 to come up with an idea to make a handle for this blade what can we do let's make a handle out of this stay tuned I'll show you what I got mine you just heard this this knife is it's fucked up here busted this plastic handle knife but the blades okay the blades never been used so I was thinking maybe I can cut this off here and weld this blade into this cut this down to where it's a nice handle see what happens so first let's go ahead and take this apart this this is no good just one thing cheap Taiwan ratchets they break about the first time you use them you get like a hundred pieces in it for like ten bucks you know 999 and the sockets break and this always breaks first and then you got a whole bunch of shit load of shit sockets that you can't do anything so what what I'm thinking is we're gonna take this out of here and we're gonna cut this right across here maybe and we're gonna weld the blade inside of here and then we'll cut the handle down that much or whatever now what I'm thinking about doing with the handle is I've got some paracord here on this bracelet that monkey bought me a couple years ago now this thing is cool it's got a whistle an emergency whistle it's got your compass that works half-assed but it's better than nothing it does have a little knife on I think I did a review on this it's got a little cutting thing on it just it's a survival thing I mean it's better than nothing you know if you get stuck out in the wilderness and your little ferro rod there I know it's little but you know a little sparks better than nothing and you got all this paracord so this is a nice dip book so this is a nice little deal here I mean I like it I'm thinking about using this to wrap the handle on here because this I can still I can still keep it because I can still put you know like a key ring I'm putting on a key ring whatnot you know the key chain whatever so I think this this is what this is what we're going to use here so first let's take this thing apart let me grab a screwdriver all these have is like this little this little spring in here that I mean it's it's really these ratchets are really junk I mean even for 10 bucks I've bought them before to use I never did a review on one set but I will it's just next time I see them on sale for about five bucks which I do sometimes I will do a review on the socket set and sockets and show you that they they're just not they're not worth the money because they are total shit they are junk and they shouldn't be silenced shit like this I mean people think they're getting a deal you know guys that don't do a lot of work on things like I do it may be alright for them but if you're doing you know even a couple times a week don't expect much out of them and I'll tell you something else too even the the half-inch drive ratchets they usually break first so a lot of times most of time these things usually freaking come out by themselves you know but yeah they strip out they're just they're just junk first time you got to put any kind of pressure on anything I know I know you shouldn't be breaking bolts loose with your ratchet anyway but I do it most people do it you should have a breaker bar but you know anyway and then that just slides out you just see there it is it's broke right there now if anyone's wondering what I what I broke this on taking out a spark spark plug in a weed eater that's right a spark plug in a weed eater and that thing broke so I mean look at that just it's falling all apart but yeah right there a spark plug not even in a car in a freaking weed eater you know I mean it's crazy okay so let's move this crap out of the way here now this thing we have to be careful with this this is this thing will probably haunt me this blade off of here but what I'm thinking about doing is cutting this off right about here I was kind of wanting to leave a little bit there I may just cut it directly off here and put a slice in here and slide this in and kind of walled it around we'll just have to see what we got going on here okay so good way to fuck yourself up right here would be careful that was some storm we had last night some storm the live stream wasn't longer but you know I just wanted to share what was going on with you and see if anyone else was had was having the same same things that'll probably no I'm sure how I want to do that if I just want to this is not full full tang this is the tang because you know it's foldable so I think what all it is I'll like cut this off here right here cut this right straight across so this one this is inside here could meet up with that but the issue I'm all run into is I need to cut a slice right through here so this can slide down okay so I think what I could do you cut that straight across here right through here and then leave a little bit here cut my cut my slice and I can always grind this blade to match whatever a little bit I got here make it smooth I'm going to try to weld it in it's not going to be pretty with that with that little 110 water but yeah I think that's I think it's what I want to have to do because this is going to have to be like that and it looks like it's pretty wide