“Somewhat safer” The creed of hobbyists everywhere! Great show. I always enjoy your videos and I appreciate the time it takes for you to go through and make them!
Your visit to your neighbor's house, demonstrates the importance of being friends with your neighbors and gaining their trust. It was neat to take the tour with you. I live in the country on 5 acres of land but am surrounded by empty acreage. My nearest neighbor now is a mile in any direction. I haven't always had this blessing, so it is cherished by my wife and I in our old age retirement. Thanks for sharing with us.
So sorry to hear about your neighbor. You have mentioned how you looked out for her. Thank you for sharing the things she touched and used during her life in the house even if it did make me sit here tearing up and having a good cry for her life now over. I hope your new neighbors are worthy new owners. RIP Octavia.
Thanks for the tips on preventing rust in blade guards and sheaths. The PVC sheath tip in the comments is a good one. I learn more from the comments on my channel than I teach. I always read them and those on any video I happen to watch. We would love to save all the cool old stuff we find. I had the 60 x 60 barn packed with all kinds of things. Even so we can't save it all. 🙄😎
Dave- I saw a guy who built a huge pole barn- I looked at the huge empty space and said “If I had this, in three years you would have to walk sideways!” 🫣😂👍
@@ScoutCrafter When we look at a piece of discarded history we don't see junk we see an opportunity. Just how many clamps do I need? Evidently at least one more. 😁😎 When the old hardware store was torn down in Union City there was a hand operated elevator in the building. I knew the building was going to be torn down and ask if there were plans to salvage the elevator. The contractor said yes and I stopped asking. About a week later the owner called and asked if I was still interested. He said I could have it. The contractor had torn the building down with an excavator and dropped the lift 3 floors to the basement. Ryan and I went and removed the lift. One gear was broken and a section of the cast iron frame was broken. I had plans to put it in the barn as a lift to the hay mow. We moved and I left it behind. 3 moves equals one house fire. The last one was more of a barn burner. Lots of half done projects were left behind.
The moisture in leather sheaths is why the knife industry has largely gone to nylon and more recently kydex sheaths. Kydex is a pretty cool material because it is easy to work with as it is a kind of polymer, and can put drainage holes, lashing holes, belt loops, etc into them. Kydex is easier to clean than leather too, which may be important for hunters if they care. Sorry to hear about your neighbor passing. Very cool history there, and I think its especially cool your great grandfather built those homes. Love the built in shelving in the first floor too.
Sorry to hear about your neighbor. As a long time knife dealer and collector you are spot on about the leather sheaths. I always store mine separately with wax on the items to prevent rust…thanks for the video enjoy watching from Kentucky…
Great video with useful information as usual. I enjoyed the visit at your neighbors house. Octavia is a very nice name. I hope you have nice friendly new neighbors. I have heard that the green stuff that gradually occurs over time on vintage military leatherware is called verdigris. It occurs around rivets.
I love seeing how your basement would look empty! Those stoves and sinks are fantastic. One thing missing in my workshop is a slop sink. That’s good information on the sheaths. That cord finished off the demagnetizer perfectly.
That would be a tough decision to make about taking or leaving the appliances and cabinet. The mosh was great and it was interesting learning about a sheath and the demagnetizer had a lot of good information. Thanks for sharing this Mosh.
Hi John, I use a drop of clear nail polish on the cloth-covered cord, let it dry, then cut or strip right through the hardened area of cord. It prevents fraying. Thanks.
The old stoves are a real piece of history. To bad you don’t have any space left under your bed. I have a roll of the twisted wire I picked up at the flea market for 5.00. I’m using it for the delta retirement lights when I restore them. I like your idea with the shrink wrap. Thank You
Excellent content as always. The knife sheaths are a great idea that reminded me of one of my pet peeves: that is that in films they always depict samurai as keeping their swords, at home, in their campaign sheaths, whereas in reality they kept them in white sword furniture (sheath and handle) which was typically made from white oak. if the swords were kept in the campaign sheaths they would indeed rust.
Gear info on sheaths. I have a vintage 38 revolver with a boot holster that is felt lined. I always thought was just protect the metal from scratches and now I know it is to protect the gun from the leather.
