OMG as a huge fan of this channel I can't believe I never saw this video until just now (Jan 2020). Finally I see the face attached to the voice! I may be traumatized for life LOL. You know how you get a mental image of someone from just hearing their voice, especially if you've heard it for quite some time but never seen them? Yeah ... TOTALLY DIFFERENT than I expected. Not necessarily in a bad way but jarringly different enough from the vague mental picture I'd developed that now there is some kind of weird "does not compute" thing going on in my head when I watch the rest of the video. Oh well, I'll eventually get over it - perhaps watching more ToT is good therapy ..... On a serious note Mr. Old Tony, I honestly do tremendously enjoy every video. Informative, funny, educational, and incredibly high production quality. It really is a joy to watch every one so thank you for all the effort you put in to making the videos.
Same here... Long time Tony Fan... I was cooking the Lunch, while the videos were showing randomly. Suddenly I saw a face! I dropped the knife, my chin drops open and I'm standing here in awe :D Please dont tell me there is a similar AVE-Vigeo somewhere!? MINDBLOWN!
Michael M I’m not sure where but I saw a thumbnail pic of Ave the other day... maybe it was Ave himself doing another channel? Biggest set of chompers I ever saw in my life...
Soooo its about 2 and a half years down the line and you added another half a million subscribers to your channel. That's really something. And yes, practically you did not add them yourself....but really, you did add them. Your channel must be the most creative and well executed information or DIY channel on the web today. Congrats on a fantastic job and looking forward to seeing more.
So, for reference, if anyone wants to heat treat D3, the process shown is just fine. It's a good idea to hold it at temperature for a couple minutes, or as long as you can stand, whichever comes first. 1750F (954C) is about when it starts to be more orange than red, a bit cooler is fine. The perfect tempering temp is 400F, for which a kitchen oven is perfect. You'll get about 61 HRC and avoid re-embrittlement which means it'll be very tough, ~25 ft-lbs Izod. Source: ThermoFusion Inc. - Hayward, CA
Going back and re-watching the oldies and the learning continues. Hard to believe you were celebrating the 100K mark back then. Your content and humor deserve millions of subscribers.
As both a college professor and a cartoon character, I feel I can speak with some authority on this: any video that can make me think critically about the stress-strain diagram and make coffee come out of my nose is A-ok.
Next up: determining the ballistic trajectory of nose coffee. Given an initial velocity of v_0=5m/s, an initial height h_0=1.5m, and a launch angle theta=55 degrees wrt the horizontal, determine the maximum height, maximum range when h=0m, and total flight time of the nose coffee. Ignore air resistance and assume that the coffee is a spherical cow with radius r=1cm.
Tony, I confess I was looking for a video to see the face behind the voice and hands, and also must confess that I didn’t envision you like you are! I had a more Italian appearance! Thank you for all the videos you do and the entertainment is unparalleled! You played around on what you really do for a living but after 35+ years working on computers and photo retouching for a good amount of those 35 years, I can’t deny you pass by a multimedia/animation or electric/electronic engineer guy. Really would love to know your real background. Again, thank you for all you do and for the way you portray yourself with such a great relationship with all other content creators!
Hey there, This Old Tony! Wow! You're nothing like how I pictured you! Or, rather, you're EXACTLY like how I pictured you, minus the fedora! At any rate, it's nice to finally put a face to the rugged, suave, devil-may-care voice we've all grown to know & love! In any case, as the years pass, may you continue to grow thiser older & Tonyer in your customary style and grace! Cheers, Amigo!
Funny, I came back to this to remind me of what ToT looked like, and his joke at the beginning ... ain't a joke anymore. Hope to see you back when enough healing happens.
Wanna hear a fun story? I live in Quebec, and my cousin Dima worked with AvE in the tech support department of Bosch, before AvE left about 3 years ago. And i was begging him for a long time to somehow set up a meeting with Him (the one whose name cannot be pronounced correctly), and my cousin was like -No man, i can't, he made me swear on my mother. So, about a week ago, i think it was friday, my cousin Dima was fired from the tech support department of Bosch. Apparently, as a side gig, he was illegally hacking these stupid electric scooters to be able to reach 35km/h. Long story short, he made me swear not to tell his mother that he was fired from his job, and in return he would set up a meeting. Besides, aunt Luba is an old lady, she don't need this kind of negativity in her life right now. Anyway, Dima told me that when they worked together, every day after work, AvE visited the Old central bus station. And i was like -Yeah, cool, i know the place. To those not familiar with the place, the "Old central bus station" is like this ugly concrete building, what they use to build in the 70's. The ones with the permanent aroma of stale pee. As they age, these building tend to attract the kind of vendors you generally won't find in your local family friendly strip mall. (Just as a side note, i don't judge and absolutely don't mind businesses that offer hydraulic butt toys and clamps, nor extreme vegetarian sex massages. Also, i very much like the meat and onion pirogi Vova is selling at the corner) Where was i... Ah yeah, so, i decided to give it a try, so me and Dima took a couple of beers and went to the bus station. We wandered around for awhile. The place was kindda creepy. I had no idea what we were looking for. I sat down to roll a cigarette on a bench in front of "The Rubber Empire". Dima left standing and was nervously looking around as i was smoking the weirdly shaped cigarette i managed to produce. The flicking neon sign stated that the rubber guys had "All the rubber you can rub" and "Open 24/7". A well built man with lush facial hair, in an elegant suit and a red turban was standing near the black door that was apparently the entrance to the place. Suddenly i felt Dima tapping on my shoulder. He whispered -That's him. The guy with the paper bag... I turned around. -Him? Are you sure? I was shocked to say the least. I always imagined AvE (real name's Colin by the way) looking