I have the highest respect for a man who'd use hundreds of dollars worth of time and thousands of dollars worth of tools to save a $17 part from the scrap pile. Even more so because he made a video of his waste-avoiding journey for the world's entertainment and elucidation. Thank-you, Tony!
sure, but he had the tools, and now he has another tool (a jig) to not just save 1 $17 dollar part from the scrap pile, but can instead save as many of that $17 dollar part from the scrap pile as he wants. It's gotta be at LEAST three $17 dollar parts that will be saved 8)
Back in the day, they'd give the gardener apprentice a pile of stock and a picture of felcos and tell him to make is own and trim the hedges. This is easy street by comparison.
As a gardener that has used the same pair of felcos in anger, for about 17 years with the same blade for about decade ,this is massive overkill . And I totally approve.
I have used the same Wolf for 40 years, an anvil type. It has seen a file once in a while, and is still in my pocket right now! They will last almost for ever if you look after them.
You don’t only inspire machinists and craftsmen but artists and storytellers. I watch just as much for your editing style, comedy, and storytelling as I do for the build. Thanks Tony!
Thanks for this Tony. It brought back memories. My Grandfather (who was a tool and die maker) created a similar jig for a set of 100 curved blades he was asked to sharpen. I was in my early teens when he got the contract to do this work. I recall how he smiled while describing the job to friends at a dinner table. He described that the curved blade edge was nothing more than part of a circle. He must have had a similar eureka moment like you did. One thing he gnashed his teeth about is that the set of blades he was working with had slightly different widths. To simplify, the radius of the curve was a smidge shorter on some blades than others. While he was taking measurements on the blade, I am sure I heard many new bad words in German. This radius deviation was an anathema to his German perfectionist personality. From what he could gather, years of hand sharpening had inconsistently removed more material from some blades than others. This forced him to extra-engineer his jig by making it adjustable so that he could put the same exact angle (as close as possible anyway) on each blade depending on it's width (radius). Basically he did something close to what you did on your cardstock model.. a bolt that he would turn to adjust the height of the angle. A smaller radius would require lowering the one side of the jig by simply turning the screw. A larger radius would require increasing the height in the same manner. The other thing he did was hone the flat side of the blades before he put each of them on the jig to sharpen the bevel. I was not there when he did the flat grind work, but I remember the flat side of the blade to be so flat that I had difficulty picking it up with my fingers off an old surface plate he had in his shop. He used a magnet to grab them from flat surfaces because they were so flat on one side. Also to likely protect the surface plate from accidental scratches. He explained to me (a then lowly teenage kid with nothing better to do but shadow his Grandfather) that the difference between a sharp scissors and a really sharp scissors blade is the combination of one side being very flat side and the other having a consistent and sharp bevel edge. Once he had the jig set up on his grinder, he started work on the grinding. I think he was done with all the blades in about an hour, though he spent a week working on that jig (he did all his machining manually... no CNC at that time in ancient history). With each blade, he would adjust the bolt slightly depending on the blade width. After he completed the grinding work, he stropped each blade to take off any burr. In my young experience, those were some of the sharpest blades I had ever seen outside of the razor blades you get from a store. He later told me that he not only got paid for the sharpening work, but also sold the jig to the business that hired him to do the work... for 3 times the cost of the contract!! I guess the company really liked the work he had done but recognized that he may not be around much longer to do that work again. He was already well into retirement. My Grandfather suffered a stroke shortly after that and passed away a few years later. I miss him still. Thank you for all you do for us Tony. Every new video you give us is a feast of entertainment and learning all in one bundle. 🙂
I appreciate that you covered Felcos. I worked in a nursery in the early 2000's and they made me purchase them. I still have them and they really are great, possible the best pruners.
Tony, I'm one of those guys that you inspired to get into machining about 6 years ago. I am now the only machinist at my company programming and running a 5 axis machine and holding .0002 while doing it. Kinda weird that some guy in his garage I've never met altered the course of my life so much and in such a good way. so thanks for that.
Same here man! Started off as a PTA welder (particle transfer arc) at a new shop with no interest in the scary world of precision machining, then I started watching Tony explaining the basics and fell in love! Now only 4 years later I run two hurco cnc 4 axis mills for 500 Rockwell industrial liners and a hurco cnc lathe! No schooling and RUclips taught! 😅
One thing has become clear over the years of watching, Tony is a master machinist who spends 30 minutes on a project, and 60 hours on editing lol. Never disappoints!
@@filmaker256 I do think he mentioned premiere once though I think because they gave him a trial period, its nothing special whit the program he uses though for most his shenanigans like cutting the stock, its just clever jump cuts whit the occasional aftereffect
What really boggles the mind is how as machinists we can spend hours drawing, engineering, designing, fabricating, and machining a single assembly just so we can make one 3 minute cut on the grinder. Why it pays so little is beyond me.
I tried to make a similar gadget years ago. After trial and error I discovered the secret sauce. If you grow all of your plants at 22.5 degrees then all you need to do is make your cuts perpendicular to your right hand. I tried it left handed on my neighbours tree and oh boy, that didn't go well. His trees are not 22.5 degrees.
As someone living in New Mexico, it's refreshing to see a machinist use the traditional ways of cutting our small batch, shade grown and sun dried, free range, hand crafted artisanal aluminum. Keep the traditions alive, Tony!
Hi Tony. In tool sharpening we usually use the height of the unsharpened tool relative to the center of the grinding wheel. If you sharpen at the height of center of the spindle (9 o'clock on the wheel) you get a 90° bevel. If you raise the wheel 1/2 radiius (7h30 on the wheel) you get a 45º radius. If you raise the wheel 3/4 radius you get 22,5º. That way you don't need a sine plate and everything is orthogonal. See a video of a "Akemat" saw sharpener if my description is confusing.
Just a minor note on your trigonometry -- moving the wheel vertically by half the wheel radius would yield a 30 degree bevel since arcsin(1/2) = 30 deg. To get a 45 degree bevel, you would need to move the wheel vertically by sqrt(2)/2 times the wheel radius, or about 0.707 times the wheel radius, since sin(45deg) = sqrt(2)/2.
7:30 is halfway between 9:00 and 6:00 and would be at 45°, and 6:45 is 3/4 of the way from 9:00 and 6:00 and would be 22.5°, but those aren't at R/2 and R*3/4 higher -- you need sin(90°-angle)R higher or 0.7071R and 0.9239R higher.
It's a comfort to know that it might be a little bit of a wait sometimes, but sooner or later a new ToT video will come along, and even as someone who does not own pruning shears and would probably never in my life want to sharpen them if I did, I will be enthralled by the engineering and comedic glory of the best damn shear sharpening show on RUclips. Thanks ToT.
It is difficult to portray to you quite how much I enjoy ALL your RUclipsnesses, but please be assured that there is no dark corner of my psyche that isn’t better off after watching your deeply informative instructional brilliance. You are always a ray of light in an otherwise tig-less welder, a ratchet set in a workshop without a brass hammer, perhaps a bandsaw without the bandaids. Always enjoyable, always entertaining and always appreciated. Thank you for sharing.
