Introduction and Italian Farewell
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Denis Tyrell
Ciao e benvenuti al podcast! Non vedo lori di inzare la puntata di oggi!
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Denis Tyrell
And Jared's like, what the fuck?
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Denis Tyrell
Thought I'd had a little Italian since I'm leaving tomorrow.
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echo_blades
Oh, that's right. I get to get rid of you for how long?
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Denis Tyrell
For eight days.
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echo_blades
Am I getting rid of you are you leaving me?
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Denis Tyrell
a little of both, I think.
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echo_blades
Okay. All right.
00:00:45
Denis Tyrell
uh for uh you not italian speakers which means me uh yeah hello and welcome to the podcast i'm excited for today's show via google translate
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Denis Tyrell
i'm very excited we leave early tomorrow morning so uh uh oh yeah you want to actually know what we're doing
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echo_blades
what What podcast is this, Dennis?
Podcast Overview and Host Dynamics
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Denis Tyrell
Welcome to the Triple T for Knife Makers podcast. I Dennis Trello of Trail Knife Works. Off to Italy tomorrow, but I'm going to leave you here with my buddy Jared Sandoval from Echo Blades, who hopefully is going to have a show next week.
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echo_blades
That's right.
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echo_blades
Yeah, we'll have one.
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Denis Tyrell
All right, just checking.
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echo_blades
A show. Yeah.
00:01:29
Denis Tyrell
Got to pay the bills, man.
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echo_blades
That's right.
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echo_blades
Shit don't come free. Yeah, man. So I guess I'm going to go to work tomorrow. That's going to be great. How do you feel?
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Denis Tyrell
Yeah, of course. um
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echo_blades
And then you just got back on the, on the heels of just from another trip, right?
Dennis's LA Adventure
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Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I just got back yesterday.
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echo_blades
Ladies and gentlemen, to have one week in the life of Mr. Dennis Terrell. Travel the state, the world. it is his oyster.
00:02:00
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, right. That's right. ah Yeah, I just got back from taking my boys. hey Since Parker's going to the Navy, I wanted to have one kind of last trip with the three of us just to have a little boys trip.
00:02:16
Denis Tyrell
So we went down to l L.A. and we.
00:02:19
echo_blades
Well, wasn't there. You can't have a little, little guy, little friend trip without me.
00:02:25
Denis Tyrell
Only Kim calls you my little friend.
00:02:27
echo_blades
That's the greatest thing ever.
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Denis Tyrell
ah Yeah, we did Universal Studios on Friday, which is, I got to say, man, um I haven't been a Universal Studios in probably, I think it's 10 years at least, maybe 15.
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Denis Tyrell
It's really expensive. um I just, I was surprised. Like, I got the like the expensive tickets because basically what you get at Disney for like the Fast Passes.
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Denis Tyrell
um Well, actually, no, it's better than that. It's the, like, you get front of the like you get to get right on the ride. Okay, and you get to do that once per ride.
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echo_blades
Okay. That's cool.
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echo_blades
Not like time.
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Denis Tyrell
No, no, you just, you go, there's a special entrance, you go right to the, and that one there might be, like,
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Denis Tyrell
I mean, I think at most it was probably 10 people in front of us at most in that, which was cool. But those ticket now, Universal has surge pricing now. So like the busier the park is, the more expensive your tickets are.
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echo_blades
which is like peak.
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Denis Tyrell
So basically the the price they list is like for a fucking Wednesday um because every Friday and Saturday are going to be busier.
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echo_blades
Oh, so if he. Gotcha.
00:03:51
Denis Tyrell
So it's some bullshit because they say, oh, yeah, tickets for $79. Yeah, $79 until you look at the pricing and everything is more expensive because it's a Friday.
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echo_blades
And they're forecasting that they're not like taking it real time. Right.
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Denis Tyrell
No, no, they just know Fridays are busier or it's Friday and they're also doing like the Fright Fest.
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Denis Tyrell
So automatically that makes it more expensive.
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echo_blades
So it goes up. Yeah. Yeah.
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Denis Tyrell
So my tickets end up being more than Disney tickets. They're like 249 bucks a ticket.
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Denis Tyrell
Yeah. For a park that's like a...
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echo_blades
A day or did you do multiple?
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Denis Tyrell
No, one day.
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Denis Tyrell
And like, I wish we would have. Because the park also closed at six. So, but we were done.
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echo_blades
I'd rather go see Mickey.
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Denis Tyrell
That's... Yeah, I know. Right?
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echo_blades
yeah actually
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Denis Tyrell
That's what I'm saying. It's so overpriced, I couldn't believe it.
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echo_blades
Jeez, that's a racket.
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Denis Tyrell
A racket. A racket.
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echo_blades
that Yeah, that's a racket. Holy mackerel.
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Denis Tyrell
And they close most of the rides at 5.15 to 5.30 to get prepared for Fright Fest, which you had to pay extra for, which I wasn't going to do. So, yeah, i I mean...
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echo_blades
ah So it's normally open later than six. It's just the Fright Fest. There's a money grab. kick you Kick the regular folks out.
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Denis Tyrell
Yeah, but but it doesn't... Yeah, but the the racket is that the day tickets aren't any cheaper. So you just get, you know, fucked at the drive-thru, right?
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echo_blades
ah yeah. You get hosed. Yeah, you hoser. Yeah,
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Denis Tyrell
so ah But Disney does the same thing. But at least at Disney you can... Wait, can you stay in the park? No, yeah, yeah. They they boot you out of the park too when it's...
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Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it's bullshit. But anyway, we had fun. But we were done in the park by... like five o'clock. We ended leaving at five.
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echo_blades
Yeah, well, with the with the special passes, I'm sure you can get it done pretty quick. but
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Denis Tyrell
Yeah, we did. And the perks really not that big, but anyway, don't mean to talk shit about it, but it was fun. I had a great time with the boys. Um, but, uh,
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echo_blades
So i was I don't know who I was talking to, but I i think it was this morning. Maybe I was just talking to myself, which I do a lot. I was like, I'm starting to think that Dennis ah had a shitty time because I haven't seen the post or anything on Facebook.
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Denis Tyrell
You know I suck at posting things.
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echo_blades
I know, but I was like, i don't know, man, maybe he just, you know, he was, uh, it was a bad decision and all he did was fight with the kids. And I was, a i was relishing in this moment of you having a horrible time.
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echo_blades
and And that's just cause I'm an asshole. But, uh, and in reality, I was hoping that you had a good time. So when I saw the the Facebook post, uh, at the end of sometime today, I was like, okay, good, good. I feel better now.
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Denis Tyrell
Oh, I did have like high aspirations of, oh, I'll do one post about Universal. And, you know, I suck at taking pictures. I, you know, I i had like three pictures from Universal.
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Denis Tyrell
So I'm like, OK, I can't do that. So then I finally posted them all this morning.
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echo_blades
Yeah. and That was good. It was good to see.
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echo_blades
I was like, okay, all right at least it wasn't a train wreck.
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Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Well, the park closed so early that. um We were sitting at lunch and I'm like, fuck, what are we going to do tonight? And then I was like, hey, let's I want to see if how far Medieval Times was.
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Denis Tyrell
So we ended up doing dinner at Medieval Times. I had done that once when I was like 18 and I knew the boy and they knew the boys would like it.
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Denis Tyrell
And they did. they I think that was like the highlight of the trip, in fact, was a.
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echo_blades
It's been a long time. i think I took the kids when they were younger to that.
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Denis Tyrell
It hasn't changed at all.
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echo_blades
Yeah. I went when I was a kid and I took them one time.
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Denis Tyrell
like Not a bit. Yeah. Yeah,
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echo_blades
Yeah, that's cool. That's a good experience though. And the food is not, yeah, the food is not, not to rave about, but yeah.
