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E41: Pessimist Prime
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Jerid is NOT Optimus Prime, but he is an autonomous robotic organism for sure, so come listen in! Hey, we might even talk about knives.
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Your hosts:
Denis Tyrell of Tyrell Knifeworks:
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:15
echo_blades
My name is Optimus Prime. We're autonomous robotic organisms from the planet.
00:00:28
Denis Tyrell
That was not so good. You do a better bane than you do Optimus Prime.
00:00:33
echo_blades
I can't get it. My name, my, my, my. yeah I don't have the freaking deep note going right now. My name is Optimus Prime. God.
00:00:43
Denis Tyrell
ge You sound like you're doing one of those stalker phone calls.
00:00:48
echo_blades
My day.
00:00:54
echo_blades
Listen, folks, I'm going to get that one. I there's this a little range in the ah vocal cords that's not happening right now. God.
00:01:06
Denis Tyrell
Well, folks, that was Jared attempting his best. ah Welcome to the Triple T podcast. I am Dennis Terrell, TerrellKnifeWorks, and this is Optimus Prime.
00:01:18
Denis Tyrell
Mwah, mwah.
00:01:18
echo_blades
and
00:01:22
Denis Tyrell
Or Jared from EchoBlades.
00:01:25
echo_blades
oh
00:01:26
Denis Tyrell
ah
00:01:28
echo_blades
Hi buddy, how are you?
00:01:30
Denis Tyrell
I'm good. You make me laugh every time.
00:01:34
echo_blades
That's good, that's what I'm here for. Alright, true story here. I do that bit a billion times. It's just all the time and sometimes I get it. Sometimes I don't and of course the time we hit record. I don't get it. And here we are.
00:01:57
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:01:57
echo_blades
True story. I like that you should have played and it's right then he knew that he'd fucked up.
00:02:07
echo_blades
Yes.
00:02:11
echo_blades
Ah, intros are for the birds, man.
00:02:15
Denis Tyrell
Hey, you wanted to do it.
00:02:17
echo_blades
No, you made me do it. It's bullshit. Just like this whole podcast thing. I'm out.
00:02:22
Denis Tyrell
yes
00:02:25
echo_blades
Ah, what's up, man? So how have you been? What's up, everybody? yeah Welcome.
00:02:29
Denis Tyrell
Uh, I, I've been, uh, I've been good, been good, been busy still in, uh, Katana land.
Product Highlights and Announcements
00:02:37
Denis Tyrell
Uh, I'll talk about that, but, uh, out of the gate, I have an announcement. The sand shark sanding machine now available on housemaid.us.
00:02:51
Denis Tyrell
So that's exciting. So yeah, we already sold a few, more than a few on Housemate. So that's good.
00:02:51
echo_blades
Ooh.
00:03:01
Denis Tyrell
I was busy packing those up on a bright Sunday morning.
00:03:07
echo_blades
Hey, I was there.
00:03:07
Denis Tyrell
And ah yeah, you were there.
00:03:09
echo_blades
That's right.
00:03:11
Denis Tyrell
So yeah, that was cool. so
00:03:13
echo_blades
Yeah, that's pretty good. you could They could probably take advantage of some ah smoking deals that he's got going too, right?
00:03:20
Denis Tyrell
Hmm. I don't know if these are going to be available on the sale yet since we're just introducing them.
00:03:26
echo_blades
Well, you better figure that out.
00:03:29
Denis Tyrell
Oh no, I would have known already.
00:03:31
echo_blades
USA Gear 10.
00:03:34
Denis Tyrell
What?
00:03:35
echo_blades
That's the code for him right now.
00:03:37
Denis Tyrell
Oh, is it?
00:03:37
echo_blades
It's like U.S. Gear 10, U.S. Gear 20 or something like that.
00:03:40
Denis Tyrell
Oh, sure.
00:03:42
echo_blades
Anyways, I would try, guys, for sure.
00:03:45
Denis Tyrell
Give it a shot.
00:03:46
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:03:47
Denis Tyrell
The same price there as they are on my website, so either way.
00:03:49
echo_blades
There you go. Good deal. Well, congratulations, sir. That's a very, very cool announcement. and More opportunity to get that beautiful grit guppy machine out. There you go, Luke. It took me about three months, but I got it in.
00:04:09
echo_blades
Oh, our good friend, uh, hi, Luke. He, uh, he crafted many hit me up a while back and said he had a good name for it.
00:04:13
Denis Tyrell
Oh. Crafty man.
00:04:19
echo_blades
And I agreed. It was funny. And I just can't remember how to tie my shoes someday. So.
00:04:24
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:04:25
echo_blades
But, uh, yeah, the grit guppy is on sale at, uh, at house made or not on sale at Dennis's website.
00:04:25
Denis Tyrell
or
00:04:32
echo_blades
Go get it. Seriously. I just, yeah I just use that again this weekend. And, you know, since we're infomercial triple T podcast here again, man, I, I, I love that thing.
00:04:47
echo_blades
It absolutely just kicks the living shit out of that first 220 grit.
00:04:49
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, or...
00:04:53
echo_blades
Just.
00:04:54
Denis Tyrell
Have ah you tried the sanding buddy attachments from Kyle?
00:05:00
echo_blades
I did. Yes. And thank you, Kyle. That was very, very cool. Um, I got it. However, I did get one of the new, uh, spinny screw attachment things to clamp the clamp down. Uh, it, it has grown legs and walked away. So I got the old one on one and the new one on the other, but, um, the new, I don't even know if the other people, if anybody's ever seen the old ones.
00:05:29
echo_blades
Uh, okay.
00:05:29
Denis Tyrell
No, no, they were prototypes.
00:05:31
echo_blades
ah Okay. Yeah. So the prototype one. So
Crafting and Techniques Discussion
00:05:33
echo_blades
the ones that that you guys are getting now are, are cool. They make it a whole lot easier to get, get the, uh, the thing on the, on the the sled.
00:05:40
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:05:42
echo_blades
Um, but because of mine's in this weird little spot, I'm actually just use the sanding buddy attachment with, without it. And that is actually really comfortable.
00:05:52
Denis Tyrell
ah
00:05:55
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:05:56
echo_blades
It works very well. Just. on the standalone and it's even cooler when you can get it to set up all stabilizing everything. It's almost zero effort.
00:06:06
echo_blades
So yeah, good job, guys.
00:06:08
Denis Tyrell
Cool.
00:06:11
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. My only disappointment is that I can't use it for the katanas because I'll be stabbing myself if I do that. And I just don't fit on the sled, but Oh, well, no, no, no.
00:06:22
echo_blades
Yeah, you can't even like section that thing off. That's just way too much.
00:06:28
Denis Tyrell
Um, and there's so many bevels on those. fucking katanas. I'll talk about those in a bit, but on all the grief I've had over the last couple of days, um, with those things.
00:06:41
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:06:42
Denis Tyrell
But, uh, yeah,
00:06:44
echo_blades
Yeah. Well, I like it.
00:06:47
Denis Tyrell
so I'm splitting my time between folders and katanas. So really big and really small.
00:06:54
echo_blades
Yeah, Jared and Dennis.
00:07:01
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, you should have small candidates.
00:07:06
echo_blades
That's where all you guys are decide.
00:07:10
Denis Tyrell
ah But yeah, I've decided to work on a new. um Tiger shark, sorry, yeah sand tiger, sorry, mike but there's too many names, a new sand tiger folder.
