from the other like the US and then just like up from there.
00:26:49
Noah B
That's all I know.
00:26:50
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. The only people farther than him are are those funny talking newfound them landers. And you got to cross some water to get over there. So he's it he's he's at the those maritimes are way the hell out there.
00:27:03
Denis Tyrell
But which is again a testament to how the hell does he get our packages over to us so damn fast. So again, if you're looking for any of your knife making needs go to maritime knife supply and yeah, he had a good
00:27:10
Noah B
Yeah.
00:27:16
Noah B
All right, man. Well, hey. Oh, I just I wasn't sure if you were done there, but I i wanted to hear a little bit about ah maker camp from your perspective because I got to hear it from Dennis and I got to hear a, you know, an interesting story about you doing some forging with a couple of buddies a long time alongside of some guys who have been forging for a very long time.
00:27:33
Denis Tyrell
Mm hmm.
Experiences at Maker Camp
00:27:39
Noah B
And I just kind of wanted to maybe hear like your take on it, or maybe there was something else at major camp you wanted to talk about.
00:27:39
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:27:44
Noah B
But first I want to hear what it was like forging with our buddy bald man. And, uh, how did that whole project go?
00:27:54
Denis Tyrell
So we got it.
00:27:56
Denis Tyrell
My very first knife I ever forged was at maker camp three years ago with Dennis and Lawrence and Lawrence kind of helped me through that process. um I've said this a couple of times and Dennis as well.
00:28:06
Noah B
Okay.
00:28:11
Denis Tyrell
For whatever reason, you I think an individual an individual receives direction instruction differently from. I'm going to do it individual.
00:28:24
Denis Tyrell
ah Allow myself to introduce myself. so um i we We receive instruction differently from different people and ah Lawrence kind of speaks my language while the steel is hot and I need to know what the hell I'm gonna do because I think I've explained this to you and listening a lot of times.
00:28:34
Noah B
Yeah.
00:28:44
Denis Tyrell
It's like I have a really bad habit of for forging right now. is that I will hear the plan, hear the instructions, and then when I pull the steel out, I go blank.
00:28:54
Denis Tyrell
And I ended up just staring at a hot piece of steel, watching the the heat go away.
00:28:58
Noah B
Watching it cool down.
00:28:59
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:28:59
Noah B
Yeah.
00:29:01
Denis Tyrell
So um that was cool. But um with Brent being there for the first time, who was ah one of my one of my better buddies, um Somehow he had talked to Lawrence and because he is a production batch stock removal dude, and that's his lane.
00:29:18
Noah B
yeah Yeah.
00:29:20
Denis Tyrell
And and I fully support people that know their lane and they don't have to necessarily stay in that lane. But that's that's what he does. um And he's fucking badass 100 percent.
00:29:29
Noah B
And he kicks ass at it.
00:29:33
Denis Tyrell
I'm fucking got a thicker clipper right here. So um the. point I'm trying to make is we're walking around and he comes up to me and he's like, Hey, Lawrence is gonna help me forge my first knife.
00:29:45
Denis Tyrell
But I think it just because it was transferring over into the thicker clipper, he was gonna forge a thicker clipper.
00:29:50
Noah B
Right.
00:29:51
Denis Tyrell
He it was a little more interesting to him and he kind of got onto that. So a couple minutes later, I get this text message from Lawrence. And it's based some kind of meme that says shit show supervisor.
00:30:03
Denis Tyrell
Then he goes, Hey, this is me later on tonight helping Brent and Jared. you guys It was perfect.
00:30:10
Noah B
a ah
00:30:12
Denis Tyrell
It was beautiful. Um, so yeah, two guys that really don't, I've done, I've done some a lot more than, than Brent has, but he did fantastic. Um, the at maker camp.
00:30:28
Denis Tyrell
there is at least probably every time I go there about five times where I stop, I look around and I go, what the hell is going on? And I have like a legitimate fanboy moment because I was sitting and this doesn't happen to to me anyways, right? I was, it was 10 30 at night in New York across the country. I'm,
00:30:57
Denis Tyrell
putting in some steel to start to forge. I look around, there's Mareko, Josh Prince, like, dennis store I mean, the list goes on and on of all these like people that are there.
00:31:09
Denis Tyrell
And then I start to do a couple things on the press and then I look back and there's like this crowd.
00:31:10
Noah B
We'll see you next time.
00:31:17
Denis Tyrell
There's probably like fucking 20 people just standing around watching my ass fucking try to forge an integral chef for the first time. And, uh, you know, I got about halfway through it and I literally had to stop. I think I took a selfie of like myself, morreco jo like just everybody doing their own thing and like all the people behind me. Cause I was like, it was, it was a really surreal moment. Um, and I, and I find myself in that position a lot, um, at, at makers camp because you're just bumping elbows with everybody. Um, some of them happen to be just people that you really.
00:31:52
Denis Tyrell
admire, look up to, you know, and in all kinds of different
Activities at Maker Camp
00:31:59
Denis Tyrell
arenas. I think that's the best part about Makers Camp is, you know, that although we have our knife making crew there, the there's the blacksmiths, there's the leather makers, there's the jewelry makers, there's the welding, the CNC, all the woodworkers.
00:32:13
Denis Tyrell
I made a pair of chopsticks. That was pretty cool.
00:32:17
Noah B
Oh, that's cool.
00:32:18
Denis Tyrell
Um, yeah, Brent's wife, Liz, ended up going. With him and. um I think he was excited for her to kind of just.
00:32:31
Denis Tyrell
Get into the arena of of making in general, right? But because knives are so specific, right?
00:32:34
Noah B
Sure.
00:32:36
Denis Tyrell
Like attending a knife show is really one dimensional. My wife went with me on one and she literally they they got about an hour. And i was that's with 45 minutes of patience because they know that's it's important to me, right?
00:32:51
Denis Tyrell
That their interest is is you know can be up.
00:32:51
Noah B
Yeah.
00:32:54
Denis Tyrell
but um So I got the opportunity to kind of hang out with her and um in the very, very beginning of the show and we went and made some chopsticks. And I was just kind of coaching her through the the process of getting through the fear of trying to make things.
00:33:12
Noah B
Okay.
00:33:12
Denis Tyrell
Oh man, it was really, really awesome because we made these chopsticks. We had to wait around for a while. So we had, you know, some, a lot of talks. We were standing there. This is, this is the part that's cool when you're talking with, uh, with, with Liz being there anyways, is Jay Nielsen walks up next to us and, and Shelley.
00:33:31
Denis Tyrell
And, and I'm, cause I had just actually sidebar here. I actually used the acetone on the kydex, uh, tip that he dropped on when you guys interview.
00:33:39
Noah B
Oh, yeah.
00:33:40
Denis Tyrell
And I was like, Do the thing. It works fantastic. I don't know if you actually got a chance to try it, but.
00:33:46
Noah B
Oh, yeah, yeah, it works.
00:33:47
Denis Tyrell
Oh, I. Yeah, way easier, way easier. So I was just kind of singing his praise and then a walk away and she's like, you know, anyways, back then I'm like, who's ah Jane Nils?
00:33:57
Denis Tyrell
She's like, I don't know what that is, you know, but she did that with Jimmy DeResta, you know, all kinds. It was pretty cool. um But after we did that on that first day, dude, she we couldn't.
00:34:09
Denis Tyrell
couldn't hardly find her because she she caught the bug, man. And she was just outgoing to do things and like, you know, bump into her.
00:34:13
Noah B
nice
00:34:14
Denis Tyrell
What do you want to know? I'm going to make a ring. I'm going to make this. I'm going to make that. That's what it's about. The opportunity to to do so many things and for us to um understand that making for us is for me is is knives, right?
00:34:28
Denis Tyrell
But the community is so much more vast and you get to experience ah that on a very intimate level at Maker's Camp and it's It's really cool. Plus, you know, it's like family reunion with all the, all the people that, you know, have been showing up.
00:34:43
Denis Tyrell
And I think as it grows, I think it'll be cooler.
00:34:44
Noah B
Yeah.
00:34:46
Denis Tyrell
So it was really cool.
00:34:48
Noah B
That sounds awesome man.
00:34:49
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:34:49
Noah B
I can't even imagine like there are being that many things to do.
00:34:49
Denis Tyrell
and
00:34:52
Noah B
And I think your example is perfect. You know, she's not tied down to knives. You know, she's probably sick of knives.
00:34:58
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:34:59
Noah B
Like my wife is. Like your wife probably is.
00:35:02
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:35:02
Noah B
You know, it's to the point now where it's like I have to make something pretty freaking special. Like that I'm like over the top and hand it to my wife for her to actually even say more than hmm.
00:35:14
Noah B
about it, you know, like, like the the last time I got my wife to actually give me a decent reaction was when I made that I'd made an integral with like ah the Fox feather pattern, which is the pattern that I came up with with like the multiple feathers that are refettered.
00:35:29
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:35:29
Noah B
And it's got, you know, this frickin like amazing coa block that I got from high coa and I'm just like,
00:35:34
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:35:37
Noah B
And what do you think? And you know, she actually gave me a good reaction with that one. But like, you hand her just like, you know, a regular Damascus knife. And she's like, Oh, yeah, nice. Good job. You know, mm hmm.
00:35:47
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, you totally, totally understand.
00:35:48
Noah B
Yeah, just like, yeah, you know, so my wife would be the exact same at like a knife show, you know, like she doesn't care.
00:35:49
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:35:54
Denis Tyrell
Nope.
00:35:56
Noah B
But you bring somebody like that who has, you know, that ability to like make things and you give them all these realms of possibility. You know, who knows any one of those different crafts, those different ah avenues,
00:36:09
Noah B
um different art forms could be something that somebody picks up and like runs with for years, you know, and that could be, that could be their introduction to it. So, I mean, I'm just fascinated by the fact that Maker Camp exists.
00:36:23
Noah B
I mean, I would absolutely definitely love to come to it one day. I have no idea when I'm going to be able to do that, but that would be super cool.
00:36:29
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if if you want to could like, I think this came up on the other show, but like comparing it to blade is it's not comparable. Like you have this sensory overload of just like a high.
00:36:39
Noah B
Right. Yeah.
Nighttime Forging at Maker Camp
00:36:45
Denis Tyrell
Anxiety pressure fun, like it's just intense on at an Atlanta, but in a maker's camp is just ah it's the complete opposite vibe.
00:36:47
Noah B
Yeah.
00:36:57
Denis Tyrell
I mean, and where else can you just like walk into a tent and start forging at 10 o'clock at night. you know they they close they shut they They shut us down at midnight.
00:37:02
Noah B
Not at my house. I'm glad to hear that. and
00:37:09
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:37:09
Noah B
I'm sure some people wanted to sleep.