I started watching these videos many moons ago. They planted a seed in my brain and the nascent desire to own a lathe and other life threatening shop tools. Less than seven days ago, I took delivery of my first lathe (8x16 mini lathe) and some other vaguely threatening shop machines. I turned my first brass and aluminium this week and I'm extremely proud to say that I even managed to cut myself pretty bad. I know seasoned machinist can take years before they cut themselves, so I feel like I'm ahead of the curve already, in that I now know you don't grab a string of rogue swarf seconds before the chuck wants to take it for a spin. Anyway, sore finger aside, thank you for kicking off the journey that led me to a workshop that smells of way oil. Mmmmm. Comforting.
Dear Tony, I've been following your work for about 5 years now I think. Please don't change. You are the best. I know I'm too old to be a machinist/masochist now but man, it is still nice to learn from and admire your work. Thank you.
Thank you Tony so much for your content. I put this on when my 2 year old daughter is refusing to nap, your blend of monologue and hand gestures seem to be the magic mix for sending her off in record time, and I get entertained at the same time 😂❤
There are hardly any comparable worldly pleasures as profound as watching a video on gardening pruners by Tony. As always, good job on making nothing in particular mean everything in particular!
"Fueled by that rush of adrenaline only a dumb solution can give a person" 🤣😂 This hit home way too hard but I feel thankful to know this feeling all too well. Poetically well put Tony!
Small tip for acquiring image references of parts to copy in CAD: if the parts have a flat side (like in this case) use a scanner. Even the most accurately taken photo will always have some distortion due to the camera lens. Amazing video as always! :D
The amount of attention you gave your totally-legit driver’s license makes me very happy. Few would spend the time to create such things for a 2-second bit.
I finally figured out my problem. My lathe is almost always running which must be throwing off the pressure of my shop causing rough/jagged aluminum parts. You are a genius!
I'm amazed just how far you went to make an authentic-looking expired Alaskan driver's license for a couple-second gag. Having one of those myself, it looks _really good_ !
Three things I've learned from knife grinding in the last 8 years: 1. Grind with the knife edge against wheel rotation. It won't burr as bad on the edge. Fixture sturdiness is of utmost importance here as there is a slight danger of the wheel "grabbing" the part. 2. The knife needs to be on the wheel centerline for the correct angle. (Tony mentioned this.) 3. Coolant needs to be present so the temper is not drawn from the knife edge. It is difficult to direct it right on the part at times, so I usually aim it at the wheel. Let it spin out of the wheel before shutting down so the wheel doesn't go out of balance. (Shut the coolant off, let the grinder spin for a few minutes, then shut off the wheel.)
Great points. Though, wouldn't resurfacing the flat side and using a custom shim to offset the thickness removed, be much simpler? #3 Localized heat can definitely ruin/anneal the edge, coolant would certainly be required removing more material. Failed to realize leaving coolant 'in the wheel' can cause imbalance, TY. But such a video wouldn't be as interesting.
@@cheerdiver Agreed. Any time you can grind both sides of the edge is definitely beneficial. It's not always possible (or economical) to do it in that order. Often times it is much simpler to do what Tony did and just deburr it with a stone after grinding. Oftentimes this is unavoidable (pretty much all machining operations leave some burr that will have to be removed later.) Watching a grinder run without coolant is definitely more satisfying/entertaining.
In addition to coolant, it is also useful to be able to run the grinder more slowly. Creates less heat in the first place and has the side effect of not flinging coolant all over the shop.
Tony it doesn't matter what the content is, you make it interesting. And a learning experience to watch. Since you have been away from videos awhile, a lot of people miss you and your cander and the experience you share. More ToT please, if you can find the time to post. We will watch
Funny old game, life, isn’t it? Guy I don’t know takes time and puts in huge effort to cheer me up and keep me on a 15 year 2 months sobriety groove. Thanks Tony. Sincerely.❤
I wanted a church wedding but my Felco's are agnostic so back in 2012 we tied the knot in a registry office. Sometimes we cut wire sometimes 25.4mm (approx) oak logs, she couldn't care less and thats why I'm now physically able to join the Yiddish faith. Like Hilti we pay more for cuntinental tools than you guys, despite the additional 7-10000 miles they have to travel, something about loosing the war to the Americans but we watch this video every friday evening, so this is a special one thank you Mr T!
I have manufactured 1000s & 1000s of Blades to over 28,000 different blueprints for, wood, paper, leather, tires & even Zamboni Ice scrapers & more. On my pruners I often sharpen to a 27 degree point & add a 22 degree relief, leaving 1/16 of the 27 degree point. Just my 2 cents coming from over 40 years in the field. GOOD JOB.
16th inch left at the tip of the blade, thicker profile there may be to help reduce damage and deformation? I've sharpened a fair bit, but not pruning shears.
@@jonanderson5137 I worked with TRIANGLE T CORPERATION for 20 years & then for W Fearnehough of America for 8 years specializing in large Paper Knives 68"-98 long by 6.5-7.5 wide & 5/8-7/8 thick. These would be sharpened on a 22.5-24 degree bevel & a relief cut of 17 degree leaving .125 of the 22.5-24 degree. I hand honed these with multiple grades of oil stones. When finished I could take a normal sheet of paper & cut 25-30 slivers off paper as I walked down the blade in well less than a minute. These were Large & Scary sharp.
This is easily my 5th time watching this video and only now I’ve noticed that on 9:30 TOT says he’s setting his “calipers” to 55mm but actually sets them to 65. This man, I swear. Hides jokes under jokes ❤
I absolutely love your humor and am so grateful that someone like you exists that enjoys throwing out content like this. I am not a machinist at all, but I watch cause it's so fascinating. Thank you for the content and I hope you get to keep enjoying what you do!
Anyone who is mechanically inclined thinks of this type of thing when we're trying to do anything. The fact that you pulled if off so well... and filmed it. You're one of a kind Tony!
As someone who enjoys watching machining videos and your particular sense of humor, I heartily approve. As someone who really enjoys sharpening things, I shake my head in disbelief. Keep up the good work This Old Tony!
TOT - you are an absolute icon. It's an odd experience, while watching your videos, to be both intensely jealous and immensely grateful at the same time. A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I had a vacuum plate made for holding very thin sheets completely flat and wrinkle-free while they were getting coated with goop. The vacuum plate was made from Metapor Aluminum (McMaster Carr) which was pressed into a solid aluminum body with a small plenum space at the bottom which led to an exterior fitting connected to a vacuum pump. Even with a normal diaphragm pump running -15 " of Hg that thing could hold mass. If you're looking for a clampless chuck that won't be scared off by a little bit of shear force, I think you might consider building a vacuum plate. If you make a big one, you can use masking tape to blind off the area you don't use so that you maximize the vacuum draw under the part you want to hold. I have NO idea how common vacuum plates are so I thought I'd drop it in the comments in case it might be interesting to anyone.