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Denis Tyrell
yeah it was really fun. It was really fun.
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Denis Tyrell
I mean, it's like roast chicken. I mean, it's, I thought it was totally fine.
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echo_blades
It's the show. That's the the deal.
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echo_blades
What color night were you?
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echo_blades
You were the pink night. Don't lie.
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echo_blades
Then the Canadian section.
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Denis Tyrell
we are Our night is the only one who missed the fucking target, who missed the ring. like There's like the little ring hanging. They have to like hit it with the lawns.
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Denis Tyrell
Our night sucked ass.
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echo_blades
Oh, you had the Oakland A's green night. Yeah.
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Denis Tyrell
Yeah, exactly.
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Denis Tyrell
Uh, yeah, but, uh, it was really fun. And, and of course they have all like the swords, like they have like a whole little armory where you can go like, you know, they're all like replica swords, but we were looking at that and checking out the swords afterwards thinking, oh maybe I'll make that one.
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Denis Tyrell
Maybe I'll make that one.
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echo_blades
I just, I always think of the cable guy. but
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echo_blades
You don't, you never saw the cable guy, the Jim Carrey movie.
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Denis Tyrell
I don't think so. Yeah, I know. I know the movie. I don't, uh,
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echo_blades
Oh yeah. He does this whole scene at medieval times.
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echo_blades
It's, it's pretty good.
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Denis Tyrell
i don't know. Oh, no. You lost me on that one. Sorry.
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echo_blades
That's all right.
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Denis Tyrell
But yeah, many times it was good and we had We had a good time. it was I underestimated LA traffic.
00:09:04
echo_blades
Oh, how could you do that? That's.
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Denis Tyrell
Well, it said an hour and 15 minutes, so I gave us like an hour and 45, and we made it with one minute to spare to get to the show.
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Denis Tyrell
It took us an hour and about an hour and 50 minutes to get from Universal City to where Medieval Times was, which is it's it's 18 miles.
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echo_blades
That's in Buena Park.
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Denis Tyrell
Yeah, like I was like, that's ridiculous.
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echo_blades
Yeah. Wow. Yeah. That's crazy.
00:09:39
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, stupid. But yeah, and then we spent the day Saturday at Magic Mountain. And then my first thought,
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echo_blades
Man, I haven't been there in forever.
00:09:51
Denis Tyrell
yeah, it it's it's no Disney, man.
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echo_blades
That's where the real rides are.
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Denis Tyrell
It's like that that place needs a fucking paint job. to
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Denis Tyrell
oh yeah. ah But the the rides are really good. They have really, really good rides. If you love
Jared's Health and Shop Time
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Denis Tyrell
roller coasters, that is the place to go.
00:10:11
Denis Tyrell
But it was fucking hot. And that place is like, you know, uphill both ways all around around the park. And it was blazing hot. So that part was no fun.
00:10:23
Denis Tyrell
But Valencia, yeah.
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echo_blades
That's Valencia, right? Yeah.
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Denis Tyrell
Right on the border of Valencia and Santa Clarita.
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echo_blades
My grandmother used to live nearby there. Santa Clarita Valley, I think it is.
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echo_blades
Yeah. Hot as hot.
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echo_blades
Yeah. There's nothing but that's real brown town right there. You're inside of a brown town valley there. Yeah.
00:10:48
Denis Tyrell
I was telling the boys that I've heard rumors about like gang activity at magic mountain. I told them that they're like, what? I'm like, yeah. Yeah.
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echo_blades
No, yeah, it's and serious.
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echo_blades
And I was talking about the color of the mountains, but, you know, yeah, there are brown people
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Denis Tyrell
You know what I mean? You're talking about the color of the mountains.
00:11:10
echo_blades
That's where all the homies go, man, the discount rides, eh?
00:11:13
Denis Tyrell
hey Yeah. But, yeah, we're off to Italy.
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echo_blades
That's funny.
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Denis Tyrell
5 We're leaving the house tomorrow. So we we're going to keep show nice
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echo_blades
More Browns. Damn. You're getting Browntown extravaganza right now.
00:11:27
Denis Tyrell
So have you been to?
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Denis Tyrell
so what do you
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Denis Tyrell
what do you been up to
00:11:35
echo_blades
Man, i' I've had a pretty chill week on the hills of Brent leaving um last week. the so i i I got sick the week before, and then like whatever I had kind of like lingered around.
00:11:55
echo_blades
it wasn't bad, but like the whole time we were at um doing the class and hanging out, like I was not 100%. and um And think it was the, I am a bitch that that there's no, no, it comes to being sick.
00:12:03
Denis Tyrell
I know you're being a bitch.
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echo_blades
I don't, I don't, yeah, I don't do well, but so,
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echo_blades
so what was I saying? Oh, so it was like kind of like lingering around. Like every time I kept thinking I was through it, like I'd get a, uh, like a cough would come back.
00:12:25
echo_blades
My, my voice was, I mean, then my voice isn't still back to normal. Um, but, uh, that last day, that Monday, um, my wife came home and she was just like, I mean, she came in the, in the, in the shop that, and she was like, see you fuckers.
00:12:42
echo_blades
I'm going to bed. And she was in bed for a couple of days.
00:12:42
Denis Tyrell
Sunday. Yeah.
00:12:44
echo_blades
And then, uh, Then my daughter's sick now. And so it's it's been like a ah weird, where weird, weird week. But um yeah, I had a. What did I do?
00:12:58
echo_blades
um man. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. ah couple of things. So we did the show on Sunday. We recorded.
00:13:05
echo_blades
So, yeah. So we hung out here, Brent and I, um on Monday and in the shop. Yeah. And working on some things. And then Dennis came over in the afternoon and i had this really surreal moment for me.
00:13:22
echo_blades
And I, we were all doing things, which was primarily hand sanding and the, all these different stations set up. And, but you know,
00:13:33
echo_blades
I don't have many people over to my shop. I mean, I'm always going around to others, you know, and especially like people that I but like, ah like Brent or, you know, like you just, we don't ever get to see.
00:13:38
Denis Tyrell
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:13:44
echo_blades
Right. But when I stood up to go do something or I think it was when you guys were like, all right, what's next? Or, you know, like I was like, well, this is not anything I'm prepared to answer right at this moment, you know, but kind of just seeing you guys working and and doing shit ah in the shop was, it was a cool, it was a cool moment.
00:14:02
echo_blades
I think ah that one will stay with me for a while. um But yeah, we got to, think you glued up a knife for me, ah that that chef knife. ah Brent did a bunch of work on the on the collab knife that where we did profiled out a long time ago.
00:14:21
echo_blades
Um, and then I was hand sanding my ass off. Uh, and, um, but after that I spent, um, I got a couple hours in the shop for, uh, I don't know, three, four days last week, this weekend I got, I got in there.
00:14:38
echo_blades
So I was feeling pretty, pretty motivated to like keep things going.
00:14:42
echo_blades
Um, and, it was a good feeling cause it's, it's not been that way for a while.
00:14:48
Denis Tyrell
You got a not ah ah lot of knives that are very close to completion.
00:14:53
echo_blades
yeah, it was,
00:14:53
Denis Tyrell
Like the last 10% on 10 knives. 20, remember? Yes.
00:14:57
echo_blades
Yeah, what was the number you guessed? Do you remember? And I told you no fucking way.
00:15:01
echo_blades
I went and counted and I have the number.
00:15:02
Denis Tyrell
i said twenty i said twenty remember
00:15:04
echo_blades
And i said I said, no shot, right?
00:15:08
echo_blades
No shot, it's 22.
00:15:08
Denis Tyrell
ah me i knew it
00:15:12
echo_blades
Yeah, and i mean, this is ranging from profiled, forged, heat treated, not heat treated, but there's probably about 10 or 11 that are at the home stretch.