00:37:09
Denis Tyrell
And um yeah I guess you have to kind of see the vibe around the place. I mean, there's no way you you can't be using a power hammer and that's not echoing through a forest for forever.
00:37:19
Noah B
Oh yeah, for sure.
00:37:20
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. So yeah, I guess I didn't even think about them. But um yeah, it was it was really cool, man. And then I got to see a bunch of people. I got to meet um Mr. meme himself ah Bobby from Reaper manufacturing.
00:37:35
Denis Tyrell
That was really cool.
00:37:37
Noah B
Nice.
00:37:37
Denis Tyrell
You know, like when when you get to make a connection like in person with yeah some of your Instagram friends that you have talked to for years now, you know, and then you finally get to meet them.
00:37:46
Noah B
Yeah.
00:37:47
Denis Tyrell
and It was really, really cool. um It's an absolute bummer what happened to all those memes because they're all gone now.
00:37:54
Noah B
That's just tragic, man.
00:37:55
Denis Tyrell
the um Yeah, I was trying to show somebody um one of them. But yeah, they took the countdown and all the all the all the contents gone.
00:38:02
Noah B
That sucks.
00:38:03
Denis Tyrell
But yeah, he was it was super cool to meet him. I hung out with ah Cody from C2 Ford. Good maker. He actually did his J.S.
00:38:13
Denis Tyrell
performance tense test. live right there in front of everybody.
00:38:17
Noah B
App Maker Camp?
00:38:18
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, just at like 10 o'clock random. That's what what he did prior, right before we all started forging.
00:38:22
Noah B
Huh, that's so cool.
00:38:25
Denis Tyrell
Tied a piece, yeah, tied a piece of rope up on the side of the, on the, on the main area and sliced through that. And then he had to do the bend test and and the chop. So we went over to the broad back tent and he did that probably 30 plus people I would imagine just sitting there.
00:38:40
Denis Tyrell
I mean, that's gotta be stressful as hell.
00:38:41
Noah B
No pressure.
00:38:42
Denis Tyrell
Holy shit. I'm like, yeah, you're a, you're a beast, dude.
00:38:43
Noah B
ah
00:38:45
Denis Tyrell
Um, so yeah.
00:38:47
Noah B
It's like being on Forge and Fire, basically, but with more consequence, because it's your JS.
00:38:52
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. And he, yeah, it happens that he's, yeah he did that before he was, he did his JS. So he had experience in the fortune fire round.
00:39:00
Noah B
Oh, really? Nice. All right. So then that was probably fine for him.
00:39:02
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Yeah. It was a trip.
00:39:06
Noah B
yeah Well, cool, man. Well, hey, I just wanted to kind of pick your brain on something and maybe I don't recant.
00:39:16
Denis Tyrell
Time out.
00:39:17
Noah B
Oh, timeout.
00:39:18
Denis Tyrell
Time out, sorry. what i Before we move on,
00:39:19
Noah B
What do we got? Okay.
00:39:25
Denis Tyrell
Mareko, Josh, Cliff Duffton, Ryan from Noam Hammer, they all do demos and and at Camp too, right?
00:39:37
Noah B
Okay. All right.
00:39:40
Denis Tyrell
So you get to watch Josh Prince forged a knife from a small block into a forged finish hunter.
00:39:50
Noah B
right
00:39:50
Denis Tyrell
Oh, Morocco in depth Damascus discussions about, you know, conceptually how to, you know, I think Dennis was talking about that last week till you you got that, um you know, hammer making like all this stuff.
00:40:05
Denis Tyrell
Right. So because we're bumping elbows with with the big guys there, Morocco pulls out this knife.
00:40:10
Noah B
Right.
00:40:14
Denis Tyrell
And it is a Damascus pattern.
00:40:17
Noah B
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Is this something you can talk about on the main show? Okay, all right, just wanna make sure.
00:40:27
Denis Tyrell
not 100% now as much. I want to say he fucking posted it.
00:40:33
Noah B
ah ah Not that I'm aware of.
00:40:37
Denis Tyrell
Okay.
00:40:37
Noah B
and If this is the same thing you're talking about that I think you're about to talk about, I don't know.
00:40:41
Denis Tyrell
It's on there.
00:40:42
Noah B
Oh, it's on there, okay, I missed it then.
00:40:43
Denis Tyrell
No, no, no, no, no, it's up here. So well, just in the sake of of not fucking anything up, then I'm gonna I think that's a good stop. And that is no, I think yeah I'd rather not.
00:40:54
Noah B
Sorry man, I wasn't trying to throw you off, I just Sorry listeners.
00:41:02
Denis Tyrell
No, it has not been posted. OK. All right.
00:41:15
Denis Tyrell
That's cool. I love the dead air. You guys just relish in the fact that I'm struggling right now.
00:41:22
Noah B
You're good, man. You're good. No, I just I think I heard about what you're what you were going to talk about. And it sounded incredible. um But I just didn't know if it was public knowledge or or what.
00:41:33
Denis Tyrell
I don't know yet. Yeah.
00:41:34
Noah B
So let's just go ahead and save it. It's definitely something you can talk about on a future episode.
00:41:39
Denis Tyrell
Absolutely.
00:41:39
Noah B
um Excuse me. I just ah yeah. Anyways.
00:41:43
Denis Tyrell
It really just speaks to somebody that's pushing the boundaries.
00:41:47
Noah B
For sure, dude, absolutely.
00:41:48
Denis Tyrell
Of just not staying in the lane and thinking outside the box and doing some shit that is mind blowing, I got to hold that knife and look at it and it just. So sorry, fuckers, you don't get to know what I'm talking about.
00:42:03
Noah B
Uh, well, they'll see it. I'm sure it'll get posted at some point and, uh, and they can all share in the, the mind blowing emoji.
00:42:07
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it will.
00:42:11
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, all right, go ahead.
00:42:12
Noah B
Well, sweet man. All right. Y'all good with the, you got everything off a maker camp.
00:42:17
Denis Tyrell
Makers camp is good. Let's roll.
00:42:18
Noah B
All
Balancing Ambition and Satisfaction
00:42:19
Noah B
right, dude. Well, last week, Dennis and I went on like a little bit of a tirade. I don't want to call it a tirade. Dennis dennis had ah had a hot take and we we discussed, you know, different aspects of that. And I was thinking about it throughout the week. And I was kind of rethinking kind of my position on certain things about whether or not I was thinking accurately about things and I don't want to be that guy who throws out advice that then people take to heart and it maybe wasn't the best advice. Now I wanted to make it clear that I'm not recanting anything and I don't apologize for anything. um But I would like to maybe clarify a little bit and I wanted to get your take on it.
00:43:00
Denis Tyrell
Sure.
00:43:01
Noah B
So last week, i I said a point that I've made before which is that, you know, you're you're never going to be good enough and there's always like, you can always be better and you should always be striving for better. But I think that that if left by itself,
00:43:22
Noah B
isn't necessarily a recipe for happiness because you can't just always be unhappy with where you're at. I think that there's, ah it has to be tempered with a little bit of satisfaction and,
00:43:42
Noah B
how do I put this? You can't just always be unhappy with where you're at and just always be pushing because then you're you're never satisfied with the result. And so the example that I wanted to put out there was something along the lines of, you know, I'll be working on like a custom project. And which is, I do a lot of custom orders. So I'll be working on it and I'll be working on it. And you know, you see those, those baby steps while you're working on it, you know, it goes from this and then it goes, you know,
00:44:11
Noah B
It starts off at 36 grit and then it, you know, it gets ground better. And then you do a test etch and you're like, okay, yeah, I think the pattern looks good. And then you get it hand sanded and then you do that etch. And you know, eventually, you know, you've seen this thing in every form that it could possibly be in. And then you finally get to the finished result and you, you know, hopefully happy with the finished result, but you've seen it so many times.
00:44:34
Noah B
in so many different forms, you're almost sick of looking at it, right?
00:44:37
Denis Tyrell
Mm hmm.
00:44:38
Noah B
And maybe that's kind of like an extreme way to put it. But at the end of a project like that, you know, I typically, you know, get to that point where I'm like, I'm sick of looking at this thing, you know, like it because I spend so much time on it.
00:44:49
Noah B
But I rob myself of the satisfaction of the completed product, product, if that makes sense, by being unhappy with the process and
00:45:04
Noah B
and seeing it so many times. Does that make sense? Am am I making sense, Jared?
00:45:09
Denis Tyrell
Yes, you are.
00:45:10
Noah B
All right, cool. So when ah when i'm when I'm telling these, you know I just got to be careful about what I say because you know we've got like six, seven, maybe even whole people listening to this. and ah
00:45:20
Denis Tyrell
Six now.
00:45:23
Noah B
Thanks. Appreciate that. um But you know i I definitely want to encourage people to strive for better because that's you know but what I do and I wholeheartedly believe that we should always be striving for better.
00:45:24
Denis Tyrell
yeah welcome
00:45:36
Noah B
um But I think that there's there's a certain amount of – you have to temper that with – You know, not letting the perfect get in the way of the good. And I think enjoying the good and um recognizing where you're at and and being being happy in that place is is essential to even being able to move forward and continue to grow and continue to get better at at all the different things. And I'm talking about knife making, I'm talking about life, I'm talking about everything here.
00:46:08
Noah B
You know, you have to temper that, that thirst for more with the satisfaction that the accomplishment of getting more brings. Does that make sense?
00:46:19
Denis Tyrell
I'm tracking 100% right now. I actually, I was kind of bummed, but I think you guys did a really good job on going over that that topic about complacency and you know,
00:46:33
Denis Tyrell
not settling.
00:46:35
Noah B
Yeah.
00:46:35
Denis Tyrell
um I think it's you guys, you guys did very well. And the hot take the however you're talking about a sensitive subject where, you know, um like Dennis said, like if you think this applies to you, then it does.
00:46:53
Denis Tyrell
Right. And there's good and there's bad in that um on the outside. And this this topic had kind of been lingering. we were going to get, you know, going to get going to get to it and and not. But I'm happy that it it came out and that you got to give your perspective on it. And your follow up is very similar to how I feel about it, because the the one thing that I thought was important ah I think is important is that complacency and progress is eight is relative to the person, right?
00:47:31
Noah B
Mm hmm.
00:47:33
Denis Tyrell
And that is not my place. That is not your place. That is not Dennis's place for anybody to tell somebody else how much is enough or not enough, right?
00:47:44
Denis Tyrell
It's a very individual thing.
00:47:44
Noah B
Sure.
00:47:46
Denis Tyrell
So um for me, um when I first started making, I was absolutely 100% searching for perfection.
00:47:58
Noah B
Yes.