Now Tony, I've been watching long enough that this is a brief glimpse at my present. I'm literally in my garage listening to this while working on a trough I welded together for coal storage, and it's all your fault!
Not a machinist, never will be, but my dad was a machinist and I love your content. It really tickles the dry humor part of my brain and the video quality is always superb!
Ikr! I thought it was funny he wanted a “factory edge” knowing any edge he puts on it will be bettered. And that first pass on the cutting where was magical!
Seriously, I always reshape the edge on a lot of things that come pre sharpened because they have such crap cutting angle or half ass grinder sharpening
A part of my job is making things like this for almost the exact purpose. (And a company I work for uses some equipment exactly like Felco has.) A couple of thoughts. The hole pattern is very likely a better location feature than the blade spine. So a dowel pin of a diameter matching the one on the handle pressed into the jig might be a better option than just a screw. It would also be nice if that jig actually had its own base that attaches to the sine plate. This way, you'd be able to set the exact rotation limits (again, dowel pins instead of screws). Since the wheel is round and has a different diameter every time you use it due to wear, this setup might be a little tricky unless you model everything in a CAD and make some sort of a reference frame that would ensure repeatability with a wheel set to the exact same height from the chuck surface, etc. BTW, a wheel axis finder (basically, a pendulum that attaches to the wheel shaft) might be a useful accessory to have if you want to do tricks like that in the future without much guesswork.
Hi TOT, great to see you back again! Thanks, as always, for another great video. Those counterfeit shears could well be "Night Shift" counterfeits. That's where some enterprising employees will use the same production line (and often the same materials) at night when the factory is "closed" (either without management's knowledge, or by management without the customer's knowledge). Sometimes they use QC rejects that are still pretty good. Golf clubs are a big target of this.
Glad to see you uploading more content again!! Think there are a lot of followers that seen literally every video on your channel already. I do😊 Keep the videos coming! Love the over-engineering projects.
Please know that I am a grumpy, old man that never laughs out loud at anything. That is, until discovering this channel. Now, not only do I learn new skills and ideas, I make everyone around me uncomfortable by gleefully cackling at jokes nobody would understand. Genuinely my favorite content in all of RUclips. Bravo!
Tony ! After lengthy, deep and hilarious calculonometric analysis of this video production, I came to the following conclusion: Excellent !!!! Thank you very much! You provide rays of sunshine in this dismal landscape of poseurs and factory job-men churning out endless abysmal mass-produced videos. I am refreshed! Thanks again!
@@rappin05 bypass loppers are supposed to be for green wood, and anvil style cutters are for dry wood. I don't know why I know that, but it is more random than something I could make up.
This Old. 1. I don't have a machine shop. Not even a garage. Not even a shed. 2. I don't have a garden. 3. I have NO interest in pruning. 4. Of ANY sort. 5. You have enriched my life. 6. AGAIN. 7. Thank you.
The mind Boggles me . Super dooper Sharp Pruners are what i have waited my whole life for. You Have shown me the True way to enlightment. Hey thats Neat, Love the way it worked out. :)
Ive been sharpening mine by hand at the back of my truck for 50 years and they are VERY sharp when I do it. It only takes about 15 seconds with a fine 4" to 6" flat file. Takes skill to not change the angle as you draw (not push) the file across the blade but something anyone over about 10 years old can learn in short order. But I'm also a gadget guy and like knowing all the ways it can be done.
I have also maintained mine by hand for years. However I have come to learn that any worthwhile machinist, or other passionate hobbyist for that matter, will never miss the opportunity to improve their efficiency by spending an exorbitant amount of time to create a gadget for saving a few seconds here and there. Solely because they wondered if they could. I can also say that whilst my felcos are still sharp, the blade certainly doesn't look like it used to. Every occasional mistake compounds on the others to give a rather unique blade profile.
wow dude. I don't know if I'm more impressed by your skills as a machinist, or the clever position play you have in making us wait to see your style skills in comparison to every other youtuber we watch lately. Los Dos! No Pressure but we need our Tió TOT!!
Am I ever going to make one these? Heck no. Will I watch you do it for over twenty minutes? Absolutely!!! I appreciate this level of OCD tool sharpness like few other ever will.
Warning this is a needlessly long and pointless story followed by a thank you. I had a shitty week this week, reported for doing my job correctly, customer puked on the way to their dropoff, (i have severe emetaphobia) and genrally just an hard weekend of work. But seeing a new video from a hobby i dont practice but love learning about might just be the turning point of my weekend. Thanks for the lesson and laughs Tony I really needed them.
Personally, I use the old tried-and-true sharpening method. Byleaving my shears in the shed for a couple of year (it pays to have a few pairs so you can rotate) and once they've rusted to the point of inop;erability, simply pop out to the garden center and get a new pair. Et viola! they cut like new!
I always love your videos! I got a kick out of the exacting precision with which you go to setting up the angle, and in the end you have to fudge it a little anyway and it ends up "close enough".
you again show me that machining entail a degree of precision and accuracy (yes I understand the difference) that I will never have the equipment or knowledge to achieve. it is such a relief to accept this.
As always, This Old Tony never fails to please!! Now, he did say it was Unnecessary, but so to arguably is the Lansky knife Sharpening system, but it works a treat!!
I own no shears that need an overkill sharpening system but as a machinist I still thought this was an awesome watch with the usual Tony jokes and trickery, Not to mention the satisfaction of that first full radius grinding pass (even if the angle might not have been perfect). Your a legend Tony, keep up the good work! Also consider putting the STL of the 2nd iteration jig up on thingiverse? Im sure there are other falco owners with a 3d printer looking for reasons to justify buying one lol
Tony, the wood pulp product you were trying to find the proper name for is called carton board. I worked for a maintenance contractor at a food manufacturing company, and the company we contracted with Packed their finished product in containers that they said were made of carton board.
I just love Tony's dialogue. I usually sharpen curved surfaces with a stone clamped to a rod held at a desired angle above the blade, in the fashion of the Lansky sharpening system. I use a set of cheap diamond plates, with a 400 grit stone to finish. Not mirror polished, but sharp enough. By turning the stone along the radius of the rod, most curves can be matched. But not this well :)
@@mattmanyam Well to be fair, Solingen pumps out some good stuff. I got my Wüsthof knife around 2 years ago and still dont have to sharpen it. My Zwilling knives did not fear so well. Both mare made in Solingen. For what i paid for the Wüsthof knife (159€), its worth it in my book.
@@Sharpless2you’re an excellent user of knives then because wustoff is known to be the softer end on hardness. Boker kinda ruined stuff. They’re okay now but expensive
It's not possible for me to care less about pruning shears. However, the entertainment value of this, and many other TOT videos, is Superlative. Glad to see you back online Tony, and, Thank You for the hours of Joy.
New fan of your channel, have come from your shorts. I am a furniture Upholsterer and have been sharpening my shears & scissors my entire career on an oil stone. Anyway commenting for the algorithm!