Hi Scout....I did the same thing with my neighbor (I got her rolling pin). I found an old slick (3") last year. I made a protective sheath by heating a section of 2" pvc pipe in oven to 350 decrees until it became soft. I then inserted chisel into the pvc and clamped the between two boards (use something soft like a couple layers of thick cardboard on the top side to form the curved side) leave to cool. I finished across the bottom with 3 copper rivets to prevent separation - takes the form nicely and stays in place. Thanks for sharing and as always, have a happy day!😊
Great video 👍 Great information and demonstration on different types of sheaths that may prevent moisture from getting on your blades and causing rust.👍 Sorry to hear about your neighbor. Love seeing those old stoves, especially the smaller one. Those old vintage kitchen cookware 🍳that was in the oven was nice, glad you got the Rolling pin. I wonder how much dough 🍩🥧🍰🍪🥮🥟or pastries she made with that?Her husband had a nice little workshop there. Thanks for the tour of that house 🏡, pretty cool to see. That China cabinet would be a great project for the show , it looks so awesome!👍Great fix for antique demagnetizer 🧲 🔌. I like the period looking end you put on there ,looks great!👍. Those brass pins you made also were a great idea for those wires so they will stay together. They also make ferrules , different sizes that you could use and do it the same way , but I like your pin ones because they just look more authentic to the piece 👍👍. Another great shot of Old Glory 🇺🇸 flying in that Beautiful blue sky. Well again great video and can’t wait to see what you do on Wednesday. 😃👍👍
I've recently been saving silica packets for reasons like this. Learned the tip from a woman that keeps them in her silverware drawer so they stay nice even if they're a bit moist after washing (especially if the drawers are right next to the sink)
Amazing how those old appliances were built to last. Sad to hear of your neighbor's passing, but hopefully your new neighbors will appreciate the history of the previous owners.
I put a vintage looking cord on a recent project. I found, on the cheep, an extension cord that is modern but looks vintage. Cut the end and wired it up. Looks nice…
Great video. I am going to make wood or cardboard sheaths now for my knives. I did not realize the leather would keep a moisture content. Always picking something new up from your videos. I agree that it would be ideal to have a couple of acres to live on. But of course, it would have a bigger shop...😉
A guy who let me show guest tools of his just showed me some antique stoves akin to those. He was given three of them. He is keeping a wood fired one and is giving the other two to Lehman's Hardware in Kidron Ohio. They have all sorts of old tools and such on display to decorate around the place. If anyone watching Scoutcrafter gets anywhere near Kidron Ohio, you would enjoy a visit there! It is a ONE OF A KIND place!
Mr. Lehman started working there before he was 10 years old. When we visited 3 years ago, he was still working there over 70 years later. They paid Amish to take down, move and reassemble several barns which are used for the store. Antiques are kept on the top of the shelving gondolas throughout the store. Also, the NFL Football Hall of Fame is not very ar away.
My grandparents farmed a 200 acre farm in Creek County Ok. It was about average. I later lived in Kansas for 41 years and the avrage farm there was in excess of 1000 acres. It required incredible invest in equipment.
@@ScoutCrafter there is an old joke in Texas. This very rich Texan opined he only had 500 acres of Land. When asked where his land was, he replied " 500 acres of Downtown Dallas" 😜
I love the old stoves! My house, for 30 years had a vacant lot next to it. I really loved the greenery! So did my outside critters! This week, it all got ripped out for a house to be built. I literally cried. Gonna be new neighbors soon. The critters are OK. Birds are now at my house. The raccoons took a few days but they're back. I'm hoping the new neighbors will be friendly! They'll have to put up with my singing and horn playing. My family has been here since 1993. I paid for this place and I was here first! 😅 now, that was a ramble! Seeya Wednesday!
Pete- She was Italian and French mix. Came here when she was young and couldn’t speak English, my Grandmother took her under her wing and they were lifelong friends. I never had a different neighbor so I am a little apprehensive about the immediate future. She was quiet as a mouse and so am I. 🤗
So we have those tiny home neighborhoods in the Southwest. They actually charge more than 200,000 for them. They make it sound like they are going to be affordable, but they are not.
Hope your new neighbors are able to stand the 2 A.M. horn blast😏😉. I like the wooden sheaths, I have a really old hunting knife that was found grown into the crotch of a tree and the person I got it from wants me to restore it as much as possible and I have some Purple Heart, I think I’ll give it a try see if I can get it to work out. Thanks for the video sir, another good one.
Nice cord replacement. I only have trouble with leather in the summer. Even in the desert you get humidity during rain periods. Probably the worse is bullets in a gun belt. Silaca works well. You can get larger packets of it for camper and motor homes or you can get it by the bag in cat litter departments. It should be remembered that you can bake the moisture out. I think 100 degrees in an oven. Those stoves would be perfect for a cabin.
I always wax/seal the inside of any sheath I make for a chisel, axe, knife or gun. It doesn't 100% stop the moisture but I believe it helps. Plus grandpa taught me to do it.
So far I haven’t had any issues with Veg tanned leather but if you get any leather exposed to moisture it will suck it up like a sponge and transfer it to whatever it’s protecting. 😃👍
Hi John. What a great video. As always. Those old stoves are really cool.i agree on the land. I have 4,5 acres. But at my age it is getting hard to keep it clean 😮. I love that demagnatiser. You did a good thing with the cord. Have a great day.👍👍❤...
I lived in town where the houses were so close I could hear him strike his bic lighter and in a few minutes I could hear his tar and nicotine coughing. I am blessed with living on my son’s farm. No close neighbors. I liked the second older stove.