00:15:26
echo_blades
and in different things. And there's some that I don't even plan on finishing. Like the, uh, I won't finish the one, uh, all hand sanded, but the, the one that Rick and I started, that one's like, I almost didn't count that, but, um, yeah, there's
00:15:38
Denis Tyrell
We should finish it. Even you don't sell you should finish it.
00:15:42
echo_blades
no, no, no, we're going to, I'll finish it but I'm going to do that with him. That was, that was our, our, our thing.
00:15:44
Denis Tyrell
Oh, with him. see what you mean.
00:15:46
echo_blades
Yeah. Like, so I don't really count that as something I'll, I'll do, but, uh, yeah. Um, so making some progress on all that stuff. And, uh, I got, I think about four of them at, at the, uh, even closer now. So, um, should, should have some, some things going up. I haven't posted any pictures or done anything. Cause I, I gotta, I forgot you were, um,
00:16:14
echo_blades
getting back and then leaving right away. So I got to get those, uh, an etch on, um, a knife or two.
00:16:21
Denis Tyrell
Oh, like laser?
00:16:22
echo_blades
Yeah. Laser and stuff. So although it'll be when you get back, we'll wrap everything up, but that'll just get me in time to finish as much as I can.
00:16:30
echo_blades
So we could just do a, a laser party fricking laser party. Um, but yeah, it was good, man. Um, I just, uh, I had a good, good flow here. And then of course though, the, uh, it cranks up the, the inferno here in California and it's going to be, uh, think 102 tomorrow, but after tomorrow, I think it's like,
00:16:54
echo_blades
back down to the 80s. So that'd be cool. It's a lot easier to get out there when it's not hot as the sun in the in the shop. So golfed my ass off this weekend as well.
00:17:09
echo_blades
I don't know. Did I tell you guys that that I tell you last week that Jared on the show that Jared shot?
00:17:15
Denis Tyrell
I don't know if it was on the show. I don't know if it was on the show, but...
00:17:17
echo_blades
Yeah. So my son shot an 86, which is ah pretty decent, mean, it's a damn good score. Um, and that's my, my best is i think 87. I've shot that quite a few times.
00:17:28
Denis Tyrell
My best is at 99, in case you're wondering.
00:17:29
echo_blades
Um, Oh yeah. So I, it and and after we were talking about this, like, I think it's most most golfers, Um, you're considered ah an average good golfer. If you're, you can break a hundred regularly.
00:17:45
echo_blades
So nothing, it's pretty standard there. So, um, but anyways, uh, So he shoots 86 and then we went out and played a couple more times and this little fucker, nah, I can't get him. He's getting me by like one or two strokes every time we go out now.
00:18:01
echo_blades
And I think it's really damn cool.
00:18:02
Denis Tyrell
Good for him.
00:18:03
echo_blades
Yeah. I told Jeff, I was like, fucking Jared beat me by two one or two strokes on Sunday because I played a tournament with Jeff on the and Saturday.
00:18:15
echo_blades
And he just says, good. I was like, fuck you.
00:18:22
echo_blades
But, uh, yeah, so that, that, that was cool. Um, good weather and, uh, yeah. So everyone's sick here. um and that's, that's what it is.
00:18:33
echo_blades
So, uh, I'm going to wait till tomorrow. probably won't do anything, but then I'll, I'll just keep making some progress and, uh, and moving forward and pretending to be a knife maker again. So it feels good though.
00:18:43
Denis Tyrell
yeah get those knives out the shop man get them sold
00:18:46
echo_blades
Yeah, I think you you said it. Yeah,
Community Shoutouts
00:18:48
echo_blades
you were like, me you got a couple thousand dollars worth it shit sitting here. And i was like, wow. Forgot about that.
00:18:55
Denis Tyrell
yeah yeah actually getting paid for your work come on man
00:18:58
echo_blades
Yeah, it's weird. But yeah, so that's that's what that's what's going on over here. Just plugging away and, uh, work is still, uh, work.
00:19:09
echo_blades
Um, I'm going have some, I'll travel a bunch in October, October and December going back to Washington. So, um, but yeah, that's, that's what it is, man. Not, not too much going on.
00:19:21
Denis Tyrell
You know who the the hardest working man is
00:19:25
Denis Tyrell
Mr. Lawrence Lake from Maritime Knife Supply.
00:19:29
Denis Tyrell
That man has two jobs, and I think he works as much as someone with three jobs. um
00:19:35
Denis Tyrell
but And it's all for us. Well, and this other company, but it's all for us for Maritime Knife Supply because it is the best place to buy any of your equipment, hand-of-material, abrasives, knife equipment, tools, you name it.
00:19:52
Denis Tyrell
Go check out Maritime Knife Supply. um Get all your stuff there. and he'll even include candies in the box can't be that
00:19:57
echo_blades
Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. You can never have too many maritime knife supply stickers as well.
00:20:05
Denis Tyrell
yeah our shirts or hoodies
00:20:05
echo_blades
because Or shirts, hoodies. Yeah, all of that. Yeah, he sent me a couple of... ah text he was in the forge. Every time he does that, because I mean, one of the coolest things about Lawrence too is that he's one of us, right?
00:20:17
echo_blades
um And I relate to him too because he's really busy and barely gets to do what he loves to do. um And he's got a a little penchant for jareding everything as well.
00:20:28
echo_blades
um But yeah, he showed me some Damascus ability that he was working on. And it always makes me feel good and happy for him that he's, you know, getting time to get out in the forge and and do some stuff. So Yeah. Go to Maritime Knife Supply for all your knife making needs.
00:20:47
echo_blades
That's right.
00:20:49
Denis Tyrell
So when he what plans you got this week? You looking in more golfing next weekend or this weekend?
00:20:55
echo_blades
I got a family reunion on Saturday.
00:20:59
Denis Tyrell
The Sandoval family reunion?
00:21:01
echo_blades
It's the Sandoval side. Yeah. So um we have always historically met at this little ah mission town in San Juan Batista.
00:21:11
echo_blades
Yeah. So there's a mission there that, uh, it's kind of like a halfway point between my family and the Valley and my dad and I out here. Um, so.
00:21:20
Denis Tyrell
that That is the mission that um Logan did his mission project on, was that San Juan Batista mission.
00:21:29
Denis Tyrell
So I've actually been to the mission.
00:21:30
echo_blades
I don't, Yeah, it's pretty cool. it's got ah the The mission is cool.
00:21:34
echo_blades
They got a really good historic like old town. They have like an old bar. the The sidewalks are still the wood thing. a lot of ah old blacksmithing, the farm equipment stuff.
00:21:46
echo_blades
um But the old bar is really cool. The poker tables. and Man, fuckers were small back then, too. The beds are like tiny. and like There's all kinds of... Yeah, we got bigger as ah as a per as a people here.
00:21:58
Denis Tyrell
I don't remember if we went on the tour. i think we just like saw it from, like walked around from the outside. don't think we paid for tickets or anything.
00:22:07
echo_blades
Oh, dude, it's like three bucks or something. Like, it's not.
00:22:08
Denis Tyrell
I don't remember.
00:22:10
echo_blades
And it's it's quick, dude. You just walk around and go see some how old the.
00:22:13
Denis Tyrell
was like 12 years ago or more than that.
00:22:16
echo_blades
Yeah, I've been going there my whole life.
00:22:16
Denis Tyrell
what with what what What grade did they do the mission projects? Second grade?
00:22:21
echo_blades
I want to say like, i think it's like third or fourth.
00:22:26
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. For those of you not from California, the kids kids in school have to pick one of the the California missions and do a project on it.
00:22:34
Denis Tyrell
it's usually a little diorama of mission and talk about it. and
00:22:39
echo_blades
Yeah. But yeah, so going over there and go see some family and then yeah Sunday golf. And then I think my my daughter and I are supposed to go to San Mateo on Sunday evening to something called fork and film where they, you go watch some kind of a Disney movie of some kind.
