BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT EVER! I feel like a real maker now, thank you Old Tony!

@fellipec

2 жыл бұрын

So cool Xyla!

@leeterthanyou

2 жыл бұрын

HOLY MOLY

@MajesticDemonLord

2 жыл бұрын

Can't wait to see you taking it for a Test drive!

@archivist17

2 жыл бұрын

@@MajesticDemonLord "What did you do over Christmas, Xyla?" "Cut stuff..."

@thanemakes5377

2 жыл бұрын

So good TOT! Lucky Xyla!

WOOOP!!! IT TURNED UP IN ONE PIECE :D.... soooo glad the light chaser turned up!!!!!! :D :D... by all means cut the purple wire! they are just for show anyways, theres a tiny arduino hiding inside (joookingggg, imagine ha)..

@takeohtyme

2 жыл бұрын

Fancy seeing you here.

@lucassurgeon4122

2 жыл бұрын

Fancy seeing you here

@crisnevin7934

2 жыл бұрын

That thing is cool! Nice job! I'm gonna go watch that video now!

@benanddadmechanical6573

2 жыл бұрын

And I was so expecting it to spell out subscribe.

@monkeybarmonkeyman

2 жыл бұрын

You gifted an excellent gift!!!

A wise gift Tony - at first I thought Cedar plank stockings to match the corset would have been nice - until I remembered the old saying "Give a lady fine cedar hosiery and she will be well dressed for a season, give her a fine folding knife and she will be well dressed for life"

"I like pushing buttons when I don't know what they do." Thank you for that. :)

@button-puncher

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. :D

Glad to see you back and with a vengeance apparently

@maxjackson9191

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't realize how much I missed this guy till he started blowing up my subscription box

@RideRevival

2 жыл бұрын

The final words my mother told me before I left home to strike out on my own were "Don't come back without a vengeance". I'll show you, mom.... I'll show the world!

Good old single point, 3-axis, remote controled bandsaw. Beautiful present!

@davidsteinhour5562

2 жыл бұрын

Hey, he clicked "generate toolpaths" by hand

@moehoward01

2 жыл бұрын

We prefer the term "Manual CNC".

@operator8014

2 жыл бұрын

3 flute bandsaw blades and all.

The Jerry Rig Everything intro killed me. When you said "Let's Get Started" my brain was already expecting the snap and the intro... then it hit and I fell over laughing

@lopany

2 жыл бұрын

I did a spittake while drinking tea.

@DKL3825

Жыл бұрын

Haha same here I started laughing. I wonder if he saw this lol

Literally laughed out loud at the Jerry Rig Everything reference. Well played, Sir.

@SuodesTzeos

2 жыл бұрын

JFC that got me good ahahah

@TheAndy331

2 жыл бұрын

Electric Hummer ......wait !! This is , ToT !! Trickery lol

How cool is that?! Enjoyed every second of this video

@theblackswan84

2 жыл бұрын

Lol when he said that the african walnut smells like poop XD

@Philly_Gamer

2 жыл бұрын

Hey cool it's "My Mechanics", good to "see ya" always awesome when 'tubers support one another.

@koronakorona1588

2 жыл бұрын

@my mechanics Who did you get in your secret santa?

@Dinnye01

2 жыл бұрын

Uuuu the most silent mechanic on the channel of the most talkative! It's nice to see you here!

@jlucasound

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, MM!! OOh!! New video in my side bar!! Merry Christmas to all!!

The editing on this Chanel never ceases to amaze me and the jokes are always great

@ericlester3056

2 жыл бұрын

Grate jokes, for reel!

@bootstraphan6204

2 жыл бұрын

The guy has THE BEST bandsaw free-handing skills I've ever seen!