What can I say, as a CNC machine setter? Hmm, the factory's blade sharpener seems to basically be a linisher/sander belt. So you've ruined your own blade by making it slightly hollow ground, where theirs gives a submicroscopicaly convex grinch. Hollow ground cutter edges tend to create a chrono-synclastic infundibulum at the point of the cut within any given twig diameter, measured in growth rings, not metric or imperial. (unless you have an imperial garden) This has been scientificultly proven to upset the breeding frequency of local Chickadees, poor little things! But since no scientists have yet come up with a decent theory on the CSI, gardeners don't need to worry too much. Yet. And, on a final note, pause the vid at 16:23 and you'll notice that you've created a Chameleon's head profile. I love it!!!!!!!!!!!
So many great gags! I like the "sticking around" at the end whilst holding a round stick . . .clever and subtle (well kind of subtle). I was surprised you identify as a 7 foot 40 pound female after seeing your celebration youtube video where you revealed your face, but who am I to judge! Good tool but great story and video :)
I do like your videos Tony. Have been watching them for many years now. I love the light hearted approach and the excellent content. I've learned a lot from you. Many thanks Tony. Cheers Nobby in the U.K.
It could be a segment of an ellipse - easy to draw with two nails driven into a piece of wood and a loop of string. I wouldn’t want to spoil all the fun so I’ll leave it to you to work out how to translate that into a moving jig
A few years ago i made a DIY copy of the "Edge Pro" sharpening system since $300 was a bit much for my wallet and it works great on my shears. You can set the angle quite easily and since the hone is what moves, it can sharpen anything from a straight chefs knife to a curved hunting knife to a hatchet, and if done in sections, a machete. The machete is so sharp you can get 8-9 slices from a black olive
Thank you for using professional grade pruners. When I first graduated from college I tried half a dozen different brands and Felco pruners are the only high end one that you can use all day without causing your hand to cramp, have blisters or the pruner break. My wife watches the tv home renovations and it's easy to tell they have no idea on landscaping or pruning thanks to just the tools they use. Well that and the stupid ways they landscape.
Tony, I started watching you a few years ago, bought myself a Gorton Mastermill (much to my wife's chagrin), and now own a machine shop with several Haas CNC's. I'd just like you to know... ...that I blame you entirely 😋♥️.
Always a good day when TOD uploads, so much you can learn in one goofy little video that teaches you that you can solve any problem if you break it up into its basic components.
I love your videos. I always get a good chuckle with your commentary. As a machinist and an engineer myself, I appreciate the good craftsmanship of your work.
This man is a legend. His sense of humor is perfectly in line with mine. You've earned yourself a new subscriber- I may be a meaningless number to you, but you made my day better so thanks
I particularly enjoyed this video as I struggle with sharpening all the uncommon angles of various tools. It is usually a hit or miss for me. Lol. Yes, I definitely will attempt to make a jig like this! You inspire me as well! What I have learned from you, basically "Nothing is Impossible." Thanks TOT:)
I can't express how happy I am that the raw stock-parting shenanigans are back
Me too, I'm equally thrilled we seem to be getting regular-is content again ❤
Same here 😂
Same here-!! His entire Hollywood career was founded on those wonderful shenanigans-!!!
Wdym? Did you not know aluminum was that easy to break after a bit of stretching and cooled down?
Yes.
Totally.
I have the highest respect for a man who'd use hundreds of dollars worth of time and thousands of dollars worth of tools to save a $17 part from the scrap pile. Even more so because he made a video of his waste-avoiding journey for the world's entertainment and elucidation. Thank-you, Tony!
sure, but he had the tools, and now he has another tool (a jig) to not just save 1 $17 dollar part from the scrap pile, but can instead save as many of that $17 dollar part from the scrap pile as he wants. It's gotta be at LEAST three $17 dollar parts that will be saved 8)
You mind the pennies the pounds will look after themselves.
He can charge his neighbors to sharpen theirs…
God bless us everyone.
Back in the day, they'd give the gardener apprentice a pile of stock and a picture of felcos and tell him to make is own and trim the hedges. This is easy street by comparison.
As a gardener that has used the same pair of felcos in anger, for about 17 years with the same blade for about decade ,this is massive overkill . And I totally approve.
in other words, you’re jealous you didn’t have this 17 years ago.
that's $1/yr just to replace the blade!
i too, had pizza for lunch!
I have used the same Wolf for 40 years, an anvil type. It has seen a file once in a while, and is still in my pocket right now!
They will last almost for ever if you look after them.
i got my falko 2 in 38 years ago when i was studdy in gadening skool (vassbo) .
You don’t only inspire machinists and craftsmen but artists and storytellers. I watch just as much for your editing style, comedy, and storytelling as I do for the build. Thanks Tony!
There's comedy? Where?
Just kidding :-)
So true
Thanks for this Tony. It brought back memories.
My Grandfather (who was a tool and die maker) created a similar jig for a set of 100 curved blades he was asked to sharpen. I was in my early teens when he got the contract to do this work.
I recall how he smiled while describing the job to friends at a dinner table. He described that the curved blade edge was nothing more than part of a circle.
He must have had a similar eureka moment like you did.
One thing he gnashed his teeth about is that the set of blades he was working with had slightly different widths. To simplify, the radius of the curve was a smidge shorter on some blades than others.
While he was taking measurements on the blade, I am sure I heard many new bad words in German. This radius deviation was an anathema to his German perfectionist personality.
From what he could gather, years of hand sharpening had inconsistently removed more material from some blades than others.
This forced him to extra-engineer his jig by making it adjustable so that he could put the same exact angle (as close as possible anyway) on each blade depending on it's width (radius).
Basically he did something close to what you did on your cardstock model.. a bolt that he would turn to adjust the height of the angle.
A smaller radius would require lowering the one side of the jig by simply turning the screw. A larger radius would require increasing the height in the same manner.
The other thing he did was hone the flat side of the blades before he put each of them on the jig to sharpen the bevel.
I was not there when he did the flat grind work, but I remember the flat side of the blade to be so flat that I had difficulty picking it up with my fingers off an old surface plate he had in his shop. He used a magnet to grab them from flat surfaces because they were so flat on one side. Also to likely protect the surface plate from accidental scratches.
He explained to me (a then lowly teenage kid with nothing better to do but shadow his Grandfather) that the difference between a sharp scissors and a really sharp scissors blade is the combination of one side being very flat side and the other having a consistent and sharp bevel edge.
Once he had the jig set up on his grinder, he started work on the grinding.
I think he was done with all the blades in about an hour, though he spent a week working on that jig (he did all his machining manually... no CNC at that time in ancient history).
With each blade, he would adjust the bolt slightly depending on the blade width.
After he completed the grinding work, he stropped each blade to take off any burr.
In my young experience, those were some of the sharpest blades I had ever seen outside of the razor blades you get from a store.
He later told me that he not only got paid for the sharpening work, but also sold the jig to the business that hired him to do the work... for 3 times the cost of the contract!!
I guess the company really liked the work he had done but recognized that he may not be around much longer to do that work again. He was already well into retirement.
My Grandfather suffered a stroke shortly after that and passed away a few years later. I miss him still.