Here in the big city you can smell what your neighbors are cooking. When I was younger having Italian/French neighbors is was a pleasure to smell their cooking. Nowadays you smell DoorDash. 😂👍
Hi Scout, I never knew that about leather. I bought an Estwing geologist’s leather handled pick hammer in beautiful condition with a leather sheath and thought the previous owner had put it away wet and that’s what caused the rust. But now I know better. New neighbours is always a worry and the house next to us has just been demolished to make way for a new two story 4 bedroom house and a single storey two bedroom house on the same block. Our only worry is that it’s a government project so who knows what the tenants will be like. Even in Australia the blocks are getting ridiculously small ever since private developers started building the new suburbs. 300sq meters or 3300 sq feet seems to be quite normal now where as the blocks in my area are around 1000sq meters or 10700 sq feet. While a lot of the homes in the new suburbs are large, they’re literally built on top of each other with only a 6” gap between homes and the gutters actually overlap. In the house our daughter used to live she had five neighbours and one had the toilet and bathroom facing her back fence and you could actually hear the neighbours taking a dump when we sat out on the back patio. Disgusting but funny too. Cheers, Stuart 🇦🇺
Sorry to hear about your neighbour. Sounds like she lived a good life. Great idea about using shrink wrap to prevent the wire fraying. Also smart move on the polarized plug. Safety first.
First thing that jumped out at me was the rolling pin and I thought I would have grabbed it for sure just to have a keepsake of hers but then I noticed that Aluminum Octagon Tray in the bottom and I'm not exactly sure what it is but likely would have grabbed it too. Never seen anything quite like it............Maybe a Pizza Pan??
Your neighbours house is somewhat of a time capsule, it's always poignant to me when you view the interior of a property that has been a family home for many years ! It's an important point about the leather and corrosion, I recently was going through one of my tool boxes and was annoyed to find that a fairly new and pricey "Flexcut" drawknife that came in it's own leather keeper had rusted badly and even pitted slightly. I appreciate the need for safety but it's somewhat ridiculous if the provided protection is detrimental to the tool in such a short time ! Luckily I think I caught it in the nick of time and have cleaned it up and coated it with Camellia oil. I'm with you John, a lot of society's issues stem from forcing people to live in each other's pockets, I've always dreamed of owning a couple of acres !
I wonder how many meals were prepared on that Norge brand stove? Probably quite a few; and that very stove is on ebay for 250$, but I didn’t check the shipping:) Interesting to know why the snaps and rivets on several of my old leather holsters and sheaths wind up green. That demagnetizer definitely filled a need for it’s time , though I do not think it would pass UL Approval. Thanks for the insights.
Hey señor Juan, I like to restore old stoves. I have restored five of them and have pieces to restore another one. Too bad that people believe that the new stuff is always better.
We have way too many people. The average home in 1941 cost $2950. When accounting for inflation the cost should be $63,000 in 2023 dollars according to Fox Business News. Of course the average home cost $422,000 in 2023. It's a crazy world.
I’m surprised they left the two poles exposed in those old devices, knowing the shock and fire hazard of a conductive object cross the poll? I’ll never forget one day as a stupid teenager I opened both blade of a pen knife and touched both posts on a car battery - bad idea! ⚡️ both blades looked like they had been shot by a .22. I don’t know how I didn’t get shocked 👼. However, I never did that again!!
I hope somehow those stoves go to someone who'll appreciate them. (And you get good neighbors.). MY old mentor caught me using heat shrink on a rayon cord and he showed me how to whip the ends with thread. I know you already know how to whip rope but that is how they finished old cords. (Probably a machine did it now that I think of it.)
SC, Cardboard is horrible for sheaths! First, cardboard DOES collect moisture. Secondly, cardboard contains a bunch of chemicals that degrade and can rust and corrode knife and axe steel. The best way to store any knife or axe is to use RIG Universal Grease and wrap in waxed paper. Another way is to buy VCI protective paper. A roll of 500 feet is quite reasonable and goes a long way for knives, axes, tools, anything that can rust. Store the leather sheath separately and like you said and use the sheath for carry and transport when the knife is being employed. A very thin layer of RIG Universal Grease can be left on the blade when put into the sheath. A very thin coat will not hurt anything and will protect the steel.
Bobby-Cardboard has a 7-8% moisture content. Quite low. It also has the tendency to stay dry (unless exposed to moisture). It will breath and is readily available to everyone. If you look in any attic you will find lots of cardboard boxes that are bone dry. I’ve had knives in wood and cardboard sheaths for 40 years with not a spec of rust. The problem is people store their stuff in unheated garages and sheds and blame the covering for the rust. Nothing can protect raw steel from rusting in an uncontrolled environment other than perhaps submerging the items in a bucket of oil! 😂👍
Hi Buddy, the price of everything is such an issue nowadays, especially housing. I'd love for my girlfriend to stay home with our kid but we're living in a small 1 bedroom property. With just my average salary there's no way we'll every get out of here. Let alone that dream barn! I'm lucky to be in the countryside so I have some air but still. It's an issue!