00:07:31
Denis Tyrell
So a Damascus one this time. So that's what I'm working on. So I want to, but it's with the, um, now that I'm happy with the design of the folders, it's, um, I'm moving on to Damascus.
00:07:36
echo_blades
Okay.
00:07:47
Denis Tyrell
So it's a Kumei, uh, blade that, uh, Rick and I made when Rick wanted, when Rick was here for a couple of days, we made some Kumei cause he wanted to learn that.
00:08:00
Denis Tyrell
And I took a little kind of a piece off the end and then rolled it out really thin so I can make a folder blade out of it. So, uh, and I'm going to Rick's house on Friday to pick up my disc grinder.
00:08:11
Denis Tyrell
So I figured I would take him, take this knife and show him. Cause he of course, hasn't done anything with his yet.
00:08:20
Denis Tyrell
So, so I want to take him.
00:08:20
echo_blades
My man, ah my man.
00:08:22
echo_blades
but
00:08:25
Denis Tyrell
At least show him I won't have it finished but the blade and the lockup and everything and the action will be done but So I'm gonna take it to him on Friday and show Yeah ah We're going to ah What do you mean nope
00:08:36
echo_blades
Cool, cool. and And what else are you going to do? Nope. Nope, not important.
00:08:52
echo_blades
You're going to be my tobacco dealer.
00:08:54
Denis Tyrell
Oh, yeah, whatever, whatever.
00:08:54
echo_blades
Thank you. Thank you. What a sweetheart. What a sweetheart you are. You're going to traffic in flavored tobacco.
00:08:59
Denis Tyrell
Oh, you're going to make, yeah, make me a smuggler.
00:09:03
echo_blades
That's right. Cool. No, seriously, you are not, not joking, but moving on to what what what else are you doing?
00:09:13
Denis Tyrell
We're going to, so a friend of Rick's had a disc grinder. that he was getting rid of. It's basically a brand new disc grinder with a Kback VFD on a stand, like done, but I want it to be able to flip horizontal.
00:09:33
Denis Tyrell
So that's what we're gonna be doing Friday is just fabbing the little flip things so that I can flip it horizontal.
00:09:40
echo_blades
Nice.
00:09:40
Denis Tyrell
That's just how I prefer to use a disc grinder for a lot of things. So um yeah you yeah, vertical.
00:09:46
echo_blades
Vertical.
00:09:50
Denis Tyrell
the face horizontal, like the disc horizontal, right?
00:09:53
echo_blades
Yeah. Okay. Gotcha. Yeah.
Knife Making Insights and Feedback
00:09:56
Denis Tyrell
um Because right now I have the disc grinding attachment. I've brought back, but it's <unk> i don't I dislike it not because it's brought back, but I dislike it because those things, because it's belt driven, they just have no torque and you can stop them easily. And then there's a so ah ramp up speed to them and they're just, I don't like it.
00:10:19
echo_blades
Yeah, disc grinders, a regular disc grinders.
00:10:19
Denis Tyrell
um
00:10:23
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Direct drive disc grinder is, and now that I'm doing folders, I need a a disc grinder that I don't, I don't want to switch out an arm on ah one of my regular grinders.
00:10:26
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:10:35
Denis Tyrell
Right.
00:10:35
echo_blades
Yeah. yeah
00:10:37
Denis Tyrell
So I'm using, I find I'm using a disc grinder a lot. So I want to have that available in the rotation in the, in the shop.
00:10:47
Denis Tyrell
So, uh, yeah.
00:10:47
echo_blades
Agreed.
00:10:50
Denis Tyrell
So looking forward to that. um And now that i'm i'm I'm happy with the folder design, we took, yeah that was one of my topics for today. In that, you know, I'm i'm happy with where this model of the folder is at. um I've made, well, I'm making the third one. The first one went to my son, Parker. The second one went to Jared.
00:11:19
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:11:19
Denis Tyrell
I, and the reason I didn't want to sell any of those, I was thinking about it, but I didn't want to sell any of those until I got some feedback. And one of my kind of topics, kind of things for today was I'm not an expert folder maker. I'm and not, not just, of course I'm not an expert folder maker, but My point is I don't carry a lot of folders. I don't, you know, I'm, I am not a folding knife guy. Like I don't use them. I don't know a lot of them. I don't know the different actions on them. So I wasn't comfortable saying this is good enough until I got some feedback.
00:12:05
Denis Tyrell
So I think if you're not an expert or you don't have knowledge of a knife variety, a knife, a particular, something that has a like a particular use or a particular aspects to it, I don't think you should sell them until you either get some feedback or you do a shit ton of research. And, uh, I haven't done a shit ton of research on these. So.
00:12:30
Denis Tyrell
That's why I'm and part of my son Parker collects knives. So, you know, he's got a shit ton of them and he gave me a whole ton of feedback and he showed me a bunch of ones that he has so I could play with the action and, um, and see how, Oh yeah, this one is like awesome. It feels so nice. So I moved from, uh, I was using washers and we can get into details, but, um,
00:12:58
Denis Tyrell
moved over from washers to bearings because the, it turns out the washers I was using were not the right kind of washers. um So the action was not so good. If I was using Teflon washers, it probably would have been better. um But I just took the leap and went right to bearings. And as soon as I moved to bearings, bearings are the shit. um The knives are, the action on um and those knives are much nicer.
00:13:26
Denis Tyrell
So that was my yeah I'm happy with them finally. And now I can move on to making some of the high end ones. And Jared is playing with his right now.
00:13:38
echo_blades
Yes, no, I think that's an excellent approach to diving into a you know something that you haven't done before um and getting the feedback on what you've done is important and even more important is taking that advice and actually applying it and not being sensitive about it right and learning that, Hey, I can improve. We're always improving. And, um, I think you did a good job because Parker's the only one that said anything about it, but whatever. Um, no, I'm kidding.
00:14:16
Denis Tyrell
What?
00:14:19
echo_blades
No, so you got some feedback in, um, yeah, like, and I've had this night.
00:14:19
Denis Tyrell
ah
00:14:26
echo_blades
How long have I had this knife now for three e weeks?
00:14:29
Denis Tyrell
and Three weeks, something like that.
00:14:31
echo_blades
Yeah, three weeks. And every week I wanted to talk about it. I want to do a reel about it and everything because I really want to commemorate the day that Dennis actually made something that I wanted. And, uh,
00:14:46
echo_blades
no, I am dude. I am. I, I love it. Um, I love that it is that it was at the stage that it was at that we, you know, work through a couple of things. And, uh, it's even, it's, um, I mean, I understand not everybody has these opportunities, but like,
00:15:02
echo_blades
You know, um I'm trying to explain to him how, you know, this action is kind of sticky here or heroes tighten the pills, do that, blah, blah, blah, going through it. And then he went, we did the mod to put it on bearings and things on skates now, dude. I i love it. It's a beautiful knife. It's, it's ergonomic. It fits in there. Um, I think I've already alluded to.
00:15:24
echo_blades
The only thing I'm not a big fan of is the clip, but that's just my, my preference is a deep pocket clip. Um, but other than that, it's, you did a fantastic job, dude. I think, uh, these things are going to be really, really, really, really cool.
00:15:37
echo_blades
So, um,
00:15:39
Denis Tyrell
Thank you. and Yeah. And I'm, I'm pleased with them. I'm, I'm excited to, I got some, some, the one I'm going to be working on is going to have, um, like a bunch of file work on the liners, but I'm also going to be doing, um, titanium anodization, anodizing the titanium, um, uh, the liners and, uh, the pivot head.