here so what I'll probably have to do it as well as is grind this off right here flat you know so it's not sticking out or once I put it in there I'm going to have to grind around a little bit anyway to clean up my welds so let me see here let me grab a pen sharpie here this pretty much straight off right right there well straight as I can get it you know what I mean then that's going to be something like that then I think I'll cut this off here right there we can always take off but it's harder to put back so that's what I'm going to do I'm going to slice this like that and then slice this straight across because then I'm going to have to put a slice in like this so what little bit of tang that's on there can go through all right so let's get this outside and let's get it cut off all right guys I'm going to keep working on this I think it's going to work out pretty good and make it a little deeper and I think it's going to be all right so let me keep working on this and I'll show you as we progress okay guys this is what we've got so far now what I'm going to do here so I'm going to fill this in with some weld same way with on the bottom and then I'll take my little flapper disc here a lot of people call them buffing disc buffing wheels and I'll smooth it all out and wherever it needs to be and I'll make it uniform kind of rounded these edges won't be so sharp up here they'll be rounded I think I'm just going to leave that right there because it kind of looks neat but and I'm not just going to run you know them 110 welders there they're hard to run a bead you know it's not gas there's no gas with it so what what I'm going to do is just tack it tack it tack it tack well first all I'll probably I'll probably tack it down here then I'll tack it up here and I'll do a tack tack tack tack because when you're welding if you guys don't know much about welding like if I would just even if I could run a good bead with that welder and I ran a bead there it'll want to pull that like that and you'll have that down there like that okay so you want to kind of go back and forth I can probably get by with running a good tack there which it's not going to want to pull it down okay because it's a little bit tighter up here so I'll probably run me a good tack right in there and then I can just tack this top maybe get halfway and then do the bottom whatever but like I said if I start tacking up here it's going to want to pull that blade like that I don't want that so I'll tack it on the bottom first because like I said it doesn't you know it takes a lot to get it to to come down so that's what I'll be doing with that and once I get that all nice and uniformed and looking pretty decent then we'll wrap it I thought about cutting some of the end off but some guys hands are longer than the others so I thought I'd kind of leave out a little bit there for that kind of deal but I don't know if I do cut the end of this off I think what I'll do is all kind of cut it off at an angle and round it off that may look cool or I may drill a hole you know we'll just have to see when we get there we're kind of getting ahead of ourselves there on that but so that's what that's what we're looking at right there so that'll all be filled in I shouldn't have to come down around there because I'd like to save that scorpion there if I can I shouldn't have to come around here I think you know you shouldn't be batoning with a serrated edge though I have you can but that's not what the serrated edges are for so I think I think it'll be alright if I just weld here and here because most knives you know they just got a pin there and a pin up here you know like on the full tangs or like this one just had a pin there so I think that'll be plenty of weld and it'll kind of turn this into essentially a full tang not really but essentially it'll be kind of like a full tang so that's that's what we're looking at so I'm gonna get the welder out and I'll show you a little bit of that like the grinding I only took about five minutes even sped up nobody wants to watch five minutes of grinding okay we get the idea we see what you're doing now move on and that's what I'm gonna do so you know I'll tack it tack it and then I'll show you and then I may speed this up a little bit and then I'll show you a little bit of grinding but like I said I don't want to bore you you know with a lot of grinding and welding because this is this is not a how-to how to weld now as far as grinding I won't actually be grinding I'll be I'll be taking some of the weld off but not like grinding off so what I'm gonna do when I clean this up is I'm gonna use this this is what 30 36 grit didn't know they made a 36 grit that's what this was a 36 grit now as you can see how smooth that is now right as opposed to inside there okay it would have been real rough made for taking off a lot of metal this is the only one I got at the moment so I have I don't have different grits all right so this is actually you know way past way past 120 grit you know I've got a hundred and twenty grit sandpaper but it's actually more more aggressive than this this will be a little more forgiving