Thank you for all you do for us Tony. Every new video you give us is a feast of entertainment and learning all in one bundle. 🙂
I appreciate that you covered Felcos. I worked in a nursery in the early 2000's and they made me purchase them. I still have them and they really are great, possible the best pruners.
This is a lovely comment/story. Thanks for sharing.
@AllanSitte this is the best RUclips comment I’ve ever read, thanks for sharing.
🌈THE MORE YOU KNOW🌠
For German, '𝔇𝔦𝔢 𝔐𝔞𝔎𝔢𝔯' very roughly translates in English to, "𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙼𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛" !!
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Well told my friend. Thank you!
Tony, I'm one of those guys that you inspired to get into machining about 6 years ago. I am now the only machinist at my company programming and running a 5 axis machine and holding .0002 while doing it. Kinda weird that some guy in his garage I've never met altered the course of my life so much and in such a good way. so thanks for that.
Good on you
Same here man! Started off as a PTA welder (particle transfer arc) at a new shop with no interest in the scary world of precision machining, then I started watching Tony explaining the basics and fell in love! Now only 4 years later I run two hurco cnc 4 axis mills for 500 Rockwell industrial liners and a hurco cnc lathe! No schooling and RUclips taught! 😅
@@tanner2254 Kudos to all of you! Such great testimonies!
Ahh you too use million dollar machines with only RUclips training, we are a special lot.
This comment most deserves the heart.
One thing has become clear over the years of watching, Tony is a master machinist who spends 30 minutes on a project, and 60 hours on editing lol. Never disappoints!
Masters have dignity. Affirm his identity as a comedian or he'll post crying emojis.
Id like to know what editing program he has lol
@@filmaker256Last I heard it was Adobe Premiere
@@filmaker256 I do think he mentioned premiere once though I think because they gave him a trial period, its nothing special whit the program he uses though for most his shenanigans like cutting the stock, its just clever jump cuts whit the occasional aftereffect
What really boggles the mind is how as machinists we can spend hours drawing, engineering, designing, fabricating, and machining a single assembly just so we can make one 3 minute cut on the grinder.
Why it pays so little is beyond me.
I tried to make a similar gadget years ago. After trial and error I discovered the secret sauce. If you grow all of your plants at 22.5 degrees then all you need to do is make your cuts perpendicular to your right hand. I tried it left handed on my neighbours tree and oh boy, that didn't go well. His trees are not 22.5 degrees.
you should make a "This new Tony channel"
As someone living in New Mexico, it's refreshing to see a machinist use the traditional ways of cutting our small batch, shade grown and sun dried, free range, hand crafted artisanal aluminum. Keep the traditions alive, Tony!
Hi Tony. In tool sharpening we usually use the height of the unsharpened tool relative to the center of the grinding wheel.
If you sharpen at the height of center of the spindle (9 o'clock on the wheel) you get a 90° bevel.
If you raise the wheel 1/2 radiius (7h30 on the wheel) you get a 45º radius.
If you raise the wheel 3/4 radius you get 22,5º.
That way you don't need a sine plate and everything is orthogonal.
See a video of a "Akemat" saw sharpener if my description is confusing.
That makes sense. Keep the part flat but change where on the "compass" of the wheel you hold the part.
nice try smartie pants.
Just a minor note on your trigonometry -- moving the wheel vertically by half the wheel radius would yield a 30 degree bevel since arcsin(1/2) = 30 deg.
To get a 45 degree bevel, you would need to move the wheel vertically by sqrt(2)/2 times the wheel radius, or about 0.707 times the wheel radius, since sin(45deg) = sqrt(2)/2.
7:30 is halfway between 9:00 and 6:00 and would be at 45°, and 6:45 is 3/4 of the way from 9:00 and 6:00 and would be 22.5°, but those aren't at R/2 and R*3/4 higher -- you need sin(90°-angle)R higher or 0.7071R and 0.9239R higher.
It's a comfort to know that it might be a little bit of a wait sometimes, but sooner or later a new ToT video will come along, and even as someone who does not own pruning shears and would probably never in my life want to sharpen them if I did, I will be enthralled by the engineering and comedic glory of the best damn shear sharpening show on RUclips. Thanks ToT.
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❤
I'd watch a 20 minute ToT video on changing a roll of toilet paper
Whenever ToT posts it's a gift
Yeah this video turned into a real shi- I mean sharp show!
@@eddie895 All we ever hear from you is blah blah blah
So, all we ever do is go ja ja ja
It is difficult to portray to you quite how much I enjoy ALL your RUclipsnesses, but please be assured that there is no dark corner of my psyche that isn’t better off after watching your deeply informative instructional brilliance. You are always a ray of light in an otherwise tig-less welder, a ratchet set in a workshop without a brass hammer, perhaps a bandsaw without the bandaids. Always enjoyable, always entertaining and always appreciated. Thank you for sharing.
The man is a legend no doubt about it!!
That was funny. You’re quite the wordsmith!
Tony is in a class of his own! Nobody even comes close!
I always knew Tony was a shaved sasquatch, now we have proof!!!!
Great idea!
I started watching these videos many moons ago. They planted a seed in my brain and the nascent desire to own a lathe and other life threatening shop tools. Less than seven days ago, I took delivery of my first lathe (8x16 mini lathe) and some other vaguely threatening shop machines. I turned my first brass and aluminium this week and I'm extremely proud to say that I even managed to cut myself pretty bad. I know seasoned machinist can take years before they cut themselves, so I feel like I'm ahead of the curve already, in that I now know you don't grab a string of rogue swarf seconds before the chuck wants to take it for a spin. Anyway, sore finger aside, thank you for kicking off the journey that led me to a workshop that smells of way oil. Mmmmm. Comforting.
I got tears in my eyes. This was beautiful to read.
(also missed opportunity to spell it like "minila the")
@@yannicmeyer421 I'd completely forgot about Minila The. Good shout. :)
Congratulations, and in another month or so you will be playing guitar like Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath!
@@kenhukushi1637 A man can dream. :P🤪
Best to keep your fingers off swarf even when it looks asleep. Get some of those extra-long pliers or forceps
Dear Tony,
I've been following your work for about 5 years now I think. Please don't change. You are the best. I know I'm too old to be a machinist/masochist now but man, it is still nice to learn from and admire your work. Thank you.
Wow, thank you!
Thank you Tony so much for your content. I put this on when my 2 year old daughter is refusing to nap, your blend of monologue and hand gestures seem to be the magic mix for sending her off in record time, and I get entertained at the same time 😂❤
Yes indeed, the magic mix ....
Felco's sales department is going "WTF? Why did our monthly sales just quadruple in august?"
Nice one Tony.
Well, tbh felco makes some really good quality stuff
And why is our QC guy getting so many emails?
Look for a felco sharpening jig coming to a pruning shears shop near you soon. TOT, Patent NOW!😁
Intentionally running the finger along the curved edge for all those safety people out there was a good touch.
That is when I thought, Okay those need sharpened.
Not a safety person myself, but that did bother me. Then again I've cut myself on less sharp things.