Alex- That’s the way things are now! It’s so hard to obtain the same things our parents could because of how wacky things have gotten. It’s a world wide plan.
Hi Scout Crafter You can have bad or good neighbors anywhere even when there is space around your house you could have someone who decides to have there own personal junk yard in front of their house sell dope and have cross dogs they let run loose. Or you could be in an apartment and have really nice people next door you never know.
Absolutely- However having reasonable distance between dwellings greatly decreases the negatives of coexistence. Living next to crying babies or barking dogs has a diminished effect when 500 yards away! 😂👍
For the polarisation the opposite would make more sense: Use the bigger one for the line, and the smaller for the neutral. With the neutral being bigger the smaller line with still fit into the neutral terminal. That would be the idiot proof version.
Here in the States the bigger blade of a plug is always the Neutral. I think they did that for the same reason so that it was harder to come in contact with a smaller Hot blade.
Small pin large pin coming from an electrician, that’s not safe at all. I would be struck off. I know you guys from the other side of the pond have your crazy ways. With measurements in bananas over cm and mm. but John I hope you never told the scouts that was safe. Great Monday video see you Wednesday Scott
Scott- The idea is to keep the item original as possible. 100+ years ago when this device was made things were a bit different. Rewiring this with modern safety codes would destroy the originality of the device. You wouldn’t put a GFI cord on a Edison Victrola. 😂
“Somewhat safer” The creed of hobbyists everywhere! Great show. I always enjoy your videos and I appreciate the time it takes for you to go through and make them!
Your visit to your neighbor's house, demonstrates the importance of being friends with your neighbors and gaining their trust. It was neat to take the tour with you. I live in the country on 5 acres of land but am surrounded by empty acreage. My nearest neighbor now is a mile in any direction. I haven't always had this blessing, so it is cherished by my wife and I in our old age retirement. Thanks for sharing with us.
So sorry to hear about your neighbor. You have mentioned how you looked out for her. Thank you for sharing the things she touched and used during her life in the house even if it did make me sit here tearing up and having a good cry for her life now over. I hope your new neighbors are worthy new owners. RIP Octavia.
All we can hope for after our passing is to be remembered in a good light. 😃👍
Boy, if I had the room I would get an old sink like your neighbor had. Those stoves are better than the garbage they sell today. Thanks for sharing
I enjoyed the lesson on the moisture content of each of the materials. You did a great job turning those brass posts!
Thanks for the tips on preventing rust in blade guards and sheaths.
The PVC sheath tip in the comments is a good one. I learn more from the comments on my channel than I teach.
I always read them and those on any video I happen to watch.
We would love to save all the cool old stuff we find. I had the 60 x 60 barn packed with all kinds of things. Even so we can't save it all. 🙄😎
Dave- I saw a guy who built a huge pole barn- I looked at the huge empty space and said “If I had this, in three years you would have to walk sideways!” 🫣😂👍
@@ScoutCrafter When we look at a piece of discarded history we don't see junk we see an opportunity.
Just how many clamps do I need?
Evidently at least one more. 😁😎
When the old hardware store was torn down in Union City there was a hand operated elevator in the building. I knew the building was going to be torn down and ask if there were plans to salvage the elevator.
The contractor said yes and I stopped asking.
About a week later the owner called and asked if I was still interested. He said I could have it.
The contractor had torn the building down with an excavator and dropped the lift 3 floors to the basement.
Ryan and I went and removed the lift. One gear was broken and a section of the cast iron frame was broken. I had plans to put it in the barn as a lift to the hay mow.
We moved and I left it behind.
3 moves equals one house fire.
The last one was more of a barn burner. Lots of half done projects were left behind.
The moisture in leather sheaths is why the knife industry has largely gone to nylon and more recently kydex sheaths. Kydex is a pretty cool material because it is easy to work with as it is a kind of polymer, and can put drainage holes, lashing holes, belt loops, etc into them. Kydex is easier to clean than leather too, which may be important for hunters if they care.
Sorry to hear about your neighbor passing. Very cool history there, and I think its especially cool your great grandfather built those homes. Love the built in shelving in the first floor too.
Christopher- Kydex is awesome, so is Micarta. They look and feel good too! 😃👍
Sorry to hear about your neighbor. As a long time knife dealer and collector you are spot on about the leather sheaths. I always store mine separately with wax on the items to prevent rust…thanks for the video enjoy watching from Kentucky…
Great show and the update on the demagnetizer was awesome. Thanks for showing us how to do it!
Great video with useful information as usual. I enjoyed the visit at your neighbors house. Octavia is a very nice name. I hope you have nice friendly new neighbors. I have heard that the green stuff that gradually occurs over time on vintage military leatherware is called verdigris. It occurs around rivets.