like.. you know, like your average canadian asshole, i guess. But against all my expectations, in front of me stood a short bald man, wearing an expensive, three piece, pin-stripe suit. He had glasses with with thick lenses that made his eyes look small and spaced apart. He was holding a brown paper bag in his hand and was heading towards the Empire. I stood up, flicked the half finished cigarette, and advanced towards him to introduce myself. I called -Ave! He spooked and turned around. I reached my hand and said -Ave, it's a great... He stepped back and before i could finish my sentence he asked -What's your name, boy? He sniffed his nose and touched his left nostril with his thumb a couple of times. I said -Hey Ave! I'm Stas, it's an honor... -Keep your dick in a vise! - he interrupted me. He looked annoyed. -What do you say about my empire of dirt, bud? - he pointed towards the Rubber Empire. -We haven't been... - i tried answering his question, but he interrupted me again... -That's skookum! - He blurted -Now, fuck off. He turned away and shouted -Farouk, come take this from me. The man with the turban approached us. -Please call Rudolf, tell him to prepare the room - said AvE to Farouk and gave him the paper bag. He turned away and started walking towards the black door of The Empire. -I love your channel, man! - i said to his back. -Farouk, take care of this please - he said without turning his head and made a waving hand gesture. -I think it would be better for all of us if both of you get the fuck out of here before i break your shit - Calmly said Farouk. -We're sorry, sir - said Dima. He then turned to me and said -Lets get the fuck out of here, before we'd have to use our free medical care. As we started walking, i heard him shout -Farouk, time! The entire experience left a bad taste in my mouth, and i really had to take this off my chest. I'm thinking about unsubscribing.
@@StanislavG. I get that it was not what you expected, but put yourself in his shoes. Did you ever think that maybe a guy who never shows his face in his videos, rarely ever puts personal details in his videos, has never (to my knowledge) said his real name in his videos, and gives little to no indication of where he specifically lives in his videos might be trying very hard to avoid the exact situation you put him in? To him your just some random internet stranger, possibly even some dangerous lunatic (not saying you are but how the hell would he know that). Now you have not only put him in an awkward situation by ambushing him off the street, but now you've shared details with the whole world that he clearly didn't wish to share and in so doing violated his privacy. Did you even think about any of this before posting your comment? That story wasn't funny. It was petty and inconsiderate.
These videos are starting to make a bunch of connections for an habitual recent viewer. I mean, I've enjoyed so many over the last 3 years and it is a pleasure to see the early stuff. Thank you This Old Tony!
After seeing just the intro, the face makes so much sense, and I love the humor. Keep the awesome videos coming. I feel like we've known each other for years!
I watched this video with a non-mechanical inclinded friend (he sells website so... yeah...) and I had to explain that it was not real everytime he went "whoaaaaaa dude....". I feel like Tony's prank are just "real" enough...
As I sit down to watch this for the bazillionth time I realize the opening joke hits a little differently now that you're actually at 1 million subscribers. Congrats TOT
Making about pass number 7 through the ToT channel vids and this one popped up. I remembered it from a few years back but I coulda swore Alan Alda was in that chair. Anyway, thank you Tony for getting me into machining and forcing me to spend all my mo……..holding my hand while walking me through the steps of hobby machining. Great to see a face for the hands. Thanks!
I can imagine that any kid that managed to watch you will have his thought processes totally bent out of shape - I love it. Planing tool steel, that has to go well when the kid tries it with his dad's beloved wood working tools!
Hi Tony! Love your videos. Just a note which 30 other people have probably already brought to your attention: Stress causes strain. Stress is measured in units of pressure, for example Pascales or PSI, and is the force exerted on an area. That force causes strain, which is deformation of the material. Strain is unitless and is simply a percent deformation (strain value of 0.2 being 20% deformation). Anyway, I thought I'd share this, as you've taught me so much about machining without me ever having to karate chop a chunk of D3 myself. Cheers!
Man I found your channel like 5 years ago... Maybe more? Idk, point is I got hooked and watched a ton of your videos and I dunno what happened, whether you stopped uploading or RUclips just stopped showing me your videos on the feed, but I hadn't watched you in years, then recently, one of your old videos I had already watched popped up (which of course I proceeded to watch again, I think I've watched your making springs video like 3 times already) Anyway WOW, you have a million subs now... never thought I'd actually get to see your face. I dunno, faces usually match the voices like 99.99% of the time, but somehow I am not convinced here. I just can't match that voice to how you look. Your voice totally matches your hands, but I dunno, I thought you'd look thicker, perhaps older, just different. Anyway, this video was absolutely amazing, that insert tool was an absolute work of art in my eyes.
Been watching through the ol' catalogue again, for memories sake. Can you believe 1 million subs has become real? That said, this might be the finest example I've ever found of the exact type of dad humor I resonate with, and it's why I loved the channel so much the minute I found it (from Alex French Guy Cooking's channel, when you rebuilt his pasta press)
Wow, not a lot of RUclipsrs (especially makers) get me laughing so hard... I mean, that face! Congrats on 100k Tony. One of the best channels on this whole damn site.
I have only been watching your videos for a few months and love them but only have time for one every few days. I just came across this one in my “recommended” list. The reason I’m commenting on it (I seldom write comments.... I just hit the “like” button) is because I saw that you had just passed 100K subs. It is now just under two years later and you are at just under 500K subs!!! Your style and content is definitely in demand! Thank you for educating and entertaining so many of us that are trying to improve our skills in this craft.