I know... that I cringed every time, and grabbed my own thumb by reflex...
:)
i expected to see the application of bandage after bandage after bandage as this tutorial progressed
I nearly jumped out of my skin...TWICE when I saw that.
There are hardly any comparable worldly pleasures as profound as watching a video on gardening pruners by Tony.
As always, good job on making nothing in particular mean everything in particular!
"Fueled by that rush of adrenaline only a dumb solution can give a person" 🤣😂 This hit home way too hard but I feel thankful to know this feeling all too well. Poetically well put Tony!
Small tip for acquiring image references of parts to copy in CAD: if the parts have a flat side (like in this case) use a scanner. Even the most accurately taken photo will always have some distortion due to the camera lens.
Amazing video as always! :D
The amount of attention you gave your totally-legit driver’s license makes me very happy. Few would spend the time to create such things for a 2-second bit.
0:25 I missed this the 1st time. Thanks for the excuse to watch a 2nd time!
Also found out she identifies as female......
And 7 foot tall, weighing 440 pounds with green eyes, riding a motorcycle. 😮
@@paulsmith9341I think that's a moose
@@paulsmith9341 Wow, I had no idea TOT had to shop at the big and tall, and the camera apparently DOES take pounds off her.
I finally figured out my problem. My lathe is almost always running which must be throwing off the pressure of my shop causing rough/jagged aluminum parts. You are a genius!
LOL
I'm amazed just how far you went to make an authentic-looking expired Alaskan driver's license for a couple-second gag. Having one of those myself, it looks _really good_ !
You should get your license renewed!
Well, he had to hide the "subscribe" somewhere...
@@Bobs-Wrigles5555 He had it on the info plate on the bandsaw before the license tile popped up.
Look closer, 440 lb 7' 7" female hand face.
I had to pause and admire that work of art.
Three things I've learned from knife grinding in the last 8 years:
1. Grind with the knife edge against wheel rotation. It won't burr as bad on the edge. Fixture sturdiness is of utmost importance here as there is a slight danger of the wheel "grabbing" the part.
2. The knife needs to be on the wheel centerline for the correct angle. (Tony mentioned this.)
3. Coolant needs to be present so the temper is not drawn from the knife edge. It is difficult to direct it right on the part at times, so I usually aim it at the wheel. Let it spin out of the wheel before shutting down so the wheel doesn't go out of balance. (Shut the coolant off, let the grinder spin for a few minutes, then shut off the wheel.)
Great points.
Though, wouldn't resurfacing the flat side and using a custom shim to offset the thickness removed, be much simpler?
#3 Localized heat can definitely ruin/anneal the edge, coolant would certainly be required removing more material.
Failed to realize leaving coolant 'in the wheel' can cause imbalance, TY. But such a video wouldn't be as interesting.
@@cheerdiver Agreed. Any time you can grind both sides of the edge is definitely beneficial. It's not always possible (or economical) to do it in that order. Often times it is much simpler to do what Tony did and just deburr it with a stone after grinding. Oftentimes this is unavoidable (pretty much all machining operations leave some burr that will have to be removed later.)
Watching a grinder run without coolant is definitely more satisfying/entertaining.
In addition to coolant, it is also useful to be able to run the grinder more slowly. Creates less heat in the first place and has the side effect of not flinging coolant all over the shop.
Tony, your videos bring me so much joy. Thank you for making them.
Tony it doesn't matter what the content is, you make it interesting. And a learning experience to watch. Since you have been away from videos awhile, a lot of people miss you and your cander and the experience you share.
More ToT please, if you can find the time to post. We will watch
Always super interesting with fantastic comedy timing / editing. Thank you TOT🇬🇧
Funny old game, life, isn’t it? Guy I don’t know takes time and puts in huge effort to cheer me up and keep me on a 15 year 2 months sobriety groove. Thanks Tony. Sincerely.❤
I love these gardening channels where they do a bit of machining!
So damn good to have This Old Tony back again 🙂
I wanted a church wedding but my Felco's are agnostic so back in 2012 we tied the knot in a registry office. Sometimes we cut wire sometimes 25.4mm (approx) oak logs, she couldn't care less and thats why I'm now physically able to join the Yiddish faith.
Like Hilti we pay more for cuntinental tools than you guys, despite the additional 7-10000 miles they have to travel, something about loosing the war to the Americans but we watch this video every friday evening, so this is a special one thank you Mr T!
I am an old retired engineer and watch youtube all day. This Old Tony is the best.
More evidence that a machinis's main job is figuring out how to properly hold the work piece. Exceptional work as usual sir.
Now this was just pure excellence! Classic ToT editing and jokes. Nothing beats that
I have manufactured 1000s & 1000s of Blades to over 28,000 different blueprints for, wood, paper, leather, tires & even Zamboni Ice scrapers & more. On my pruners I often sharpen to a 27 degree point & add a 22 degree relief, leaving 1/16 of the 27 degree point. Just my 2 cents coming from over 40 years in the field. GOOD JOB.
Is that 1/16th of the bevel, or 1/16th of the linear length, or 1/16", or …? (Edit: I suppose the first two are the same.)
16th inch left at the tip of the blade, thicker profile there may be to help reduce damage and deformation? I've sharpened a fair bit, but not pruning shears.
@@jonanderson5137 I worked with TRIANGLE T CORPERATION for 20 years & then for W Fearnehough of America for 8 years specializing in large Paper Knives 68"-98 long by 6.5-7.5 wide & 5/8-7/8 thick. These would be sharpened on a 22.5-24 degree bevel & a relief cut of 17 degree leaving .125 of the 22.5-24 degree. I hand honed these with multiple grades of oil stones. When finished I could take a normal sheet of paper & cut 25-30 slivers off paper as I walked down the blade in well less than a minute. These were Large & Scary sharp.
This is easily my 5th time watching this video and only now I’ve noticed that on 9:30 TOT says he’s setting his “calipers” to 55mm but actually sets them to 65. This man, I swear. Hides jokes under jokes ❤
I absolutely love your humor and am so grateful that someone like you exists that enjoys throwing out content like this. I am not a machinist at all, but I watch cause it's so fascinating.
Thank you for the content and I hope you get to keep enjoying what you do!
Anyone who is mechanically inclined thinks of this type of thing when we're trying to do anything. The fact that you pulled if off so well... and filmed it. You're one of a kind Tony!
As someone who enjoys watching machining videos and your particular sense of humor, I heartily approve. As someone who really enjoys sharpening things, I shake my head in disbelief. Keep up the good work This Old Tony!
same
The amount of effort you put in to a 2 frame sight gag is always a pleasure. Hats off to you.