00:47:58
Denis Tyrell
I would hand knives to people that were really detail orientated, not knife makers. um And they would point this, this and this and that.
00:48:09
Denis Tyrell
And then I would give it to you know Dennis or somebody who's you know obviously got a pretty high level of standard there. And what I learned very quickly was that my
00:48:23
Denis Tyrell
Does my my my intent behind the designs far exceeded my ability, my ambition and exceeded my abilities.
00:48:32
Noah B
Okay.
00:48:32
Denis Tyrell
So it's trying to stay in that lane of like, you got to get through some of these builds. Otherwise, you know, you're never going to get anything completed. Uh, you're just, you're going to be Jared England's.
00:48:42
Noah B
You're just gonna end up sitting in your shop, Jared in blades.
00:48:46
Denis Tyrell
I mean, it's, it's funny, but it's, you know, it was a, it was a real thing as, you know, like I could do better here. I could do better there. And then you end up with a pile of Jared's and you know, blah, blah, blah. But I really think it's important to just like to understand that you're you're right.
00:49:00
Denis Tyrell
in And then, and, and saying that we need to get good at something before you move on. And that get good takes different times for different people.
00:49:09
Noah B
Sure. Yeah.
00:49:16
Denis Tyrell
And it could come off as complacent or, you know, maybe stagnant or repetitive or, you know, for for whatever reason. But it's a very introspective and and individual um thing,
00:49:30
Denis Tyrell
you know. So for me, I think the day that I decided that I
00:49:31
Noah B
Yeah.
00:49:35
Denis Tyrell
I'm OK with small mistakes, right? I'm just going to note those mistakes on this build, and I'm going to try to address it on the next one.
00:49:41
Noah B
Yeah.
00:49:42
Denis Tyrell
um I think the one person that really helped Brent really helped me ah kind of get through a lot of those things. like Again, it's it's exactly what I was talking about. like I felt like all hands all blades needed to be hand sanded.
00:49:57
Noah B
Yeah.
00:49:58
Denis Tyrell
That's just what I saw.
00:49:59
Noah B
Yeah.
00:50:00
Denis Tyrell
That's not the case.
00:50:02
Noah B
You were just looking at all the brown things in the room.
00:50:02
Denis Tyrell
just look All the brown things. All the Jareds. So, yeah, dude, I'm with you, dude.
00:50:08
Noah B
All right, man.
00:50:09
Denis Tyrell
I think you're you're on to it.
Reflective Life Conversations
00:50:11
Denis Tyrell
um What have you been what have you been doing this week?
00:50:13
Noah B
Well, cool. What have I think that we should we should try and lighten things up. We've gotten like a little bit too deep. I was scared of that. I thought maybe you and I would go a little bit too deep. We've got we've got like, man, we're all philosophical and I'm doing my Jordan Peterson oppression again because we just, the paradox of life and in some real sense, we've just gotten so deep into our own heads that we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It's gotten so much and it's chaotic and you need to temper that chaos with order.
00:50:46
Noah B
and so I have been doing nothing this week other than my kid's soccer. And I think last week on the show, I mentioned that there was – you know that the the stereotype of like the sports sports dad, you know, yelling at kids, yelling at refs.
00:51:07
Noah B
It got worse. So like, this has nothing to do with knife making. And I'm just telling this for fun. But so like, I'm at my kids soccer game this week, right? And we're talking eight year olds on the field here. Okay, we're talking about kids so young that like,
00:51:25
Noah B
if they miss a goal, they might burst into tears because like, they're kids. All right, we want to I just want to emphasize the fact that these are small children playing a game that is, you know, yes, it's supposed to teach them discipline, and and sportsmanship and camaraderie and everything. But at the end of the day, they're supposed to just have fun and be kids, right?
00:51:45
Noah B
All right. So they play this team and the, the refs for this team are like high school kid, like volunteers, like they're volunteering to, to ref this kid's game, like for credit or something. I don't know. Right. The parents on the opposing team were yelling like, and I don't want to be dishonest here because like I yell a lot when I met like any sort of sports match, my kids out there, he.
00:52:15
Noah B
cannot stay focused like his brain is all over the place like he's over there on the soccer field like thinking about something else like he's thinking about like you know what happened and I'll i'll be yelling on you know Ben focus the balls coming your way you know because he's you know goalie at that point and so ah i'm you know I'm yelling advice to my kid because like he's not focusing whatever it is you know the coaches on the other end of the field you know I'm trying to coach my kid from the sidelines because he's a kid.
00:52:19
Denis Tyrell
Right.
00:52:40
Noah B
um The parents on the other team were getting so mad at the refs that they were just like yelling at the refs. They're yelling at this, yelling at that.
00:52:52
Noah B
One dude told me to sit down because I was telling my kid to do something on the field. And, uh, I didn't respond.
00:53:03
Denis Tyrell
No,
00:53:05
Noah B
Okay.
00:53:06
Denis Tyrell
good for you.
00:53:07
Noah B
and And, and I, and I want everybody to know that. No, you know what? Nevermind. I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna get into it. But the point is, is that like, I could very easily have turned that into a fistfight at a kid's game, right? Like we're talking about like, this is ridiculous. Like what sort of clown world are we living in here where like, the parents are like yelling at each other on the sidelines. And it even got so far. So game ends after the game.
00:53:38
Noah B
One of the parents from the opposing team went up to one of the kids on on my kid's team and insulted the kid to his face. An adult, someone who in theory, you know, ah pays taxes, drives a car, has a job, was so upset about what happened during this game that he had to go up and insult an eight-year-old before he felt good enough to go home. That was necessary to him.
00:54:08
Noah B
Um, I would just encourage people to not be like that. I think that, uh, um, good Lord. I mean, I don't know about you, but like, you know, I, I go to work, I come home. I don't spend a whole lot of time in public, you know, and it's just things like this that make me kind of happy about that, that I don't spend that much time in public.
00:54:34
Denis Tyrell
yeah yeah yeah
00:54:35
Noah B
But like holy crap, dude. like the you know And you see videos online, and you know you hear about the stereotype of like the sports dads or the sports moms, you know things like that. But like when it when it gets to the point where you're getting spicy enough to like almost get to the point where you're going to start a fight with other parents on the sidelines, like damn, dude. and like that was a That was an eye opener for me. That was something else.
00:55:01
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah. I played sports my, my whole life and I'm very familiar with, with that. It's been going on for a long time.
00:55:08
Noah B
Oh, yeah.
00:55:10
Denis Tyrell
And the sad part with the, with the last, I actually didn't have a little regrets here, but like, I didn't, I wasn't in a place in my life when my daughters were young to put them into sports and participate in that capacity.
00:55:27
Denis Tyrell
Um, my kids are 28, 22 and 16. So there's some years between them.
00:55:33
Noah B
Sure.
00:55:33
Denis Tyrell
Um, so my son, I did have the opportunity. Um, and he, he played, um, all kinds of stuff in golf, uh, baseball bowl. I mean, he's done a lot of shit and the, uh, from when he first started T ball, um,
00:55:45
Noah B
Sure.
00:55:56
Denis Tyrell
I after that time, I decided that. Against my against my better judgment because insecurities and whatnot, I coached him.
00:56:06
Noah B
Okay.
00:56:06
Denis Tyrell
Every single team he was on. um Past, a you know, I don't know, since he was, I don't know about you have seven, eight. um I every time they ask for volunteer you know coaches, I didn't want to manage a team.
00:56:22
Denis Tyrell
I didn't have that capacity, but I would, you know, I'm, I'm looking right here. I got a baseball bat with, uh, from 2019 where, you know, the sister, you know, thanks coach Jared with all the guys, they lasered all the names on there.
00:56:34
Noah B
Nice.
00:56:35
Denis Tyrell
Um, but it's because, um, I had to be able to communicate with my son. I had to be able to have the ability to talk to him, to coach him through his his own insecurities, and and and to make sure that I was present when, and if anybody ever decided to speak to my son, you know, because there are some things that, you know, are not okay.
00:56:42
Noah B
Yeah.
00:56:59
Denis Tyrell
I mean, and and I'll raise my hand and say, I've been ejected.
00:57:04
Denis Tyrell
I got thrown out one time, because i yeah my son, he got hit.
00:57:10
Noah B
Okay.
00:57:10
Denis Tyrell
He was a yeah, he was at bat and he got hit and. They. Now the ball hit his hand on the bat and and I had turned around and I didn't see it happen and when I.
00:57:21
Noah B
Okay.
00:57:27
Denis Tyrell
came back, they they called him out and he's crying and his fingers all busted open, right? And then I'm like, how the hell is he?
00:57:34
Noah B
Oh, geez.
00:57:35
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, you know, bu anyway, so yeah, I've reacted. i've You can get emotional there real easy, but. um
00:57:40
Noah B
Oh dude, me too.
00:57:41
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. So, but after that, you know, you just turn around and walk away. And I've had some parents and some other coaches that, you know, I've had to had some, some choice words with, uh, and I've, you know, I've behaved inappropriate too.
00:57:51
Noah B
Oh yeah.
00:57:54
Denis Tyrell
So I can't call, uh, I get what you're saying though. And every time that I've ever kind of got a little heated, I'll always like stop and look around out like, and you see all those parents, you know, kind of looking back at you and you're just like,
00:58:08
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah, that's, that's not what adults are supposed to do. And this is a kid's sport and you're, you know what I mean? Like these kids are out here just haven having fun, but to your, to your point, and that's why I got involved.
00:58:13
Noah B
Yeah.
00:58:17
Denis Tyrell
Um, so I could, I have immediate access to him, um, during all of his, all of his sports because I couldn't sit in the, I couldn't, I just can't not be a part of it in that way.
00:58:28
Noah B
Yeah. Dude, it's tough, man. like That's the thing.
00:58:31
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:58:32
Noah B
like and and There's probably some listeners that don't have kids. there's probably some listeners who aren't There's probably some listeners who are like me who aren't really sports fans at all.
00:58:37
Denis Tyrell
sure
00:58:42
Noah B
okay I used to watch football back in the day. I stopped watching football. like I'm not a sports guy. I listen to Jared talking about baseball all the time and then I you know i send him baseball memes you know that
00:58:53
Denis Tyrell
One of the best times ever heard that they do. It's good.
00:58:57
Noah B
so why wait why i i didn't hear what to say
00:58:59
Denis Tyrell
You sent me one of my favorite memes ever.
00:59:01
Noah B
okay awesome
00:59:01
Denis Tyrell
That's all.