00:16:00
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:16:06
Denis Tyrell
So that'll be cool. And of course I'll do a video on anodizing. um So yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Hopefully that'll be a nice high-end knife. But um yeah, I mean, it it does kind of drive me nuts when I see someone attempt to sell a knife like this. whatever, a skinning knife. and i And the person has clearly never hunted anything in their lives and never skinned anything. And now making a knife for skinning that looks nothing like a skinning knife.
00:16:44
Denis Tyrell
And it's like any, any of the hunters looking at it going, what are you doing? Or, you know, goofy looking chef knife or whatever. So yeah, get yourself some research or some friends that do it before you go and try to sell something like that.
00:17:01
Denis Tyrell
But yeah,
00:17:02
echo_blades
Or just do what I do and say it's a knife.
00:17:05
Denis Tyrell
don't, don't give it a, don't give it a specific purpose.
00:17:08
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:17:09
Denis Tyrell
It's just a knife.
00:17:11
echo_blades
yeah
00:17:13
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. And i won I was actually working on an auto.
00:17:13
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:17:16
Denis Tyrell
I had an auto, um, pretty much like together. I was waiting for the spring, but when I got the spring in it, I could not get the action to work. Uh, it just wasn't, it was binding up a little bit.
00:17:30
Denis Tyrell
So it was an issue with like, I was trying to use liners because I wanted eventually this thing to be Damascus. So I had to have liners cause I wanted the Damascus on top of the liners, but that in combination with an ah with the the push button auto was just not working.
00:17:47
Denis Tyrell
So I'm going to try something out of the ah out of the box. I'm actually going to do an auto, I think, with an integral bolster um and outside the box out of the box, whatever, outside the box.
00:18:00
echo_blades
Did you say out of the box or outside the box? Is that what you're saying? Okay. All right. Okay. Okay.
00:18:05
Denis Tyrell
Same thing, right? They're both out of the box.
00:18:08
echo_blades
I just want to make sure I was like, are you opening something new and just modding it or are you thinking outside the box?
00:18:14
Denis Tyrell
No, no, no, no, outside the box.
00:18:17
echo_blades
Okay.
00:18:17
Denis Tyrell
Um, so yeah, I think I'm going to do Damascus, like an integral liner bolster.
00:18:17
echo_blades
All right.
00:18:24
Denis Tyrell
So they're attached in it, but it's going to be a liner. If that makes sense to anybody. So, cause I want to have scales. I want to be able to put scales on it.
00:18:36
Denis Tyrell
So I need a liner to put the scales on and I need, I can't have a liner underneath the bolster that that has to be one. contiguous piece so yeah stay tuned well yeah sand tiger yeah the sand shark is the machine this the the sand tiger has the knife
00:18:51
echo_blades
It's commendable, man. You're always into fucking something new. So, good for you. Anyways, the, yeah, the, the, the sand tiger X, sand shark X, sand tiger, sand tiger X. Yeah. Okay. That's one thing cool about having a theme, but they're blending together now.
00:19:17
Denis Tyrell
They both have sand in them, that's the problem.
00:19:18
echo_blades
Yeah, that's probably what it is. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, it's awesome, dude. Um, I love it. I think with the, uh, Damascus and the, yep.
00:19:26
Denis Tyrell
Well, good. I hope to be making more of those soon.
00:19:31
echo_blades
Cool. Very, very, very, very cool.
00:19:35
Denis Tyrell
So what's new with you? You believe this is our 41st episode?
00:19:39
echo_blades
That's, I wrote, I've, I wrote this down 41 episodes.
00:19:40
Denis Tyrell
That's crazy.
00:19:43
echo_blades
What the W T F.
00:19:46
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it's crazy.
00:19:47
echo_blades
We don't, we don't cuss on this show, dude. Just watch your mouth. Okay. Got people's moms listening, but yeah, dude, that is, that is mind blowing 41.
00:19:55
Denis Tyrell
Right.
00:20:02
echo_blades
And they, they say when you're, when you're cleaning your recovery, you've been clean for a set amount of years with weekends and holidays included. Although I was going to say 41 straight weeks, but we've, we've missed one or two.
00:20:15
Denis Tyrell
More than one.
00:20:16
echo_blades
Right.
00:20:16
Denis Tyrell
I think we missed two or something like that, but.
00:20:18
echo_blades
Yeah. One or two. So hasn't been every single week, but yeah, that 41 has gone by very quick. It's that, that, that's hard to, uh, to imagine we've been bullshitting and recording ourselves for.
00:20:33
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Cause it was end of end of January ish middle of January and end of January.
00:20:37
echo_blades
Yeah. I was December. It was in December.
00:20:41
Denis Tyrell
Oh, I don't remember. I'd have to go back and look what episode one was.
00:20:43
echo_blades
Yeah. Cause I was in, I was in, uh, I was in Idaho during, uh, no, I'm not asking you.
00:20:51
Denis Tyrell
i I don't remember per last week you were asking me to remember a year ago.
00:20:57
echo_blades
I'm telling you, see, just listen, dude.
00:20:57
Denis Tyrell
so
Humorous Anecdotes and Personal Stories
00:21:00
echo_blades
Jeez. I was in Idaho during Christmas time and I recorded the episode in the car. That's why it's memorable to me. Cause it was a shit show.
00:21:06
Denis Tyrell
Oh, yes, I recall now.
00:21:11
echo_blades
Now, there you go.
00:21:12
Denis Tyrell
I remember the shit show.
00:21:12
echo_blades
Thank you. That's right.
00:21:15
Denis Tyrell
So tell me more about your shit show, your recent shit show.
00:21:17
echo_blades
Yes. My recent shit show. ah Yeah, met so that this week on Jared's Dumbass, ah i I told everybody I ordered ah ah the Needler, the needle scaler or whatever.
00:21:31
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:21:32
echo_blades
um And I did. And and it and it came. But Yeah, it was, it was an attachment to a, like some kind of air tool, compressed gun type thing.
00:21:47
echo_blades
I didn't buy the gun. So I totally, I look at, and this is because if I'm anything, I'm honest.
00:21:49
Denis Tyrell
You know, you can just buy them at Harbor Freight, right?
00:21:56
echo_blades
That's what I say. I will tell on myself every, every single time ego is at zero. Um, I thought about that a lot over the week.
00:22:06
echo_blades
Cause I, I spent, I think this was on sale. So I saved like 20 bucks, but I still spent 30 bucks on this thing. And, uh, I was like, I'll just buy a little better one. You know, cause I was, I really subscribed to the buy one's cry once type thing. But yeah, I have half, half, half a tour right now.
00:22:30
Denis Tyrell
Your needles are half as long.
00:22:31
echo_blades
The needles are fucking super long. They just don't, they don't move.
00:22:37
Denis Tyrell
it can just
00:22:38
echo_blades
Yeah. it's It was Halloween. I can get my Jason on but yeah and or no. What is that? Oh, that's shining.
00:22:48
echo_blades
That's what that is.
00:22:49
Denis Tyrell
Yes, yes, yeah.
00:22:50
echo_blades
Yeah. My name is Optimus prime. We're autonomous robotic organisms from the planet Cybertron. See, that was bad.
00:23:01
echo_blades
hey hey
00:23:05
Denis Tyrell
So.