@ttsupra87

2 жыл бұрын

@@bootstraphan6204 absolute legend! Never seen something so clean

@danielnorman8595

2 жыл бұрын

This old Tony definitely created his own style. Between the editing and his sense of humor? Definitely my favorite channel on KZread. Not to mention the content

@ttsupra87

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielnorman8595 AvE in my opinion is right on par if not better because he makes you think. Dude is stupid smart. In his videos he makes you ponder things with in video comments and questions to himself

"Okay okay, I know what you're thinking. A Stratovarius, that's way over budget for this project, but settle down I stole it!" Modern problems require modern solutions.

"There's two types of knowledge in this world. There's knowing something first hand, then there's knowing how to not have to know it anymore." - TOT 09:57 bout killed me 🤣

@gvrfour

2 жыл бұрын

This kind of genius is so rare these days.

Every time he does that silent turn, like at 0:31 it always makes me laugh.

@KnowledgePerformance7

2 жыл бұрын

The hard pivot Kills me every time

@seraaron

2 жыл бұрын

Sameee

@Audio_Simon

2 жыл бұрын

Try Drone Workshop, haha.

@FrilledCheese

2 жыл бұрын

I can always here that cartoony stone-grinding sound each time. Just sends me to the floor laughing.

@Mint_drake

2 жыл бұрын

@@FrilledCheese Now I'll never be able to unhear it.

I can’t believe it’s this time of year again… him making the stamps for Colin feels like yesterday!

@SpectrumDIY

2 жыл бұрын

That's the truth!

@Machineius

2 жыл бұрын

No kidding. This last year has been so busy that I cannot believe we are here again. But at the same time it feels so far away....so far from the way things were last year....

Your band saw work is impeccable, such precision.

Hi Tony, that knife came out excellent. Love the violin design, and the fact that you made it just for Xyla. If you make a folding knife in the future, use some brass tubing standoffs on the inside (slide the rivets through them to hold the scales apart). That way if the rivets are too tight, it won't pinch the blade. Cheers

Hey tony. I’m a knife maker. I noticed that you didn’t put any bushings or bearings around the folding pin. There are these little brass “bearings” not really bearings more like a paper thin brass washer with holes in it to help keep the oil in that joint so it doesn’t completely squeeze out when you tighten it down. Might be why your knife didn’t feel the same as when you did the dry fit. Also if you are gonna make another one. You should use screws instead of pins (especially for a folder) so you can adjust the tension and blade centering. Still super cool!!

@McTroyd

2 жыл бұрын

Merely replying so you can see Tony saw it!

@klasodeth

2 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the ones he used weren't ideal, but I see a pair of bushings among the knife parts at 16:10, and just three seconds later they're shown being installed on the knife.

@Regolith86

2 жыл бұрын

@@klasodeth Those are washers. Bushings go in between the knife blade and the pivot pin, kind of like a sleeve. They look like plain steel washers, which aren't the best choice. Most knives that use washers instead of bushings or bearings use either teflon, nylon, or phosphor bronze for the washer material, because they're self-lubricating to some degree. Teflon and nylon are usually used on budget knives, while phosphor bronze is more often used for more expensive knives ($50+) because it lasts much longer and doesn't compress like teflon or nylon, so its more consistent and easier to dial in the action. Still, pretty good job overall for a first attempt.

@Azlehria

2 жыл бұрын

Hinge tension was my first thought. Takes a lot of fiddling to get my knives "right" after cleaning and oiling, but it's totally worth it.

Re. the stuff on the inside that no-one see. When I used to make stuff for a living, I worked with people that had the attitude "no one will see it, sod it". I hated those people. It's not about "who will see it", it's about pride in your work and doing-it-right. Always have pride in your work whether people see it or not. It costs nothing extra to do it right, if you value your integrity as a machinist. (Or your soul).

@aceroadholder2185

2 жыл бұрын

Liquidsonly that dovetails with Character: What you do when no one else is looking.

@chadh3441

2 жыл бұрын

I've always heard people say, "You can't see it from my house." Maybe that's just here in the South. Lol. I would always reply, " I would say that, we can find out if that's true just by calling your house and asking your ol' lady if Jody can see it, but, they're both probably busy at the moment."