00:23:06
echo_blades
I don't know what
Dennis's Upcoming Italy Trip
00:23:07
echo_blades
it is. i think this one's actually wicked.
00:23:11
echo_blades
I think it's wicked, but, uh, And they, yeah it's like some experience. You do whatever movie it's dinner and they play the movie and, you know, do a bunch of shit.
00:23:17
Denis Tyrell
so it's dinner ah love that movie
00:23:22
echo_blades
Uh, my wife and her did one for Ratatouille couple, about a month or so ago. It's good movie. Um, but, uh, yeah, so, um, just cool. Gonna go, go hang out with, uh, my Sarai by. And, uh, so it'll be busy weekend, get some golf in and, uh, and some whatever shop time I can get in.
00:23:41
echo_blades
Uh, so, Yeah, not not much. So I'm happy. It's just like on chill autopilot. things are Things are okay. so
00:23:50
Denis Tyrell
I'm going to be dealing with a wicked time change. So I don't know how I'm going to be feeling.
00:23:54
echo_blades
How many? is it is it seven or eight?
00:23:56
Denis Tyrell
Uh, like it's at least it's a more than eight, eight, it's eight to the UK. So it's gotta be like 10. ten I'm thinking
00:24:08
Denis Tyrell
pretty close to that.
00:24:10
Denis Tyrell
I don't know. I, I'd have, I'd have to look it
00:24:14
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Cause the, um, yeah. Cause we're, we're, uh, We're plus eight and that's to UK, right?
00:24:23
echo_blades
That is eight. I know that because our good friend Toby, every time I talk to him or ask him what time it is, he tells me that there's something called Google and I can look it up.
00:24:34
echo_blades
ah Fucking ass. I'm like, I just want you to know that when I ask you a question, I do know that that Google is an option. Let's just get that. out of the way here.
00:24:45
Denis Tyrell
You do it to me constantly, so...
00:24:47
echo_blades
Yeah. You bastard.
00:24:50
Denis Tyrell
um i I know Italy is east of, maybe it's only like an hour.
00:24:55
echo_blades
It's 6.11 a.m. m in Naples right now.
00:24:59
Denis Tyrell
That doesn't help me. How many hours?
00:25:01
echo_blades
I don't know.
00:25:01
Denis Tyrell
You can make me do the fucking math.
00:25:06
echo_blades
10, 11, 12, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9. All right.
00:25:09
Denis Tyrell
like So it's it' it's nine hours.
00:25:11
Denis Tyrell
Nine hours. Okay. Yeah, so I'm going be nine hours off.
00:25:15
Denis Tyrell
um So that's going to... wreck me for a couple of days i'm sure and we're we get there so we leave tomorrow morning at 8 30 and we get there local time will be like 8 a.m wednesday morning yeah
00:25:20
echo_blades
Yeah, that's not going to be fun.
00:25:36
echo_blades
Oh, wow. And how long are you there?
00:25:41
Denis Tyrell
um we come back to second so we're there for like eight days
00:25:48
echo_blades
Maybe I'll fucked up when you come back to.
00:25:50
Denis Tyrell
It'll be worse. Actually, it'll be worse coming back for sure.
00:25:56
Denis Tyrell
I think because
00:25:56
echo_blades
Yeah, I think the most I've ever done is is is four hours.
00:26:02
echo_blades
And that was to Puerto Rico and those Caribbean islands down there.
00:26:07
Denis Tyrell
oh I've done India and that's 12 that's 11 and a half hours. So you don't really get much worse than that. I mean, a half hour worse, but yeah, it sucks.
00:26:17
echo_blades
Damn. No, that's not going to be fun.
00:26:20
Denis Tyrell
I used to be fine with time changes. Used to, no problem. But now, you know, the older you get, the more hits you. So we'll see.
00:26:27
echo_blades
Yeah, I can imagine.
00:26:27
Denis Tyrell
right I don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep on the plane. So I think we're going to up having a nap and that's going to wreck us the day we land. So we'll probably be up till like 2 a.m. that day.
00:26:40
Denis Tyrell
Something stupid, but.
00:26:44
Denis Tyrell
We're going to wander around Rome, like bleary eyed and tired the first day.
00:26:52
Denis Tyrell
So. No, we're there the day we land, like all day and then the next day.
00:26:52
echo_blades
That's the only day you're at there?
00:26:59
Denis Tyrell
and And then the next day we leave in the morning, we leave for Naples.
00:27:03
echo_blades
Gotcha. All right.
00:27:06
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, we're there for a day and then we go to Sorrento for five days.
00:27:13
echo_blades
It must be tough, dude.
00:27:15
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah, it's really tough.
00:27:17
echo_blades
That must be real fucking tough.
00:27:19
Denis Tyrell
I got to start practicing my, I was going to say my Spanish, my Italian.
00:27:23
echo_blades
You're Spanish. Well, can't help you with either, so there you go.
Product Highlights and Humor
00:27:27
Denis Tyrell
was just going to say that. You're lucky you beat me to it.
00:27:33
echo_blades
Oh, that's crazy. Good stuff.
00:27:36
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. But when was my last vacation?
00:27:39
echo_blades
So when we, Oh yeah. So when you get back though, we're going fucking puts your, uh, your fat peen to work, huh?
00:27:47
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, absolutely.
00:27:48
echo_blades
get busy forging the, the, the weather's going to be good. So we'll bust out our, our fat peens. And if you're in the market for a new hammer, make sure you go check out Frank and Nita at a two bastard Smithy and supply the makers of the fat peen.
00:28:04
echo_blades
ah They got all, they got them all. There's a straight crooked ah diagonal cross all the peens that you need. um So make sure you go check them out. Cause why Dennis?
00:28:17
Denis Tyrell
Because ain't it grand to have a fat peen in your hand.
00:28:20
echo_blades
It is grand to have a fat peen in one's hands.
00:28:23
Denis Tyrell
um who I'm trying to figure Someone, don't remember. Shit. It might have been. oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It was in our um Bobby from Reaper sent ah said that picture with the peen wax. Did you see that?
00:28:43
echo_blades
I'm just not ringing a bell.
00:28:45
Denis Tyrell
Really? He said, he put in his, in the message, he said, found something for two bastards and it's a peen wax. And it's, I don't know what it said, rainbow body crayon, but it said peen wax on it.
00:29:02
Denis Tyrell
So if you need to put a little wax on your peen hammer, I'm
00:29:02
echo_blades
Oh shit. Yeah. I do remember that. That's right. Yeah. The rainbow body crayon. Peen wax.
00:29:13
Denis Tyrell
i think I think Frank should put that in every hammer sale from now on.
00:29:17
Denis Tyrell
Some peen wax.
00:29:17
echo_blades
You get some, or you know what else is we can get our buddy, uh, Travis, uh, Haynes from Pelican paste to, to add another, uh,
00:29:22
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. ah Yeah. Do a collab.
00:29:26
echo_blades
Yeah, add another line to our item to his line of awesome premium waxes because he's got hard wax, soft wax, Pelican oil, hand-solve soap, the butternut seasoning for cast iron pans, and hopefully we can talk him into the brand new peen wax.
00:29:42
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, but my question is, everything else smells like lemons. What does peen wax smell like?
00:29:46
echo_blades
ah Oranges, they smell like oranges over there.
00:29:50
echo_blades
Some from under... Maybe not, but
00:29:57
Denis Tyrell
All right, we're we're just degenerates.
00:29:58
echo_blades
But yeah yeah, that could be in the works there. But make sure you go check out Travis at Pelican Pace and use the discount code TTT10 for 10% off your next purchase. For sure.