I'm embarrassed at just how excited my partner and I got when the sharpie disappeared... So fresh and so clean! ❤
TOT - you are an absolute icon. It's an odd experience, while watching your videos, to be both intensely jealous and immensely grateful at the same time. A long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I had a vacuum plate made for holding very thin sheets completely flat and wrinkle-free while they were getting coated with goop. The vacuum plate was made from Metapor Aluminum (McMaster Carr) which was pressed into a solid aluminum body with a small plenum space at the bottom which led to an exterior fitting connected to a vacuum pump. Even with a normal diaphragm pump running -15 " of Hg that thing could hold mass. If you're looking for a clampless chuck that won't be scared off by a little bit of shear force, I think you might consider building a vacuum plate. If you make a big one, you can use masking tape to blind off the area you don't use so that you maximize the vacuum draw under the part you want to hold. I have NO idea how common vacuum plates are so I thought I'd drop it in the comments in case it might be interesting to anyone.
Now Tony, I've been watching long enough that this is a brief glimpse at my present. I'm literally in my garage listening to this while working on a trough I welded together for coal storage, and it's all your fault!
Not a machinist, never will be, but my dad was a machinist and I love your content. It really tickles the dry humor part of my brain and the video quality is always superb!
The factory sharp tool has always been the dullest one in the toolbox😂
Ikr! I thought it was funny he wanted a “factory edge” knowing any edge he puts on it will be bettered. And that first pass on the cutting where was magical!
Seriously, I always reshape the edge on a lot of things that come pre sharpened because they have such crap cutting angle or half ass grinder sharpening
I always tune up the factory edge. The factory is not that particular.
Hear, hear; although Felco does a better job than most. A fine file suits me just fine.
I've only achieved as good as factory a couple times when sharpening, and I've been trying for years
A part of my job is making things like this for almost the exact purpose. (And a company I work for uses some equipment exactly like Felco has.) A couple of thoughts. The hole pattern is very likely a better location feature than the blade spine. So a dowel pin of a diameter matching the one on the handle pressed into the jig might be a better option than just a screw. It would also be nice if that jig actually had its own base that attaches to the sine plate. This way, you'd be able to set the exact rotation limits (again, dowel pins instead of screws). Since the wheel is round and has a different diameter every time you use it due to wear, this setup might be a little tricky unless you model everything in a CAD and make some sort of a reference frame that would ensure repeatability with a wheel set to the exact same height from the chuck surface, etc. BTW, a wheel axis finder (basically, a pendulum that attaches to the wheel shaft) might be a useful accessory to have if you want to do tricks like that in the future without much guesswork.
I love this style of informational, sprinkled with total missinformation. Great video as usual.
I've sharpened those Felco blade by hand many times with files, stones, belt grinders, whatever I had. This is extreme overkill and I love it.
My happiness is back in action after seeing this.
Thanks, Tony. I wont be sharpening any pruners but then that is not why I have watched every video you have made. Every one a gem. Take it easy.
Hi TOT, great to see you back again! Thanks, as always, for another great video.
Those counterfeit shears could well be "Night Shift" counterfeits. That's where some enterprising employees will use the same production line (and often the same materials) at night when the factory is "closed" (either without management's knowledge, or by management without the customer's knowledge). Sometimes they use QC rejects that are still pretty good.
Golf clubs are a big target of this.
Love it!!! Falling down a pruning rabbit hole and landing at the bottom in a sea of excellence. Bravo 👍
Glad to see you uploading more content again!! Think there are a lot of followers that seen literally every video on your channel already. I do😊 Keep the videos coming! Love the over-engineering projects.
Ahh. The pruning shear saga continues... lol Love it.
Please know that I am a grumpy, old man that never laughs out loud at anything. That is, until discovering this channel. Now, not only do I learn new skills and ideas, I make everyone around me uncomfortable by gleefully cackling at jokes nobody would understand. Genuinely my favorite content in all of RUclips. Bravo!
Tony ! After lengthy, deep and hilarious calculonometric analysis of this video production, I came to the following conclusion:
Excellent !!!! Thank you very much!
You provide rays of sunshine in this dismal landscape of poseurs and factory job-men churning out endless abysmal mass-produced videos. I am refreshed! Thanks again!
That is the best use of 24.10 mins this week. Fantastic !!
I don’t notice 😂
I really enjoy the storytelling aspect of your videos. They are genuinely fun and informative.
And your blade is almost as sharp as your wit!
You're going to want to re-establish that tiny back bevel. Without it, in a heavy cut, the top blade can ride over the bottom blade, damaging both.
Great, that will require a whole other jig now.
Aha, so that's why my fiskars loppers kicked the bucket straight out of the package. Not a big branch either but it was dry.
@@rappin05 bypass loppers are supposed to be for green wood, and anvil style cutters are for dry wood. I don't know why I know that, but it is more random than something I could make up.
This Old.
1. I don't have a machine shop. Not even a garage. Not even a shed.
2. I don't have a garden.
3. I have NO interest in pruning.
4. Of ANY sort.
5. You have enriched my life.
6. AGAIN.
7. Thank you.
The mind Boggles me . Super dooper Sharp Pruners are what i have waited my whole life for. You Have shown me the True way to enlightment. Hey thats Neat, Love the way it worked out. :)
Ive been sharpening mine by hand at the back of my truck for 50 years and they are VERY sharp when I do it. It only takes about 15 seconds with a fine 4" to 6" flat file. Takes skill to not change the angle as you draw (not push) the file across the blade but something anyone over about 10 years old can learn in short order. But I'm also a gadget guy and like knowing all the ways it can be done.
I have also maintained mine by hand for years. However I have come to learn that any worthwhile machinist, or other passionate hobbyist for that matter, will never miss the opportunity to improve their efficiency by spending an exorbitant amount of time to create a gadget for saving a few seconds here and there. Solely because they wondered if they could.
I can also say that whilst my felcos are still sharp, the blade certainly doesn't look like it used to. Every occasional mistake compounds on the others to give a rather unique blade profile.
Absolutely perfect. I love using a well sharpened and tuned up tool almost as much as I enjoy the process of unnecessary sharpening and tuning.
Always worth a little tickle….. just to be sure, right!🇬🇧
wow dude. I don't know if I'm more impressed by your skills as a machinist, or the clever position play you have in making us wait to see your style skills in comparison to every other youtuber we watch lately. Los Dos! No Pressure but we need our Tió TOT!!
Am I ever going to make one these? Heck no. Will I watch you do it for over twenty minutes? Absolutely!!! I appreciate this level of OCD tool sharpness like few other ever will.
Warning this is a needlessly long and pointless story followed by a thank you. I had a shitty week this week, reported for doing my job correctly, customer puked on the way to their dropoff, (i have severe emetaphobia) and genrally just an hard weekend of work. But seeing a new video from a hobby i dont practice but love learning about might just be the turning point of my weekend. Thanks for the lesson and laughs Tony I really needed them.
I love how you trace out the blade in CAD design this is exactly how I do most of my projects with complicated shapes!!!
Personally, I use the old tried-and-true sharpening method. Byleaving my shears in the shed for a couple of year (it pays to have a few pairs so you can rotate) and once they've rusted to the point of inop;erability, simply pop out to the garden center and get a new pair. Et viola! they cut like new!
I'd like a walk through your shed
@@jeremymcadam7400 You may not survive the experience!
