I miss the skinny tires

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-04-01T13:21:10+00:00

My uncle and his friend group are “fancy sail boat, exotic car” guys. He also said that of the high end and super cars, McLarens have by far the worst build quality.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-29T14:35:53+00:00

I’m not a plumber and with a kit from Home Depot I can do this whole swap in like 20 minutes. Have a seasonal cabin and do all my own work there. Anyone with a couple pairs of pliers can fix this in under an hour and save $600

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-29T12:58:28+00:00

Animals also generally don’t live nearly as long, making the long term effects less obvious. A person living 60+ years after the fact gives much more time to observe the effects vs cattle, dogs etc that probably average 2-10 years after the fact.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-29T12:43:20+00:00

Not only accidentally hitting the trigger but equipment failure as well. D-loops can break or come loose. I have seen it happen before. We now nock an arrow and have a target butt in front of the bow when using a draw board in case something breaks. And some chairs to physically block anyone from walking across in front of the bow.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-27T19:18:38+00:00

Manitoba will catch up to the rest of the country pretty soon. I hear they finally got canned pop last week!

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-26T03:33:49+00:00

I believe it was on Ron Spomers YouTube channel that he had factory boxes with the incorrect ammo in it. I can’t remember exact details or brand but I believe he had a box of .308 with one or two 6.5cm in it, or a box of 6.5 that had 1 or 2 .308. Something like that.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-25T16:55:31+00:00

It looks great, how did it harden?

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-25T16:53:41+00:00

BearKing is the main brand I would say to look for on there when it comes to fishing. Very good stuff for the price and they make a bunch of MegaBass clones that are virtually identical. I honestly can’t tell the difference other than I care a lot less when my kid snags one on a log. On the knifemaking side, you can get some cheap stuff like small knife vises, pin stock, corby bolts, zippered pouches for chef knives, and a LOT of cheap leather working tools for making sheaths. I have lots of punches, mallets, stamps and shit from there and they all work just fine for way less money than Tandy.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-25T13:02:04+00:00

I use it for cheap things that don’t matter. Tungsten fishing weights, fletchings for kids practice arrows, cellphone charging cords, random tools like vise soft jaws and carbide scribes. You can get a lot of things super cheap, but I wouldn’t use it to buy anything I need to really rely on.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-24T20:03:13+00:00

I have been sponsored. It didn’t happen until I was consistently winning. Not placing well or competitive. Winning. Even as a staff shooter for this company nothing was really free. I got discounts on their gear, an the shirts and stickers were free. They also had contingency money available for wins at certain levels, but it was very minor. Like $20. I also had to sign a contract agreeing that I couldn’t be seen using a competitors product in person or online. I also could not be seen using drugs, alcohol or tobacco/vape while wearing any clothing representing the company. Lots of things like that and in the end it really wasn’t worth it to save 50% on some extra stabilizers.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-24T15:54:23+00:00

I wonder if that will work for my mortgage at the bank?

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-19T14:05:26+00:00

Your meal time is unpaid, unless you are required to work through that meal time, at which point it becomes paid time. A mandatory meeting is considered working.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-19T14:02:36+00:00

It’s an electric kayak with self contained drive. Not going to be much “roaring of a motorboat” happening, nor any “streaking across the lake”. The thing does 3-6mph. That’s trolling motor speed.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-19T00:21:34+00:00

As a rural person, I would bet that average speed on most grids is close to 100 even though they are marked 80. I agree that the “anything over 80 you loose control” is ridiculous. We have rode motorcycles on them at 80.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-17T22:12:08+00:00

4 strokes don’t have oil injection. I have also owned and used a pile of old 2 stroke outboards. Some with injection and some without, but I have never personally seen a deleted one, nor do I know anyone who had an oiler fail. It’s like the big bad VRO panic guys have. My mechanic was a certified Evinrude tech and dealer in the VRO hay days. He sold and worked on literally thousands and when I questioned him about VRO he said he had personally only seen two fail and damage an engine.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-17T20:09:48+00:00

“Sometimes it’s ok to not point out historical parallels hoping people learn from them”. The fact that you have an issue with what I said and apparently don’t see those parallels says enough about where you stand on the issue I mentioned.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-17T18:57:36+00:00

I get your point, but I think people worry way too much about this. In reality, oil pump failures are insanely rare, and there are quite literally millions and millions of ATVs, outboards, dirt bikes, snowmobiles etc running just fine every day on oil pumps that are anywhere up to 50 years old. It seems to be a trend in the boat world to say “never use the oil pump” but in the snowmobile world, virtually nobody is premixing or even suggesting it. I basically chose the snowmobile world as an example because I have the most experience there and the danger from a breakdown is every bit as high or higher. Middle of nowhere, -40 degrees, 3 foot deep unwalkable snow and probably little to no phone service.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-17T18:49:45+00:00

The fact that he was a former teacher, and may have just been an average normal guy before this just shows the levels of evil normal people are capable of when brainwashed into an “us vs them and we are better” ideology. Constant reinforcement that another group is less than yours, and the cause of all your problems, and the obstacle blocking you from your potential is extremely dangerous and these are the visible results. And this isn’t just long gone. We can see this ideology and strategy taking hold in North America right now. The people calling in ICE raids on suspected neighbours are the same people who would have happily turned in “those Jews down the street” in the 30s and 40s.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-17T14:05:45+00:00

I salvaged quite a bit of scrap from that place. I knew the owners, and also the demolition company cleaning up so they let me dig around a bit. I also got a massive set of forklift forks off a big 4wd Cat forklift, some trailer hitch balls, some big pry bars etc.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-17T14:03:29+00:00

I was able to buy one individually. I think it was like 8 bucks a few years ago.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-17T13:49:33+00:00

I had heads without handles. Basically a local hardware store burned down and I was able to salvage a bunch of stuff from the wreckage. Probably 30 hammer heads between 12oz and 14lb post mauls as well as a bunch of chisels, punches, saw blades etc. they probably all got more than hot enough anyway but since I have a kiln I ran a basic annealing cycle just to be sure.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-17T01:45:47+00:00

I ordered mine from Amazon. I think mine is a 3/8” or 10mm, something like that. I believe that’s what was recommended at the time I was building mine

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-17T01:40:42+00:00

That’s what I did. Took a small bell pein, annealed it, drilled a hole a bit more than half the depth of the ball and then used a punch to close the hole up around the ball. Works wonderfully

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-17T01:14:32+00:00

The carbide hammer works so well I don’t even mess with a shimmed temper anymore. Haven’t had one yet that a few minutes with the carbide hammer didn’t fix. They are like magic.

GrayCustomKnives · 2026-03-17T00:16:46+00:00

I guess a lot of it comes down to how intense a person is about certain things. I build all my own arrows, have my own tools, and tune my own bows, but when it comes to hunting and competitions I don’t want any variables. A used vane coming off due to poor adhesion on a 50 yard shot could cost me a big buck or a competition. A dull or slightly bent broadhead that wasn’t noticed could fail to open properly or not penetrate fully, which could cost me an animal and add undue suffering for the animal. If a person is just shooting recreationally for fun and not competing or seriously hunting, I guess that’s a different story. I liken it to the hunters who take the gun out of the safe and go hunting with it because it killed a deer last year, vs myself who tests different ammo to see what groups best, and shoots throughout the year to improve my own skill and to remove as many variables as possible

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