00:30:10
Denis Tyrell
um I'm looking at all ah all our sponsors. We've got Two Bastards. We've got with the peens. We've got Pelican Pace with the peen wax. We've got Grip Tex.
00:30:22
echo_blades
Oh, yeah. You don't want to slip your grip, bro.
00:30:24
Denis Tyrell
Grip it and rip it.
00:30:25
echo_blades
You you need the grip X.
00:30:31
echo_blades
Oh man, that's for sure. So speaking of grip tech though, we got a Matt over at a grip tech composites, a IG grip tech official maker of a grip X, formerly grip tech and grip X 3d and the limitless line. He'll actually be out at the twin cities knife show this weekend exhibiting.
00:30:56
echo_blades
So if you're out in, in that area, Make sure you go check that show out and stop by and see Matt and get yourself some Grip X and mention the Triple T podcast and maybe he'll shoot you 10% off. But if you're just going to load up that cart, you can use the discount code Triple T10 for 10% off your next purchase as well.
Twin Cities Knife Show Details
00:31:17
Denis Tyrell
Twin Cities Knife Show. Which Twin Cities is that?
00:31:20
echo_blades
I think that's over where you were.
00:31:22
Denis Tyrell
Okay, that is the okay so that is the same knife show.
00:31:26
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, okay. Yeah, I actually, I was going to mention that one. I don't know why I'm spacing in the name of it. I thought it was called something else, but maybe I've been referring to it as the the Midwest Knifemakers Guild knife show. But ah yeah, Twin Cities knife show this weekend in, I suck at this.
00:31:48
Denis Tyrell
I did a post on it and now I don't remember the city that it's in, but Bloomington, thank you.
00:31:51
echo_blades
It's in Bloomington.
00:31:55
Denis Tyrell
Bloomington, Minnesota.
00:31:56
echo_blades
At the Bloomington National Guard Armory.
00:31:59
echo_blades
September 26th through the 27th. Fridays from 12 to 6 and Saturdays from 10 to 6. Oh.
00:32:05
Denis Tyrell
And they will be raffling off a knife from Tyrell Knifeworks.
00:32:11
Denis Tyrell
So if you want to get a chance to win the little brother of the knife I just posted the other day, exact same knife, just a little bit shorter, um yeah, go get yourself some tickets and go to the Twin Cities Knife Show.
00:32:26
Denis Tyrell
And it will feature a leather sheath by Bob Gore. So you get something from him and something from me.
00:32:39
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I will not be there, but hopefully it'll be a good show.
Tech Updates and Frustrations
00:32:44
echo_blades
I like it. You know what I figured out? So I'll keep the names anonymous, but
00:32:54
echo_blades
A while back on Instagram, I must have used a feature that allows you to favorite people.
00:33:02
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, you told me this and I did not know it was there.
00:33:03
echo_blades
Okay. And for the longest time, and it is almost a pain because when we're yeah Sometimes when we're looking for makers to spotlight in our in our segment here, um you know I'll try to go and I'm trying to find some some new people and um something that pops out at me. But i just it's like this endless feed of the same old motherfuckers in my my feed.
00:33:36
echo_blades
And I'm like... Why the hell do I can consistently see so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so and so-and-so? on and so so so i know after some digging around and getting really frustrated, um I figured out that there is a ah thing that you can do on the on somebody's profile and you can favorite them. I don't recall ever doing it, but I have now since unfavorited these gentlemen.
00:34:00
Denis Tyrell
Now I know what to do next time I get Jared's phone.
00:34:00
echo_blades
And yeah, good Lord.
00:34:06
echo_blades
And, uh, now I'm getting some more versatility in my feet, except it's gone more golf and people hurting themselves. So, and those are not favorited, but yeah, I don't know, man. I'm curious if anybody else has had that. Uh, but, um, yeah, so no love lost for those people that are were unfavorited, but, uh, I'm, I'm tired of seeing your shit.
00:34:30
echo_blades
So I'm glad to shake it up a little bit, but, uh, Yeah. And then there's a, there's this new update too, for Apple.
00:34:40
Denis Tyrell
Oh, yeah, it's it's funny you had that in there because I just got a new phone yesterday.
00:34:47
Denis Tyrell
And I got the new OS and I'm like, what? Everything's fucking different.
00:34:50
echo_blades
Are you fucking lost?
00:34:51
Denis Tyrell
Yes, absolutely lost.
00:34:53
echo_blades
Okay, good. Thank God. Like,
00:34:55
Denis Tyrell
like I'm like, I'm getting old because i don't like change.
00:34:58
echo_blades
I was feeling the same way, dude. Like it was like simply like, i mean, and they do have the option to kind of go back to classic, but I'm trying to like stay the course, but man, I was feeling like ah ready to throw the damn thing a couple times. Like what in the hell?
00:35:13
echo_blades
And it's really not that like overwhelmingly cool. ah Like liquid glass, I think is the the theme of it.
00:35:19
Denis Tyrell
I was, I don't know.
00:35:19
echo_blades
So I think that's the deal.
00:35:21
Denis Tyrell
But I got a brand new iPhone 17, the 17 Pro thing.
00:35:28
Denis Tyrell
And it's it's a nice phone. It's a little bigger than I wanted. they actually didn't have the 17 in stock. And I wanted a new phone before we went to Italy. Because the mic on my phone, as you know, is like, is blown.
00:35:40
echo_blades
oh that's right. Mm
00:35:42
Denis Tyrell
I couldn't actually talk on the phone. You know, the one thing a phone is for. um But yeah, and I got the new, like, and I didn't even know that they upgraded the OS and I got it. And I'm like, there's certain operations like buttons disappear now.
00:35:57
Denis Tyrell
And like, you used to, it used to be really easy to find the tabs on the, on your browser. Not anymore. Now they're like, I don't know if you use Chrome or or Safari, but yeah, there's a few things that annoy the shit out of me.
00:36:12
echo_blades
Yeah, it's it's been it's been a struggle. and An old person struggle for sure. Because my son's like, hey, did you update it? I'm like, oh, no, let me just. Ah, fuck. like Why did I do this?
00:36:24
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I mean it seems snappy like they made the graphics Snappy or all the animations are snappier. Maybe it's just because my phone's faster. I don't know but ah You know every time they do that is it?
00:36:38
Denis Tyrell
This is like an old software thing. Like if your animations are too slow, it makes the, the, it makes it feel slow. But if you speed the animations up, it actually makes it feel snappier.
00:36:50
Denis Tyrell
Like that's what they did for a lot of things.
00:36:54
Denis Tyrell
Um, but yeah, it confused the shit out of me. And then to compound it, um right before I left,
00:36:59
echo_blades
Pound it, pound it, pound it.
00:37:02
Denis Tyrell
Before I left for um to take the boys, I had ordered a new Mac. And that just arrived. So yesterday I'm setting up a new Mac.
00:37:13
Denis Tyrell
And like I backed up everything and it ported it. like I got to give it to Apple. like The whole migration process, they got that down.
00:37:25
Denis Tyrell
like I just set up the two Macs side by side and they just like did it.
00:37:29
echo_blades
Start making sweet apple love and getting, yeah.
00:37:31
Denis Tyrell
That's what they did.
00:37:33
Denis Tyrell
But I forgot that like, yes, it moves all your everything over. Like it looks identical when you start it up, but you have to log into every single website and every single app again, which means you've got to remember your password.
00:37:46
echo_blades
Oh, that's right.
00:37:51
Denis Tyrell
that you haven't entered in fucking dog's age.
00:37:56
Denis Tyrell
So that's what I've been battling with all day. Like, what the fuck was my password for so-and-so?
00:38:02
echo_blades
Yeah. That's, I have a 13 still. I've been threatening to get a phone for a while. So it's been a while. I was the guy that,
00:38:09
Denis Tyrell
ah had a fourteen so i wasn't far off
00:38:10
echo_blades
ah yeah, I had, uh, I was for years and years, just had to have the next new one, next new one, next new one. But it's been, been a while. Cause my wife got a terabyte on this fucking phone when I started to making, you know, videos and stuff for, for content. And I'm nowhere near full.