Brought back memories watching the uniselectors operating, we used them back in the seventies on our Varec tank gauging system. The tankfarm operator in the refinery would dial the tank number and enable the transmitter mounted at the base of the tank and send pulses to the remote selector and display the tank level on the console, maintenance intensive system until we replaced with a more modern system.

"All of Voltron" a fellow man of culture, the theme song still gives me chills.

"You've already seen the thumbnail" You, sir, overestimate the ability of my brain to remember a random image from 5 minutes ago.

It cut that tomato so well! Love the knife. Your gift from Sam looks INSANE! -Ruth & Shawn

@Noah-qs3rq

2 жыл бұрын

Integza would be proud!

@Rouverius

2 жыл бұрын

@@Noah-qs3rq Because we all know... 🍅 are disgusting 🤣

You are serious for 25 seconds and BAM, you make us laugh with your funny comments, action, space fx, etc. Thank you so much Tony for sharing all your positive passion. I'm always so impress by the high quality and attention to details. And all this... for free for us. I'm very grateful. Alex from Montréal

In 1968, I made a conditioned-response AI out of telephone stepping switches, very like those in this project only smaller. The way it worked, was that you would push one of six buttons (the command). Then it would step through 10 different light bulbs (responses). If you pressed the "reward" button, it would remember that "response" for that "command". You could repeat that for each of the six command buttons. You would end up with a "trained" AI, with each command tied to it's own response. To start over, there was a "forget" button. I was 16 at the time, and this was in my occupational electronics class. I entered it in the high school science fair, and won nothing. My classmate who made an electronic version of a single neuron won. My electronics teacher was the judge, and he was an analog guy. But I won the prize that mattered: The neuron-maker was blown away by my machine! This began my lifelong interest in digital electronics.

That was doubly fun for me - first the knife making, but then, a blast from my past - that electromechanical thingy is a repurpose of two uniselectors from a Strowger PABX. In real life, every time you picked up your handset, back then, one of the uniselectors at the PABX, would self-rotate to look for a free first selector, that would give you the dial tone and route the first digit you dialed into a free second selector, and so on, until the last 2 digits were dialed on the final selector (a 10 by 10 matrix of subscribers) that would then ring the destination phone. Have a Great Christmas!

@kleinisfijn

2 жыл бұрын

The moment I saw those things I knew he raided a telephone exchange.

@rl3898

2 жыл бұрын

@@kleinisfijn Or a Nuclear reactor fuelling machine... cos that what the logic controllers were in my early days playing with them. We changed to GEM 80 logic after about 1988.

@JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT

2 жыл бұрын

@@kleinisfijn Yep. Once you have known it, you can't forget it :-)

@weshowe51

2 жыл бұрын

Until late 1980's, when they broke the original NANP to add exchanges due to cellphone and pager (remember pagers?), digital electronic telephone switch software still emulated the digit-by-digit pattern so they could replace those old mechanical switches. More useless trivia.

@taliakuznetsova7092

2 жыл бұрын

@@weshowe51 Pagers are now on a seperate network I think. My pager for the FD is independent of the phone lines and uses VHF instead i believe, entirely different isolated towers not just piggybacking on the cellphone.

This Old Tony: There's really no way to know what kind of wood violins are made out of. Me: That's probably true, I guess

@mickwall1286

2 жыл бұрын

What? Maple back, maple sides , spruce table, ebony fingerboard, spruce blocks.

@johnpossum556

2 жыл бұрын

@@mickwall1286He's joking, but if you want to make a Stradivarius you gotta start with a tree that's been soaking in the bottom of the canal for those minerals that give it such a great sound. PBS did a special on them and managed to duplicate it with minerals added to the shellac.

With the slow spinning view, soft music-money shot. I feel like I need a picture of that centerfold hanging on my barn wall. Well done. Or medium rare.