Yes- Usually it’s a good indicator of the acidity level of your leather. I’ve never seen it with newer Veg tan leathers. 😃👍
Mr John your videos are Instant Likes ... All the way a great video
I love seeing how your basement would look empty! Those stoves and sinks are fantastic. One thing missing in my workshop is a slop sink. That’s good information on the sheaths. That cord finished off the demagnetizer perfectly.
Hi John, you can always make some kind of cover for the terminal posts with wood or plastic bottle caps to avoid accidental shock.
That’s up to Dan- Personally I think the risk adds to the charm! 🫣😂👍
John those pins you made for the binding posts look great!
Mike- “Binding Posts”. I couldn’t remember what they were called! 😂. Thanks!!! 😃👍
Those posts worry me with them being live (hot) in use, I think I would probably get a belt when using it 🤔🙄😁
Glad you took that beautiful rolling pin 👍 and love the plug and wire on the demagnetizer 👌
Yet another job you've given me, making non leather blade protectors, top tips many thanks :)
That would be a tough decision to make about taking or leaving the appliances and cabinet. The mosh was great and it was interesting learning about a sheath and the demagnetizer had a lot of good information. Thanks for sharing this Mosh.
John- That little stove was right up my alley. 🫣😂👍
Hi John,
I use a drop of clear nail polish on the cloth-covered cord, let it dry, then cut or strip right through the hardened area of cord. It prevents fraying. Thanks.
Great tip! 😃👍
The old stoves are a real piece of history. To bad you don’t have any space left under your bed. I have a roll of the twisted wire I picked up at the flea market for 5.00. I’m using it for the delta retirement lights when I restore them. I like your idea with the shrink wrap. Thank You
Jess- The inexpensive shrink wrap looks dull almost like friction tape! 😂👍
Excellent content as always. The knife sheaths are a great idea that reminded me of one of my pet peeves: that is that in films they always depict samurai as keeping their swords, at home, in their campaign sheaths, whereas in reality they kept them in white sword furniture (sheath and handle) which was typically made from white oak. if the swords were kept in the campaign sheaths they would indeed rust.
Remember Zatoichi taking his sword apart and cleaning it? 😃👍
Indeed
Currently im stormed in with 8 foot snow banks here in Prince Edward Island - Canada, love having your content to watch to keep me entertained
Holy Cow! 8’!!! That would absolutely shut this city down- The knuckleheads in office now would poop their pants! 😂👍
Gear info on sheaths. I have a vintage 38 revolver with a boot holster that is felt lined. I always thought was just protect the metal from scratches and now I know it is to protect the gun from the leather.
John those old felt lined sheaths were really nice looking! 😃👍
Hi Scout....I did the same thing with my neighbor (I got her rolling pin). I found an old slick (3") last year. I made a protective sheath by heating a section of 2" pvc pipe in oven to 350 decrees until it became soft. I then inserted chisel into the pvc and clamped the between two boards (use something soft like a couple layers of thick cardboard on the top side to form the curved side) leave to cool. I finished across the bottom with 3 copper rivets to prevent separation - takes the form nicely and stays in place. Thanks for sharing and as always, have a happy day!😊
PVC has so many great uses. The square fence post is really useful as it is flat on 4 sides. It’s like poor man’s Kydex! 😃👍
Great video 👍 Great information and demonstration on different types of sheaths that may prevent moisture from getting on your blades and causing rust.👍
Sorry to hear about your neighbor.
Love seeing those old stoves, especially the smaller one. Those old vintage kitchen cookware 🍳that was in the oven was nice, glad you got the Rolling pin. I wonder how much dough 🍩🥧🍰🍪🥮🥟or pastries she made with that?Her husband had a nice little workshop there. Thanks for the tour of that house 🏡, pretty cool to see. That China cabinet would be a great project for the show , it looks so awesome!👍Great fix for antique demagnetizer 🧲 🔌. I like the period looking end you put on there ,looks great!👍. Those brass pins you made also were a great idea for those wires so they will stay together. They also make ferrules , different sizes that you could use and do it the same way , but I like your pin ones because they just look more authentic to the piece 👍👍. Another great shot of Old Glory 🇺🇸 flying in that Beautiful blue sky. Well again great video and can’t wait to see what you do on Wednesday. 😃👍👍
Steven- It’s always hard trying to upgrade an antique yet keep its original charm. 😃👍
I've recently been saving silica packets for reasons like this. Learned the tip from a woman that keeps them in her silverware drawer so they stay nice even if they're a bit moist after washing (especially if the drawers are right next to the sink)
Amazing how those old appliances were built to last. Sad to hear of your neighbor's passing, but hopefully your new neighbors will appreciate the history of the previous owners.