Heya Tony, I might be considered a long-time fan by now. Never really figured to comment because you sorta feel like a mentor you just don't want to waste time of. Anyway, just wanted to say I love you. You're gold. Don't tell my lady I said this. Forever yours, a fan
It's funny how after all this time watching his videos, learning how to thread on a lathe and driving my compound into the chuck, milling my first spur gear realizing i suck at math and getting a 20 and a 1/2 teeth gear i had never seen the face of the man teaching me these things. Thanks for all the help and troubles you caused.
I see you, you weirdo! This man is even greater than you already believe, people. I'm not going to embarrass him by telling you all the details, but he totally stuck his neck out for me, and pretty soon, after this pandemic foolishness is over, we will be dedicating our new workshop to him. So love the man as much as you can. He is every bit as good a guy off camera as he appears on camera. No joke.
That's not an exaggeration. 100,000 subs can't be wrong, and one of these days when we get our own channel popping, you'll see how much Tony mattered to a couple of strangers who were trying to start something good. He's The Man! Totally!
Laughed hard about the pimped out jewelry. Love your channel from the first hour, it's getting incremental better (don't know how to convert that to inches). Not saying you did a lousy job at first, but you surprise every time. Great, great work.
Oh Good Grief! I’ve just re-watched this, and seen the “subscribe” appeal. This channel is just pure genius! So many laughs to see and uncover. Thanks Tony. Les
Awesome video, congrats on reaching 100K. Just to let you know, I sold my band saw, sawzall and my Milwaukee metal cutting circular saw and bought 2 cases of WD-40 awesome tip!! Thanks!!
3Triskellion3 i actually was watching one of his old videos yesterday of him handscraping a straight edge, he showed his face for a second in that, same dude
You know how you form this vague non descript ghostly mental image of the voice you hear often but have never seen the face. I would know it if I saw it but cant describe it. BTW I notice we have similar hair style ;) ATB, Robin
I dare say, you looked in my minds' eye like a mottled silver, gray pedagogue. Dismissive to all but the most exemplary of students and yet only appreciative of those whom understood your humor. Now that you have been unmasked your voice (as mine FWIW) does not seem to fit your body. You are nonetheless an auteur. Good work,
I love that you do have to have some knowlege on so many things to get all his jokes. Like exactly how goddamn absurd it is to hand plane a piece of steel.
This youtube channel is primarily to blame for me pursuing a career in machining. Your humour, wit, and skill is unmatched and we can't wait to see your return to youtube.
Well Tony, this must have been some time ago, there’s me thinking about 100k but showing well over 700k! As per usual the video was brilliant, you manage to show us a proper “how to make a great product “ without having to endure a load of B/S and not buy expensive tooling that would cost more than buying the tool you wanted to make in the first place. Keep up the great work and I think it’s great that you use child labour in your workplace (kidding). But I think involving the kids is a good move rather than watching them waste their lives on a phone/ tablet/game machine etc. I wish that more people would involve them and help pass on their knowledge. Have yourself an your family a wonderful weekend, of course we can see some more of your videos.....Phil
Being such a huge fan of this channel, HOW IN THE WORLD DID I MISS THIS ONE?!?! Tony's so manpretty. Why does he hide his face from us now?? 😁😁😁 I'm digging through the back catalog of of your videos Tony. If I missed this one then surely I've missed a couple more. Thanks for thoroughly entertaining us with the greatest Dad jokes on the interwebs!!!
Oh, I about died laughing when you popped on the "100k Subz" knuckle dusters! Watching this channel and drinking water at the same time don't go together lol.
I had forgotten what a work of art this video IS so I'm so glad Martin reminded me of it. So here I am watching it again for the 12th time and laughing may proverbial ass off. Thanks TOT.
Definitely wasn't expecting a face reveal! Now we need to get AvE to do one. I'm just a creep who really wants to know what ol' Uncle Bumblefuck looks like.
Just love the madness. I think our minds are similar, therefore we are both geniuses! Or its it genii? And thank you from us all in the UK for the metric translations.
Tony you realise there are people out there trying to use their wood planer to create chips on tools steel don't you. Out of 100k subs, that is GOING to happen
Yep me too.And I don't think your videos are meant for or directed towards the real entry level hobbiest's anyway Tony. If someone did ever try it I sure hope they put a video up showing what they did and expressing how wrong your videos are. You can't buy belly laughs that good. :-)
Thanks Tony! Seeing you pay homage to so many familiar faces youtube machines, with just the right measure of your satirical homage mixed with tongue in cheek, it is great entertainment. It is like watching Happy Days and seeing and seeing the spin-off sitcoms characters reborn, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy and Joanie Loves Chachi. Gold!!!
Holy smokes. I was sure it really wasn’t that old mr. Antony, until he showed the google profile pic. And... it feels like meeting an old good internet friend in person, who lives really far away, for the first time. For whats worth, it stands true on my side. Im a pediatrician (no, not a foot doctor, thats a podoatrian 😆. People often take one for the other), hobbyst woodworker, and got to Tony’s channel for the drill sharpening video, and stayed for the jokes (and machines. Who doenst like machines right?). And for a while, it stood as my favorite humor channel. It’s no overstating that tots scripts and production is top quality professional content. But then, probably subconsciously, I started get this weird want, which evolved into a urge, to start on some machining and metalworking. Almost like the subscribe messages are not the only subliminal messages on his videos 🤔 😆. I do mostly handtool woodworking (which i found tot is also fond of on the stool videos), and didn’t even had a drill press. Now, im halfway into building my lathe (the ideia is for it to be able to do some limited metalwork, which should cover 90% of my shop needs,but will be used mostly for woodturning) while scanning the deep web for a proper metal lathe. And a mill. I also got into welding (stick, planing an upgrade to tig for the next 6 to 12 months), electric work, electric motors, heat treatment... My handplanes feel lonely sometimes I think. But hey, at least my wood has time to dry properly now. Thank you a lot, my friend Tony. Hey, you are actually getting pretty near the 1kk subscribers now huh?