"It that my 10mm socket down there" made me laugh way to hard

Great video. As a knifemaker, 55 HRC will provide a knife roughly in the ballpark of a the hardness of a good kitchen knife. Perhaps not the best in the world for edge retention, but worlds easier to (re)sharpen and maintain an edge. Should provide a good edge and a knife that should last a lifetime. BTW, don't know if you have been practicing, but great choice of blade shape and geometry. Should be a great utility knife without looking too 'weapon-y', plus the slipjoint design keeps the owner square with the law. (Cuz Xyla does live in California, amiright)

@nelsonbrum8496

2 жыл бұрын

I'm in CA. Based on fear-mongering lawmakers with no basis in reality: butterfly, side deploy or OTF automatics (with a blade 2" or longer), and gravity knifes are no-go for _carry_. But you can possess them ie. in a collection at home. Totally logical. Everything else is pretty much ok to carry. We are not lock-step with Australia/Europe... yet...

@paveldzhurylyuk6076

2 жыл бұрын

@@nelsonbrum8496 Which is surprising because the balisong community in Cali is huge.

@kalikasurf

2 жыл бұрын

I think anything pointier than bread and sharper than sandpaper is illegal in Cali……..

@Esky_boi

2 жыл бұрын

@@nelsonbrum8496 yup! Legal here in Australia you can carry a "Swiss army knife for utility purposes". Other than that a leatherman will fly too but nothing much "scary looking"

@paultinwell5557

2 жыл бұрын

@@kalikasurf guns are still ok though, right?

This old Tony deserves an award for best cut editing on KZread.

Those are step motor switches for automatic telephone switchboard multiplexing. The pulse signals that control the position of the switches come from the (very old) phone rotary dialing pulse mechanism for the numbers being dialed. I used to play with these when I was a 8 year old kid. My Electrical Engineer father had boxes of stuff like this. I learned a lot playing with this stuff. By age 9, I was well on my way to becoming a Mad Scientist. Great work there as always, good times watching... Merry Christmas....

I missed these types of videos This Old Tony. Absolutely amazing :)

4:01 I had my eye away from the screen to place a drink down, and though woah… they’d Jerry’s opener lol good work ! Made me smile

That JerryRigEverything intro caught me off guard.. Like hearing your ringtone coming from something other than your cellphone.

As a full-time knifemaker and TOT fan, this video excited me so much

What an awesome gift for someone like Xyla!!! You're the best, Tony!!!

Please make an unfinished kit (unsharpend blade, scales, pins,ect) and sell them. I would love to have/build one sir. Thank you for the awesome videos.

@jasonprotaszczak8011

2 жыл бұрын

Tony's too busy with his build your own Maho kit 🤣

The corset joke took a turn I did not expect and I laughed my ass off...

This Secret Santa idea has introduced me to a whole range of makers I would never have come across. I started with Sam and am gradually finding out about the rest.

A late Merry Christmas to you too, Tony. Thanx for all the smiles over the last year and to the ones you are for sure going to provide the coming year.

My face hurts from smiling. What a wonderful feeling! Merry Christmas, TOT!!

4 makers in and if I were a maker, receiving a customized tool to help me make more stuff- best idea so far! (I haven’t seen Xyla’s reaction yet)

The "turn it on from a safe distance" bit NEVER gets old. The pacing was *perfect*!

Seeing that snappy action was so satisfying. I was so disappointed that it didn't stay that way.

Merry Christmas to you and the family, Tony. Thanks for all the entertainment.

The biggest impact this video made on me: "I really NEED *_your_* 'bandsaw.' Really." Have a Cool Yule, Tony. And a Happy New Year.

I am just so happy that you are back. All the loss and turmoil of the last year+ has made me far more appreciative of the content that you and the very few like you, make. Merry Christmas to you and your family. Thank you!!!!

Props on the support for Xyla!! She's an amazing maker! Nice to see the community support.