I put a vintage looking cord on a recent project. I found, on the cheep, an extension cord that is modern but looks vintage. Cut the end and wired it up. Looks nice…
David- The newer cloth covered cords look like the older cords but unravel quite easily. The older cloth cord doesn’t unbraid like that. 😃👍
Great video. I am going to make wood or cardboard sheaths now for my knives. I did not realize the leather would keep a moisture content. Always picking something new up from your videos. I agree that it would be ideal to have a couple of acres to live on. But of course, it would have a bigger shop...😉
Bill- I always liked a basement shop only because the climate I live in. If we lived in California we could have a huge Barn shop!!! 😂👍
A guy who let me show guest tools of his just showed me some antique stoves akin to those. He was given three of them. He is keeping a wood fired one and is giving the other two to Lehman's Hardware in Kidron Ohio. They have all sorts of old tools and such on display to decorate around the place. If anyone watching Scoutcrafter gets anywhere near Kidron Ohio, you would enjoy a visit there! It is a ONE OF A KIND place!
Mr. Lehman started working there before he was 10 years old. When we visited 3 years ago, he was still working there over 70 years later. They paid Amish to take down, move and reassemble several barns which are used for the store. Antiques are kept on the top of the shelving gondolas throughout the store.
Also, the NFL Football Hall of Fame is not very ar away.
Great episode, thanks for the tour of the home next door,there's some interesting stuff that got left behind. See you on Wednesday
Mike- My GF is still mad I didn’t take the China cabinet! 🫣😂👍
My grandparents farmed a 200 acre farm in Creek County Ok. It was about average. I later lived in Kansas for 41 years and the avrage farm there was in excess of 1000 acres. It required incredible invest in equipment.
Wow! Here in NYC if you have a piece of land 50’x150’ you are considered a land baron. 🫣😂👍
@@ScoutCrafter there is an old joke in Texas. This very rich Texan opined he only had 500 acres of Land. When asked where his land was, he replied " 500 acres of Downtown Dallas" 😜
I love the old stoves! My house, for 30 years had a vacant lot next to it. I really loved the greenery! So did my outside critters! This week, it all got ripped out for a house to be built. I literally cried. Gonna be new neighbors soon. The critters are OK. Birds are now at my house. The raccoons took a few days but they're back. I'm hoping the new neighbors will be friendly! They'll have to put up with my singing and horn playing. My family has been here since 1993. I paid for this place and I was here first! 😅 now, that was a ramble! Seeya Wednesday!
It’s true! So stressful when new neighbors are coming. Especially for me as I’m a fan of peace and quiet.
@@ScoutCrafter I get that! I guess we'll all just wait and see what happens! Good Luck!
Octavia? Now that’s a good name! That’s a name worth having.
Pete- She was Italian and French mix. Came here when she was young and couldn’t speak English, my Grandmother took her under her wing and they were lifelong friends. I never had a different neighbor so I am a little apprehensive about the immediate future. She was quiet as a mouse and so am I. 🤗
So we have those tiny home neighborhoods in the Southwest. They actually charge more than 200,000 for them. They make it sound like they are going to be affordable, but they are not.
Imagine these poor kids leaving school with 100K worth of student debt trying to get a job and looking for an affordable home! 🫣
Hope your new neighbors are able to stand the 2 A.M. horn blast😏😉. I like the wooden sheaths, I have a really old hunting knife that was found grown into the crotch of a tree and the person I got it from wants me to restore it as much as possible and I have some Purple Heart, I think I’ll give it a try see if I can get it to work out. Thanks for the video sir, another good one.
Purple Heart is hard and durable. I bought a big plank of it and made wood turning handles from it. 😃👍
Nice cord replacement. I only have trouble with leather in the summer. Even in the desert you get humidity during rain periods. Probably the worse is bullets in a gun belt. Silaca works well. You can get larger packets of it for camper and motor homes or you can get it by the bag in cat litter departments. It should be remembered that you can bake the moisture out. I think 100 degrees in an oven. Those stoves would be perfect for a cabin.
I always wax/seal the inside of any sheath I make for a chisel, axe, knife or gun. It doesn't 100% stop the moisture but I believe it helps. Plus grandpa taught me to do it.
So far I haven’t had any issues with Veg tanned leather but if you get any leather exposed to moisture it will suck it up like a sponge and transfer it to whatever it’s protecting. 😃👍
RIP Octavia
Hi John. What a great video. As always. Those old stoves are really cool.i agree on the land. I have 4,5 acres. But at my age it is getting hard to keep it clean 😮. I love that demagnatiser. You did a good thing with the cord. Have a great day.👍👍❤...
Larry- the perfect mix is a 1/4 acre that you maintain and the rest let mother nature maintain. 😃👍
@@ScoutCrafter great advice. 👍❤..
love your content, i find myself agreeing with every opinion you have.
I guess we’re old school! 😂👍
Hop0ing you get some DANDY neighbors and that gas stove is WONDERFUL! He did a wonderful job on the houses. Happy week to you and God Bless!
