Looks just like a typical weekend day for me. Mow the lawn, break the lawnmower, modify a tool to fix the mower… end up reorganizing my whole shop, buy more tools, adopt a dog, and realize I didn’t even fix the mower

@kenmaira

2 жыл бұрын

I felt this in my soul

@kzarnold3678

2 жыл бұрын

And don't forget about picking up the kids, and what ever else the wifey wanted you to do last weekend

@AlexWaz315

2 жыл бұрын

@@kzarnold3678 …. Crap

@gremlin3362

2 жыл бұрын

This held more true than I was ready to hear…

@tFthreat99

2 жыл бұрын

😂🤣 thanks for that

I have to say, there is something oddly satisfying about watching Mr. Steele clean, fix, and organize the to shop. And tell Mrs. Steele that even though she is not on camera we still see and appreciate her work.

Never start repairing things, it only ever ends up with discovering that more things are broken than you previously thought.

@michaelandersen4433

2 жыл бұрын

Or your gonna break them more than they where when you started

I loved that he used an impact driver to shove the flat dies into the forge.

I am reminded of how self-sufficient you can, and many times have to be, in this profession. It's cool to see Alec make tools, repair tools, make tools to make tools, etc. It's easy to dismiss, but when you think about it, that's actually kind of amazing.

Alec, being sentimental over a few prized possessions is fine. I still have the trumpet (1984 C G Conn Director, Model 18B) that I started learning on. In the 38 years I've owned that horn, I've replaced one of the valve spring guides (corroded and broke); the C clip, back plate, and spring for the spit valve on the main tuning slide (the c clip corroded and broke), reglued all three plastic inserts on the valve key tops, and replaced the felt pads on both sides of the top screw caps for the valve slides. I've replaced the vacuum formed case that was falling apart, and I'm debating on having the minor dents (and one not so minor dent from a snare drum during marching band practice) pounded out of the bell pipe. And if it were possible to remove and have the electroplate put back on, I might do that. The last two don't make any financial sense for a horn that's worth at most $400 USD, especially since I'm looking at maybe getting a a Bach Strat horn (around $3,500 USD) next year. (First things first, I need to find an instructor to help me get my lip back into playing shape. Take my advice and don't ever stop doing something you love for 15 years.) But this horn followed me in a move from Jacksonville, Arkansas to Phoenix, Arizona; three middle schools, one high school, and six years of college; and even on a trip to California for a "battle of the German Polka Bands." But, I love that horn, so any work that keeps me enjoying the horn is worth it in my book. If you find the same level of love and enjoyment from a tool you use, then getting sentimental isn't a bad thing.

Congrats to your wife in learning the "slipping in between dimensions when cameras are pointed at you skill". Not easy to master.

Have to admit it, this video cracked me up. Had a morning/afternoon like this. Making a knife for a client and wanted to make a pair of dies. Went to cut the die plate on my chop saw, but the clamp I needed broke. So went to fix it, but couldn't find my drill to remove the screws. Its electric so went for my extension cord and it was cut up from a hedger someone used. So had put a new female plug on it. So found the drill, fixed the cord to use the drill, so could fix the clamp, so could use the saw, so could cut the metal, so could make the plate so could make a knife. /headspin

I’m still impressed at how Alec has kept his wife out of the public eye, even blurring the shot that she was in. Also still impressed at how much knowledge Alec has at such a young age.

@clemensstrigl9128

2 жыл бұрын

Mrs. Steele Thicc hello?

@janbernad4729

2 жыл бұрын

@@clemensstrigl9128 dude

@joshuagibson2520

2 жыл бұрын

Must be embarrassed of her.

@timschrier903

2 жыл бұрын

​@@joshuagibson2520 she is a private person, its Comments like these that make her not want to be seen

@joshuagibson2520

2 жыл бұрын

@@timschrier903 I'm sure she goes out in public everyday. I don't see the difference.

I have to fully commend you, Mr Steele, for you consistent efforts on keeping Mrs Steele's anonymity. Good on you and jolly well done.

Surprised at the end Alec didn't go for the "Another tool that's even with me for a long time is....'Jaime'" love your camera work and editing matr

@haraldpettersen3649

2 жыл бұрын

Talsu - I can not help it, every time he says just that I get embarrassed, on his behalf.

We know Alec is in a hurry when instead of making a damascus crank with ebony wood handles, he decides to just cut the wrench and move on.

@TheFriendOfLucifer

2 жыл бұрын

The project he mentioned is obviously a Damascus crank with ebony wood handles.

Alec : An essential tool for growing the business ... Jamie : Me? Alec : Squarespace. Jamie: Sad editor noises.

@AdministrativeReload

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair, Alec did everything himself and grew his business significantly before Jamie was added.

@owensparks5013

2 жыл бұрын

@@AdministrativeReload Pretty much but Sam and chef Mike also contributed.

If you're looking for more colors for the g1 pants, I would love if they came in navy as I could wear them at my work as an aircraft mechanic. Also I hope you plan on eventually selling the jacket you're wearing in this video

@dementious

2 жыл бұрын

I've pestered him about the jacket in many videos, but haven't been able to get anything out of him. Hoping they drop this year, because I'd love to be decked out in an all Alec Steele Co outfit.

