ladies and gentlemen Adam Savage here from tested and I have a special guest
in the cave none of them than Pete Brown who if
you've been paying attention online you might have seen that pain took my book
every tools I ever just I didn't realize this was he took my book every tools a
hammer and he took it so literally he turned it into a hammer uh and he did it
in this beautiful way by actually transforming the material of the book
into a different material talk to me man this is the most amazing
thing when I saw that you did thank you very much my card is one of those
substances that I just I love now Mike Hart uh that is the name for the layered
paper embedded in resin yeah it's okay it's like the it's like the Kleenex you
know it's it's an actual company name oh it's what everybody calls it okay so
it's become like band-aid it's like band-aid or zero all over the exactly
they're not happy about it so micarta is a process of impregnating
layers of paper or cloth right with resin and it's actually really common
with knife maker I've had a lot of my card I have a lot of knives with my car
to handle yeah is that it described that specifically if you've ever used on my
car to handle the cloth is actually still soft mm-hmm and I think that's the
reason for it still got a grip to it I well my friend Bill Harvey who designed
the Yarborough knife okay special forces the specific material the handles made
out of is the same but it also it gets a gift better grip when it's wet yeah
that's one of its specific weird and awesome property it's really cool my
card is really interesting with that the paper doesn't do that
Oh a paper just turns into like this it's you know what it's similar to it's
similar to pykrete nice so it's back to building a boat out of ice and news so I
this is this is the book you turned into micarta absolute this is the second book
so this was actually cut on the scroll saw which I am I am garbage with the
scroll saw so it's basically twenty minutes of me like trying to hold down
the scroll sighs I know it's really good it but yeah my problem with this girl so
and I don't know maybe you guys have some suggestions is the blades keep
breaking when I'm running thick material yeah and
they're really made for super thin material oh yeah but I'm trying to find
blades that are like robust blades from mother country that can stand yeah okay
so if I open this I'll see a hammer is that right
I hope so ohh oh my god that is oh I love that you can actually see multiple
pages through it really it's very translucent okay so how did you
impregnate this you didn't paint every single page when I started to okay I
started to and you'd end it out yeah no I didn't turn it out I used I used full
resin I used two resin with an open time of 45 minutes all right so that gave me
enough time to go through all the pages and about halfway through I completely
lost my mind and was going like seven pages at a time that checks out but it
worked yeah it totally worked and it so now we
you can yeah Mike and there's your there's all your hard work sealed shut
so no one can read it yeah how do you feel about that I feel I mean it's it's
so delightfully weird what you've done it fits precisely within the ethos of
the book perfect the whole point of writing this book was
as a permission slip to do shit like this perfect ah that is it's um it's
super light as I would have expected but it feels surprisingly stiff and and
robust it it's yeah it's very strong because a resin hammer would be soft
right and or and or brittle mm-hmm and a paper hammer is obviously worthless
right but when you bond the two of them together you actually get it's a new
material like it's a little like a fiberglass it is it's totally a laminate
amazing yeah okay so you knew when you were coming or maybe you didn't but we
knew the moment we realized you're gonna arrive that we got a drive we got to
actually hammer I had no idea okay good what we've got here is fine and I've got
a little piece of I think this might be cedar I don't know maybe we're gonna
split this but we're about to yeah we're gonna drive a nail with a hammer mate oh
yeah here you go there you go Gunter that's it yes right we got to set the
whole thing up cool here we go every tool is a hammer but only this
hammer is a buck oh it didn't break it wonderfully oh you have to try it it's
very satisfying oh come on camera here we go all right dude you know that is
magnificent this is for me this is for that I was always big that's gonna live
right there that's your home now this is Pete thank you so much thank you very
much for having me down I'm so honored how literally you took my book and for
this beautiful gift to the shop that's an incredible story you are a maker
extraordinaire