That antique China cabinet was beautiful. You need to save that if they throw it out.
I lived in town where the houses were so close I could hear him strike his bic lighter and in a few minutes I could hear his tar and nicotine coughing. I am blessed with living on my son’s farm. No close neighbors. I liked the second older stove.
Here in the big city you can smell what your neighbors are cooking. When I was younger having Italian/French neighbors is was a pleasure to smell their cooking. Nowadays you smell DoorDash. 😂👍
Hi Scout, I never knew that about leather. I bought an Estwing geologist’s leather handled pick hammer in beautiful condition with a leather sheath and thought the previous owner had put it away wet and that’s what caused the rust. But now I know better. New neighbours is always a worry and the house next to us has just been demolished to make way for a new two story 4 bedroom house and a single storey two bedroom house on the same block. Our only worry is that it’s a government project so who knows what the tenants will be like. Even in Australia the blocks are getting ridiculously small ever since private developers started building the new suburbs. 300sq meters or 3300 sq feet seems to be quite normal now where as the blocks in my area are around 1000sq meters or 10700 sq feet. While a lot of the homes in the new suburbs are large, they’re literally built on top of each other with only a 6” gap between homes and the gutters actually overlap. In the house our daughter used to live she had five neighbours and one had the toilet and bathroom facing her back fence and you could actually hear the neighbours taking a dump when we sat out on the back patio. Disgusting but funny too. Cheers, Stuart 🇦🇺
Stuart- This one world order has to go. Where’s the reset button?!? 🫣😂👍
@@ScoutCrafter Hey Scout, I don’t know but if you find it press it hard buddy👍👍
What kind of maniac only has one vintage stove in their house? You should have taken the other stove / oven!
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i can't wait for winter to be over
Sorry to hear about your neighbour. Sounds like she lived a good life. Great idea about using shrink wrap to prevent the wire fraying. Also smart move on the polarized plug. Safety first.
Wow I like those wooden sheaths. Did you make a video on how to make those?
Rich! ua-cam.com/video/JonpUDAZSFw/v-deo.htmlsi=9SjF-IytpVsKqc6y
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This is why i dont make sheaths from chrome tanned leather. The chromium salts will leach and corrode.
First thing that jumped out at me was the rolling pin and I thought I would have grabbed it for sure just to have a keepsake of hers but then I noticed that Aluminum Octagon Tray in the bottom and I'm not exactly sure what it is but likely would have grabbed it too. Never seen anything quite like it............Maybe a Pizza Pan??
I was looking at that! It was a cast Aluminum base for something! 🤔
Your neighbours house is somewhat of a time capsule, it's always poignant to me when you view the interior of a property that has been a family home for many years !
It's an important point about the leather and corrosion, I recently was going through one of my tool boxes and was annoyed to find that a fairly new and pricey "Flexcut" drawknife that came in it's own leather keeper had rusted badly and even pitted slightly. I appreciate the need for safety but it's somewhat ridiculous if the provided protection is detrimental to the tool in such a short time ! Luckily I think I caught it in the nick of time and have cleaned it up and coated it with Camellia oil.
I'm with you John, a lot of society's issues stem from forcing people to live in each other's pockets, I've always dreamed of owning a couple of acres !
Me too! Ever since I was a kid I dreamed of a nice homestead. 😃👍
Dang Scoutcrafter! I would love to have those stoves and sinks. I would crawl 50 miles through broken glass. Makes me sick. 😫
Nice job on the cord. I hope the neighbours stoves are not scrapped, that would be a shame. I can imagine the work to restore the cabinet.
Dave.
I wonder how many meals were prepared on that Norge brand stove? Probably quite a few; and that very stove is on ebay for 250$, but I didn’t check the shipping:) Interesting to know why the snaps and rivets on several of my old leather holsters and sheaths wind up green. That demagnetizer definitely filled a need for it’s time , though I do not think it would pass UL Approval. Thanks for the insights.
Those open binding posts fascinate me for some reason, almost daring me to grab hold…. 🫣😂👍
John, you know they are going to throw all that away , at least why didn't you take the scrap wood to make handles
The new owner said he would take it.
Thxs for sharing, how's Pipes doing?
Tom- He is now officially spoiled rotten and sleeps in my bed! 🫣😂👍
I call my cat, "KiKi" every nite and she comes to her spot next to me and I message her shoulders...@@ScoutCrafter
so does my KiKi, every nite@@ScoutCrafter
Hey señor Juan, I like to restore old stoves. I have restored five of them and have pieces to restore another one. Too bad that people believe that the new stuff is always better.
Saul- The old stoves are fantastic!!! Simple, effective and strong! 😃👍
John please christen the neighbors right on their first night at 3 a.m. with the loudest air horn you have. And film it.