00:59:03
Noah B
so So I'm not really a sports guy at all. like I have learned more about soccer than I ever thought that I would ever learn in my life. you know
00:59:11
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:59:12
Noah B
But like you get out there and you're watching your kid play and all of a sudden like you're a sports fan. And you're not really a sports fan, you're a fan of your kid. And now you're a sports fan just because of that. And it is tough not to get like really, really, really involved in it. And ah you know, so you end up like me, you know, yelling, coaching things to your kid while he's on the field.
00:59:32
Noah B
and And I'm not a quiet person. I know um maybe I come across as quiet on the podcast. I don't know. But you put me on the sideline at my kids.
00:59:45
Noah B
I'm loud and and then I get told to sit down. um So I'm just grateful that God gave me the ability to ignore that one because that was 100% God and 0% me because I wanted to turn around and tell that short little dude to take a ring up a mountain because
00:59:56
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:00:00
Denis Tyrell
yeah Yeah.
01:00:04
Denis Tyrell
Mm hmm.
01:00:06
Noah B
that that was my first thought but I didn't I didn't do that um and anyways all right well hey so one thing that we're gonna get off with the sports talk one thing that we do on hustle and grind is we like to play some silly little games and Dennis got
01:00:08
Denis Tyrell
How good for you.
01:00:28
Noah B
Really, really lucky I would like to say last week and and he did pretty good on the the segment of fake news
Fake News Game
01:00:35
Denis Tyrell
Okay.
01:00:35
Noah B
and I'm um'm curious to see how you might do on a game of fake news.
01:00:40
Noah B
what do you Would you like to play?
01:00:40
Denis Tyrell
Okay. I would love to play.
01:00:43
Noah B
Alright, so this is a game that we play over on Hustle and Grind. I got three headlines in front of me. You guys probably know what this is already, but we got three headlines, two of them, 100% real. And I mean that with all the sorrow in my heart because it is just bodes terribly for the past, present, and future of all mankind. But thankfully, one of them is fake and it is Jared's job and you listeners at home, you get to listen and you get to make your guess and see how good you guys are at picking out fake news. We begin.
01:01:19
Noah B
man sues town for over $647 million dollars ah because of a trashed Bitcoin hard drive. Next up, someone is putting cowboy hats on pigeons in Las Vegas and no one knows why.
01:01:36
Noah B
And lastly, an Albuquerque woman is suing Samsung for $1.8 million dollars after she needed medical attention, after inserting her cell phone in, I'm just gonna go ahead and say a bodily orifice.
01:01:51
Noah B
I changed the headline a little bit on the last one, because I don't know how your guys' as listeners would react to to some of this, you know, I try and keep it a little clean, you know, that's ah that's all I'm saying.
01:02:00
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. I think you accurately describe the location.
01:02:06
Noah B
Yeah, I think everybody knows what we're talking about.
01:02:08
Denis Tyrell
Sure.
01:02:09
Noah B
Sure. So there you go. There's your three man.
01:02:12
Denis Tyrell
So I got I got Albuquerque. I got Las Vegas. And where where where's the dude Sue in the town?
01:02:22
Noah B
Um, hang on. Uh, somewhere in the UK.
01:02:29
Denis Tyrell
Oh.
01:02:31
Noah B
So Jared, Dennis told me that I needed to like try and come up with some like Jared specific stories, but I figured that might make it. That's, that's how he ended up winning last week was because he's like, Oh, you got California, you got, you got, uh, Canada.
01:02:43
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:02:47
Noah B
These are, these are just random. These are just ones that I get in my inbox.
01:02:49
Denis Tyrell
They're randoms.
01:02:50
Noah B
So none of these are aimed at you. This is, you just got to use your skills, man.
01:02:53
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, no, no, no, I'm not. I'm gonna use my skills.
01:02:56
Noah B
That's all you got. So if you want me to, I can i can go over these again. ah Man sues the town for $647 million dollars over a trashed Bitcoin hard drive.
01:03:12
Denis Tyrell
Okay.
01:03:12
Noah B
um ah Someone's putting cowboy hats on pigeons in Las Vegas and no one knows why. And the woman with suing Samsung because of a Samsung phone stuck in a bodily orifice.
01:03:31
Denis Tyrell
My guess based on zero, except my gut is that number one is fake.
01:03:40
Noah B
the sewing the town.
01:03:40
Denis Tyrell
I think, yep, I think the, the, the, yeah, the, the hard, the Bitcoin hard drive. I just want to believe that someone's putting hats on pigeons in Vegas.
01:03:54
Denis Tyrell
I think that's, that's awesome.
01:03:55
Noah B
and And you and you want to believe the Samsung thing? Why do you want to believe that? That sounds terrible.
01:03:59
Denis Tyrell
Well, I was thinking more of like, uh, I didn't say that. I just said that I want to believe.
01:04:06
Denis Tyrell
I don't really want to know if the find my iPhone feature would work in that situation, but,
01:04:11
Noah B
ah
01:04:17
Denis Tyrell
um
01:04:20
Denis Tyrell
and I guess that I just don't give a about the, uh, the Bitcoin. And I just think that someone would do the old, uh,
01:04:30
Noah B
Oh, the old cell phone up the, you know, yeah.
01:04:33
Denis Tyrell
yeah for Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyways.
01:04:37
Noah B
All right, we're going with.
01:04:38
Denis Tyrell
My I'm going with number one. Number one is fake.
01:04:41
Noah B
Number one is fake final answer man sues town for six hundred and forty seven million dollars over a trash Bitcoin hard drive 100% real man.
01:04:48
Denis Tyrell
Yep.
01:04:51
Noah B
Somebody is actually suing them because ah It's in a landfill somewhere and he wants to dig it up and try and find it and they won't let him So he's suing them for the hard drive actually happened
01:05:03
Denis Tyrell
arch I love this.
01:05:06
Noah B
um And you'll be very happy to hear that someone is definitely putting cowboy hats on pigeons and actually super gluing them on. And there was a little bit of like a, ah you know, from a health of the pigeon standpoint concern.
01:05:22
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:05:23
Noah B
are the Are these pigeons being harmed by these cowboy hats? And the answer basically is no, because eventually they're going to shed the feathers on the top of their head. The hats will fall off. You know, yes, that's maybe technically littering, but it's damn funny.
01:05:36
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it's great.
01:05:36
Noah B
to just be walking around and seeing pigeons bobbing their heads around in cowboy hats. Um, I love that. Well done, sir. That's freaking hilarious. Uh, I was so thrilled to see, um, that an Albuquerque woman is not suing Samsung, uh, for a phone being stuck in a bodily orifice that did not happen. And I'm so grateful.
01:06:03
Denis Tyrell
I'm a little bummed. I'm just saying, get it.
01:06:10
Denis Tyrell
Ayo.
01:06:10
Noah B
yeah Dennis, we got him. There you go.
01:06:14
Denis Tyrell
Well, I just wanted to operate in the same capacity as as your co-host Ryan and continue my losing streak on on the games from the hustle.
01:06:22
Noah B
There you go. A long, and glorious tradition.
01:06:25
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I got my buttwhip last time and I got my buttwhip here. So that's good. Um, let's see. Uh, oh, Dennis boy did a triple T video last week on, uh, reviewing his X tool and all of the fantastic attachments that come on there.
01:06:46
Denis Tyrell
Um, I 100% did not watch this video. Like I don't watch any of his.
01:06:50
Noah B
I just, I just, I just skipped ahead. I just skipped through it. Like, like I was telling Dennis on the last episode.
01:06:55
Denis Tyrell
Oh, then there.
01:06:57
Noah B
Yeah, just, just skipped ahead. sop through it I didn't razz Dennis enough last time I was on here.
01:06:59
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, he must have not been talking because. Yeah.
01:07:05
Denis Tyrell
oh yeah
01:07:08
Noah B
Normally you're here to just flip him unending buckets of shit and I just didn't do a good enough job. So I gotta, I gotta to do it now while he's not here.
01:07:15
Denis Tyrell
I. Yes, I can easily give you a lot of assists there. um Yeah, so I didn't catch this one. I am joking. I do do watch them from time to time, but I am majorly, majorly, majorly interested in, and apparently you should too, ah about the ah the upcoming one for the ah the Tobin grinding jig.
01:07:34
Noah B
Yes.
01:07:40
Denis Tyrell
um I have seen this thing in action a few times. I haven't actually I didn't get to use it. I don't think, you know, I did. We did a different process when we were up.
01:07:51
Denis Tyrell
Our buddy Rick Hallop and Reno.
01:07:53
Noah B
Yeah.
01:07:55
Denis Tyrell
um Has one.
01:07:56
Noah B
Sweet.
01:07:56
Denis Tyrell
And he was showing it. That's where I think Dennis kind of got the bug for it. um So and then the you ever get a text message from somebody and you can read the excitement?
01:08:09
Denis Tyrell
Like it's it actually has emotion on there.
01:08:10
Noah B
Yes. Yeah, yeah.
01:08:12
Denis Tyrell
When he was bitching and complaining about the grinding the bevels on the apocalypse, the challenge sword, um I could see he was whining.
01:08:22
Denis Tyrell
And then when he switched over to that jig, I could literally tell him like he was he was stoked and and how how awesome that thing worked out for him. So yeah, check out to the tools, tips and talk and info for the knife makers next.
01:08:37
Denis Tyrell
week on the Tobin grinding jig and, um, yeah.
01:08:41
Noah B
It's only two days away for the listeners. It's only two days away. um But we probably should mention when Dennis talked about it last, he wasn't entirely 100% sure that that was going to be coming out this Thursday um because like he was talking about, he wanted to make sure they were were available and he could point people where to find them when that video came out. I haven't talked to him, so I don't know. Actually, maybe you have about whether that is actually the video that's coming out this Thursday, for sure.
01:09:08
Denis Tyrell
That's what it was told, but he lies. So, you know, who knows?
01:09:13
Noah B
Awesome, well that's gonna be an exciting one. I can't wait to watch it. Yeah, I'm super thrilled about that.
01:09:18
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Do you know what I did? Just got done doing this morning.
01:09:21
Noah B
which What's that?
01:09:24
Denis Tyrell
Uh, I actually got some, some knife things done this weekend.
Car Troubles and Knife Updates
01:09:30
Noah B
Sick.
01:09:31
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it was very, very, very cool. um I really felt like a knife maker. But this morning, I did a live was well, Sunday morning when you guys hear this.
01:09:42
Denis Tyrell
But on Saturday, um I had you know, I'm just going to transition into my weekend real quick and then we'll bust through here because I got a I got quite a bit of shit to get through and we're we're rolling pretty good.
01:09:47
Noah B
Yeah.
01:09:52
Denis Tyrell
So um on Saturday morning, I will Noah's aware of this because he's my personal mechanic. And um that's, I was having some car issues. So um in the way of batteries,
01:10:08
Denis Tyrell
And where I had the fortune to have two cars shit the bed on me at the same time. And so I got a couple of ah pointers and I mean, batteries are not the most complex things in the world. And I was fairly aware of what to do, but I did take some suggestions and get the trickle charger. However, um because I'm an idiot, I got a ah one a one amp trickle charger.