This autoplayed while working...Danggg~ Who would have guessed that Tony only need 30k more to reach 1 Million Subs 3 years after this video~ Keep up the good work tony~
On think I noticed since I started building up my hobby machineshop is that the most reason you need a machine generally is to make tools, parts or components for either that machine itself, or one of the other machines you own. Its a never ending circle of awesomeness.
![I.N "HALLUCINATION" | [Stray Kids : SKZ-PLAYER]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/n5B5q1Hwt_U/mqdefault.jpg)
It just occurred to me that this channel is nothing but a bunch of well-filmed dad jokes.
Holy crap. I feel like I just took the blue pill!
+Trent Wainwright I should clarify, I'm referring to the matrix... Not the pill used to treat erectile dysfunction...
Trent Wainwright I think you mean the red pill! The blue pill had Neo wake up and think all of it was a dream.
This "just" occurred to you?
+Alex Sharp well damn! But now that doesn't work with my joke...lol
OMG as a huge fan of this channel I can't believe I never saw this video until just now (Jan 2020). Finally I see the face attached to the voice! I may be traumatized for life LOL. You know how you get a mental image of someone from just hearing their voice, especially if you've heard it for quite some time but never seen them? Yeah ... TOTALLY DIFFERENT than I expected. Not necessarily in a bad way but jarringly different enough from the vague mental picture I'd developed that now there is some kind of weird "does not compute" thing going on in my head when I watch the rest of the video. Oh well, I'll eventually get over it - perhaps watching more ToT is good therapy .....
On a serious note Mr. Old Tony, I honestly do tremendously enjoy every video. Informative, funny, educational, and incredibly high production quality. It really is a joy to watch every one so thank you for all the effort you put in to making the videos.
Same here... Long time Tony Fan... I was cooking the Lunch, while the videos were showing randomly. Suddenly I saw a face! I dropped the knife, my chin drops open and I'm standing here in awe :D
Please dont tell me there is a similar AVE-Vigeo somewhere!?
MINDBLOWN!
What are you talking about, his hands looks exactly the same as in his videos.
Michael M I’m not sure where but I saw a thumbnail pic of Ave the other day... maybe it was Ave himself doing another channel? Biggest set of chompers I ever saw in my life...
Same here I pictured him being much older 😂
So funny what RUclips shows us.
I expected older for sure, and maybe a wizard hat or something to explain why he's so good at what he does.
I knew he was handsome!
all men are beautiful.
i was kinda worried to be honest and also, thanks for herding me to his channel after your welding for nerds video
You dudes all know each other !
All my RUclips buddies are also buddies !
@@ThisOldTony Especially us baldies eh :-)
No wonder your broke, another paid subscriber. PS were is the check you promised me
🔪😰😱
Fast forward 4 years and youre actually at 1 million subs. Congrats man. Love the channel, keep up the brilliant work
Can't believe this was so long ago.
Soooo its about 2 and a half years down the line and you added another half a million subscribers to your channel. That's really something. And yes, practically you did not add them yourself....but really, you did add them. Your channel must be the most creative and well executed information or DIY channel on the web today. Congrats on a fantastic job and looking forward to seeing more.
And here we are at 1M subs :) Still awesome as ever. Good to see him back after the time off.
Oh man, I love your videos...
+1
Anybody else read that in Chris' voice? X)
And we love yours too!!
ha! one of my favorite RUclips commenting on another one of my favorites lol
Thanks Chris! right back atcha.
This Old Tony, you made yourself a face! I want to see the video of THAT build.
Don't procrastinate. Pornhub's only going to be free for a while... :P
Gary, you may have to contact Tony's parents for that video.
Pink Flamingos came out decades ago.
😳
Great job on that fly cutter Tony! The whole gang enjoyed giving you the tips needed to machine it.
Thanks Adam.. couldn't have done it without you guys.. though, after you guys left, I couldn't find the cutter anywhere. coincidence?
Might check Stefan's lunch box
:))
@@Abom79 D3 chips > potato chips
@@ThisOldTony not at all😂😂
If this guy is a middle school/high school science teacher that school would produce an above average number of students who become engineers.
I would pay money to be in that class
True. But there's not enough room on the wall for us all to sit at that angle
and experts in glorious dad jokes
Guess who's a bee's leg close to a million subs?
This handsome machinist right here
Words can not describe how good your videos are. The perfect mix of wit and knowledge yields an absolute gem of a RUclips channel. Never stop
Thank you Cylo!
You're at 1.08M at the time of viewing this. And the channel is exactly the same.
Good. Whatever you're doing, keep doing it.
So, for reference, if anyone wants to heat treat D3, the process shown is just fine. It's a good idea to hold it at temperature for a couple minutes, or as long as you can stand, whichever comes first. 1750F (954C) is about when it starts to be more orange than red, a bit cooler is fine. The perfect tempering temp is 400F, for which a kitchen oven is perfect. You'll get about 61 HRC and avoid re-embrittlement which means it'll be very tough, ~25 ft-lbs Izod.
Source: ThermoFusion Inc. - Hayward, CA
And now it is no longer joke. 1 million subs!