Love the fun & fix!! That vice and wrench you cut down, I wanna see you bend in L shape, forge the open end of it, into round, thread ,then add handle and bolt for faster hand crank!

I myself am a "budget warrior" I make do with what I have and what I can turn other things into, this is a very useful and for us old timers an essential skill, sadly most of the young people I meet and work with just do not have, worse they don't understand how important it can be to be self-sufficient. Love this channel, more content please,

Glad to see you fix your tongs Alec. When you were lamenting the miss hit my first though was .... “oh golly gosh , if only you knew a blacksmith! “ haha

We were just talking about repairability of goods today at work. I love seeing this content.

I always love the "fixing things" kind of videos.

Instead using a wrench for adjusting the mill vice, you could make a proper handle for it as a future project

Looks fantastic! What a huge difference little things can make 🤘

the drumline background music starting at 3:07 is amazing

It's interesting, because I actually try to ensure that I listen to my sentimental thoughts. I feel like tools carry our history as a species, especially the tools that basically haven't changed since the bronze age. I try to avoid worrying about keeping things in mint condition, or restoring to factory condition, but not only does keeping an old tool working connect you to the tool, it helps you understand it better, and normally means that you're using less resources in a world where people (all of us) use too many on a daily basis.

Those SGS boxes are brilliant bits of kit, had one going on 10 years now in daily use and it's never gone wrong filled with heavy tools.

Alec man! This is what's is all about! 3' here, 18" there, BOOM, you have so much space, and everything is way easier to work around now. Love watching an "behind the scenes" episode like this.

Alec is never moving back the USA is he? I remember how this shop was supposed to be temporary and now he owns a house in the UK again 😂

@brandonaustin7213

2 жыл бұрын

The problem is he moved to Montana not Texas

@jacobeaton4042

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandonaustin7213 I think you mean “literally any other state than Montana”

@malcolm32

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacobeaton4042 Careful, or you'll summon the wrath of Will 👀

@1014p

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, since then watch significantly less of his stuff. Its generally house stuff or fixing some silly thing. Not sure he has done more than one dagger at this point. At least he finally could fly back to USA but was warned by many. You wont be back in a long time. Now he is ditching a significantly better shop and freedoms in place of lesser offerings. Im beginning to think he built Montana shop just to get Will Stelter a bunch of experience on black smithing.

I always love watching your content. Watching your channel helped encourage me to start my own channel and online store. thanks!

Shop fixing and cleaning is very importanting and good. Always good to have a clan shop. Can't wait to see more videos soon guys. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friends. Forge On. Fab on. Keep making. God bless.

Next project should be a drill drift, it will make your life alot easier removing drill bits from the collets

Seems like you’re in a good flow with life mate. Bloody good to see you succeed!

Get yourself a wedge for that drill There are special made ones that fit in the back of the adapter thing and can be Hammered across making the process of taking out the Drill waaay easyer even if it is stuck a bit

How do you find the Evolution saw to do for you? I have a 10" compounding/beveling/mitering version but I want something a little more stout to handle thicker material. The "380" only comes with a 14" blade in the US, even though it sounds like it should accommodate a 15" blade.

Aww, miss Steele is camera shy :) Protecting privacy where it's hard to come by should be applauded.

I use a 3/4 ratcheting wrench on my Bridgeport mill.. I also use the same wrench on my draw bar to make it quicker to add or remove tooling...

Hello Mrs S 👋😃 Hope the kitchen wall hasn't fallen down. 😆👍

Great job Alec!

I have an unrelated suggestion. Try making Damascus with iron and steel. In ancient Rome or something, they made that kind of steel and you could see the pattern all the way through even without an acid etch. It is now a mystery how the steel was made. Maybe it was iron and steel forgewelded together. You should try that. Attempt#10

3:13 Safety Goggles, always.

I miss this channel so much, it was one of those that the second I got a notification I had to watch it, or spend all night watching the live streams (in the rain because the roof was more of a suggestion than a real thing.) It went from a 10/10 to a 3/10 over the past couple of years, the entertainment values gone and I miss it

@patrickd9551

2 жыл бұрын

Like every good old british show it went down as soon as it hit american soil :) Skins, basically every cooking show, scrapheap challange and a bunch more (especially the discovery shows I really miss)

Getting some real "Lean Manufacturing" vibes from this video. Keep up the good work!

That fab table look awesome, which means it's bound to be expensive. Good house keeping in the workshop, it needs to be done

This is probably the gazillionth time you’ve heard this buutttt…… more Will collab!!! Everyone obviously loved you two working together!

You should forge/make a custom handle for the mill vise!

Love your work, and todays Background music is right up my Alley.

That drill bit and collet has a Morse taper on it. You need a Morse taper wedge of the right size to separate them. Never seen anybody do it that way! Haha

No shop is complete without a selection of wrenches cut down and bent to do one precise job on one precise thing! I probably have three different 10mm wrenches alone like that.