01:10:36
Denis Tyrell
And my buddy kindly let me know that I will probably be trickle charging for a day plus with that little of an amp.
01:10:44
Noah B
Yeah.
01:10:45
Denis Tyrell
You know, so a little more amperage on that folks, yeah you live and you learn. It was like 20 bucks. I think I went the cheap route, maybe even under that. Um, and a multimeter, but yeah, basically.
01:10:53
Noah B
You got a battery maintainer is what you got.
01:10:57
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Um, so yeah, he laughed at me pretty good. And anyways, went through that um cars and it turns out one was bad. um Batteries are expensive.
01:11:08
Noah B
yes
01:11:09
Denis Tyrell
Batteries are expensive. And the grand total was almost $300 for a battery. And that was just because one of them was bad. which I took the opportunity to tell my son who's about to start driving, um that this is why you, when you have a car, that you need to make sure that you have some funds to put into your car for the things that it needs, not rims.
01:11:35
Noah B
It always sucks when when you when you you have to spend the the money that you have to spend on the car to keep it running.
01:11:36
Denis Tyrell
that's good
01:11:40
Noah B
That way you can't afford to put the things on it to make it more fun to drive.
01:11:43
Denis Tyrell
Cool.
01:11:44
Noah B
I hate that.
01:11:44
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
01:11:46
Noah B
It's the worst.
01:11:46
Denis Tyrell
So yeah, I said the first time you ever come to me and say that you need a battery, but there's rims on the car. a Yeah, you're in trouble, kid. So anyways, yeah, that was that.
01:12:00
Denis Tyrell
So I spent the first half of the day doing that. And then I got in there and I've had a bunch, I've had about three or four things that are just at the finish line. um And, you know, it's been a rough month or so. So I was happy to get get back in.
01:12:10
Noah B
Yeah.
01:12:12
Denis Tyrell
And I was talking about somebody sent me a knife back that I made for a friend of mine about a year ago. And that was affectionately named the cake cutter.
01:12:26
Denis Tyrell
um But, yep, so the cake cutter came back um because it was finished prior to me having the ability to etch it, the cake cutter.
01:12:26
Noah B
Yeah, yes.
01:12:35
Denis Tyrell
So I sent it back, give it a little spa treatment. That was really cool. um I have had Two knives came back to me that have been out for a while. One of them, I was like, good God, that should have never left here. And then and the cake cutter, actually, I was I was pretty, pretty happy. It's it's held up. It's great. The edge was it wasn't sharp, sharp, but, you know, it was it was still able to do its thing. So etch that up, redid the handles, do a little sanding, sharpen it back up and she'll be going out.
01:13:10
Denis Tyrell
this week. So Andy, your cake cutter is on the way, sir.
01:13:14
Noah B
Nice.
01:13:14
Denis Tyrell
um Then I finished up another one. The cow cutter.
01:13:22
Noah B
That's right.
01:13:23
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, so we have the wave cutter, the cow cutter, the cake cutter, the taco cutter and the panini cutter. I'm just going to keep this theme going.
01:13:31
Noah B
Why not?
01:13:33
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it's awesome.
01:13:33
Noah B
I love it.
01:13:34
Denis Tyrell
You just got to convince the people to do it. Right. The panini cutter is a buddy of mine who is a ah law enforcement and then the name I wanted to put on there. He was like, yeah, no, I don't think that's good. I was like, OK. So anyways, if you can be creative, I'll be creative with you guys.
01:13:56
Denis Tyrell
Um, but that came out, um, done. So I still got a, I have to sharpen that etch it, but, um, really good progress on that. I finished and done about to ship out the A's intrepid 2.0, the little smaller version of my EDC knife. Um, really happy about that how that thing came out, how it feels in the hand, um, how it works. Uh, during that, um, part of the build, I, I acquired a, um, a wicked edge sharpening system.
01:14:26
Noah B
Ooh.
01:14:28
Denis Tyrell
And. ah
01:14:32
Denis Tyrell
Because I generally. Oh, pretty regularly, I've been sharpening with the the perfect sharpening blade attachment thing of a dude from Dennis.
01:14:42
Noah B
No, yeah, that one guy came up with.
01:14:44
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah, um which is awesome, really speeds it up.
01:14:45
Noah B
Yeah.
01:14:48
Denis Tyrell
And for whatever reason, though i i I wanted this knife to. To be done on the wicked edge, plus I wanted to use the thing that I had. and
01:14:57
Noah B
Sure.
01:14:58
Denis Tyrell
And I successfully almost cut my finger off.
01:15:02
Noah B
Of course, of course.
01:15:04
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Yeah. So I the wicked edge is holds your knife in a clamp and it's got two rods that are set at an angle that you set to sharpen and you you know make these passes on them.
01:15:18
Denis Tyrell
I'm sure most of you have seen it. However, I did not pay attention to how high or low I was holding the stones. And you can see me right now, but I was holding at the bottom end of the stone.
01:15:31
Denis Tyrell
So with these two fingers, so I had this, the one with the bandaid on it kind of hanging over and I just swipe down.
01:15:31
Noah B
Okay. Ah.
01:15:38
Denis Tyrell
This is on the first grit, too. On the on the two twenty, I was just setting the burr, setting the edge and it just. And slice.
01:15:46
Noah B
So you're saying that it works really well.
01:15:48
Denis Tyrell
Quickly,
Preference for Wicked Edge Sharpener
01:15:49
Denis Tyrell
too.
01:15:52
Denis Tyrell
Thank God it was on 220 and not 1500 or 2000, whatever the hell it goes up to.
01:15:56
Noah B
Geez.
01:15:58
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. um But yeah, she will cut. So they say,
01:16:02
Noah B
so what do you So what do you think of the Wicked Edge other than the obvious what what happened there? You like it?
01:16:11
Denis Tyrell
I like it. Yeah, I like it.
01:16:12
Noah B
Yeah?
01:16:13
Denis Tyrell
it it's So prior to that, I used the Lansky system.
01:16:20
Noah B
Mm-hmm.
01:16:21
Denis Tyrell
um Cool takes forever. That's the hardest part for me.
01:16:27
Noah B
Sure.
01:16:27
Denis Tyrell
Not actually sharpening knives is probably the least enjoyable part of making for me. um Maintaining an edge on a knife is different to me than setting the the initial secondary bevel and, you know, ah going through that whole process.
01:16:43
Denis Tyrell
I just not not not the biggest fan of that. um
01:16:46
Noah B
sure
Holiday Knife Plans
01:16:47
Denis Tyrell
So when I switched over to the the the perfect.
01:16:50
Denis Tyrell
but What the hell is it? The perfect sharpening, the perfect blade serving. um Yeah, it's cool. That thing speeds all that up and, you know, and it really works. It gets everything super sharp. um I think the precision of the Wicked Edge, the precise, you know, the precision of the angles that you can set um and how you could take that thing up. It's got like.
01:16:53
Noah B
I don't know.
01:17:17
Denis Tyrell
a very wide progression of stones and and grits that you can take that thing through. So um it was cool. It was simple. i I'll use it again, for sure, on the so on certain things.
01:17:24
Noah B
nice Nice. Okay.
01:17:30
Denis Tyrell
um I think on an EDC, ah not that this was going to a customer, but there are some EDC nerds out there that really want to know that your knife is at 22.3 degrees on the angle or whatever there.
01:17:43
Denis Tyrell
spec that they're requiring, and you just can't quite get that accurate on the on the grinder that with that jig. You can get pretty close, but so...
01:17:50
Noah B
No, you can get it pretty close. You just stick your little square angle thing on there and you can you can get it real close.
01:17:57
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:17:58
Noah B
But I definitely see what you're saying.
01:18:00
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. So yeah, I liked it. It was cool.
01:18:03
Noah B
Nice.
01:18:06
Denis Tyrell
prior to yeah Besides almost cutting my finger off.
01:18:09
Noah B
Besides that, that's fine.
01:18:10
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah. And and then in ah and in good fashion, I was able to chair it up a couple of, I mean, I don't know how you're ah you're approaching this upcoming month though, but I'm grateful to have some interest in and my work. And the unfortunate part is that I have no inventory in which to get that work out. So I'm really gonna try to make a,
01:18:38
Denis Tyrell
a manageable push to get some of my standard chef knife and some intrepids and a couple things out to for the holidays um in the midst of having a few other builds in various stages.
01:18:46
Noah B
Nice.
01:18:54
Denis Tyrell
So I generated a couple things and truly enjoyed that. It is literally the funnest thing to do for me. i I absolutely
Crafting Activities and Community Interactions
01:19:03
Denis Tyrell
adore it. So and then this morning um I was talking to Dennis and or Sunday morning we went so I went over there and I got the opportunity again to bust out my two bastards fat peen and straighten out a big ass chopper, which I didn't bring in here to show you, but I will um send you something and I'll do some posts on it for all of you beautiful listeners you but
01:19:24
Noah B
Yeah.
01:19:28
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, if you're interested in getting a ah new hammer, I highly suggest you go check out Frank and Nito or a two bastards hammer and get your hands on a fat pain, cross pain, diagonal, ah straight, whatever you want, um because. I also have to say that while I was driving, listening to this ad read last week, I was but went through such a wide range of emotion.
01:19:56
Denis Tyrell
And my friend, you came through and I literally clapped and I just said, ain't it grand to have a fat bean in your hand? It was so beautiful, dude. Thank you so much. I just, I them thought of that not being said, just ruined me. So, and Frank was grateful about that too as well.
01:20:14
Denis Tyrell
um And I did, though, in at Maker's Camp, we had a ah the the triangle peen fat peen. I did the triple peen is what I called it.
01:20:26
Denis Tyrell
I did this picture of the the fat peen tips all done in a triangle there.
01:20:30
Noah B
yeah nice
01:20:31
Denis Tyrell
It was pretty cool. So, um yeah, go get yourself go check out Frank and eat over at two bastards hammer and get yourself a fat peen. So
Pelican Paste for Knife Care
01:20:40
Denis Tyrell
um I got to do a little work on that.
01:20:43
Denis Tyrell
And yeah, so we're rolling here.
01:20:46
Noah B
Good stuff, man.
01:20:47
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, we were getting really, really, really, really productive. And on top of that, I got I'm going to have the opportunity to go on when this comes out on Tuesday.
01:20:58
Denis Tyrell
ah That evening, I'll be heading over to my buddy Sean, the knife guy, who was originally about an hour ish from me and he moved to about 20 ish minutes from me.
