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)..
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"
Mr. Tony. Your the best. Hands down. So, Im an old geezer now and retired. Spend way to much time watching YT videos so when I tell you , your the best, you can trust me, I know what I am talking about. Best wishes. and Thanks for your productions.
@DANIEL NORMAN 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
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.
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....
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!
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
"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 🤣
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!!
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.
@@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.
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
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 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.
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.
@@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.
"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.
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).
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."
As a Scotsman I clicked on this expecting it to be a Christmas story about traditional Scottish Yuletide activities. It turned out to be way better. Thanks Tony, we salute you!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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)
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...
@@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"
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.
@@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.
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'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!
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 RUclipsrs 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
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.
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.
Pretty nice knife there. I like the creativity with the spring shape so you don't get the typical movement along the back when you open/close the blade
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!
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!!
As a knife maker who's a tot fan this was fun to watch. Next time i hope tony uses a 1/2 stop if he makes another slip joint also tempering the spring to about 45hrc is where you want to be. Yes Sandvik requires liquid nitrogen to convert retained austentite but the blade wants to be closer to 60hrc. Ive had good luck with dry ice and acetone baths directly after quench and pre tempering.
I saw Xyla's video first. You did good... goodly... gooderly... she like the knife. I liked the old school lacing that he used with the LED chaser build.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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 👍🏻
Wholesome ass family content here, grand son giving papa (TOT) a reminder of the good old days and paps passing skills and knowledge onto the younger generation
I love how if you just saw the knife it wouldn't seem like much. But if you watch this video you see how much effort and care went into it. What an absolute beauty.
I only recently found Her channel, based off of a RUclips recommendation from watching yours… And I am so glad I did! I look forward to seeing all of these challenges and secret Santa gifts! Nothing like seeing a Christmas tree get Yeeted! 🤣
Mr. Tony, it's so COOL that you gave Xyla THE knife! You have elevated her to the elite-club of RUclips 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 :)
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.
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.
@@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.
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
BEST CHRISTMAS GIFT EVER! I feel like a real maker now, thank you Old Tony!
So cool Xyla!
HOLY MOLY
Can't wait to see you taking it for a Test drive!
@@MajesticDemonLord "What did you do over Christmas, Xyla?"
"Cut stuff..."
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)..
Fancy seeing you here.
Fancy seeing you here
That thing is cool! Nice job! I'm gonna go watch that video now!
And I was so expecting it to spell out subscribe.
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. :)
Me too. :D
How cool is that?!
Enjoyed every second of this video
Lol when he said that the african walnut smells like poop XD
Hey cool it's "My Mechanics", good to "see ya" always awesome when 'tubers support one another.
@my mechanics Who did you get in your secret santa?
Uuuu the most silent mechanic on the channel of the most talkative! It's nice to see you here!
Hi, MM!! OOh!! New video in my side bar!! Merry Christmas to all!!
Literally laughed out loud at the Jerry Rig Everything reference. Well played, Sir.
JFC that got me good ahahah
Electric Hummer ......wait !! This is , ToT !! Trickery lol
Good old single point, 3-axis, remote controled bandsaw.
Beautiful present!
Hey, he clicked "generate toolpaths" by hand
We prefer the term "Manual CNC".
3 flute bandsaw blades and all.
Mr. Tony. Your the best. Hands down. So, Im an old geezer now and retired. Spend way to much time watching YT videos so when I tell you , your the best, you can trust me, I know what I am talking about. Best wishes. and Thanks for your productions.
thanks!
The editing on this Chanel never ceases to amaze me and the jokes are always great
Grate jokes, for reel!
The guy has THE BEST bandsaw free-handing skills I've ever seen!
@@bootstraphan6204 absolute legend! Never seen something so clean
@DANIEL NORMAN 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
What's up with the occasional speedy-uppy commentary though?
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 can’t believe it’s this time of year again… him making the stamps for Colin feels like yesterday!
That's the truth!
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....
Her comments about receiving the knife were quite heart warming.
Glad to see you back and with a vengeance apparently
I didn't realize how much I missed this guy till he started blowing up my subscription box
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!
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
I did a spittake while drinking tea.
Haha same here I started laughing. I wonder if he saw this lol
It cut that tomato so well! Love the knife. Your gift from Sam looks INSANE!
-Ruth & Shawn
Integza would be proud!
@@Noah-qs3rq Because we all know... 🍅 are disgusting 🤣
"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 🤣
This kind of genius is so rare these days.
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!!
Merely replying so you can see Tony saw it!
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.
@@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.
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.
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
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!
The moment I saw those things I knew he raided a telephone exchange.
@@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.
@@kleinisfijn Yep. Once you have known it, you can't forget it :-)
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.
@@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.
"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.
Every time he does that silent turn, like at 0:31 it always makes me laugh.
The hard pivot
Kills me every time
Sameee
Try Drone Workshop, haha.
I can always here that cartoony stone-grinding sound each time. Just sends me to the floor laughing.
@@Ferg_the_Derg Now I'll never be able to unhear it.
Live the blade shape, Tony you should make a few more of these and sell them!
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).
Liquidsonly that dovetails with Character: What you do when no one else is looking.
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."
This Old Tony, your deadpan, quick cut humor gives me life. Please never change
This old Tony deserves an award for best cut editing on RUclips.