I always love your videos! I got a kick out of the exacting precision with which you go to setting up the angle, and in the end you have to fudge it a little anyway and it ends up "close enough".
Okay, your sense of humour is beyond peak... absolutely transcendent even. Please never stop being this hilarious😁
you again show me that machining entail a degree of precision and accuracy (yes I understand the difference) that I will never have the equipment or knowledge to achieve.
it is such a relief to accept this.
"My Jeep got stuck climbing that 3% grade". Man Tony, you promised you wouldn't tell anyone!
I was bracing for the hate from the Jeepsters but then I realized how sharp they are.
As always, This Old Tony never fails to please!! Now, he did say it was Unnecessary, but so to arguably is the Lansky knife Sharpening system, but it works a treat!!
So true lol. They even have the cheek to only sell the low grit stones in the set. the sapphire and the strop are "extras" lol. (ask me how I know).
I own no shears that need an overkill sharpening system but as a machinist I still thought this was an awesome watch with the usual Tony jokes and trickery, Not to mention the satisfaction of that first full radius grinding pass (even if the angle might not have been perfect). Your a legend Tony, keep up the good work! Also consider putting the STL of the 2nd iteration jig up on thingiverse? Im sure there are other falco owners with a 3d printer looking for reasons to justify buying one lol
I really like your technical expertise and crafting skills, but I appreciate most that your videos always leave me with a smile 😊
Tony, the wood pulp product you were trying to find the proper name for is called carton board. I worked for a maintenance contractor at a food manufacturing company, and the company we contracted with Packed their finished product in containers that they said were made of carton board.
I have no intention on building such a jig, but I sure had a blast watching you do so.
I just love Tony's dialogue. I usually sharpen curved surfaces with a stone clamped to a rod held at a desired angle above the blade, in the fashion of the Lansky sharpening system. I use a set of cheap diamond plates, with a 400 grit stone to finish. Not mirror polished, but sharp enough. By turning the stone along the radius of the rod, most curves can be matched. But not this well :)
Referring to the blade as "Mil-Spec" also increases its sharpness.
"Surgical Steel"
"Rosta-frei"
"Solingen"
He had me at hollow ground.
@@mattmanyam Well to be fair, Solingen pumps out some good stuff. I got my Wüsthof knife around 2 years ago and still dont have to sharpen it. My Zwilling knives did not fear so well. Both mare made in Solingen. For what i paid for the Wüsthof knife (159€), its worth it in my book.
@Sharpless2 don't disagree at all. Just referring to when people say 'Solingen', as if it were a steel alloy, instead of a place of origin.
@@Sharpless2you’re an excellent user of knives then because wustoff is known to be the softer end on hardness.
Boker kinda ruined stuff. They’re okay now but expensive
I love your videos especially this one I hope I never become addicted to sharpening my gardening tools lol keep up the great work 😊
It's not possible for me to care less about pruning shears. However, the entertainment value of this, and many other TOT videos, is Superlative. Glad to see you back online Tony, and, Thank You for the hours of Joy.
I love your videos man...I subscribed like 3 years ago and am always waiting for your next one.
I've always enjoyed your videos. Thank you for keeping up the wonderful content.
Another great presentation Tony. I always enjoy your work. Thanks.
New fan of your channel, have come from your shorts. I am a furniture Upholsterer and have been sharpening my shears & scissors my entire career on an oil stone. Anyway commenting for the algorithm!
What can I say, as a CNC machine setter? Hmm, the factory's blade sharpener seems to basically be a linisher/sander belt. So you've ruined your own blade by making it slightly hollow ground, where theirs gives a submicroscopicaly convex grinch.
Hollow ground cutter edges tend to create a chrono-synclastic infundibulum at the point of the cut within any given twig diameter, measured in growth rings, not metric or imperial. (unless you have an imperial garden) This has been scientificultly proven to upset the breeding frequency of local Chickadees, poor little things! But since no scientists have yet come up with a decent theory on the CSI, gardeners don't need to worry too much. Yet.
And, on a final note, pause the vid at 16:23 and you'll notice that you've created a Chameleon's head profile. I love it!!!!!!!!!!!
Not sure what I enjoyed more; the humor and education that your video (as usual) delivered. Or, that for $17 dollars I can buy a replacement. 😁
It’s a good day when I get to watch a wonderfully over complicated knife sharpener being built!
Dare I say, day and a half.. two days.
This notification is always a good news! ❤
So many great gags! I like the "sticking around" at the end whilst holding a round stick . . .clever and subtle (well kind of subtle). I was surprised you identify as a 7 foot 40 pound female after seeing your celebration youtube video where you revealed your face, but who am I to judge! Good tool but great story and video :)
I do like your videos Tony. Have been watching them for many years now. I love the light hearted approach and the excellent content. I've learned a lot from you. Many thanks Tony. Cheers Nobby in the U.K.
You really have to wonder what kind of yard Tony has... it's been a year of garden tool content. This Old Royal Botanic Garden.
I was looking forward to see how a tear-drop shaped blade sharpening jig would look. I hope you get one of those blades! Love your videos!
It could be a segment of an ellipse - easy to draw with two nails driven into a piece of wood and a loop of string. I wouldn’t want to spoil all the fun so I’ll leave it to you to work out how to translate that into a moving jig
A few years ago i made a DIY copy of the "Edge Pro" sharpening system since $300 was a bit much for my wallet and it works great on my shears. You can set the angle quite easily and since the hone is what moves, it can sharpen anything from a straight chefs knife to a curved hunting knife to a hatchet, and if done in sections, a machete. The machete is so sharp you can get 8-9 slices from a black olive
Thank you for using professional grade pruners. When I first graduated from college I tried half a dozen different brands and Felco pruners are the only high end one that you can use all day without causing your hand to cramp, have blisters or the pruner break. My wife watches the tv home renovations and it's easy to tell they have no idea on landscaping or pruning thanks to just the tools they use. Well that and the stupid ways they landscape.
Tony, I started watching you a few years ago, bought myself a Gorton Mastermill (much to my wife's chagrin), and now own a machine shop with several Haas CNC's. I'd just like you to know...
...that I blame you entirely 😋♥️.
at this point im starting to think the whole gardening theme from lately started as a joke and tony ended up finding his true passion
Always a good day when TOD uploads, so much you can learn in one goofy little video that teaches you that you can solve any problem if you break it up into its basic components.
Just what I come for. That quality pruning content. The Chinese electric pruners lose that sparkle?
I must say, I bought an electric pruner after the video. My wife and I love them.
I love your videos. I always get a good chuckle with your commentary. As a machinist and an engineer myself, I appreciate the good craftsmanship of your work.
This man is a legend. His sense of humor is perfectly in line with mine. You've earned yourself a new subscriber- I may be a meaningless number to you, but you made my day better so thanks
I particularly enjoyed this video as I struggle with sharpening all the uncommon angles of various tools. It is usually a hit or miss for me. Lol. Yes, I definitely will attempt to make a jig like this!
You inspire me as well! What I have learned from you, basically "Nothing is Impossible."
Thanks TOT:)