Going back and re-watching the oldies and the learning continues. Hard to believe you were celebrating the 100K mark back then. Your content and humor deserve millions of subscribers.
The best machinist/metalworking/funny/Tony RUclips channel.
time travel and magic
As both a college professor and a cartoon character, I feel I can speak
with some authority on this: any video that can make me think critically about the stress-strain diagram and make coffee come out of my nose is A-ok.
Next up: determining the ballistic trajectory of nose coffee.
Given an initial velocity of v_0=5m/s, an initial height h_0=1.5m, and a launch angle theta=55 degrees wrt the horizontal, determine the maximum height, maximum range when h=0m, and total flight time of the nose coffee. Ignore air resistance and assume that the coffee is a spherical cow with radius r=1cm.
I will try to find the guard and use it...i promise...i try to promise...we will see :) thanks for the shout out!
Don't conform, Laura! We can't let Tony win.
please do, we can't bare to have your creative hands injured
If you need motivation, Google 'angle grinder wound'. :)
hah.. thanks for watching Laura! PS don't listen to David Adams -- you can't unsee that stuff. ;)
angle grinder wound?
Now's not the time for porno.
Tony, I confess I was looking for a video to see the face behind the voice and hands, and also must confess that I didn’t envision you like you are! I had a more Italian appearance! Thank you for all the videos you do and the entertainment is unparalleled!
You played around on what you really do for a living but after 35+ years working on computers and photo retouching for a good amount of those 35 years, I can’t deny you pass by a multimedia/animation or electric/electronic engineer guy. Really would love to know your real background. Again, thank you for all you do and for the way you portray yourself with such a great relationship with all other content creators!
Hey there, This Old Tony! Wow! You're nothing like how I pictured you! Or, rather, you're EXACTLY like how I pictured you, minus the fedora! At any rate, it's nice to finally put a face to the rugged, suave, devil-may-care voice we've all grown to know & love! In any case, as the years pass, may you continue to grow thiser older & Tonyer in your customary style and grace! Cheers, Amigo!
Funny, I came back to this to remind me of what ToT looked like, and his joke at the beginning ... ain't a joke anymore.
Hope to see you back when enough healing happens.
Speaking as a graduate metallurgist, that's probably the best explanation of a stress-strain curve I've ever heard.
phew!
;)
@@ThisOldTony I thought it was about my ex-wife
@@sharpeguns1 You used a fly cutter on her?!?! Someone call 911!!!
Ha! Now we know that you look just like AvE ;)
Stefan Gotteswinter please
Yeah, he sounds like Colonel John
(Hannibal) Smith!
steve
Wanna hear a fun story?
I live in Quebec, and my cousin Dima worked with AvE in the tech support department of Bosch, before AvE left about 3 years ago. And i was begging him for a long time to somehow set up a meeting with Him (the one whose name cannot be pronounced correctly), and my cousin was like -No man, i can't, he made me swear on my mother.
So, about a week ago, i think it was friday, my cousin Dima was fired from the tech support department of Bosch. Apparently, as a side gig, he was illegally hacking these stupid electric scooters to be able to reach 35km/h.
Long story short, he made me swear not to tell his mother that he was fired from his job, and in return he would set up a meeting. Besides, aunt Luba is an old lady, she don't need this kind of negativity in her life right now.
Anyway, Dima told me that when they worked together, every day after work, AvE visited the Old central bus station. And i was like -Yeah, cool, i know the place.
To those not familiar with the place, the "Old central bus station" is like this ugly concrete building, what they use to build in the 70's. The ones with the permanent aroma of stale pee.
As they age, these building tend to attract the kind of vendors you generally won't find in your local family friendly strip mall.
(Just as a side note, i don't judge and absolutely don't mind businesses that offer hydraulic butt toys and clamps, nor extreme vegetarian sex massages. Also, i very much like the meat and onion pirogi Vova is selling at the corner)
Where was i...
Ah yeah, so, i decided to give it a try, so me and Dima took a couple of beers and went to the bus station.
We wandered around for awhile.
The place was kindda creepy. I had no idea what we were looking for.
I sat down to roll a cigarette on a bench in front of "The Rubber Empire". Dima left standing and was nervously looking around as i was smoking the weirdly shaped cigarette i managed to produce.
The flicking neon sign stated that the rubber guys had "All the rubber you can rub" and "Open 24/7". A well built man with lush facial hair, in an elegant suit and a red turban was standing near the black door that was apparently the entrance to the place.
Suddenly i felt Dima tapping on my shoulder. He whispered -That's him. The guy with the paper bag...
I turned around.
-Him? Are you sure?
I was shocked to say the least. I always imagined AvE (real name's Colin by the way) looking like.. you know, like your average canadian asshole, i guess. But against all my expectations, in front of me stood a short bald man, wearing an expensive, three piece, pin-stripe suit. He had glasses with with thick lenses that made his eyes look small and spaced apart.
He was holding a brown paper bag in his hand and was heading towards the Empire.
I stood up, flicked the half finished cigarette, and advanced towards him to introduce myself. I called -Ave!
He spooked and turned around. I reached my hand and said -Ave, it's a great...
He stepped back and before i could finish my sentence he asked -What's your name, boy?
He sniffed his nose and touched his left nostril with his thumb a couple of times.
I said -Hey Ave! I'm Stas, it's an honor...
-Keep your dick in a vise! - he interrupted me. He looked annoyed. -What do you say about my empire of dirt, bud? - he pointed towards the Rubber Empire.
-We haven't been... - i tried answering his question, but he interrupted me again...
-That's skookum! - He blurted -Now, fuck off.
