 I've been making a lot of stainless steel tools lately, as I live by the ocean and everything rusts. I think it's time to make some pliers. They don't need to be perfect, but good enough to be decent pair of pliers that I can accidentally drop in the ocean or get splashed with sea water, and don't worry about it. Now what style do I start with? I don't have time to whip up a forge right now, so I'm going to see what I can do. A couple steel rods and an angle grinder. Stainless steel rods. Start by carving a chunk out of each one. I'm going to be honest, I'm not doing the best job ever here, so I just want to see if it'll work. Sometimes when I'm doing stuff like this, I basically pretend this is the first pair of pliers that's ever been invented and I'm just going to make the most basic thing. And then I end up going through the evolution of pliers, just naturally. And I do that because I end up learning a lot of things along the way, as opposed to just copying something that's been made now, following some blueprints or something. Alright, so now I need to carve off enough material that this can twist like that. So that means taking off a section here, here, and the same thing on this one. Alright, now the back needs more taken off. I can't start in the middle. I have to start all the way over there and take off that much. Because this part's going to have some of this missing. Yuck! God. It'll make sense in a minute, or ten. Unless, of course, my brain is lying to me, in which case they also make. No sense! Alright, getting there. The back's done. The back will slide together if the front's not in the way. Now the front, I have to cut off some of that and a little bit of that. I could just cut this all the way down. But I think I want to, yeah. So a little bit of trimming in there. That's not bad. Obviously I can use some, you know, prettiness increases. Tapering these down, curving some handles a little. Anyway, let's get them functional now. I just need to drill a hole through the pivot point and get a bolt in there. Phew! I had to sharpen my bit about twenty times to do it, but I got through that thing. Alright, that's a good sign. It means the steel is strong. It should be good for a tool. Alright, let's see what I've got here. Man, those are functional already. Not on there. I think I'll trim these down. It doesn't matter. It's just aesthetic stuff. Although I might want a needle nose them so I can get into things. And then the handles. I don't know. We curve them, carve some of this out. A little bit. Oh, right now they work. Well, I'll have to put a nut on there. Yeah, a nut. Tighten that on. I've only had some pliers. Ah! Ah! I'm not entirely sure what I want to do with these yet. I'm just going to stuff. I don't know. That's kind of cool. Get some lines in there for some grip in action. Space in here for grabbing nuts. Don't grab my nuts! Those are pretty good. I'm kind of presuming at some point I'm going to want to carve more off here and more off there and kind of whittle these down. But I'm just going to see how it goes. I don't really care that my pliers are heavy. I'm going to squeeze them mighty hard and they don't break! Which puts them already ahead of any modern pliers. Modern pliers, I squeeze them and they break. These suckers. I've had this metal out here outside for like two years. Not a speck of rust. That's a good sign. I guess I'll just keep these around. Make them my go-to pliers for a while and see how it goes. I'll probably want to shave this off at some point. Cut that off. I don't know. I'm just going to start using them. Make adjustments as I feel the need. Oh, it is kind of nice. Not having to worry about getting them wet. Oh, that is great.