01:21:09
Noah B
Oh, heck yeah.
01:21:10
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, and um I love what he does. And he does a lot of forging chef knives and makes a lot of Damascus. And he's actually the guy that I made my first Damascus. Bill it with outside of with Dennis and. um
01:21:26
Noah B
Very cool.
01:21:26
Denis Tyrell
This was yeah, that was the low layer when I did at any rate. So we're going to go hang out and have a little forage session on Tuesday. So I'm stoked about that.
01:21:35
Noah B
Super cool, man.
01:21:36
Denis Tyrell
um And yeah, and while I was out at finishing up my cow cutter, that was at the I was at the handle stage.
01:21:39
Noah B
one
01:21:44
Denis Tyrell
So I did a little different process. And before um I used the um did the actual finishing on my handle,
01:21:56
Denis Tyrell
I lathered and lubed that thing up with some soft wax from Pelican Paste. I let all of that goodness soak in um overnight and um I might actually give it one more little ah lathering up and let all those juices soak in there before I actually go finish and buff it out ah to just give that little extra luster and sheen.
01:22:23
Denis Tyrell
So you know about Pelican Paste?
01:22:24
Noah B
You let it soak overnight? but do i Do I know about Pelican Paste?
01:22:28
Denis Tyrell
What do you know about Pelican Paste?
01:22:28
Noah B
Come on, son. I had Travis on my podcast with me and Ryan.
01:22:35
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I know. No.
01:22:37
Noah B
I'm just messing with you.
01:22:38
Denis Tyrell
yeah
01:22:40
Noah B
Yeah, no, I love Travis. I love Pelican paste. I've got the i've got all the miniature tins that have my logo on them because he does that. He'll he'll he'll laser your logo on the on the little tins to go with your knives. And I love that. I love being able to to send that along.
01:22:57
Noah B
with the blades because I mean, you you get those sorts of questions from customers. How do I take care of this thing? How do I maintain it? Why is my knife changing colors? And it's like, well, it came with a little tin of wax and some instructions that told you to put that wax on the blade.
01:23:13
Noah B
And if you put that wax on the blade, it's gonna stay nice. And not only is it gonna stay nice, it's gonna smell nice because them Florida oranges are in that
01:23:17
Denis Tyrell
That's right.
01:23:24
Noah B
that zestiness. And I love the way that stuff smells.
01:23:26
Denis Tyrell
Yes.
01:23:27
Noah B
And it goes on all of my blades, whether they're here's a stupid thing that goes on all of my blades, whether they're stainless or not, or whether they're carbon steel or stainless, whatever, like all all these, all these little, ah these little honey knives I've been I've been selling.
01:23:35
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Same.
01:23:40
Denis Tyrell
Yep.
01:23:43
Noah B
These things are all covered in Pelican paste. And why?
01:23:45
Denis Tyrell
Love it.
01:23:47
Noah B
Because it looks good. I don't know why I was I was, ah you know, I finished off the handles. And you know you'll you'll spray them off with you know some water, some Windex, some acetone, however you you clean all the dust out of there.
01:24:00
Noah B
and it looks great when it's wet and then it dries and you're like, oh, it just it just looks like G10, you know, it's like whatever. And I'm like, no, i that's not good enough. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna stick some to Pelican paste on this.
01:24:10
Noah B
And then I accidentally got a little bit on the blade and it's got, you know, it's got a sandblasted finish, so it's like just gray.
01:24:11
Denis Tyrell
That's right.
01:24:16
Noah B
Well, when you sandblast a finish, it's really tough to like keep it looking even.
01:24:21
Denis Tyrell
Yep.
01:24:22
Noah B
Like if it gets wet, like that wetness, like kind of like the water like water stain it, right?
01:24:26
Denis Tyrell
Sure.
01:24:28
Noah B
So then like you have – it's not supposed to look like a stonewashed finish.
01:24:30
Denis Tyrell
Yep.
01:24:31
Noah B
It's supposed to be even all the way across. So I just Pelican paste them and it makes the stonewashed – or not the stonewashed. It's not a stonewashed. I gotta stop saying that. It it makes the the sandblasted finish look even better and it's, you know, it's not necessary at all.
01:24:41
Denis Tyrell
Sandblast.
01:24:46
Noah B
It's stainless. It's fine. But I just put the – I put the wax on there because it looks better and it even – I mean its it just makes the G10 look better. like it just It makes everything look even and shiny, and it just doesn't feel right to finish the blade and not put Pelican Paste on it, so I do.
01:25:03
Denis Tyrell
I agree. I agree. So if you're in the business in the interest you have the need, make sure you go check out our boy Travis Haynes at Pelican Paste for he's got hard wax, soft wax, Pelican oil, hand salve and ah the newer gritty soap, which I do have and love and use regularly.
01:25:21
Denis Tyrell
Um, and it's holding up pretty good too. So I gotta get dirtier, I guess, so I can get some more. Um, but while you're at it, go ahead and use the the discount code triple T 10 for 10% off your next purchase.
01:25:34
Denis Tyrell
And, uh, yeah, Pelican pace for the win. I love it.
01:25:37
Noah B
Absolutely. I love that that hand sell that he that he sells. That stuff is amazing, you know, because I'm a im mechanic. I'm a knife maker. My hands are jacked up. My arms are jacked up. I've been using the crap out of that.
01:25:49
Noah B
I'm probably gonna have to buy some more soon just because in the wintertime, it's the worst. My hands get dry and cracked from constantly washing grease and crap off of them.
01:25:58
Denis Tyrell
yeah
01:25:58
Noah B
And that stuff just works phenomenally. I love it. I will say though, I still haven't heard from Travis. I called him out on my show because I want the The—the—the shop hands, that's what—that's what the product is called. this hand salve It's called Shop Hands. It needs to have the Florida Orange in it. The same way that the—the—same way that Pelican Paste gets—because Paste, I'll put it on something and I'll have that smell. It'll get on my hands and I like it because it's—it's oranges and it smells good.
01:26:28
Noah B
yeah yeah he's got He's got to do that with the the the shop hands. It's got to have that Florida in there.
01:26:33
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:26:34
Noah B
ah We said that on my podcast, Ryan agreed, our guest agreed. It's basically unanimous at this point. So um Travis, if you're listening, I still still haven't heard anything, but I would love to buy some shop hands that smelled like floral oranges.
01:26:52
Noah B
So that's all I'm going to say on that.
01:26:52
Denis Tyrell
I agree. I agree. I know that the the hand soap was unscented as well, but I did talk to him about that. And he was like, Yeah, I just I simply forgot to put the orange. in I was like, I love that. You know, I love the fact that.
01:27:09
Denis Tyrell
You know, um I say this all the time.
01:27:09
Noah B
Yeah.
01:27:11
Denis Tyrell
All of our sponsors, we fully support everything that they do, what they're doing, who they are. They're minus our our upcoming sponsor, Koi. They're all just, you know, ah side hustling, doing their thing, making great products that help our our community out.
01:27:28
Denis Tyrell
So um and the hands off is, you know, and when we do the best we can, sometimes we, you know, you get unscented and sometimes you don't.
01:27:38
Denis Tyrell
So.
Acquiring a Free Traeger Grill
01:27:39
Denis Tyrell
And Travis was pretty cool, which is I don't know if it's ironic, but I think it's kind of it was weird. I bought some of the the actual the handsaw that you were talking about and left it out. And my my wife and daughter started using it.
01:27:50
Noah B
Oh, really?
01:27:51
Denis Tyrell
And yeah, and pretty soon it was gone. yeah And I was like, mothers. So last time I i i made an order and I and i i got re-upped on that.
01:28:02
Denis Tyrell
And he actually sent a little, a small tin for for Mrs. Echo blades. That was pretty, pretty cool.
01:28:06
Noah B
Oh, that's nice.
01:28:08
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:28:08
Noah B
Yep.
01:28:09
Denis Tyrell
So, and then yeah yeah then she took the big can and left me the little one.
01:28:09
Noah B
He's a sweet. he He's an awesome dude. We like him.
01:28:14
Denis Tyrell
So I'm not sure that was supposed to go that.
01:28:15
Noah B
Highway in a bike path, man. Highway in a bike path.
01:28:17
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:28:18
Noah B
That's the way it works.
01:28:19
Denis Tyrell
That's right.
01:28:22
Noah B
Well, cool, man. um I just kind of wanted to throw out something that I thought was pretty cool that happened to me this week or last week, whenever it happened.
01:28:28
Denis Tyrell
Cool. Yeah.
01:28:31
Noah B
I got a trigger. Okay. And that in and of itself isn't like that big of a deal.
01:28:34
Denis Tyrell
Okay.
01:28:36
Noah B
People buy triggers all the time. I wasn't sure that I wanted a trigger because like when I started smoking meats, I wanted to be like really not like purist about it, but like I wanted the most smoke flavor, right? So I'm talking I've had the electric style that just burn a plate of chips. I've had propane. I've never gone for like the coal ones, which is, you know, it's a little more of a commitment. Like you really got to know what you're doing when you're using coal fire to smoke meats and stuff like that. um But the opportunity arose for me to get this Traeger.
01:29:09
Noah B
And the reason that it arose is because I have what some people might call a problem but I prefer to refer to my problems as opportunities. And so I had a zinn opportunity um where I have gone through so much zinn and ah collected all the rewards points. So I got a Traeger 100% free if you think about it like that.
01:29:33
Noah B
because I turned in all of my Zen rewards and picked myself up a Traeger that just got shipped to my house, completely free of charge, all scot-free. And ah if if any of the listeners are fans of Zen, they know that you pretty much have to save those things up for quite a long time, and you probably have to use maybe more Zen than you probably should um in order to get to the point where you can get a Traeger. But I'm not ashamed of that at all, so I just want to put that out there front and center.
01:30:01
Noah B
um Pretty happy about the fact I got a trigger and um it works pretty good. So.
01:30:08
Denis Tyrell
I
Using Traeger Grill for Smoking
01:30:09
Denis Tyrell
love the fact that in 2024, Zinn gets you a Traeger and essentially you're now the marble man of the 70s and 80s now.
01:30:19
Noah B
Right. Right.
01:30:21
Denis Tyrell
You just don't have that disgusting duffel bag and and a weird park of leather jacket, but that's fucking awesome, dude. And there's no judgment here.
01:30:32
Denis Tyrell
You're talking to a guy that travels the country collecting flavored tobacco because I can't buy it in my state. So um yeah, it's it's pretty bummer, but that's really cool.
01:30:37
Noah B
Yeah, I'm pretty pretty freaking psyched. So yeah, I got I got a freaking Traeger. I haven't actually got the chance to smoke something on there and like actually smoke it like I could some burgers on there. ah One thing that all like the Traeger bros talk about is like, oh man, you can cook you you can even cook a frozen pizza on there and it makes it taste good. So I tried it.