Funny you should mention tongs, Alec. There is another YT 'smith creator who does tongs as about 80% of his content or related apparatus. Glen over at GS Tongs does a great job at this sort of thing, and I'd REALLY like to see you make more of that sort of thing.

The oil heading for Alec's eye: You think those safety glasses can stop me? Fool!

Hey, I was wondering if you know where best to try to sell a blacksmith post leg vise. I've listed it on ebay and locally but can't seem to find any interested buyers. I was hoping Alex or someone in the comment section might know of somewhere online that might have more blacksmith traffic.

Saw all the drill saving you have and was wondering if maybe you could make a k if out of them.

Meine Mechaniker was here 👏

on the end of the wrench you cut you should make a small Damascus handle

Went back and listened at 0.5 normal speed just to be sure. When said with your particular accent, which bares striking similarities to my bride's New England accent, you both pronounce the word "jewelry" without the "el" sound. As in "jew-ree." Amazed I haven’t picked up on that before.

Pointless video, give me more! haha I enjoy these catch up shop days. Feels good to get all the little things done

Alec, why not call the whisperer to help you make a new set of properly drafted / drifted dovetailed dies?

Hey Alec, ever considered doing the aluminum ball challenge......with a power hammer?

Nice to have a power hammer to fix the other power hammer! Otherwise you gotta buy a block and mill it down? Gonna be stronger forged anyway.

you should have bent the shim round the end of the wedge, so the shim goes in all the way with the wedge ;)

Where are you now? Montana? Or??

They say it takes a tool shop to clean up and maintain a tool shop. There is nothing wrong about being sentimental about tools. They take on Kami (spirit) with use and time and pull the personality of the user into well used tools and they become an extension of the craftsman. Make new tools but remember the old, one is silver and the other gold.

Hi alec i wish you would explain your work more. 6:47 what is it for?

Hi Alec, you should make a straight razor from safety razor blades!

I do not understand much about blacksmithing. What does Alec do with this brush at 6:54 ? What is it for? Thanks in advance

Been here for years. You make it sound like the entirely new dies would suck…. Power hammer rebuild work are my favorite :)

Did you guys ever get the big forge in Montana burning right

@timschrier903

2 жыл бұрын

no, Will actually has it now at his shop but he hasn't set it up yet

Get an eyewash station kit!!!

You should try to make a verison of your own tongs!

Best video you have made in a LONG time, i LOVE it

Life got busy, the last one of your videos i watched was the new house build, looking forward to a two or three day catch up.

I was hoping Alec would make a Jamie is a tool joke when he was about to present the square space ad read.

@1:40 The legendary 'out of focus' shot of, who I assume, the Mrs. Steele. I think a 'bigfoot' camera was used.... LOL

@t8erlove

2 жыл бұрын

Intentionally blurred her out.

We need to paint the power hammers! I miss the nose are in the videos :)

And I bet the lathe has been put exactly on the spot where Stelter has been concreted over LOL!

This has been very satisfying to watch

so much more room for activities!

Why haven’t you painted the power hammers?

Thank you. You getting something in the eye while wearing normal glasses was the proof I needed for a safety briefing 😛

toujours au top, avec un mental... d'acier !

love the dirt moustache ;) it means buisness is on!

Love the way you're blurring out mrs steele

Looks like the shop needs an eyewash station...🤣

Make a display piece with the tongs.

3:21 the laws of physics, fluids will swerve around any object protecting you from splash in order to collide with your eyes

Will they make a tutorial on how to make the build a box cleaver?

When alec started talking about another tool he's had around for a while I thought he was going to make a Jamie joke.

I'd like to see finally a good damascus blade project 🤞

Love the jacket. When is it for sale my g1 need a jacket.

"In the spirit of fixing things, imma cut this wrench."

At the end of the video when you started talking about the tongs and you said there was another tool you've had for a long time I honestly expected you to "introduce " Jamie..... Bahahahaaa

Why not lathe a wheel for the lather instead of the spanner?

@autumn5592

2 жыл бұрын

It's a mill, not a lathe. And 'lather' is incorrect term. It would be turning -- you turn things on a lathe. Wheels are bulky for mill vice handles, and don't offer much in the way of leverage. You want as much as possible (this means the maximum length you can reasonably get.) A crank style handle that is detachable would be ideal.

Has Mrs. Steele made any knives with you?

this video is full of chaotic adhd energy and im here for it

hi Alec, I'm an aspiring youtuber who makes metal objects for furniture .... could you give me some advice?

For a true craftsmen a tool is not just a tool, especially if it learned and grew up with you!

Alec are you ever going back to USA workshop

"Another tool that has been with me a very long time, and that is..." Jamie! love him.

“Just like the pair of tongs I messed up, there’s another tool that’s been with me for a very long time…” I was surprised when this segway did not end with Alec throwing poor, long-suffering Jamie under the KZread bus again!

In the spirit of fixing things, I cut all the handles off my cutlery so they fit in the drawer better...

when you said "just like that pair of tongs i messed up, there's another tool that's been with me for a long time" the way you looked at the camera I thought for sure you were going to say Jamie.. lol

You have one Sam in the US, now get back the Real Sam in UK!