00:23:05
echo_blades
and That's good. um Yeah, but that's ah that's yeah, that's this week's feature on Jared's a dumbass. So that was pretty fun. But I ah kind of along the lines where I bought the thing because I Forged out a what started to be an integral chef knife and makers camp and Hi I got a little overzealous with the power hammer.
00:23:36
echo_blades
And so it's turned into some kind of like a little brisket slicer kind of thing. But the handle is fully forged and I want to keep that. And um so I heat treated that last weekend and started grinding on it this weekend.
00:23:53
echo_blades
And I think I would be able to save it. I think it's not beyond repair. I showed you, right?
00:23:59
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, you showed me yesterday.
00:24:00
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:24:01
Denis Tyrell
It's definitely usable.
00:24:02
echo_blades
I mean, It's not, it's never leaving this house, but you know, it'll be, it'll, it'll work. Um, here, I think it'd be cool just to, to have, but yeah, it's going to be a slicer.
00:24:11
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it's like <unk>s going to be like a 16th thick, but it'll it'll be a slicer.
00:24:19
echo_blades
That's, that's the name of it. I researched slicing. So slicing is thin. So then is in and I went thin for the win.
00:24:24
Denis Tyrell
and
00:24:29
Denis Tyrell
What are you calling this one? This isn't the cow cutter, right?
00:24:32
echo_blades
No, a cow counter is gone.
00:24:34
Denis Tyrell
oh What's this one? The the carnitas cutter?
00:24:36
echo_blades
I don't know.
00:24:39
echo_blades
That is good, dude, I just.
00:24:43
Denis Tyrell
There you go.
00:24:47
echo_blades
Every now and again, Mr. Tyrell. No, that's good, maybe. Yeah, I have I have the taco cutter that's already done, so this might be the carnitas color.
00:25:00
Denis Tyrell
I think you need to break away from cutter. Maybe it's gotta be the, you need a different word than cutter.
00:25:06
echo_blades
carnitas. Wow. Anyways, whatever. I haven't really thought about it, but it'll be something. And it'll be mine so I can get really creative. That's cool. It's a hard part about trying to talk people in that are buying the knives and naming them really stupid names. But I ah I'm gonna be able to save it. So I'm i'm I'm excited about that, but the the needler thing was to kind of, you know, get the scale off and get the finish all nice, which I've never done, so it'd be a first. To see how that all works out, um but I think I gotta save up for the other attachment though. and Make this like a $200 purchase.
00:25:53
Denis Tyrell
I actually saw those last time I was at Harbor Freight. I saw them and I was like, man, maybe I need one of those. But oh, that's why because I bought my um sandblast cabinet and it was it was on it was on sale.
00:26:07
echo_blades
Next to the air tools.
00:26:10
Denis Tyrell
If you bought a sandblasting cabinet, you got a free air tool.
00:26:13
echo_blades
Oh.
00:26:15
Denis Tyrell
But but I got something else. I forget what it was.
00:26:19
echo_blades
Hmm. Well, yeah, that was that. That's what I got. And, um, what else did I do? I heat treated, uh, to, I kneeled and yeah, I kneeled. What did I do? Shit. Sorry.
00:26:38
echo_blades
I did all the high carbon last weekend and then I annealed the stainless with the Condersal for the first time. So this weekend I heat treated them and I use the Condersal with the ah the rapid rapid quench plates.
00:26:56
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, how'd that go?
00:26:57
echo_blades
But dude, they're it's fantastic.
00:26:59
Denis Tyrell
Was that the first time you used those quench plates?
00:26:59
echo_blades
Really? No, I've used them before.
00:27:01
Denis Tyrell
is not That's pain in the hell.
00:27:03
echo_blades
However, the first time I used them, I i mounted them so they were vertical. Um, I mean, you've seen my, my oven side, they were mounted to the, the cart thing that has my oven on top of it. It, it made sense at the time.
00:27:20
echo_blades
Um, but yeah, it turned out to be a pain in the ass. And, uh, I didn't, I didn't care for it.
00:27:25
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:27:25
echo_blades
So we switched it to, uh, another spot and they're horizontal now. And that was seamless. And the, uh, I think I, yeah, the conditional not being in the foil was, was a trip.
00:27:41
echo_blades
Um, just. uncomfortable, but everything went great. They're hard as shit and I'm happy.
00:27:50
Denis Tyrell
Well, hopefully they're harder than shit.
00:27:51
echo_blades
So if you have healthy, you know, if you have a high protein diet, you can you poop diamonds.
00:27:58
Denis Tyrell
like he He must have hemorrhoids from pushing that.
00:28:02
echo_blades
I'm just saying poop diamonds, dude.
00:28:07
echo_blades
But yeah, they're, it's good. I'm happy. Uh, the, the, uh, seriously though, the, I mean, you use the water, your cold shit, right? You modded your plates.
00:28:16
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:28:16
echo_blades
How thick are your plates?
00:28:16
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. The plates are inch thick.
00:28:22
echo_blades
Oh, yours aren't. Okay. So I have like maybe half inch plates before on my, like my manual set up originally.
00:28:24
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:28:32
echo_blades
Um, and they work fine, but you're, you're getting two knives and then you got a, figure out how to cool those suckers down. You know, they get hot really quick ice and shit all over them.
00:28:42
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:28:43
echo_blades
But ah these things blast an air all over them and then just go in and pick the knife up right out of there, right back into it.
00:28:53
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:28:53
echo_blades
And I could touch the plates like right after it it was it was good. I'm happy with it. It's a good, good product. Good thing. And I bet you I could have done five, six more easy. No problem.
00:29:04
Denis Tyrell
Cool.
00:29:04
echo_blades
So my compressor was probably going to be hating me, but that's about it.
00:29:10
Denis Tyrell
Was he used a lot of air?
00:29:12
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:29:13
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:29:14
echo_blades
Yeah. I have air all over this shit, so it takes a while to charge up the system and not not a while, but I'm sure there's but plenty leaks in there, too.
00:29:27
echo_blades
So those things put out a lot. And I even had a little air hose to kind of double up on the on the compression. uh, on the, on the compressor to kind of help out, but everything went great. I was super happy. Um, enjoyed the process. Good times. And then I did have something cool. So, uh, I think it was, yeah, it was that day. Um, my mom ended up coming over and, uh, hanging out for the afternoon. And I have a, uh, I had an old,
00:30:00
echo_blades
one of and an older knife that I had finished and done that I just needed to do a sheath for and sharpen. And I have, oh, that's right. So a while back, she had asked me, are you ever going to make me something? I said, Oh, you can have this one, right? So I just never got around to put it up on ah on a magnet, you know, out of sight and just don't even think about it with all the other crap I got going on. So ah she came over and she brought it up and I was like, Oh, let's, let's do the sheath right now. So,
00:30:29
echo_blades
I got to hang out with mom um for a couple hours. We did the kydex sheath for the knife. You know, just talked her through all the stuff, you know, hung out. And it was really cool. It was a really, really cool experience. And um I enjoyed it. Mom does listen to the show every week, which is really cool. So love you, mom. Appreciate the support. And thank you for hanging out. And I hope you enjoy your knife.
00:30:56
echo_blades
because it was a really cool to to do that for you.
00:31:01
Denis Tyrell
Nice.