01:31:00
Noah B
It's not really true. ah It still tastes like a frozen pizza.
01:31:02
Denis Tyrell
Okay.
01:31:04
Noah B
I was a little disappointed because everybody's like, oh, you cook a frozen pizza on there. It's like the best pizza you've ever had in your life. No, it's, it's actually just still a frozen pizza.
01:31:11
Denis Tyrell
It's still a red Baron and just your nose.
01:31:13
Noah B
Yeah, it's still DiGiorno and it's fine. Like it works. Like it's, it's, it still eats, you know, but like, it's nothing that you're going to like brag to your homies about. So all of you guys that have been bragging to me about that over the years can shove it.
01:31:23
Denis Tyrell
Right.
01:31:26
Noah B
um
01:31:27
Denis Tyrell
That's, that's funny as hell.
01:31:28
Noah B
But that's okay. I got some, I got some salmon in the freezer I'm going to smoke. I got all kinds of stuff that I'm going to like do an actual, you know, smoked meat on there and see how it works out. But it's pretty easy to use. I mean, that's the thing, you know, I'll smoke something and I have to set the aside a Saturday, you know, because there's so many factors that you have to you have to be careful of the wind, you have to monitor the temperature.
01:31:49
Noah B
Like when I would smoke, you know, ah like a ah pork shoulder, I would just set aside the entire day and I would just be like sitting in my yard drinking a beer and just like hanging out. And that was kind of fun, you know, because it was, you know, the aspect of like hanging out while the meat is smoking and all that stuff. But like here, I just, you know, it's pretty easy. You know, you plug it in, you set your temperature and and that's it, you know. so Maybe I'm getting older and I just want easier things. I don't know. Or maybe I'm just busier and I don't have time to set aside an entire day just to smoke some meat. Maybe that's what it is.
01:32:22
Noah B
but
01:32:23
Denis Tyrell
Hey, um there's nothing wrong with smoked meat.
01:32:29
Noah B
Not at all. Yeah, but that's—I mean, that's the thing. It's like, you know, is—is it as good as actual, you know, like wood that's been smoked? Probably not. It's been compressed into pellets, but you know what? I just don't care anymore. Because you know what? I just clicked a button on a website and it got shit to my house, so I'm happy about it.
01:32:46
Denis Tyrell
I love that. ah That is great. The freaking Marvel Zen man. just there's that is That is fantastic. Absolutely fantastic.
01:32:54
Noah B
ah
01:32:56
Denis Tyrell
Oh shit.
01:32:56
Noah B
But yeah, now I need to what I need to get on now is I need to get on making the Zimbabwe edition of my stilico because that went pretty viral on tiktok and there's a high demand for zen handled knives and I have not had any time whatsoever to dedicate to that so I'm gonna have to get on that I've been saving my cans I'm gonna be peeling the stickers off the front of them and making them into knife handle scales here soon and
01:33:29
Noah B
That's gonna be what it is. I don't know. I have no idea how that's gonna go, but I gotta get got get going on it. I just haven't had time. Sucks.
01:33:36
Denis Tyrell
I loved it. I think that was an awesome idea.
01:33:38
Noah B
Thank you.
01:33:38
Denis Tyrell
and Thinking outside the box.
01:33:40
Noah B
Outside the box.
01:33:41
Denis Tyrell
That's right.
01:33:41
Noah B
Nothing brown, nothing red. I'm looking at the whole rainbow, man.
01:33:43
Denis Tyrell
Nothing.
01:33:44
Noah B
You know what I'm saying?
01:33:44
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
Knife Handles with Zinn Cans
01:33:45
Denis Tyrell
I'll send you all ah my black buffalo things and you can start that too as well.
01:33:50
Noah B
I did have some requests for for like Copenhagen and Grizz and stuff like that. The guys wanted their you know their brand and made into a knife handle.
01:33:55
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:33:58
Noah B
And I'm like, I mean, it's a possibility. I just got to source those things. Because I'm not going back to chewing tobacco. I got ah got away from it. And I'm saying, I'm i'm sticking with the Zins.
01:34:08
Denis Tyrell
and Good for you. Good for you. I'm still stuck in the vicious cycle there.
01:34:10
Noah B
Yeah.
01:34:14
Denis Tyrell
Dude, I was watching the ah i was not watching, but I was cruising through Facebook the other day and the the big ass group, Blade Smith for beginners.
01:34:25
Noah B
Okay.
01:34:26
Denis Tyrell
And I don't I don't I guess I'm just a stalker in that group because I'll check it out every now and again, but I don't really participate and Um, I do find it comforting though, uh, because when, when I started, wasn't too long ago now, but I never understood like, you know, what kind of grinder should I get?
01:34:46
Denis Tyrell
Like how many times you're going to hear that as you stay in the game.
01:34:51
Noah B
Yeah.
01:34:52
Denis Tyrell
Right.
01:34:53
Noah B
Mhm.
01:34:53
Denis Tyrell
And, um, and I was like how people that I know interact with, with guys acting that question, uh, if they're supportive or, you know, cause
01:35:02
Noah B
Sure.
01:35:05
Denis Tyrell
We're all assholes, but the one of the, one of the thing about the community is like, you know, it takes, you got to kind of get initiated before you get the asshole treatment. Right. so just Don't go bombing on people that are just starting, but I laughed so fucking hard because somebody, the dentist part, uh, responded to something. I have no idea what the context was or what they were talking about, but, um, I actually do know it was about surface, uh, grinding attachments.
01:35:30
Noah B
Okay.
01:35:31
Denis Tyrell
and And the dude responded to Dennis and he was like, oh man, right on, you're you're a real one.
01:35:38
Noah B
Okay.
01:35:39
Denis Tyrell
and And I was like, my buddy doesn't know what that means.
01:35:47
Denis Tyrell
And as sure as shit as I'm fucking looking at it, I see the comment pop up. I'm not sure what that means, but thank you.
01:35:54
Noah B
but
01:35:55
Denis Tyrell
And I was like, Oh, you Canadian old bastard. It was just the best.
01:35:59
Noah B
ah
01:36:01
Denis Tyrell
I loved it. And I love the fact that he just openly was like, yeah didn't even get it. So, um, thank you Dennis for providing the endless entertainment with your naivety.
01:36:08
Noah B
ah
01:36:12
Noah B
Geriatric retiree, can't communicate with the youths.
01:36:14
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:36:17
Denis Tyrell
You're a real one.
01:36:17
Noah B
ah
01:36:18
Denis Tyrell
Oh, yes. I'm real. Absolutely.
01:36:22
Noah B
Well, I am not a bot, so that makes sense.
01:36:24
Denis Tyrell
Exactly.
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01:36:26
Denis Tyrell
That was so cool.
01:36:28
Noah B
ah Good stuff, man.
01:36:30
Denis Tyrell
All right.
01:36:30
Noah B
Well, hey, we got to do Maker Spotlight, don't we?
01:36:33
Denis Tyrell
Absolutely. Yep.
01:36:34
Noah B
Okay.
01:36:35
Denis Tyrell
Absolutely.
01:36:36
Noah B
Why don't you go first, bud?
01:36:37
Denis Tyrell
Okay. So I have.
01:36:38
Noah B
This is your show.
01:36:39
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, sure. Our show today, man.
01:36:45
Denis Tyrell
This is an emergency broadcast system. Ryan is introducing. I mean, Ryan, God damn it.
01:36:53
Noah B
What?
01:36:57
Denis Tyrell
Jared's an idiot. All right. Okay. There you go. All right. Saved, saved.
01:37:01
Noah B
ah
01:37:02
Denis Tyrell
Um, all right. So, uh, I have, um, row forge studio. And, um, I hope I don't mess up pronouncing this name. Salome row. Uh, he's got, uh, 1500 and 79 followers. Um, he hand, uh, hand forged knives from known stills and uses handle material from trusted sources. He's ABS apprentice and an SC custom knife makers guild member. And he's a vet. Thank you, sir, for your service. Appreciate you.
01:37:39
Noah B
Absolutely.
01:37:39
Denis Tyrell
Um, yep.
01:37:41
Noah B
Whoa.
01:37:41
Denis Tyrell
And, uh, yeah, so I just clicked on this. Uh, he, one of his knives just popped up in my, uh, in my feed and it is a, I dunno, help me an upside down full tank.
01:37:58
Noah B
that is a horizontal That is a horizontal full tang integral.
01:38:00
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:38:03
Denis Tyrell
Yes. Hallelujah.
01:38:05
Noah B
know
01:38:07
Noah B
So hopefully the listeners know what I'm saying when I say that. So typically on a full tang integral, the tang is vertical, right? So you put your handle scales on the sides. Well, he made the tang horizontal so that the scales are top and bottom and pinned them.
01:38:23
Denis Tyrell
I pinned them. Yeah.
01:38:25
Noah B
And then polished the shit out of it. And it looks amazing.
01:38:27
Denis Tyrell
Yep. Everything's got. Is that a lanyard too?
01:38:31
Noah B
Just got to land your tube.
01:38:32
Denis Tyrell
Lanyard?
01:38:32
Noah B
Yeah.
01:38:32
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. That thing is sweet.
01:38:37
Noah B
That guy's not seeing brown or red. He's he's seeing all the colors, man.
01:38:39
Denis Tyrell
No, I love it. Yeah. Speaking right to our, to our ability to, to innovate. um And I've been following him for for a while now.
01:38:47
Noah B
Yep.
01:38:51
Denis Tyrell
He does really good stuff and, and, and consistently awesome maker here. So if you're not already following him, go ahead and give him a follow and tell him that the boy's a triple T sent ship.
01:39:06
Noah B
Absolutely, man.
Dustin North's Knife Craftsmanship
01:39:07
Noah B
Yeah, he's got some really cool stuff on here.
01:39:09
Denis Tyrell
yeah
01:39:10
Noah B
i I hadn't hadn't heard of him. So this is the first time I'm looking at this stuff. Just just followed him. He's got all kinds. He's got some he's got this cool little EDC made out Apex ultra.
01:39:23
Noah B
I mean, he's got some sort of a Japanese style sword with a hibaki and everything. I mean, cool, cool stuff.
01:39:32
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:39:33
Noah B
Got some solid integral work.
01:39:34
Denis Tyrell
Just well rounded.
01:39:37
Noah B
Yeah.
01:39:38
Denis Tyrell
Not too much of the same. um I like it.
01:39:41
Noah B
Definitely a solid follow.
01:39:43
Denis Tyrell
Yep. Good deal. Who do you got, bud?