These builds are amazing. Beautiful knife, love the chaser.

The knife was, of course, a thing of beauty done well, hard to beat the handcrafted precision of fine bandsaw work. The E.L.D was a tinsel explosion of yo ho ho.

This is such a thoughtful gift! Matching your specialty to Xyla's tastes. Perfect gift :)

I love your bandsaw. The "free handing at the bandsaw" section is great. I need me a bandsaw like that.

I've been watching for years. Thank you Tony and everyone reading. Merry Christmas! I don't machine or make anything but I sure wish I had a lathe to cram in my garage and make things with my dad while he's still here. But I'll vicariously live that out here. I have some weird feeling of home watching these videos. Thanks again.. Wish you all the very best!

Beautiful knife ThisOldTony. Watching Xyla’s video, it was clear that she was really happy and honoured to get such a fabulous and meaningful gift - a great choice!

All of the creators did an awesome job with the Secret Santa builds loved everyone of them. Thanks to the tested team for getting me started on this playlist and some new channels to add to my watch list.

Her reaction was so sincere and sweet. Great job.

It hasn't even been 6 momths since last video! this is indeed a christmas miracle!

Dude, I can't tell you how happy I am that you are back. Really, really missed these videos.

Thanks TOT, you are the one who could pull it off making a present for Xyla. I find her someowhat intimidating. I mean she shoots Christmas trees into the air for fun! I am already glad if I can make my Christmas lights work. Merry Christmas all, TOT, Xyla, I love your channels!

This Old Tony, your deadpan, quick cut humor gives me life. Please never change

Awesome video as usual. I am genuinely interested in machine work and building things in general, but they style of your delivery makes watching this channel so enjoyable. Glad you are back after your hiatus.

as always your freehand skills are "UNBELIEVABLE"

I just can’t believe the talent, especially from the venerable veteran TOT. Thanks! It’s a gift to be able to watch this stuff.

I was gonna say Xyla should love it but she bet us to it. Seriously, grabbing on to the violin motif was a bit of sheer genius. Hey, Merry Christmas to you and yours, Tony. Praying for all the best for you all in 2022.

You know I can’t tell you how much I would love to have this old Tony make me something for Christmas. I’ve watched a lot of these other KZreadrs and some of the stuff is OK but this old Tony makes something that is that far out of this world your epic man. I love all of your videos

I was just watching TOT's video from last year around Christmas and this shows up! Couldn't be happier. All I want for Christmas is some TOT videos. PS : I think the knife turned out quite nice Tony, miles better than most people's first knives. I think a nice dark mahogany type stain on the wood would look nice too but it's nice and classy at it is.

Merry Christmas Tony! We're so glad you're back!

Oh, always so entertaining. Thank you, This Old Tony!

Your bandsaw skills alone make this channel worth watching, the editing is hilarious as ever, what a great Christmas surprise, laughed my ass off. Best channel ever, thank you!!

Absolutely incredible. Started teary thinking this might cheer me up.. finished in tears of laughter. Bless you Tony.. amazing videos/wit/skill/temper/etc.. the Kubrick of youtube.. Happy Non-Denominational Holiday..

Mr. Tony, it's so COOL that you gave Xyla THE knife! You have elevated her to the elite-club of KZread makers (if she wasn't there already). She'll be eternally grateful, I believe, and will use & casually mention the knife in all her next videos :)

It just keeps gettin' better! You've inspired me.....to watch more of your videos. Thanks and Merry Christmas!

Etching the circuit board alone is a massive undertaking! "Look Mum No Computer" has a new subscriber! Awesome work!!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family, Tony!

A- that kine is beautiful, B- that chaser is AWESOME!!! I love electromechanical stuff.

Your videos are truly in the best of the best on KZread. I appreciate every single one of them. I am very happy you are back and I wanted to know you were very missed. Thank you.