00:38:27
echo_blades
Like it's, it's a lot, it's a lot of storage. So, um, just going to ride it to the wheels fall off, I guess, but until my speaker stops working, but,
00:38:37
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. I do notice the speed on the new laptop, though. I was like my old laptop. I bought it in 2017. So it's been like eight or nine years, depending on when I actually got it.
00:38:50
Denis Tyrell
An editing video, like I'd get the little spinny color wheel of death every like 30 seconds. um You a Mac user? Use a Mac?
00:39:03
Denis Tyrell
Anyway. Yeah. And like the fan was like almost coming on constantly because it had to cool down the chip, right?
00:39:03
echo_blades
I have a PC at work, but I have a Mac.
00:39:13
Denis Tyrell
But now it's it's awesome. And it's black. It's a black computer. I like it.
00:39:17
echo_blades
Hey, there you go
00:39:19
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. So I'm all...
00:39:20
echo_blades
well, if you want to speed some like processes up, then I think you should go check out Koi and the boys over at Baker Forge and Tool, because you could just skip the whole Damascus making process altogether and go get yourself a piece of premium pattern welded steel. This week they have Fury Ladder.
00:39:40
echo_blades
It is a chevron and ladder. The fresh Firestorm-inspired layout with 1084 and copper cladding over at Damascus Core delivers a striking low-layer look.
00:39:52
echo_blades
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Knife Making Projects and Plans
00:40:06
echo_blades
That's the Gator Piss products, Gator Piss OG blend, um heavy and max for stainless steel.
00:40:13
echo_blades
Also Gator Skin, the nano ceramic coating is back in stock and ready to go. um And if you're in Hathia, you can go check out Maritime Nye Supply, a carrier of some Baker Forge and tool supplies as well.
00:40:31
echo_blades
But whatever you do, load up your car, use the discount code TTT10 for 10% off. And don't forget, you use the app, you get one day early access to all the drops.
00:40:43
Denis Tyrell
That's right. And while you're there, well, I think it's released. The Grime Reaper is available for purchase now, too. So if you need you need to clean those knives before you etch them, go get yourself some Grime Reaper.
00:40:56
echo_blades
That's right. I still haven't, I never got around to that. So I'll probably do that this week.
00:41:01
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I haven't actually... Well, I have the can. I haven't actually sprayed it. But, yeah.
00:41:07
Denis Tyrell
I haven't actually...
00:41:07
echo_blades
That's on this week's agenda.
00:41:07
Denis Tyrell
you Yeah, I spent, don't know, I spent about four hours in the shop today. I'm almost done the folder that, you know, when you guys were doing the folder class, the folder I was working on.
00:41:23
Denis Tyrell
um ah probably would have finished it today, except I ran out of wire for my saw. um Yes, yes.
00:41:32
echo_blades
ah you miss it Were you missing some screws on that knife when you left?
00:41:38
echo_blades
Because I found them.
00:41:40
Denis Tyrell
Okay. I thought I...
00:41:42
echo_blades
I was like, I looked down. I'm like, i don't i have all my pieces here. I'm like, what the fuck's going on?
00:41:47
Denis Tyrell
I know it's it's the ones for the back bar to screw the liners together.
00:41:50
echo_blades
Yep. The longer ones. Yeah.
00:41:53
echo_blades
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's that's funny.
00:41:55
echo_blades
I was like, I got i got some some screws here.
00:41:58
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, so I don't have to make more. um Yeah, I was almost done, but i I was doing the coining and you need the diamond wire for the jeweler saw and I ran out of...
00:42:10
Denis Tyrell
I got about two inches of coat of coining to do on the liners, but I ran out of saw.
00:42:17
Denis Tyrell
But it'll be coming. It'll be coming soon. I'll finish that right when I get back.
00:42:22
echo_blades
I see. I did some, I did some, uh, cleaning up on, on that, uh, last night, actually. Um, just bringing the, uh, the bolster down to the liners and couple other things.
00:42:34
Denis Tyrell
We gotta redo that one liner, the lock liner.
00:42:38
Denis Tyrell
and I was able to do mine in like two hours.
00:42:42
Denis Tyrell
So we'll come over someday and we'll we'll just make a new liner for that thing.
00:42:47
Denis Tyrell
And then bring in the the lock face.
00:42:51
Denis Tyrell
It's an easy one. But yeah, I'm anxious to get that one finished. The ivory handles came out awesome.
00:43:00
echo_blades
Cool. I'm glad they weren't a bust. I was worried about that.
00:43:03
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, no, and the, you know how they're kind of crackly, you know, that crackly finish?
00:43:07
Denis Tyrell
Well, I use black CA glue to fill those cracks.
00:43:10
echo_blades
Oh, that's a nice touch.
00:43:11
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, so they they look cool, plus the, um, uh, the liners are going to be black, anodized black, and, um, the, uh, bolsters will be black.
00:43:23
echo_blades
I forgot I could do that.
00:43:26
echo_blades
Oh, I'll start thinking of something for mine.
00:43:27
Denis Tyrell
So, yeah. Yeah, you can anodize yours a color, or you can anodize them black, or, uh,
00:43:34
echo_blades
Okay. Got my wheels spinning.
00:43:37
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. And, uh, the, and you can do the pivot because your pivots are titanium. So you can anodize the pivots seem pivot, the pivot screw.
00:43:49
Denis Tyrell
But, um, yeah. Oh, and I gotta, I gotta update the course documentation and send it out to you guys with all the changes of stuff we learned teaching the course for the first time.
Break Announcement and Knife-Making Techniques
00:44:05
Denis Tyrell
i I got a busy October. Actually, the weekend I got back is the only free weekend, but that was on purpose. But then after that, I'm teaching a class.
00:44:15
Denis Tyrell
And then I think that week after Mr. Marekko is coming down, he's coming in during the week.
00:44:22
echo_blades
what What weekend is he coming down?
00:44:26
Denis Tyrell
I think that we talked like the 13th, the 17th.
00:44:26
echo_blades
Oh, okay, cool.
00:44:31
Denis Tyrell
We haven't finalized that yet.
00:44:33
Denis Tyrell
He was still looking at flights and stuff.
00:44:36
Denis Tyrell
He did mention it on NICE Talk.
00:44:40
Denis Tyrell
But yeah, that and then I'm teaching another course the weekend after. So yeah, October is pretty action-packed. I'm teaching like two or three courses in October and then a couple in November already. So it's already turning out to be ah busy fall.
00:45:03
Denis Tyrell
I'm in December already with projects. It's crazy.
00:45:08
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. But yeah, I've got some i got some crazy ideas for Damascus that I'd like to do when Mariko's here. so I'm going to see what he he's got in mind.
00:45:20
Denis Tyrell
But yeah, just I think it's going to look awesome. so Some techniques I've never seen anybody do before. So that's why I'm excited.
00:45:29
echo_blades
oh So I take it there's not going to be a ah triple T?
00:45:34
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, no Triple T this week. i was trying I thought about getting one done today. I just didn't pull the trigger. didn't have time. And there won't be one the week after because I'll still be – I'll just be getting back Thursday. So, you know, I'll be exhausted. So we're going to be Triple T-less for the next two weeks for videos.
00:45:54
Denis Tyrell
Jared will still be here for the podcast.
00:45:56
Denis Tyrell
um But, yeah.
00:45:59
echo_blades
I got to do two?
00:46:01
Denis Tyrell
No, you're just doing one. I'll be back for the, yeah, because today's and then next Monday you'll do alone and then I'm back Thursday.
00:46:02
echo_blades
Just doing one? Okay.