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We have way too many people. The average home in 1941 cost $2950. When accounting for inflation the cost should be $63,000 in 2023 dollars according to Fox Business News. Of course the average home cost $422,000 in 2023. It's a crazy world.
They destroyed the American dream. Crazy world is right!!!
I’m surprised they left the two poles exposed in those old devices, knowing the shock and fire hazard of a conductive object cross the poll? I’ll never forget one day as a stupid teenager I opened both blade of a pen knife and touched both posts on a car battery - bad idea! ⚡️ both blades looked like they had been shot by a .22. I don’t know how I didn’t get shocked 👼. However, I never did that again!!
It’s true! I wonder why those posts were exposed? They knew enough about electrical shocks by that time. 🤔
Did you plan on building upstate?
No- building new is a pain…. 😃👍
I can only imagine the meals cooked on those stoves sad you don’t have room
I hope somehow those stoves go to someone who'll appreciate them. (And you get good neighbors.). MY old mentor caught me using heat shrink on a rayon cord and he showed me how to whip the ends with thread. I know you already know how to whip rope but that is how they finished old cords. (Probably a machine did it now that I think of it.)
I used to do fly-tying and originally considered that but I couldn’t see it terminating at the post tips. 🤔
you have to hope nobody buys up any thing they are not interested in and snag it up off the curb on trash day
SC, Cardboard is horrible for sheaths! First, cardboard DOES collect moisture. Secondly, cardboard contains a bunch of chemicals that degrade and can rust and corrode knife and axe steel. The best way to store any knife or axe is to use RIG Universal Grease and wrap in waxed paper. Another way is to buy VCI protective paper. A roll of 500 feet is quite reasonable and goes a long way for knives, axes, tools, anything that can rust. Store the leather sheath separately and like you said and use the sheath for carry and transport when the knife is being employed. A very thin layer of RIG Universal Grease can be left on the blade when put into the sheath. A very thin coat will not hurt anything and will protect the steel.
Bobby-Cardboard has a 7-8% moisture content. Quite low. It also has the tendency to stay dry (unless exposed to moisture). It will breath and is readily available to everyone. If you look in any attic you will find lots of cardboard boxes that are bone dry. I’ve had knives in wood and cardboard sheaths for 40 years with not a spec of rust. The problem is people store their stuff in unheated garages and sheds and blame the covering for the rust. Nothing can protect raw steel from rusting in an uncontrolled environment other than perhaps submerging the items in a bucket of oil! 😂👍
Hi Buddy, the price of everything is such an issue nowadays, especially housing. I'd love for my girlfriend to stay home with our kid but we're living in a small 1 bedroom property. With just my average salary there's no way we'll every get out of here. Let alone that dream barn! I'm lucky to be in the countryside so I have some air but still. It's an issue!
Alex- That’s the way things are now! It’s so hard to obtain the same things our parents could because of how wacky things have gotten. It’s a world wide plan.
Hi Scout Crafter You can have bad or good neighbors anywhere even when there is space around your house you could have someone who decides to have there own personal junk yard in front of their house sell dope and have cross dogs they let run loose. Or you could be in an apartment and have really nice people next door you never know.
Absolutely- However having reasonable distance between dwellings greatly decreases the negatives of coexistence. Living next to crying babies or barking dogs has a diminished effect when 500 yards away! 😂👍
For the polarisation the opposite would make more sense: Use the bigger one for the line, and the smaller for the neutral. With the neutral being bigger the smaller line with still fit into the neutral terminal. That would be the idiot proof version.
Here in the States the bigger blade of a plug is always the Neutral. I think they did that for the same reason so that it was harder to come in contact with a smaller Hot blade.
machine some plastic caps to cover those posts,
You will live in a chicken house and be HAPPY. 😁
Homeschooling is the only way
Some families can really do that well. 😃👍
Small pin large pin coming from an electrician, that’s not safe at all. I would be struck off. I know you guys from the other side of the pond have your crazy ways. With measurements in bananas over cm and mm. but John I hope you never told the scouts that was safe. Great Monday video see you Wednesday Scott
Scott- The idea is to keep the item original as possible. 100+ years ago when this device was made things were a bit different. Rewiring this with modern safety codes would destroy the originality of the device. You wouldn’t put a GFI cord on a Edison Victrola. 😂
I hope you get nice neighbors. BE CAREFUL NOT TO BLOW THAT FOG HORN! How’s Pipes doing is he back to normal?
Frank- I think Pipes is milking his injury. He’s better but insists on sleeping in my bed at night now! 🫣😂👍
BOOM 😂😂😂😂😂
Blame the housing crisis on mega corporations buying up all the houses
They saw Real estate as a solid investment and now many are in deep trouble because the houses didn’t sell or rent! 😂👍
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Love the knife scout I bet the original is worth some money would love to get one of those great video scout god bless take care 🪖🇺🇸🗽🇳🇿💯47 /FJB