That switch looks a HELL of a lot like the cam stack on a pre-computerized sewing machine. I wonder how much crossover there was with that kind of engineering back in the 40s-60s? Here's an idea for you, This Old: Buy a Singer 401 or 500 and tear into it. Those engineers were doing a hell of an interesting job with cams, followers, bellcranks and linkages. They are mechanical as hell and incredibly precise for things made in a high-production environment.

@mytech6779

2 жыл бұрын

I can't really think of a way to make a [ reasonably durable ] electronic sewing machine, it is just the sort of device that is inherently made of mechanical clockwork. I mean sure you could use a computer controlled motor to get an exact number of stitches but other than that it just seems like a purely mechanical task.

@theprojectproject01

2 жыл бұрын

@@mytech6779 Many of the new domestic home machines use circuitry to control zig-zag and stitch length settings, but the actual work is still done mechanically. And there are long-arm industrial quilting and sewing machines, basically CNC printers that use thread instead of ink, that use stepper motors. But those are hideously expensive-- $15-30K-- and frankly, I don't know much about them. Some mechanical means has to get the thread through the fabric, around the bobbin to pick up the lower thread, and tighten it to form the lock stitch. If you REALLY want to break your brain, take a look at what a serger is, what it does, and how it does it. Or even a walking foot sewing machine.

If you're looking for wood smell, Lignum Vitae (or it's close cousin Verawood) smells amazing when you are cutting it. Almost like perfume. Overall, I think this came out great!

Such a great idea with youtube makers doing stuff for each other. Amazing projects were dreamed up again, awesome!

Tony. Your gifts are top notch! I really hope you get something good this year!

Those tinsel chips are awesome hehe, quite a fun thing to make when you’ve spent your whole life learning how to avoid making them

Ah! Finally, the reason that you've been playing with your wood the past few videos! Nice engraving on those scales. 👍

Love the gift from Look-mum-no-computer! Love the phone-switches doing their thing!

Your freehand bandsaw skills are outstanding. Great gift!

Yes, the work is impressive, but it's really the thought that went into the design that makes this so awesome

Holy Tony! I haven't seen telephone type barrel relays in 30 years!!! Amazing work! Nice knife ToT. Thank you for a great video sir. We, your humble minions are truly blessed this holiday season with your generous offering. Merry Christmas to you and your family Tony. Cheers from Texas!

Loving seeing all this old telephone exchange equipment! :) The knife was cool too.

Oh heavens, the sound of a Strowger selector took me back to days I spent working in a large telephone exchange in 1975. A few thousand of those all chattering away was loud as a loud thing, if not even louder.

I love how you hyped up her channel in the intro. What an amazing creator, definitely a new sub

Hold on a sec buddy, JRE intro joke my god... that got me good 😂😂😂

Engineering, Art and Entertainment...Oh, and video editing I've yet to dream about ..Thanks so much Tony...🤔🤔😳😀😀😀😀😀🇬🇧

This secret maker secret santa is such a great idea. Last year it turned me on to TOT, and this year it turned me on to Xyla. As always great content from TOT, and an amazing table build from Xyla.

I wish my bandsaw knew some of those tricks! Awesome video Tony, you totally made my Christmas! Happy holidays!!

Just bought myself a TOT t-shirt and sticker, only youtuber i would buy merch from. Keep up the great work Tony and merry christmas to you and your family x

As always a pleasure to watch your vidios.. So happy that you are back !

Killer job Tony. Not only in execution but the gift idea went over well. Bravo.

As a professional cutler with 20+ years experience, making high end pocket knives, I can tell you that this video has some of the best comedy writing on any screen . . . . Oh, and the knife is nice too 👍🏻

First of all, you're a genius, second, that mechanical job at the end is insane. I want one! 🤣

Beautiful knife sir, and thankyou for the introduction to xyla and her awesome videos

OMG...Just watched Xlya open her gift and I'm not going to lie, I was tearing up! You done good This Old Tony!!!