00:46:14
echo_blades
All by myself.
00:46:18
Denis Tyrell
That's right. You and your singing all by yourself.
00:46:20
echo_blades
That's right.
00:46:22
Denis Tyrell
Should we do some maker spotlights?
00:46:26
Denis Tyrell
All right. um I'll go first, if I can open my link here.
00:46:32
echo_blades
yeah I already did that one.
00:46:34
Denis Tyrell
You did not.
00:46:36
echo_blades
Swear to God.
00:46:37
Denis Tyrell
Did you really?
00:46:38
echo_blades
who I didn't notice it until just right now. But he's it's worthy. It's a good one.
00:46:45
Denis Tyrell
i thought, it okay Yeah, I didn't. Oh, that was way back. We're going to do it again. We're doing it again.
00:46:50
echo_blades
Sure. That's a good one.
00:46:52
echo_blades
It's a good one. We're doing it Fuck it. We're doing it live. Or again.
00:46:57
Denis Tyrell
All right, we're double dipping into, yeah, I should have searched. I searched for yours, but I did search for mine.
00:47:03
Denis Tyrell
um I'm doing Row Forge Studio. wi how do you How do you say his first name?
00:47:13
echo_blades
I'm trying to get there.
00:47:14
Denis Tyrell
salome salome salome ro um just some awesome knives so roe roe forge studio um and i just do the um the i don't know if it's a sword or dagger um yeah but the kumai i think it's just a big
00:47:37
Denis Tyrell
he's only showing me the handle in this one but um it's got to be a sword but uh that one caught my eye and then just kept scrolling down and seeing a lot of really cool work a lot of damascus um seeing gladius's and other knives just some really really nice work and some fishing which i love so um yeah go check him out row forge studio He's an ABS apprentice, and I'm assuming SC is South Carolina.
00:48:11
Denis Tyrell
Where he's from? SC Custom Knife Makers Guild member and veteran owned.
00:48:20
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, go check him out. Rowforge Studio.
00:48:24
echo_blades
That's a good one. Found that guy for a long time. um Yeah, I have ah something that I i sc scrolled across across in my my brand new refreshed, vitalized feed.
00:48:38
echo_blades
um And it is ah forged by Austin. One word, forged by Austin. He's got 4,260 followers. um And it says he's passionate about forging out or forging.
00:48:54
echo_blades
outclass Damascus. Um, I don't think that I have featured anybody that just like predominantly does some Damascus patterns.
00:49:04
Denis Tyrell
I know you like taking my role now.
00:49:07
echo_blades
Yeah. And I was just going down and and seeing some really cool, uh, feathers, basket weave, some mosaics, um, uh, some really cool knives.
00:49:18
echo_blades
Um, and, uh, so I thought I'd, uh, just give him a shout out and that, uh, Damascus making is, uh, is still alive and going strong. So, um, yeah, shout out to Austin Paul. That's his name.
00:49:34
echo_blades
Go give him a a follow and tell him the boys at Triple T said what's up.
00:49:38
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, what I like about that basket weave is the the distortion.
00:49:43
echo_blades
That's what he's to say That's the only way to to say it is that distortion is awesome.
00:49:47
Denis Tyrell
Like how it's like, it's almost like spherical. um The distortion makes it look really cool.
00:49:54
echo_blades
It does. It doesn't look.
00:49:58
echo_blades
It's not quite random to be ah mess, right? It looks together. It's really cool.
00:50:03
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah, no good job and i like that River fire feather he did and This he's got a spider graph
00:50:11
echo_blades
Yeah. Didn't he do something that you did on there too as well?
00:50:15
Denis Tyrell
um Well, it wasn't my pattern then yeah, yeah, he he think he did the same knots and crosses pattern that from Niels vandenberg I think he did the same one the one I did for the Viking sword
00:50:16
echo_blades
The knots and no, I know a pattern that you had done too, right?
00:50:23
echo_blades
Knots and crosses. That's right.
00:50:31
Denis Tyrell
um Yeah, and he's got just some cool ones.
00:50:35
Denis Tyrell
I always appreciate a good mosaic. He's got a bunch here, bunch of feathers. That twisty feather does a really good really good job on that one.
00:50:49
Denis Tyrell
I don't need a big knife to complete that one to really show it off.
00:50:54
Denis Tyrell
But ah yeah, good stuff. Love it.
00:50:59
Denis Tyrell
Cool, cool. Yeah, that's a good one.
00:51:07
echo_blades
How are you going to survive without using your fastback Ugh.
00:51:12
Denis Tyrell
I don't know, man. I'm not even going to see knife maker in Italy, so I'm going to be going through withdrawal.
00:51:18
Denis Tyrell
But I did get to use it today, um just flattening out some things. um So, yeah, definitely Ameribray 2x72.
00:51:29
Denis Tyrell
Well, the Fastback 2x72 is their grinder. Amazing piece of tech. just You can tell those guys are engineers at the core. It's just amazing.
00:51:40
Denis Tyrell
made by smart guys making smart machines. So if you need a grinder, go check out Ameribraid for their Fastback 2x72 or the Hyperdisk, their rotary tool of wonder um that Jared has.
00:51:58
echo_blades
I put that thing through its, it's just the disc itself, the, the, uh, the disc grinder feature on it, um, in vertical.
00:52:11
echo_blades
ah was, yeah, I'm, I was, reminded or or proven to myself how, how much better I can be coming off of the, off the plat by how much I used it. Cause I, uh, you know, and and that's something else is that, uh, I, my preference is not to see a plunge line on a chef knife.
00:52:34
echo_blades
Um, it's something I like.
00:52:37
echo_blades
Um, I haven't quite, figured out, I'm still developing a process for myself that doesn't make me want to throw things. So ah trying to speed that that up and get a little bit more proficient in that. So I spent a lot of time doing a lot of hand signing, die grind, like whole bunch of things to try to get rid of that slight plunge that I have just from the, from grinding the bevels.
00:53:04
echo_blades
And I found that the, ah the disc sander is a fantastic way to do that. So the hyper disc for the win, ah although it wasn't the most efficient thing because it was a lot of hand sanding,
00:53:19
echo_blades
getting pissed off and then going back to the disc grinder and then going back to the handset and then go back to the disc grinder and they go back to the hyper disc and back and forth but i did that on a on a couple knives uh and started getting getting things uh more fluid uh and more productive so
00:53:35
Denis Tyrell
Do you have like the, there's like a Scotch-Brite wheel, like a disc. Do you have that?
00:53:40
echo_blades
ah So it's got a couple of different arbors on there that you can put all kinds of very various consumables on it, from Scotts Brides to... um
00:53:51
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, but you do you have one of those? One of those, like, it's like a a four inch or six inch disc that it's, you have one of those, right? That looks like a Scotch-Brite, like,
00:54:04
Denis Tyrell
it's i've seen them it's a wheel it's about i'm saying four or five inches but it's it feels like you know it's it's round you know but it it feels like about a quarter inch thick yeah okay you use it much like that attachment to do
00:54:11
echo_blades
Yeah. Like on an angle grinder type attachment? Yes, I have one. Yep.
00:54:23
echo_blades
I have not tried that. Not for what I'm talking about. No.
00:54:26
Denis Tyrell
yeah that's what i was wondering if you've ever tried it like softening edges like you would on a bell grinder with ah with a Scotch-Brite.
00:54:36
echo_blades
No, it's a good idea. Yeah, no, I haven't ah done that. I've used it a lot to, ah while we were making our our tools, Jeff and I, for cleaning up edges and so you know and buffing things out and smoothing things. Yeah, I think a couple of 3M type attachments for that. But no, I haven't tried it for that.
00:54:57
Denis Tyrell
Because when I was at Dave's shop, he had, um it was a little four inch wheel, but it had like a rubber, like, it was almost like, um it was a little domed and he would put sandpaper on it.
