all right today I'm going to cook a roast and my soul of over solar oven and
I'm going to put the roast wrap it in tinfoil
sprinkle the good stuff on it wrap it up in tinfoil put in that pan and I'm gonna
cut some potatoes up put these carrots in that pan with a little what I call
that beef juice you know that comes in that can then and then I'm gonna cook
these onions my wife hates onions I'm not love onions so I'm gonna cook these
in a way where they will not contaminate the rest of the food so she won't eat it
I'm gonna wrap these up in tin foil put a little butter I'm gonna put just a
splash of soy sauce in there and see how that tastes so let me get this all put
together and in the solar oven and still ain't quite Sun out there where I put
the solar oven so I'll see you out there when the sun's up in the meantime one
more cup of coffee all right I got roast carrots potatoes and that those are
onions wrapped up in tinfoil with salt butter pepper butter and butter okay see
in about six hours would you believe
I only need about two more hours but I think I'll have some Sun here in about
20 minutes all I need is about two more hours of Sun and everything will be
fully cooked I can smell it though smells good I'm not dead yet you bastard
stop circling me
well it's been right now it's but it's been to 50 to 75 all day and I really
want to give it and I'm not worried about the onions I know the beef is done
but the carrots and carrots take a lot longer than these solar ovens to cook so
I'm gonna i've got about probably I've got about an hour a Sun left I'm just
gonna let it sit here I've had to move it from here over in the shade over here
and when the shadows cover this I'll take it in that'll be probably four
thirty not to be about seven and a half eight hours I've had it out here it's
been uh Oh a partly cloudy day so this really hasn't gotten up terribly hot
because of you know the song will go behind a cloud and the temperature would
come down and then it Sun would come out and the temperature would go back up and
all day long it's been like that but it'll be done about another hour I think
maybe 45 minutes there we go fully cooked meal courtesy of the Sun
poteete every time I'll make a knife I learned a little something more and I
thought that my table was Square to the to the drill chuck drill bit Chuck and
it was not and then you add to that not being quite square you add to that the
highly out of acceptable tolerances that chinese cross-slide drill press advise
and you come up with chucks bird's-eye maple with walnut liners that are the
hilt the holes are drilled so crooked that it won't work so today Sunday so
I'm not working too hard but I ruined them so I went ahead and I've made some
more here and tomorrow Monday I'll come back out and get back to work but I
think I can probably salvage these for you know maybe the cat's paw let's see
the other way I absolutely could yeah yep well not that worried but I could
use it I could use this end
here let me try something I don't have to set you down for me or turn you off
we'll be right back now I don't want I won't be able to nope wait maybe this
one no that won't work either okay well that's just not salvageable I think if I
were to make another Ferro rod I could probably cut this off right here and use
from here up and use a quarter inch pin up top and then the pin that goes
through the Ferro rod which is 1/8 inch use down here that won't look too awful
I don't think but anyway I'm not gonna throw them away for a little while look
at all the love bucks can you believe this I clean this up every single day
and I leave my doors open which is why they get in here they're uh now you
can't see my whole floor is covered in love bubs
put it over there right there that's all love bugs and you know I can't work in
here without my door open it gets too hot anyway oh let me show you the
jimping that I put on this come out really nice perfectly symmetrical and
you're not gonna believe what I use to MIT to do that jimping follow me my
chainsaw sharpener and which is the perfect size blade and I did have to
clean him up with a file but the first time I ever did jumping
I took my bandsaw and I cut in here and then I took a quarter inch file and
cleaned it up in the tickle it was a lot of work and it just
none of these were at the same depth I mean it was a lot of work to get it to
look even somewhat acceptable and this come out perfect perfect so there's that
here is swamp devil it's not that treated yet I got a heat treat this and
then buff it out one more time and then put some bluing on it but I'm not
actually doing nothing to that until I get this finished and in the house in
the houses where I work on the leather and chuck is getting a Ferro rod with it
which I've got the Ferro rod handle right here that'll be ready tomorrow too
so yeah I'm gonna actually get make a lot of progress tomorrow and I will not
make that mistake again see what I mean every night if I make I
learn I learned how to do something a little bit better and tell you I'm
really I'm absolutely in love with the knife making and if I could make them
for free and give them away I would do it okay nice update this is Chuck's
knife I've got the handles glued on I've got the Ferro rod made I haven't shaped
it yet I've got Scott's knives cut out now I
need to profile them on the belt grinder and then put a bevel on them and then
temper heart and tempers anyway got my blacksmith tongs
these are knife makers blacksmith tongs and the reason is
the reason is they have these grooves that hold the knife while you stick it
in the fire Wednesday I'm getting an anvil and yes I am actually gonna Forge
I don't have a forge it I'm gonna have the one I made that's nowhere near big
enough to heat things up hot enough to to Forge weld or to beat things into
submission so when I do get that Forge probably a
month or two I'm still I still got a couple other things I got a payoff
before I can spend the money on that but uh soon I'm getting all the little
things I got plenty of hammers so I don't need hammers plus I've got couple
more owning that shop hanging up all right about 20 more minutes I'm going to
bring that beat in for the solar oven see you in a bit