01:39:46
Noah B
I have Dustin North and that is going to be North edge tools all one word on Instagram ah He currently has seventeen hundred and nineteen followers ah quality handcrafted tools a United States Air Force veteran.
01:40:04
Noah B
It's funny. We both picked vets here books closed Denver, Colorado and the reason that I picked Dustin is because
01:40:06
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:40:15
Noah B
I've been working on my batch work. We've talked about this ad nauseam. I really started to love bolt on scales, that sort of stuff. And he is doing what looks like a 1500 follower giveaway. Maybe this is an old post or maybe he it says one week ago, he must have gotten a bunch of new followers. I saw this knife like a week or two ago. And he has it's this cool EDC it's got an exposed hang like on the butt cap with a lanyard hole um but it's bolt on but it's got these
01:40:52
Noah B
What's the word I'm looking for? I can't really think of it. um Scales. The, you know, the scales that have like ah segmented scales. Good Lord, that was that was brutal.
01:40:59
Denis Tyrell
okay yeah
01:41:01
Noah B
Super cool set of these segmented scales, but he's done like these forward scallops on it. So you see like a little bit of the liner underneath. He's got it sculpted back where the the butt tang gets exposed.
01:41:15
Noah B
I mean, the work here is just, it's clean and it all, I mean, it's, it's, um it's just freaking like, I don't know, there's something about it.
01:41:23
Denis Tyrell
Okay.
01:41:24
Noah B
It just, it looks so freaking clean.
01:41:25
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:41:26
Noah B
All the angles are just right. He's got a lot of other really great work. He's got some, yeah,
01:41:33
Denis Tyrell
You're talking about the green and and brown orange segmented.
01:41:35
Noah B
yeah it's got some grip tech on the bottom.
01:41:37
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Yeah. Grip tack on the back. Yeah.
01:41:39
Noah B
Yeah.
01:41:40
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:41:40
Noah B
He's got cool other stuff.
01:41:40
Denis Tyrell
That's clean.
01:41:42
Noah B
I met him at blade this year um was the first time I met him. Super cool guy. He's does like a a lot of these. he'll I think he it looks like he just does runs of these different models and knives that he does.
01:41:56
Noah B
And he seems like he just cranks them out and I love it. I love his style. um Really, really clean work and I like his maker's mark, which um it's it's super simple.
01:42:09
Noah B
Like I'm not even going to tell you what it is. You're just going to have to go look, look at his maker's mark. I think it's cool.
01:42:14
Denis Tyrell
Makes me want to go bowling.
01:42:19
Denis Tyrell
That's really cool.
01:42:20
Noah B
It's really cool. Anyways, just loved his work. It was really cool to meet him at Blade. Super nice guy. And you guys should all give him a follow. And mine and Jared's suggestions will be in the show notes. So you can just click those um and go follow these guys because they need some bring some love.
01:42:39
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I am noticing too that he he uses the wicked edge and he doesn't have a band-aid on his fingers. So,
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01:42:47
Denis Tyrell
good for him.
01:42:51
Denis Tyrell
I'm scarred.
01:42:51
Noah B
I'm gonna leave that one alone. I'm gonna leave that one alone.
01:42:52
Denis Tyrell
ah yeah I am so scarred, I am so scarred.
01:42:53
Noah B
It's all good, yeah.
01:42:55
Noah B
Good Lord, Jared, it is we've been at this an hour and 42 minutes.
01:42:59
Denis Tyrell
Jeez, that goes by really quick here. Wow. Okay, well, if you're still here, ah Ah, good for you. Thank you.
01:43:08
Noah B
Oh my gosh, I didn't even realize. I just looked up because I was like, all right, well, um real quick. All right, guys, we got to get out of here, but we can't get out of here before we tell you about Koi and the boys at Baker Forge and Tool. They make some of the coolest Damascus on the market. They're always doing new and innovative things, just like we're talking about. Koi doesn't see black. He doesn't see red. Brown, red. Anyways, I'm screwing up.
01:43:32
Noah B
um always going outside the box last week we talked about their drop with this new diamond pattern they're doing they're always coming up with new and cool stuff they just got a giant power power hammer installed in their shots so they can make more of this stuff because the demand is so high go check out baker fortune tool download the app so you have early access to all of their drops because you get a day early access on that app and it's a super cool intuitive thing. Don't forget to pick up some Gatorpis because it is the best etch in on the market. Even if you're not looking for steel, you still want to get that Gatorpis because it is awesome. I use it on every blade that gets an etch in my shop and you can use the code TTT10 at checkout and I've been a listener of this show for a while now, right?
01:44:20
Noah B
I love listening to Dennis and Jared. I have never had a clue if I was going to type in one of these discount codes, whether I would be writing the word triple, then the letter T and then the number 10. So because I'm on the show, I can go ahead and fix this for you guys. It is T T T 10. And that is the discount code that you use when you go to check out a bigger fortune tool.
01:44:45
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. And for the, for the people that have listened to, to more than one episode. um yeah
01:44:54
Noah B
Don't you call me out. Don't you tell me you guys have actually said this on the show. Have you really?
01:44:59
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:45:00
Noah B
Oh, okay, well I.
01:45:00
Denis Tyrell
It's, it's, it's titties plus one T.
01:45:08
Noah B
ah
01:45:08
Denis Tyrell
It's beautiful, but it's always good to clarify because yes, ah Dennis likes to use triple hyphen T sometimes, but yes, it is the TTT 10 for 10% off.
01:45:20
Noah B
TTT, okay, all right.
01:45:21
Denis Tyrell
Absolutely. So thank you. And you can go check it out. um Tuesday morning, I think Noah and Ryan find themselves in the same position where the drops come out um on Saturday.
01:45:36
Denis Tyrell
But if you if there is any left, you can check out the new Gomai Kushim diamond is live. That is the new diamond.
01:45:45
Noah B
time Yeah.
01:45:47
Denis Tyrell
and Really cool stuff. So yeah, Koi is awesome. And dude, I just want to commend you. That was a fantastic ad read. You guys, I love that. You did fantastic.
01:45:57
Noah B
Well, thank you.
01:45:59
Denis Tyrell
That is really, really good.
01:46:00
Noah B
Well, it makes it easier because, you know, we've, we've promoted, uh, Baker fortune tool all the time, but you know, I've met those guys. I've talked to those guys, you know, when you, uh, it's like you were saying about your sponsors, they're all people, you know, and trust and you want to see them succeed. And that's why they're, you know, that's why you're promoting them. And I completely agree. That's the same way that we do it on our show. And so it makes, it makes it easier to promote people that, you know, and love and really stand behind their product and know that it it's something that you want to support. So.
01:46:30
Denis Tyrell
Yes, this is good stuff. Good stuff, good people, good products, and go use Triple T 10. Thank you. Thank you, Noah.
01:46:40
Noah B
Absolutely.
01:46:41
Denis Tyrell
All right, so before we get out of here, um we're gonna, if you have any listener questions, go please send them ah to either Dennis or the Triple T Instagram account.
01:46:55
Denis Tyrell
Let us know what you're thinking, thoughts, feedback, always. We're gonna skip past this one. it's a For time sake here, like Noah just mentioned that we are cruising through here.
01:47:05
Noah B
Well, and like and let's be honest, if somebody asks a question of the Triple T podcast, they want yours and and Dennis's response. So, I mean, they didn't sign up for me to be here.
01:47:16
Denis Tyrell
I actually get a lot of like, don't let Dennis answer this one.
01:47:20
Noah B
Oh, okay.
01:47:20
Denis Tyrell
Like we know we'll just check on his stuff. We want to hear from him. No, I'm kidding. No, yes.
01:47:26
Denis Tyrell
No, he is as much as ah balls as we bust.
01:47:28
Noah B
er
01:47:31
Denis Tyrell
He is a fantastic ah maker that contributes to this community ah in a manner that not many people do. And we appreciate you, Dennis.
01:47:46
Noah B
Wow, you just said that on the air.
01:47:52
Noah B
Love it, man.
01:47:53
Denis Tyrell
My bad.
01:47:54
Noah B
Yeah.
01:47:54
Denis Tyrell
All right, so I'm gonna get out of here real quick. Before I do go, I do want to send a special shout out to all of our listeners, um especially um those that have reached out to me over the past couple weeks.
01:48:07
Denis Tyrell
I did share And a few episodes back that, you know, some, some things happen in my life and you guys are awesome. And I really, really appreciate all the kind words, the texts, the phone calls, the messages of your, of your support and letting me know that you guys are in.
01:48:26
Denis Tyrell
in my corner. um And if I didn't get back to you, it was completely not on purpose. And I did receive them. And um some of them came right at some really good time. So I appreciate you guys. And again, thank you from the from the my family and and myself. ah we We're truly grateful for all your support and your kind words.
01:48:52
Denis Tyrell
So, um, I needed to do that because, uh, it has been some time, uh, due to the traveling and everything and then and with the crossover. So, um, I do appreciate you guys. And, uh, Noah, where can we find you if, uh, if they don't already know you and, um, what what podcast are you on?
01:49:14
Noah B
ah People can find me wherever they want. So if you want to listen to me jabber more on podcasts, you can go to the hustle and grind podcast, which you should do anyways, because that's where Dennis is today.
01:49:26
Denis Tyrell
Sure.
01:49:26
Noah B
Hustle and grind podcast, you can follow us on Instagram. ah You can follow me on Instagram, any at River Forge with underscores in between the words. ah You can find me on TikTok, Annie at River Forge, just one word. ah Facebook, Annie at River Forge. you I found out the other day you can just Google Annie at River Forge and you can find my website, Annie at River Forge dot square dot site. And I have a couple pieces up available there. um And all the other things that we talked about, you know, the customer care info, how to take care of your knife, um custom order info, if somebody wants to order a knife for me or anything like that. It's all on my website. And you guys can shoot me a message on my website, or you can just find me on Instagram, shoot me a DM. However, a lot of those just go to message requests. So sometimes I don't see them immediately. So if you want to contact me through the website, it's always the best and really appreciate you having me on today, Jared. This has been fun.
01:50:22
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, absolutely. And that's this will conclude the the crossover edition. I really appreciate you guys reaching out and and collabing with us and making this happen.
01:50:33
Denis Tyrell
I had a lot of fun last week, and I had a little bit more fun today. So I appreciate you. I think just any day without Dennis is a, you know, is a beautiful day.
01:50:46
Denis Tyrell
So, you know.
01:50:47
Noah B
There it is. There it is.
01:50:48
Denis Tyrell
All right. Anything else, my friend?
01:50:50
Noah B
No, we're all good, man. Let's let the listeners get out of here.
01:50:53
Denis Tyrell
Alright, brother.
01:51:09
Denis Tyrell
And that's a wrap.