00:31:02
echo_blades
And then I sharpened the knife with the wicked edge. So ah the smaller knives, I and was so I have a theory, right? I'm digging the wicked edge. um I love the sharpening attachment on the grinder.
00:31:14
echo_blades
um Nothing wrong with that. I just sometimes feel like just sitting down and getting a little. ah Going on.
00:31:24
Denis Tyrell
yeah And cutting your cut your finger.
00:31:26
echo_blades
Yeah. So that was last week's Jared's a dumb ass where I caught, where I cut myself. But I did, I did figure out that I was, I set the angle on the backside of the slide thinking there's all, there's a line.
00:31:46
Denis Tyrell
But there's an there's a line right on it.
00:31:50
echo_blades
No, there's not.
00:31:51
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, there is.
00:31:52
echo_blades
Not on the nominal slidey things.
00:31:56
Denis Tyrell
a I'm pretty sure there is.
00:31:58
echo_blades
I don't think there is, there's lines on the, on the, for the the angles on the, on the actual base, but I was about to start sharpening this thing at like, I don't know, 22. But I think, you know, just if you have a wicked edge, you'll know what I'm talking about. But the, the thickness of that little thing is probably about 10 degrees. So I was about to do like an 11 degree angle on this little slicer thing. So
00:32:24
Denis Tyrell
Would have taken you a while.
00:32:26
echo_blades
Yeah. But anyways, I figured it out, but, uh, yeah, that thing's good. So she's all taken care of and I don't know what else I did to be honest with you. I, uh,
00:32:40
echo_blades
yeah, that's, that's pretty much it. Hung out, went over to your surface grinder. I absolutely love that is my favorite thing that you have that I use all the time.
00:32:50
Denis Tyrell
The surface grinder, yeah.
00:32:51
echo_blades
The surface grinder, the big stand up thing, just make short work of everything, dude. That's, it's a really great purchase you made there for me. Appreciate it.
00:33:00
Denis Tyrell
between that and the mill, and they're side by side. Those are my two favorite machines.
00:33:03
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. And we got to use both of them. That was pretty cool too. Uh, milling that, uh, the bearings on the, on the folder too. That was cool.
00:33:13
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:15
echo_blades
Even though I was just the lube jockey that, and that whole thing, but
00:33:21
Denis Tyrell
I have to keep telling Jared to spray more white lube.
00:33:26
echo_blades
Yeah. yeah
00:33:31
echo_blades
He said he's Canadian, so I just gave it to him. But yeah, that that's what that's what that was. Oh, you ah you're going to talk about it. So go ahead and talk about your guitar and then I'll jump right in.
00:33:47
Denis Tyrell
Um, so yeah, I've been, been working on these two Katanas. Uh, I'm at the point where had to do bevels. And like, these are, these are the things that keep me up at night. Honestly, like what is the order I need to do these? Cause okay, folks, if you if you don't know the cross section of a Katana, the tip of there's a whole bunch of ways to grind these, but typically they'll have a little.
00:34:17
Denis Tyrell
pat on the top like a a peak an apex on the very top the top of the blade the top of the katana is not flat so there's an apex and then there's another kind of bevel on the top which you would think would be a flat Okay, and then the very center line called the Shinogi, the there's like a center line or like two thirds up the blade. And then your bevel starts and your bevel is actually kind of um convex. So there's all kinds of different angles going on with this thing. So I had to like, oh, what do I do first? Well, um the sides are flat right now, so I can use those as references. So that's how I did the top apex.
00:35:05
Denis Tyrell
And so between the Tobin grinding jig, what like it saved my life doing these things. Like I did the top apex on the on my tilt platen and then all the other angles I did with the that Tobin jig. And it was,
00:35:29
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it saved my butt because that thing is incredible. And I actually like using it without the the lever and the pins and stuff. I just like to hold the blade, especially if something so long, like a katana.
00:35:42
Denis Tyrell
You need two hands, lever, lever, whatever.
00:35:43
echo_blades
lever lever oh there you go it's a lever lever whatever
00:35:49
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Uh, and then I switched to the, um, broad back rotary platen. So I was using the Tobin jig with the rotary platen set on the, um, um, without, without a plant without a hard backing slack, sorry, the short slack belt on the rotary platen to put the convex in.
00:36:14
echo_blades
OK.
00:36:16
Denis Tyrell
which work like a dream between the Tobin jig and the rotary platen on this, the small cycle.
00:36:22
echo_blades
So you you you use the jig and the the slack on. Yeah, that's that was one of the the tips I saw in the video that I was talking about last week from them.
00:36:27
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:36:34
echo_blades
It was a leather platen that they were using, but something with the soft backing to get that convexity on the edge there.
00:36:39
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it worked really well if you feel the, The bevel on that Katana like it's a it's a really good convex. Um, and it looks they look amazing.
00:36:49
Denis Tyrell
Um, so I was very happy with them. I cut myself three times to today. I just took the brand out.
00:36:55
echo_blades
What?
00:36:56
Denis Tyrell
I literally cut my eye. I have a cut on this finger. I have a cut on the thumb, but that thing is sharp because it's, I didn't, because it's Damascus and it' it's not going to be polished.
00:37:08
Denis Tyrell
There is going to be a very slight secondary bevel. Like a sharpening bevel, but it's pretty much um ground to sharp right now.
00:37:18
echo_blades
Zero.
00:37:19
Denis Tyrell
Not zero, but pretty close. Like it's probably five thou on the edge, which is enough to cut me several times um because you're maneuvering this thing.
00:37:24
echo_blades
Wow.
00:37:29
Denis Tyrell
And, you know, it's a 30 inch blade plus the 11 inch tangs. It's a big blade to be moving around. But um the one thing that, this has happened to me twice now. So I had to straighten them, because you know these things worked a little bit. Used the straining hammer, got it dead straight. And then after I ground the bevels, and I know the bevels are perfectly symmetrical because I used the jig,
00:38:00
Denis Tyrell
um it it worked again. And i think I think there's an attribute here to the kumai, where I'm straightening out the metal on one side, I'm thinking, but when you grind, like, I don't know if if it's the copper between the steel, you know what I'm i'm saying?
00:38:04
echo_blades
Ouch.
00:38:19
echo_blades
Okay.
00:38:22
Denis Tyrell
It's got a copper shim.
00:38:23
echo_blades
Mm-hmm.
00:38:24
Denis Tyrell
And that's, as soon as I grind it, like, I don't know if that's, because the exact same thing happened on the apocalyptic challenge sword. After I ground it, the same warp appeared.
00:38:35
echo_blades
Did you get it out on the other side?
00:38:35
Denis Tyrell
So, no.
00:38:37
echo_blades
Did it come back or you're just saying once you removed all of that material, it, it took a, a bend.
00:38:42
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:38:44
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it took the exact same warp.
00:38:47
echo_blades
Wow.
00:38:47
Denis Tyrell
So, they're in temper, in for a shim temper right now. So, yeah.
00:38:54
echo_blades
Too late to straighten, uh, to use the hammer.
00:38:57
Denis Tyrell
Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Now they're fully ground, like down to 120. Yeah, there's no way. So I'll shimper.
00:39:06
echo_blades
Hmm.
00:39:07
Denis Tyrell
It might take me four or five tries, but I'll get them straight with a shim temper eventually. But if I didn't have the oven, I'd be screwed.
00:39:19
Denis Tyrell
The big vertical oven.
00:39:20
echo_blades
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, big, even heat.
