Making a Slip Joint Knife

#YTMakersSecretSanta
This year we're making an elegant folding knife for Xlya Foxlin!
I don't know why... I'VE NEVER MADE A FOLDING KNIFE!

See the whole 2021 Makers Secret Santa thing here:

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Music: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - Kevin McLeod, Jingle Bells - Jingle Punks, Last Horizon - Silent Partner

[xylafoxlin]

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

[LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

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

[mhc]

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

[MirandaAntonelli]

"I like pushing buttons when I don't know what they do."

Thank you for that. :)

[christophpoll]

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

Beautiful present!

[SeanNecker]

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

[mymechanics]

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

[dcman]

Mr. Tony. Your the best. Hands down. So, Im an old geezer now and retired. Spend way to much time watching YT videos so when I tell you, your the best, you can trust me, I know what I am talking about. Best wishes. and Thanks for your productions.

[fordkid]

Glad to see you back and with a vengeance apparently

[BrandonsGarage]

Her comments about receiving the knife were quite heart warming.

[ttsupra]

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

[MachiningandMicrowaves]

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

[couldbejokim]

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

[lapsed]

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

[KidsInventStuff]

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

[darkaegis]

Your band saw work is impeccable, such precision.

[Mint_drake]

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

[stanfordcoffee]

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

[jonnydigiosa]

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

[willemvantsant]

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