He turned away and shouted -Farouk, come take this from me.
The man with the turban approached us.
-Please call Rudolf, tell him to prepare the room - said AvE to Farouk and gave him the paper bag. He turned away and started walking towards the black door of The Empire.
-I love your channel, man! - i said to his back.
-Farouk, take care of this please - he said without turning his head and made a waving hand gesture.
-I think it would be better for all of us if both of you get the fuck out of here before i break your shit - Calmly said Farouk.
-We're sorry, sir - said Dima. He then turned to me and said -Lets get the fuck out of here, before we'd have to use our free medical care.
As we started walking, i heard him shout -Farouk, time!
The entire experience left a bad taste in my mouth, and i really had to take this off my chest. I'm thinking about unsubscribing.
@@StanislavG. What a great story!
@@StanislavG. I get that it was not what you expected, but put yourself in his shoes. Did you ever think that maybe a guy who never shows his face in his videos, rarely ever puts personal details in his videos, has never (to my knowledge) said his real name in his videos, and gives little to no indication of where he specifically lives in his videos might be trying very hard to avoid the exact situation you put him in? To him your just some random internet stranger, possibly even some dangerous lunatic (not saying you are but how the hell would he know that). Now you have not only put him in an awkward situation by ambushing him off the street, but now you've shared details with the whole world that he clearly didn't wish to share and in so doing violated his privacy. Did you even think about any of this before posting your comment? That story wasn't funny. It was petty and inconsiderate.
These videos are starting to make a bunch of connections for an habitual recent viewer. I mean, I've enjoyed so many over the last 3 years and it is a pleasure to see the early stuff. Thank you This Old Tony!
You actually look like I pictured you... an older version of your kids! We ALL don't have the words to thank you for sharing!!!!
After seeing just the intro, the face makes so much sense, and I love the humor. Keep the awesome videos coming.
I feel like we've known each other for years!
"Jump-cutting your stock" made me laugh out loud. I'm going to shamelessly steal that for one of my videos.
I watched this video with a non-mechanical inclinded friend (he sells website so... yeah...) and I had to explain that it was not real everytime he went "whoaaaaaa dude....".
I feel like Tony's prank are just "real" enough...
Congratulations on getting to that 1M Tony!
As I sit down to watch this for the bazillionth time I realize the opening joke hits a little differently now that you're actually at 1 million subscribers. Congrats TOT
Making about pass number 7 through the ToT channel vids and this one popped up. I remembered it from a few years back but I coulda swore Alan Alda was in that chair. Anyway, thank you Tony for getting me into machining and forcing me to spend all my mo……..holding my hand while walking me through the steps of hobby machining. Great to see a face for the hands. Thanks!
2020: Actually we're not miles away from the genuine 1M.
A couple more cat videos should do it.
Hint hint hint.
I'd watch a video of ToT machining a cat
95.1% of the way! Maybe I'll write a SubscriberBot to help out.
its close!
@@UncleKennysPlace Bots would be detrimental to the engagement, and the channel.
About 24k to go until the million!
5:33 the bolt head says subscribe
Project Dandom Well spotted!!
Nice catch, i didn't see it, but usualy do when it happens.
Project Dandom damn man you blow my mind
Damn! Subliminal messages
There is one in every video
I can imagine that any kid that managed to watch you will have his thought processes totally bent out of shape - I love it.
Planing tool steel, that has to go well when the kid tries it with his dad's beloved wood working tools!
Hi Tony! Love your videos. Just a note which 30 other people have probably already brought to your attention: Stress causes strain. Stress is measured in units of pressure, for example Pascales or PSI, and is the force exerted on an area. That force causes strain, which is deformation of the material. Strain is unitless and is simply a percent deformation (strain value of 0.2 being 20% deformation). Anyway, I thought I'd share this, as you've taught me so much about machining without me ever having to karate chop a chunk of D3 myself. Cheers!
Man I found your channel like 5 years ago... Maybe more? Idk, point is I got hooked and watched a ton of your videos and I dunno what happened, whether you stopped uploading or RUclips just stopped showing me your videos on the feed, but I hadn't watched you in years, then recently, one of your old videos I had already watched popped up (which of course I proceeded to watch again, I think I've watched your making springs video like 3 times already) Anyway WOW, you have a million subs now... never thought I'd actually get to see your face. I dunno, faces usually match the voices like 99.99% of the time, but somehow I am not convinced here. I just can't match that voice to how you look. Your voice totally matches your hands, but I dunno, I thought you'd look thicker, perhaps older, just different. Anyway, this video was absolutely amazing, that insert tool was an absolute work of art in my eyes.
We’re still almost there!
I had a crappy night at work and watched this while I put my tools away. I'm much happier now :)
Thanks Hopper, appreciate that!
Hi Tony! Great work again, I'm going to use part of this video in my physics classes when I teach elasticity and Hooke's law!
I'm still work from home and started rewatching the videos... 1 mil... 100k... 1 mil... how about now, This Old Tony? :D
Been watching through the ol' catalogue again, for memories sake. Can you believe 1 million subs has become real?
That said, this might be the finest example I've ever found of the exact type of dad humor I resonate with, and it's why I loved the channel so much the minute I found it (from Alex French Guy Cooking's channel, when you rebuilt his pasta press)
Wow, not a lot of RUclipsrs (especially makers) get me laughing so hard... I mean, that face!
Congrats on 100k Tony. One of the best channels on this whole damn site.
IT HAPPENED!!!!!!!! 1 MILLION SUBS!!!!!!!!
YEEES!!! 2:08 thank you!
What's at 2:08?