00:39:21
Denis Tyrell
If I didn't have that and I had to do some other temper, I would be totally screwed on these things. But I could just keep throwing them in the oven.
00:39:26
echo_blades
Oh, yeah.
00:39:30
Denis Tyrell
Like I have a little bolt system, I can just twist the bolt one more time and keep going and check it. So I don't care if it takes me 10 times, I will get them straight.
00:39:40
echo_blades
Gotcha.
00:39:41
Denis Tyrell
And it's actually not stopping me right now, because I'm gonna move on to fittings. It doesn't matter if the blade's perfectly straight, I can still work on the fittings, so.
00:39:50
echo_blades
Gotcha. Yeah, man, dude, but I just wanted to kind of circle back on that ah on that jig. When I was over there on Sunday, um I tried it out because I'm like super excited because If you missed out on the, uh, on the maritime and knife supply pre-order, uh, that he had a couple, I mean, it was like gone in less than a day, right?
00:40:16
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah less than 24 hours there
00:40:18
echo_blades
twenty Yeah. 24 hours. Yeah. So I was, I was able to get in on those. And, um, and so I'm eagerly awaiting mine and I have a couple of builds that I want to use it for.
00:40:29
echo_blades
So, um, I use it on the, um, little the carnitas slicer, just to mess around with it. Man, that thing is, and I, after using it, Dennis has said a couple of times, like he was not really sold on it being that valuable or useful on on a shorter length knife.
00:40:50
echo_blades
um And I ah get it now, like after, because of that. That slicer is, I don't know, seven, eight inches on the blade, but I could see like on a three inch knife, like a little EDC that, you know, getting in between those two ledges there would it would kind of be a little bit of a bitch, but nevertheless.
00:41:08
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:41:16
echo_blades
no
00:41:16
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it's great for big knives, either tall knives or or big knives.
00:41:20
echo_blades
Tall and tall knives, yeah.
00:41:22
Denis Tyrell
Like chef knives, awesome.
00:41:24
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:41:25
Denis Tyrell
That kind of thing. Or swords, awesome.
00:41:28
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:41:29
Denis Tyrell
But little EDCs, not so much.
00:41:32
echo_blades
Yeah. I could see that. I didn't, you know, I don't ever, I try not to ever believe you when you say anything. Anyways, that's everybody else's job, but no, I, I, I do, do you see that part, but man, that thing is awesome.
00:41:45
echo_blades
I really, I really liked the, I really like the whole thing. So I appreciate you. Let me check it out before we but get going.
00:41:52
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:41:53
echo_blades
But if you missed it, I'm sure there'll be a restock. You should head on over to Maritime Knife Supply and check out our buddy Lawrence Lake. ah He's got everything that you need for knife making, including awesome jigs, grinders, attachments, heat treating ovens.
00:42:10
echo_blades
ah Now carries ah one of our other sponsors, Pelican Paste. um bill belts, just, it's everything you need. Go check out Maritime Nice Supply, gets it to you quick and fast here in the States and in um and the Canadian region as well. And I did have to make a quick revision. Last week I was talking about um how much Lawrence always gives back to the community by supporting sponsoring events and
00:42:42
echo_blades
Um, pocketlet challenge, the, the warrior's way thing. That's, Oh, it happened.
00:42:48
Denis Tyrell
That just happened.
00:42:49
echo_blades
Yep. Just happened. Uh, but he, he did sponsor some stuff to give away for that event. Um, and on and on, on endless, endless, but he's got this, the, the ABS intro to blacksmithing scholarship that's open to ages 16 to 30.
00:43:05
echo_blades
Um, I want to clarify that applicants have until December 1st to get the applications into the New England School of Metalworks. I don't think I was very clear about that ah last week, so you got a couple more weeks. If you're interested, you fall into those that age limit, you can get a $2,000 scholarship towards the class and the accommodations.
00:43:30
echo_blades
so um Thank you, Lawrence, for always ah giving back and for that awesome opportunity for the lucky upcoming winner.
00:43:42
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:43:42
echo_blades
What what an amazing deal that would be.
00:43:46
Denis Tyrell
And on the Tobin jig, I got an update from Lawrence today. The first batch, the pre-order will ship this week. And he's estimating early December for a second batch of those jigs to be available in MKS.
00:44:01
echo_blades
get in on it folks, get in on it. And that was laughing because he just, I wasn't laughing, but I was checking out a ah reel that he had just done where he was using this big ass. bandsaw and he like just shortened of the blade.
00:44:15
echo_blades
It looked like, yes, small ass blade on there. ah But he was cutting up ah not only like Dennis and I is one of his favorite services that he does provide for cutting up your steel for Damascus um for next to nothing, which is an amazing deal, but he was cutting up some G10 on there.
00:44:33
echo_blades
But the I don't know the width that he had opening on the thing was like about four inches. I was like, maybe I open that thing up, put some more shit in there.
00:44:39
Denis Tyrell
like He was probably cutting my steel because that's why I get a cut to.
00:44:44
echo_blades
Oh, there you go.
00:44:45
Denis Tyrell
And I just ordered 40 feet of steel. so
00:44:48
echo_blades
What happened to the other 60?
00:44:51
Denis Tyrell
ah Hey, come on now.
00:44:52
echo_blades
All right. All right. But, uh, yeah, check out Lawrence Lake maritime, nice supply maritime, nice supply.ca a and for the Canadians, the Canadian's and, um, dot com for over here on the good side.
00:45:12
Denis Tyrell
on the good side.
00:45:13
echo_blades
Oh, my bad. I'm in states.
00:45:17
Denis Tyrell
People are going to hate you, Canadians especially.
00:45:21
echo_blades
They love me. They don't like you.
00:45:25
echo_blades
Also by we're freaking going on I had a bunch I guess there was some ah event and sorry guys I did not ah pay attention to what was happening this week, but it looked like they had some big hammer in and With folks from Merrick Rivers was out there doing some demo or some stuff and I had a bunch of people reach out to me and talk about there was a ah picture of the the two bastards and fat peen lane.
00:45:52
Denis Tyrell
Yes, yes.
00:45:53
echo_blades
Yeah. So if you are in the need for a hammer, make sure you go check out Frank Anita over at two bastards Smithian supply, where you can get yourself a fat peen.
00:46:05
echo_blades
Not only can you get a straight peen, you get a cross peen, you get a diagonal peen, you get a curved peen. I don't know if you can get that yet, but I'm trying to talk him into that, but, uh, all the pains in the world that you want, any pain you need on the scene, he's got it. So, uh, go check out two bastards hammer because, uh, what do we say, Dennis?
00:46:23
Denis Tyrell
Ain't it grand to have a fat peen in your hand?
00:46:26
echo_blades
That's right. That's right.
00:46:29
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, he needs a curvy bean.
00:46:32
echo_blades
He needs a curvy bean. Gotta get it from around the corner, I'm telling you. oh Good stuff.
00:46:38
Denis Tyrell
Oh man.
00:46:41
echo_blades
um Yeah, I did get a picture from somebody I just sold a k knife to and they they cut themselves.
00:46:49
Denis Tyrell
Oh.
00:46:50
echo_blades
I feel like that's a beautiful compliment for a knife maker, right?
00:46:53
Denis Tyrell
Well, kind of.
00:46:56
echo_blades
I don't know, tell me about it. like What are your thoughts?
00:46:59
Denis Tyrell
like Yeah, I mean, it's sharp.