As a Scotsman I clicked on this expecting it to be a Christmas story about traditional Scottish Yuletide activities. It turned out to be way better. Thanks Tony, we salute you!
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.
Engineering, Art and Entertainment...Oh, and video editing I've yet to dream about ..Thanks so much Tony...🤔🤔😳😀😀😀😀😀🇬🇧
Your band saw work is impeccable, such precision.
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.
"You've already seen the thumbnail"
You, sir, overestimate the ability of my brain to remember a random image from 5 minutes ago.
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.
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
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.
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)
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...
@@nelsonbrum8496 Which is surprising because the balisong community in Cali is huge.
I think anything pointier than bread and sharper than sandpaper is illegal in Cali……..
@@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"
@@kalikasurf guns are still ok though, right?
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.
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
What? Maple back, maple sides , spruce table, ebony fingerboard, spruce blocks.
@@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.
Seeing that snappy action was so satisfying. I was so disappointed that it didn't stay that way.
Props on the support for Xyla!! She's an amazing maker! Nice to see the community support.
The real christmas miracle is tonys dexterity and skill on the manuel bandsaw
My face hurts from smiling. What a wonderful feeling! Merry Christmas, TOT!!
Yes! I too have wanted a surface gauge since I was 5 years old. Gonna cry now.
as always your freehand skills are "UNBELIEVABLE"
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....
Dude, I can't tell you how happy I am that you are back. Really, really missed these videos.
At least someone is keeping an eye on the heat treatment! And at the it came out a gorgeous little knife!
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!
OMG...Just watched Xlya open her gift and I'm not going to lie, I was tearing up! You done good This Old Tony!!!
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 RUclipsrs 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
As a full-time knifemaker and TOT fan, this video excited me so much
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.
"All of Voltron" a fellow man of culture, the theme song still gives me chills.
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.
Tony's too busy with his build your own Maho kit 🤣
Folders are considered most complex knifes to design and fabricate, surely not for novice knifemakers, and this beauty is your FIRST knife? Oh, wow.
It hasn't even been 6 momths since last video! this is indeed a christmas miracle!
Pretty nice knife there. I like the creativity with the spring shape so you don't get the typical movement along the back when you open/close the blade
I love your bandsaw. The "free handing at the bandsaw" section is great. I need me a bandsaw like that.
Looks like a Strowger stepping switch like they used to use in old telecommunications systems. Pretty neat.
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!
The "turn it on from a safe distance" bit NEVER gets old. The pacing was *perfect*!
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!!
As a knife maker who's a tot fan this was fun to watch. Next time i hope tony uses a 1/2 stop if he makes another slip joint also tempering the spring to about 45hrc is where you want to be. Yes Sandvik requires liquid nitrogen to convert retained austentite but the blade wants to be closer to 60hrc. Ive had good luck with dry ice and acetone baths directly after quench and pre tempering.
The corset joke took a turn I did not expect and I laughed my ass off...
Love the gift from Look-mum-no-computer! Love the phone-switches doing their thing!
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 missed these types of videos This Old Tony. Absolutely amazing :)
Etching the circuit board alone is a massive undertaking! "Look Mum No Computer" has a new subscriber! Awesome work!!
I saw Xyla's video first. You did good... goodly... gooderly... she like the knife. I liked the old school lacing that he used with the LED chaser build.
I love how you hyped up her channel in the intro. What an amazing creator, definitely a new sub
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.
"It that my 10mm socket down there" made me laugh way to hard
Oh, good. I'm not the only one who finds Xyla adorable yet completely intimidating.
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.
That's a heck of a first folding knife. That light thing is super cool too.
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.
The most correct accurate phrase I've ever heard from a maker... with a knife you can do anything ... civilization was built on a sharp blade
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
That contraption needs to be at the end of every video from now on, forever
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!
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.
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)
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!
Ah! Finally, the reason that you've been playing with your wood the past few videos! Nice engraving on those scales. 👍
Your freehand bandsaw skills are second to none.
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 👍🏻
Xyla being my favorite new maker to watch, and ToT being my favorite Old Tony, this is the Christmas Gift I diddn't know I needed!
Wholesome ass family content here, grand son giving papa (TOT) a reminder of the good old days and paps passing skills and knowledge onto the younger generation
Yes, the work is impressive, but it's really the thought that went into the design that makes this so awesome
I love how if you just saw the knife it wouldn't seem like much. But if you watch this video you see how much effort and care went into it. What an absolute beauty.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and your family, Tony!
Reminds me of the more complicated portion of an enigma machine! Bravo
I only recently found Her channel, based off of a RUclips recommendation from watching yours… And I am so glad I did! I look forward to seeing all of these challenges and secret Santa gifts!
Nothing like seeing a Christmas tree get Yeeted! 🤣
I totally agree with your re-design decision. It ended up looking very Scandinavian and quite elegant.
First of all, you're a genius, second, that mechanical job at the end is insane. I want one! 🤣
Mr. Tony, it's so COOL that you gave Xyla THE knife! You have elevated her to the elite-club of RUclips 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 :)
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.
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.
@@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.
Beautiful knife sir, and thankyou for the introduction to xyla and her awesome videos
its a christmas knifing miracle!
A canoe paddle in a knife fight - unexpected shades of Musashi, I like it.
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