00:55:15
Denis Tyrell
But it was, it was like, how do describe it? It was like the bottom of like a bowl. So it was like, um it had a radius on it.
00:55:24
Denis Tyrell
And so it had like really soft edges because it was probably quarter inch thick foam with like tapered radius to edges.
00:55:33
Denis Tyrell
And it spins in a circle, right? Like a disc. And he would use that to soften, um, edges. And it it was really cool. And I just haven't gotten back to it and asked him about it, but he, he had like a dedicated,
00:55:49
Denis Tyrell
um disk grinder just actually was like a buffer was like yeah i think he put it on a buffer just for that as opposed to like using the uh the hyper disk and just using that as an attachment
00:56:01
echo_blades
No, yeah, I'll look into seeing if there's something that I can, I can put on there because I can see the use for that.
00:56:09
Denis Tyrell
yeah yeah that'd be cool especially like working in that plunge line and just removing that with a disk
00:56:10
echo_blades
Yeah. But yeah.
00:56:16
echo_blades
Yeah. I think I use a die grinder with a very, like a, like a one inch pad because you got to kind of be precise to not, to, to knock the high side down.
00:56:26
echo_blades
But if you slip and you go down on your bevel side, you create dish that you end up having to fight with forever. So that's kind of like what I'm saying, like trying to, trying to work that out to, to something that things, but I just found that getting, getting it on the, on the, on the disc grinder.
00:56:45
echo_blades
on that high side, uh, the flat part and kind of working that down was, was ending up, uh, being more, more, uh, a lot like more safer, i should say without, you know, the chance of, of digging and gouging, you know, things that are going to fucking, cause you could, you could very quickly find yourself in a fully sanded blade with a low spot right
00:56:58
Denis Tyrell
catchchin Yeah. Yeah.
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00:57:08
echo_blades
And you just, uh, you gotta go after it for and forever, you know? So it's like, but anyways, uh, you know, I suck.
00:57:16
echo_blades
So I'm, I'm working through that, but, uh, yeah, Ameribrate hyperdisk, just, uh, too many, too many uses, uh, to, to do so.
00:57:26
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I was going to my video that I would have done today would have been on belts, grinding belts and just a variety.
00:57:34
echo_blades
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We were talking about that.
00:57:35
echo_blades
We'll save that.
00:57:36
Denis Tyrell
yeah So we'll we'll so I'll save that and talk about it.
00:57:39
Denis Tyrell
And so I got a couple of little little gems that I learned on my trip to Minnesota that I want to share with folks. and test them out myself to be honest um so yeah and i knew i wasn't going have time to really put that to it but yeah so we'll uh we'll be looking at norton mostly norton belts and uh you know using the ameribraid and uh checking those out yeah
00:58:06
echo_blades
Nice. And then last but not least, uh, um, yeah, I get through these handful of, uh, these three or four more builds and then I will be, uh, breaking in the brand new,
00:58:21
echo_blades
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00:58:38
echo_blades
Spencer and the and the guys over there super knowledgeable, super helpful, um and they just make a fantastic heat treat oven. So make sure you go check them out.
00:58:48
Denis Tyrell
Definitely I'll be using mine as soon as I get back. I got a few projects. I ah gotta I gotta get going so
00:58:55
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. I may try that, that, uh, that whole heat tree temper deal now that I got the, uh, fortunate enough to have two at the moment. So still don't know, man.
00:59:07
echo_blades
I, uh, I think somebody reached out and asked what I was doing with the other one. And I, I don't know what I want to do yet. So hang tight.
00:59:17
Denis Tyrell
Be nice to have them.
00:59:18
echo_blades
Yeah, that's pretty cool. And, you know, it's the if I ever get confused, I just got to look at the the custom logo on the new one because that's that's a nice touch.
00:59:26
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, now you're just rubbing it in. so Yeah, I don't turn the lights out and look for the glow, if that's what you're saying.
00:59:30
echo_blades
I don't know what you, you know, I don't know how you find yours in your shop.
00:59:40
echo_blades
Yeah, that's, yes, that's, yes, it's it's a thing. So very cool.
00:59:45
Denis Tyrell
We can't all be ballers like Echo Blades.
00:59:48
echo_blades
That's right. That's right. Well, I mean, speaking of ballers, where are you going tomorrow?
00:59:54
echo_blades
I'm going to work. I'm just saying.
00:59:56
Denis Tyrell
That was well planned, of the the trip. been working on this one for a year, so
01:00:01
echo_blades
Good deal. Good deal. Well-deserved, sir. As much as I bust your balls, I'm happy you're going to get out there and happier for Kim than you.
01:00:08
echo_blades
But, you know, buts that's neither here nor there.
01:00:08
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah. Maybe I'll smuggle you back some pizza.
01:00:14
echo_blades
Yeah, I'm interested to know.
01:00:17
Denis Tyrell
Most people say that ah the pizza, because there's, I think, it's just one of those things. You're just used to the way pizza is made here, and you get there, and it's just not the same.
01:00:28
Denis Tyrell
And people are like, ah, the pizza is no good over there.
01:00:31
Denis Tyrell
um It doesn't matter. i think i'm I think it's going to be awesome. The food in general is going to be awesome. That's what I'm looking forward to the most.
01:00:41
echo_blades
You're talking to a guy. i was just watching a movie called the the green book. i don't know if you've seen that one.
01:00:45
Denis Tyrell
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good one.
01:00:46
echo_blades
That's what that's that. we' were talking not too long ago about movies that are on that. I'll just watch. and And I came across that's one of them.
01:00:54
Denis Tyrell
That's Viggo Mortensen, right?
01:00:56
Denis Tyrell
Plays the driver. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:00:57
echo_blades
Yeah. He's fucking great, dude. That character he plays is fucking awesome. But he, I was identifying with him cause he's like Kentucky fried chicken in Kentucky. When is that ever going to happen? And I was like, fuck yeah.
01:01:09
echo_blades
Because when I was in Texas, I went to the Texas roadhouse and I had the same dumb ass. I had to go
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01:01:15
echo_blades
there. Like I'm no, there's better stakes and better, you know, things, but I just like, I had to go the Texas roadhouse and in, in Texas.
01:01:23
echo_blades
So I would imagine, you know, having pizza and and in Naples is probably something I would.
01:01:29
Denis Tyrell
You got to do it.
01:01:30
Denis Tyrell
You got to do it.
01:01:31
echo_blades
I mean, this, what is it? The saying, I went in Rome, right? So.
01:01:34
Denis Tyrell
Yes. thanks but Yeah.
01:01:41
Denis Tyrell
All right, man. i will be, I'm sure I'll be sporadically on IG and stuff, but I'll be nine hours off everybody, but I'll be around.
01:01:52
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. Nine hours. I was going to I'll call you or FaceTime you, but that probably will be weird.
01:01:59
Denis Tyrell
It'll be breakfast for me and midnight for you.
01:02:02
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. I am curious to see the Coliseum though. If you're, if you're there and it it works out, call me. That'd be cool. It's,
01:02:12
Denis Tyrell
No, we're going to be there at 1130 in the morning. So that'll be like middle of the night for you on it.
01:02:17
echo_blades
Yeah, I'll be up. Just call me. It's all good.
01:02:21
echo_blades
All right, man. Well, enjoy your trip. but Safe travels. Come back safe. And yeah, we can't wait to hear all about it when you get back.
01:02:31
echo_blades
Yeah. And I promise everything will be fine.
01:02:37
Denis Tyrell
Okay, that has be worried.
01:02:41
echo_blades
ah Play me out. This was supposed to be a short one, too. Another one hour and two.
01:02:46
Denis Tyrell
ah you know. It's turning one hour star short.
01:02:58
echo_blades
and that's a wrap.