00:47:02
echo_blades
It's sharp, right? I get, you know, I mean, I'm i'm not anything other than that would be disrespectful to somebody.
00:47:03
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:47:10
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, actually one the one of the first knives I gave away, my buddy Greg, which was the first integral chef knife I ever made.
00:47:20
Denis Tyrell
And yeah, I got a message back the next day that he had cut the tip off one of his fingers using the knife.
00:47:27
echo_blades
Ouch.
00:47:29
Denis Tyrell
I'm like, thanks.
00:47:31
echo_blades
Yeah, I don't i know. it was just like It was a bloody hand in the picture. And it says, all I was trying to do was cut a thread and it just grazed my knuckle and this shit sharp.
00:47:42
echo_blades
I was like, awesome.
00:47:42
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:47:44
echo_blades
But he did give me some really good feedback on, on how he's digging the knife and everything. So that was pretty cool.
00:47:49
Denis Tyrell
Cool.
00:47:50
echo_blades
But other than him almost cutting his handle, it's now the hand cutter.
00:47:53
Denis Tyrell
So this was the hand cutter.
00:47:56
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah, that's the Intrepid 2.0, but watch out, Hans.
00:48:04
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. um and We should talk a little bit about the Triple T this this past week. Finally, finally, after years, did a video on making kydex only because I had a had a someone order a knife and realized I didn't have a sheath for it. So figured I would do a Kydex video, which, yeah, was i I've got them. I used to hate Kydex. I'm still not in love with it, but I've got it down to where I can make a sheath in like a a respectable amount of time. I used to because it i it wasn't part of my regular rotation. So it's like, oh, I had to think about it and do it now. I like.
00:48:52
Denis Tyrell
You know, I've done so many sheets for those those sand tigers and silver tips that I got it down, so.
00:48:59
echo_blades
Yeah, I don't do them enough. ah I did have to like speed make one where somebody was over picking something up and I needed to make one really quick. And I got through that pretty, pretty fast as well.
00:49:13
echo_blades
But it is one of those things where you're like, but I stopped and, you know, double check yourself because you can get the process out of order and be blowing shit out of that thing.
00:49:23
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:49:26
echo_blades
I do have one nice thing to say. Try to do this, but you know I'm really working on myself as ah as a person trying to grow and and I and will say that the video, the recommendation that you had about not setting the eyelets until you set the eyelets way down the line compared to my normal process.
00:49:56
echo_blades
And I thought that was a very cool tip and, you know, just like, uh, like, why didn't I think of that? Um, so that saved some needless, but some struggles trying to clean all the shit out of it.
00:50:07
Denis Tyrell
Yeah Yeah, I mean I that's why I do it because I I hate you know putting the knife in and all that black shit coming out of it, so Yeah, well at least it was one good takeaway and a lot of people hadn't heard of the the drill press hack of the putting the eyelet setter in the drill press so a lot of people were were liking that one and
00:50:09
echo_blades
So that was a pretty good tip.
00:50:18
echo_blades
Yeah. No, that was a good tip.
00:50:34
echo_blades
Oh yeah, i I never did that either. I had to the, I would just set them on the um the anvil with the but the hammer.
00:50:44
Denis Tyrell
can do with a hammer.
00:50:46
echo_blades
And then so, but I got an arbor press now, so.
00:50:50
Denis Tyrell
Oh, when'd you get a nerve of press?
00:50:52
echo_blades
I go to all these ah makers, the estate sales I call them, as soon as I find somebody that's going out of the game. Um, I went up to Vacaville. I has been a while now, but I, I cleaned, I cleaned, cleaned up there.
00:51:03
Denis Tyrell
Oh yeah, you did some.
00:51:07
Denis Tyrell
Nice. Yeah. I mean, I'd like to have an Harbor press, but it's like another one of those single use tools that I'm going to have to find a place for in
Community Engagement and Submissions
00:51:18
Denis Tyrell
the shop.
00:51:18
Denis Tyrell
So I kind of like using the drill press.
00:51:19
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:51:22
echo_blades
but It works. Both of them work. So.
00:51:24
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. I do have a request for everyone out there. Um, it might not be this week, but around this time of year, I always do a viewer knives episode of Triple T. So I'm getting low on images of viewer knives. So if you want your knife featured on a Triple T, send those in. Don't, I'm not gonna give you the wacky,
00:51:51
Denis Tyrell
um a Triple T email address just send them to Tyrell knife works at gmail dot.com and You know, I'm not promising you'll see it on the episode but send them in if you got pictures of knives you want to You want to see in the video?
00:52:09
Denis Tyrell
Send them over. So Tyrell knife works that Tyrell knife works at gmail dot.com. So send me your viewer knives and
00:52:15
echo_blades
Nice. That's cool.
00:52:20
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Oh, and and it might be this week's video. Remember, the I did a video on the laser, the F1 Ultra, and my complaint about the um air purifier was that it didn't come on automatically.
00:52:35
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:52:36
Denis Tyrell
Well, they sent me an updated one, which does come on automatically.
00:52:41
echo_blades
Oh,
00:52:42
Denis Tyrell
when they sent me a whole new purifier. So I may actually, you know and you're um you're pointing at yourself. I don't think it's gonna work for you, but we'll see.
00:52:52
echo_blades
it's going to anyways.
00:52:53
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:52:54
echo_blades
Uh, yeah, that's cool. That's really, really, really, really cool. Cause I, yeah, listening to you bitch and complain and bend down to press a button is, was just, is horrific, dude.
00:53:05
echo_blades
I don't know how you got through it.
00:53:09
Denis Tyrell
If I, if it's not automatic, I'm not going to do it. I'm that lazy.
00:53:14
echo_blades
You know what? I'm talking shit, but kettle call in the,
00:53:20
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:53:21
echo_blades
Black Kettle or whatever that other saying goes. The remote for my Comcast. Took a shit. And the fucking push. but Open Netflix. Went out.
00:53:38
Denis Tyrell
Right.
00:53:38
echo_blades
I can't, I swear I was so frustrated because I had to press a button and scroll, like, you know, two clicks down to actually find the app section and stuff.
00:53:49
echo_blades
I don't know what's happened to us, man. Like it was so, it was, it was so annoying.
00:53:53
Denis Tyrell
That's worse, that's worse.
00:53:58
echo_blades
I mean, what is it? yeah Same thing, but yeah. So maybe I'm not, I take that back.
00:54:03
Denis Tyrell
what I'll tell you, because we got the new um TV and I actually, it has a Netflix button, which I never use. i I don't know why, now that you say it. I never use, I use the little home thing and I go to the app.
00:54:19
echo_blades
Well, I would that's how I did it forever. And then I started using the freaking little talk to the remote thing. And then apparently I've now lost the ability to or patience to scroll through but like it's three seconds, guys.
00:54:31
echo_blades
I'm not I'm not saying this is reasonable or anything, but yeah.
00:54:37
Denis Tyrell
My remote doesn't have a YouTube TV button. That's the issue. I still got to go to the thing to get back to YouTube TV.
00:54:43
echo_blades
Got it. Who watches that stuff anymore?
00:54:47
Denis Tyrell
What TV?
00:54:48
echo_blades
No, YouTube.
00:54:50
Denis Tyrell
No, this is YouTube TV.
00:54:53
echo_blades
Oh, I don't even know that I have Comcast, so whatever.
00:54:56
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, you're back in the dark ages.
00:54:57
echo_blades
Sure. I did.