that's why I don't throw these away because if you come down and get down to the point like I'm at to where I don't have anymore this is smooth and I think it'll do what I need it to do it'll take off what I needed to take off if I got to take off a lot then I'll use the cutting wheel for that but I think this will this will be fine like I said I'll start my wrap right about here you know and that should be and I don't know see a lot of guys hands will come back to here so if I make it fit my hand then it's only really gonna fit my hand so I may if I do cut it off and make it off there you know and if I have any extra I can make kind of like a lanyard or you can put it around your wrist but we'll have to see but I'm guessing I'm gonna have a lot of guys like them longer so they can use it like a chopping tool but you know like I said I'm probably at least gonna take off an inch that way it'll give you know somebody with bigger hands or whatever and it'll give you a little bit more stability it's not you know gonna be perfect I mean it's kind of weird to hold if you're looking at it but if you're not looking at it it's kind of comfortable but we'll see once we get our get our paracord on there and if this goes well if this and I'm gonna sell it and if it does sell well I may consider making these for people you know even if they just want to put them on a shelf or you know just in their knife collection I think I think it'll be it'll be pretty nice we'll try to get that looking looking a little more uniform this is just a rough cut here you can say so that's gonna be something about of like how it's gonna be you know like if it's you know so that's wanting to come down there there we go so it'll be not sure if I want to go like that or make it straight across I'm thinking I'm gonna make that straight across like like that so that's kind of straight and because you know we've got to clean that up but let me get the welder out and we'll get this tacked on then I'll weld it and we'll come back see what we got now this is just this piece of plastic is for when you was pulling it out of out of the blade or out of the handle you know the handle was there and if it was folded up that was that would have been right about there something like this so that's what you would pull that's what you would pull that out with this is going to come off because it's not needed so hopefully if there's a little hole there that may even make it look look a little more cooler so again let's get the welder out and tack this thing together and we'll go from there hey guys this is what we're looking at I think I'm just gonna leave it like that gives a little bit of character you can tell it's homemade which I was wanting but I don't have a dremel to get in here clean this up properly so I think it'll look okay it's homemade it's a little rustic it's what a little guys look for yeah so let's go ahead and get to wrapping this handle I think I'm just going to keep that that handle like that it's a little long I was going to make it about about the size of this handle but I'm only looking at that much more so what do you guys think it is kind of long back here but you know it's heavier up here it's it's not bad it's not bad balanced I think I'm gonna keep it long if somebody wants to whack on a tree if they're even going to use it all right so let's go ahead and get this all unwound and I'll speed this up for you okay there get the idea I'm gonna go ahead and unwrap this excuse me and let the let the camera charge up a little bit I'll get back with you when we get ready to wrap the knife okay guys I got the saw off here and I found went and found the the middle of this and all I did was just hold the two ends together like this and then run my hand down it and right there's the middle so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna start up here now it's gonna take a while I'm gonna show you how I'm doing this and then and then all I'll just go ahead and cut because this is gonna take probably an hour maybe 45 minutes and I'm just gonna tie this and I'm gonna do I'm gonna do the same thing on the top and I'm just going to keep going from top to bottom you can do it on the sides if you want I may change and do that we'll just have to see and bring it back around okay now I'm just gonna keep doing that I don't know I've done these before like this and I really don't know if I like the way they turn out I may just do it on the sides like that but it takes a while anytime you're doing something like this and then you can tie it here I may just do it on the sides you know the way it comes up on the sides like that there's so many different ways you can do this it's crazy but I'm gonna experiment with this for a little bit and I'm gonna get about up to here and I'll show you what it looks like and we'll see if we like it like that if we want to do something something different it's not normally the way I wrap these things but I've seen a guy on YouTube doing it on a on a hatchet and it turned out really nice I liked it on there but but this is so small you know hatchet handles a little bit bigger so I'm gonna