Thanks Winter! ;)
OMG I’m gonna die 😮
I have only been watching your videos for a few months and love them but only have time for one every few days. I just came across this one in my “recommended” list. The reason I’m commenting on it (I seldom write comments.... I just hit the “like” button) is because I saw that you had just passed 100K subs. It is now just under two years later and you are at just under 500K subs!!! Your style and content is definitely in demand! Thank you for educating and entertaining so many of us that are trying to improve our skills in this craft.
Few years later and you actually hit the 1 million mark. Great job and good luck expanding further!
Heya Tony, I might be considered a long-time fan by now. Never really figured to comment because you sorta feel like a mentor you just don't want to waste time of. Anyway, just wanted to say I love you. You're gold. Don't tell my lady I said this.
Forever yours,
a fan
congrats Tony and thank you for the invite....great build
Thanks Chuck!
Wait wait wait is this actually him, damn this in not what my brain pictured
:))
It's funny how after all this time watching his videos, learning how to thread on a lathe and driving my compound into the chuck, milling my first spur gear realizing i suck at math and getting a 20 and a 1/2 teeth gear i had never seen the face of the man teaching me these things. Thanks for all the help and troubles you caused.
You are SOOOOOOOO close to a million... Oh I bet you are saving your next video for that milestone
I see you, you weirdo!
This man is even greater than you already believe, people. I'm not going to embarrass him by telling you all the details, but he totally stuck his neck out for me, and pretty soon, after this pandemic foolishness is over, we will be dedicating our new workshop to him.
So love the man as much as you can. He is every bit as good a guy off camera as he appears on camera. No joke.
That's not an exaggeration. 100,000 subs can't be wrong, and one of these days when we get our own channel popping, you'll see how much Tony mattered to a couple of strangers who were trying to start something good.
He's The Man! Totally!
Laughed hard about the pimped out jewelry. Love your channel from the first hour, it's getting incremental better (don't know how to convert that to inches). Not saying you did a lousy job at first, but you surprise every time. Great, great work.
Thanks!
Hes gotten at least 3 inches better
For sure, that's a sharp hand plane!
As I sit here watching this, 5 years in the future, I can’t help but notice that Tony has, in fact, got 1.1 million subscribers.
Oh Good Grief! I’ve just re-watched this, and seen the “subscribe” appeal. This channel is just pure genius! So many laughs to see and uncover. Thanks Tony.
Les
Stress/ strain comparison of “me versus wife” really made my day 😂
Great video, can't wait for the 1million subs episode. Had to start rewatching all of your videos again. I even bought a Tig welder and a mill🤔😆
Awesome video, congrats on reaching 100K. Just to let you know, I sold my band saw, sawzall and my Milwaukee metal cutting circular saw and bought 2 cases of WD-40 awesome tip!! Thanks!!
I NEVER KNEW THIS VIDEO EXISTED...... I been watching for a couple years and had no clue😂 thanks recommend ✊✊
4 years later you are at one million subscribers good job love the vids!
i refuse to beleive that's tony, it must be an actor
agree
Old Tomy looks young. O.o
Or i get old fast. >.
This is a stand-in stuntman.
3Triskellion3 i actually was watching one of his old videos yesterday of him handscraping a straight edge, he showed his face for a second in that, same dude
Holy shit, Tony has a face!
Wait, where's his third arm?
I'm conflicted now. Shall I watch the video or keep the mystery?
Watch the video blindfolded
Rexus King I'd just been picturing Ray Romano all this time...
And he looks exactly like I didn't picture him!
"Last thing I want is for this to go to my head" Brilliant!
Your humor is the kind that only few understand. I love it.
Great stuff. Favorite machinist channel. I come for the machining I stay for the dry humor. Keep it up, that’s why you’re at a mil and growing.
Congrats on the milestone!
Thanks Matthew!
Congratulations on 100k Tony! You don't look anything like your voice. Great video as always.
ATB, Robin
Thanks Rob! And what does my voice look like? Just curious. :)
You know how you form this vague non descript ghostly mental image of the voice you hear often but have never seen the face. I would know it if I saw it but cant describe it. BTW I notice we have similar hair style ;)
ATB, Robin
I dare say, you looked in my minds' eye like a mottled silver, gray pedagogue. Dismissive to all but the most exemplary of students and yet only appreciative of those whom understood your humor. Now that you have been unmasked your voice (as mine FWIW) does not seem to fit your body. You are nonetheless an auteur. Good work,
It's funny, because I imagined you to look pretty much exactly like this.
you'll always look as gandalf for me
I love that you do have to have some knowlege on so many things to get all his jokes. Like exactly how goddamn absurd it is to hand plane a piece of steel.
This youtube channel is primarily to blame for me pursuing a career in machining. Your humour, wit, and skill is unmatched and we can't wait to see your return to youtube.
Just got back to this video. Needed a reminder of how heart warm the world can be too.
Thank you for that, and thank you for your videos!
lol that clickspring ref
Well Tony, this must have been some time ago, there’s me thinking about 100k but showing well over 700k! As per usual the video was brilliant, you manage to show us a proper “how to make a great product “ without having to endure a load of B/S and not buy expensive tooling that would cost more than buying the tool you wanted to make in the first place. Keep up the great work and I think it’s great that you use child labour in your workplace (kidding). But I think involving the kids is a good move rather than watching them waste their lives on a phone/ tablet/game machine etc. I wish that more people would involve them and help pass on their knowledge. Have yourself an your family a wonderful weekend, of course we can see some more of your videos.....Phil
Thank you This Old Tony for the great content! I can't wait to be around for the actual 1 million sub video! Thanks Again
Being such a huge fan of this channel, HOW IN THE WORLD DID I MISS THIS ONE?!?! Tony's so manpretty. Why does he hide his face from us now?? 😁😁😁
I'm digging through the back catalog of of your videos Tony. If I missed this one then surely I've missed a couple more. Thanks for thoroughly entertaining us with the greatest Dad jokes on the interwebs!!!