00:55:00
Denis Tyrell
ah
00:55:01
echo_blades
I did have Comcast come out to look at my Internet this week and I I laughed to myself because I cold called the frickin tech and gave him a sticker and told him to be interested in a knife.
00:55:15
echo_blades
I just wanted to keep you proud, dude.
00:55:19
echo_blades
Well, he got for who's your maker spotlight.
00:55:20
Denis Tyrell
so So this week, I i couldn't believe I'm not following this guy. Sorry. um i'm No, i not that I'm not following him.
00:55:33
Denis Tyrell
That I've never called him out before is what I meant.
00:55:36
echo_blades
Okay.
00:55:36
Denis Tyrell
um Wolf River Forge. aye So that's what I've got this week, Wolf River Forge. He's ABS journeyman, I think just recently last year.
00:55:49
Denis Tyrell
Um, God is, uh, his journeyman stamp. Uh, he's a two-time forge and fire champion. Uh, his pinned, um, post there is his journeyman set, which look amazing.
00:56:03
Denis Tyrell
But, um, yeah, he's done some awesome knives. Uh, love is, uh, um, what is like nine of them nine down. It's kind of like a, kind of ah like a wharncliffe with a, um, it's like a ring knife.
00:56:17
echo_blades
The ring. Yeah, yeah. yeah um He makes some great stuff.
00:56:18
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Yeah. I really liked that one. Um,
00:56:22
echo_blades
I am not following him, which I am now. But yeah, this is good stuff here, dude.
00:56:30
Denis Tyrell
yeah Really nice. So yeah, go. I don't actually know his name because he doesn't have it listed, but oh, Tyler, Tyler Hackbar. Sorry, right there.
00:56:39
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:56:39
Denis Tyrell
Yes, go check out Tyler at Wolf River Forge no underscores or dots or any foolishness Wolf River Forge and yeah, he's like he's already got almost 20,000 followers probably from the Forged in Effect, but um yeah, but deserves it deserves it awesome awesome Yeah Yeah But yeah, go check him out.
00:56:56
echo_blades
Nice. Yeah, that's really good stuff. Absolutely.
00:57:05
Denis Tyrell
Who do you have?
00:57:07
echo_blades
um I wanted to shout out my buddy Matthew Sweeney over at bear underscore blades underscore USA and. um We hung out at makers camp, but. um He has 1260 followers and.
00:57:28
echo_blades
He just does all kinds of stuff. Um, and super cool dude. Um, I love what he does. And we had a, had a lot of fun. And apparently he's a Niners fan.
00:57:40
echo_blades
So hallelujah. I don't know how he's from Long Island, but and maybe it's a joke and I'm just being set up right now or trolled, but, uh, on his page.
00:57:50
Denis Tyrell
How do you know he's a Niners fan? Where?
00:57:56
echo_blades
But it is. It's a ways down.
00:57:59
Denis Tyrell
Oh, all right. i don't I don't see it.
00:58:01
echo_blades
So it just keeps going.
00:58:03
Denis Tyrell
Oh, I see it now.
00:58:04
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:58:05
Denis Tyrell
I see it now.
00:58:06
echo_blades
But yeah, it does a lot of forging Damascus integrals and just a super cool dude that I enjoy hanging out with him. So I just wanted to show him some love and give him a shout out. And if you're not following Matt, make sure you go do that at bear underscore blades underscore USA.
00:58:23
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I hung out with Matt and his wife at at Blade Show. We talked for ages at the pit and otherwise in other parts of Blade Show. um So yeah, they they they're cool people.
00:58:34
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:58:36
Denis Tyrell
So it was fun to hang out with them.
00:58:36
echo_blades
Yeah. Absolutely. Always good to see him up there. Again, just another another maker that couldn't be farther away from us.
00:58:48
echo_blades
Just all the way over there.
00:58:53
Denis Tyrell
So we've got two more sponsors to discuss. I am going to cover Mr. Coy Baker from Baker Forge and Tool, who I'm excited to have here at the shop in February.
00:59:07
Denis Tyrell
So we've got a few months.
00:59:08
echo_blades
That's right.
00:59:09
Denis Tyrell
at yeah Apparently you know what we're gonna, you got some, oh, okay, you were just trolling me.
00:59:14
echo_blades
No, I don't. i ah yeah Yes and no. but I didn't. Yes. No. Fuck off. I don't know what we're doing, but. Oh, shit. I hope that got on.
00:59:35
Denis Tyrell
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00:59:39
echo_blades
Or...
01:00:05
Denis Tyrell
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01:00:30
echo_blades
Absolutely. And they have, uh, their drop this week is a new pattern of their riptide series. And again, this is one of those things where this is a new thing. It's called a riptide series max is now live choose between ladder or raindrop patterns. It's one of our most popular layouts gets a new twist. So don't forget it's going to sell out quick. So it's probably gone, but.
01:00:57
echo_blades
If you need that one size that no one else needs that may be straggling around, go check it out. Go grab it. TTT10.
01:01:07
Denis Tyrell
Do it.
01:01:07
echo_blades
That's t two T's and a T.
01:01:08
Denis Tyrell
Do it now.
01:01:10
echo_blades
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01:01:13
echo_blades
Yeah. And then when you're all done, you got to go check out Our boy Travis hands at Pelican paste. Um, he's doing some good stuff. We already said that, uh, the Pelican paste is now available with a maritime nice supply. He's got hard wax, soft wax, Pelican oil, hand solvent, and the, uh, the gritty soap.
01:01:34
echo_blades
um Travis been putting out a couple reels here here over the past week or so um and coming up with some, you know, non-traditional ways to utilize Pelican paste. And one of them is uh, to lather up your work rest to protect it.
01:01:53
echo_blades
If you're, you know, doing wet grinding and dipping your dunk in your blade all the time. Uh, you can coat the, uh, the rest with some wax there to help keep that all good.
01:02:04
echo_blades
And I saw him also, uh, showing that you can use the hard wax on your hammer, clean up your hammer, scotch brite, get it all shiny again.
01:02:06
Denis Tyrell
Thank you.
01:02:12
echo_blades
And then you can protect that with some hard wax. Um, and then, uh, for the handle. lather it up with some soft wax. So the uses are endless with Pelican paste. So make sure you go check out Pelican paste.com and use the discount code triple T 10 for 10% off your next purchase. That's TTT 10.
01:02:33
Denis Tyrell
I feel like you're targeting Noah here.
01:02:37
echo_blades
I just clarity. That's all, you know, will Honestly, there is, you know, several ways to to interpret the triple T.
01:02:49
Denis Tyrell
Yes, it is TTT to not Triple T spelled out.
01:02:49
echo_blades
So.
01:02:55
echo_blades
Yes.
01:02:55
Denis Tyrell
Yes. Um, we got a listener question that we've had up here for a while. Do we want to do that or do we want to call it a night? Let's save it for next week.
01:03:06
echo_blades
Yeah, I'm good with with calling it.
01:03:10
Denis Tyrell
All right.
01:03:11
echo_blades
And
01:03:11
Denis Tyrell
Thank you folks. Uh, are we going to have parting words from Optimus prime?
01:03:18
echo_blades
My name is, I'm going to bed.
01:03:25
echo_blades
I completely forgot about that debacle. So thank you. Appreciate that, my good friend.
01:03:30
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, we've all tried to forget about it.
01:03:50
echo_blades
And that's a wrap.