just keep on doing this I'll get it up here and we'll see what it looks like and then we'll go from there I also drilled a hole in here because when I get to the ends I want to I'm to the end I want to bring bring it through and make a lanyard so you can put it around your wrist so let me let me continue on with this and we'll see how it feels and see if we like it so I'll be back with you okay guys so what I did I did it like I was going to like I told you I was going to and it was badass only it only did about this much I had this much of the handle left so and I thought I recorded how it looked because it was really neat it felt good but I guess I didn't hit record so this is all I'm doing I'm just doing an over under taking it that one's over and this one will go under and bring it around and go over and then back under and I'm gonna do that all the way up to here and then I'm gonna do it all the way back okay so I'm gonna go ahead and do that I'm gonna bore you with it because that takes a while it took a while the other way it took a lot longer than this way we'll take but it was really cool it was well worth it so so this is what I'm gonna do I'm just gonna keep doing this keep straightening it every so often it's not gonna be perfect guys I'm not a professional knife maker I'm just Shaber 1000 okay so that's what I'm gonna do I'm just gonna keep doing that all the way up and then all the way back again and I will show you how it looks when we get done you can do it just one one revolution if you want but I like to have more more the cord you know so I think a lot of people do too a lot of people don't use it but it's just nice to have in a survival on a survival knife if you would need it so I won't keep doing that I think it's gonna look good with two layers hell it looks good with one layer but I got the cord I'm gonna go ahead and use it so waste not whatnot right okay so I'm gonna keep doing this and I'll bring it back again back here and I'll kick it back on once I get it to the end okay so that's all I'm doing I'm just doing an over under just kind of like a single weave you know there's what's gonna look like and that looks pretty neat just like that just the one doesn't feel bad I may just do the one the one layer I don't know we'll just have to see and just doesn't you know I like it a little bit thicker all right let me get back with you guys okay guys here it is our homemade knife handle excuse me we didn't make the knife but we did make the handle out of a ratchet it's got a nice little a little hint a lanyard on it so is it comfortable yeah it's not too bad actually I mean you know and it is long you can chop stuff you can chop stuff with it chop wood plastic but so yeah a little sticks and stuff for kindling and whatnot so like so it's got this little lanyard on it no biggie just one row I couldn't do two rows I couldn't bring it back cuz I kept ending right about here no matter how tight it just no matter how I adjusted the the paracord it just wouldn't do it I just didn't have enough so but anyway there's about about six feet on there well maybe eight if you count the lanyard which you can take off and use as well so there it is what you guys think just for throwing something together I know it's kind of ugly down in there it's not real clean you can see some scoff marks from the sandpaper that's okay because it is a homemade knife and it is made well it's a homemade handle knife handle and it is made out of a ratchet I think it's pretty cool what you guys think hi guys so there we go pretty neat I like it I'm gonna try to sell it put 10 or 15 bucks on it because homemade knives are expensive like I said the knife part is not homemade but the handle is you guys saw me do it so I'm gonna be getting home so I got some Cornish game hands in there I'm gonna put in the oven for so I'm gonna pick my tools up and later night we're probably going to be doing a video of the R2D2 robot I've been reading up on I've been reading the manual and so I kind of got an idea what's going on I've already downloaded the app onto my phone so hopefully that'll work hopefully it works better than that I that that cheap Apple watch it's not even an Apple that Dollar General watch I bought it does some things it'll play music and that's about it but fully this app will work because you know I've had a lot of people try this app try that app but in order to get that to work you have to use the app that they they want you download I can't get any other one to work right on it but anyway hopefully this won't be an issue like that but we're gonna find out soon so thanks for hanging out with me in the garage today I'm gonna start putting these little excuse me I'm gonna start putting these little these little project videos under its own playlist and you know where you guys see where I open the garage and then shut the garage down it's gonna be Shea Bear shop shenanigans because we do get some shenanigans but it'll be for like little this little projects like this so anyway again guys thanks for watching Shea Bear the myth the man legend I'm gone for now bye bye guys have a great weekend