I love to go back an look at the older vids from time to time!, we need some good ole weekly uploads!
Oh, I about died laughing when you popped on the "100k Subz" knuckle dusters! Watching this channel and drinking water at the same time don't go together lol.
The A-Team reference at the beginning was magical!!!
Great video as always and great to finally see the face behind the voice. Thumbs up!
I had forgotten what a work of art this video IS so I'm so glad Martin reminded me of it. So here I am watching it again for the 12th time and laughing may proverbial ass off. Thanks TOT.
Great video Tony! You were two weeks too late to explain it for my mech engineering class, but you were 100% spot on. Congrats on hitting a 100k
Definitely wasn't expecting a face reveal! Now we need to get AvE to do one. I'm just a creep who really wants to know what ol' Uncle Bumblefuck looks like.
SupaKoopa I never want to see uncle bumblefucks face!
i don't think Uncle Bumblefuck shows his face because of his day job. I don't think he wants to be ousted of his clipboard job.
Didn't he do one briefly in a video? Maybe just the back/top of his head? Red hair, a little on the chunky side, but not fat?
Metatronic Mods he's got a great personality
I think he showed himself in the old "Battle -shots" vidjay-o but he took it down, and re edited it.
I just found this video, and had to scroll the screen down so I could only see your hands. I felt uncomfortable otherwise.
Now the one million subscribers joke is real! Congrats!
So that is you. The first time I watched this video, I thought you had someone stand in for you.
for real!
So Awesome. I can't believe it's taken me a year of watching your videos to stumble across this one. You aren't as old as I thought
0:30 he was correct, he just got confused in his time traveling.
Just love the madness. I think our minds are similar, therefore we are both geniuses! Or its it genii?
And thank you from us all in the UK for the metric translations.
I'm from the UK and use imperial. Just like her Majesty.
Tony you realise there are people out there trying to use their wood planer to create chips on tools steel don't you. Out of 100k subs, that is GOING to happen
School of hard knocks when they do. But as soon as anything is considered idiot proof they just breed to defeat that. :-)
I don't see what the problem is.. that's how I learned. :)
Yep me too.And I don't think your videos are meant for or directed towards the real entry level hobbiest's anyway Tony. If someone did ever try it I sure hope they put a video up showing what they did and expressing how wrong your videos are. You can't buy belly laughs that good. :-)
I just want to know how or who sharpens his planer blades! Nice Chips! lol
Haha jokes on you. I have an electric planer!
Thanks Tony! Seeing you pay homage to so many familiar faces youtube machines, with just the right measure of your satirical homage mixed with tongue in cheek, it is great entertainment. It is like watching Happy Days and seeing and seeing the spin-off sitcoms characters reborn, Laverne & Shirley, Mork & Mindy and Joanie Loves Chachi. Gold!!!
And here we are, you have legitimately surpassed 1 MILLION subz. Best channel on RUclips.
Oh that last bit with the cartoons made me laugh into a coughing fit
“I’m not gonna let this go to my head” 😂 100k subz rings 😂
Holy smokes. I was sure it really wasn’t that old mr. Antony, until he showed the google profile pic. And... it feels like meeting an old good internet friend in person, who lives really far away, for the first time. For whats worth, it stands true on my side. Im a pediatrician (no, not a foot doctor, thats a podoatrian 😆. People often take one for the other), hobbyst woodworker, and got to Tony’s channel for the drill sharpening video, and stayed for the jokes (and machines. Who doenst like machines right?). And for a while, it stood as my favorite humor channel. It’s no overstating that tots scripts and production is top quality professional content. But then, probably subconsciously, I started get this weird want, which evolved into a urge, to start on some machining and metalworking. Almost like the subscribe messages are not the only subliminal messages on his videos 🤔 😆. I do mostly handtool woodworking (which i found tot is also fond of on the stool videos), and didn’t even had a drill press. Now, im halfway into building my lathe (the ideia is for it to be able to do some limited metalwork, which should cover 90% of my shop needs,but will be used mostly for woodturning) while scanning the deep web for a proper metal lathe. And a mill. I also got into welding (stick, planing an upgrade to tig for the next 6 to 12 months), electric work, electric motors, heat treatment... My handplanes feel lonely sometimes I think. But hey, at least my wood has time to dry properly now. Thank you a lot, my friend Tony.
Hey, you are actually getting pretty near the 1kk subscribers now huh?
1 Mi subscribers! Almost there, Tony! And I'm proud to say that I've been here since the beginning (almost)!
This autoplayed while working...Danggg~ Who would have guessed that Tony only need 30k more to reach 1 Million Subs 3 years after this video~ Keep up the good work tony~
Yous at a million now, son!
Wow, 1 billion subscribers!
Hahahah awesome
You got one of those planes Jimmy? haha
thanks buddy!
you gotta be doing something right
On think I noticed since I started building up my hobby machineshop is that the most reason you need a machine generally is to make tools, parts or components for either that machine itself, or one of the other machines you own. Its a never ending circle of awesomeness.
You really got me when you said, "Upside down and backwards". I said, "Oh no!", and smacked my forehead. Nice video TOT, thumbs up.
I would have made it backwards. Even if I checked it twice