My frustration with YouTube is the the projects I'm really passionate about and
feel really good about, don't get watched don't get promoted
they don't get any revenue you and then I'll do something where I'm like this is
really stupid I almost feel bad about posting it and then it'll just go viral
James: Yep I have the exact same issue and that's why we're trying to do one-day
projects as well because it's just like why do we spend hundreds of hours
Engineering something to have it fall flat on its face cause that's the problem
yeah it doesn't matter how much time you put into a project it's how you present
it and how cool it is yeah
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James: Grant, nice to see you! Grant: Brought you some Tim Hortons stopped by for
some Boston cream so this is the place James: Yeah come on in, this is the spy car in progress
Grant: This is legit, a spy car
James: you'll see that like that's the that's the test we're
doing today
Grant: I haven't seen any previous videos coming out tomorrow oh really
yeah oh no kidding this is cool like a James Bond
James: yep take this start just
start there's gonna be a whole series of videos I'm talking rocket launchers under
the headlights a grappling hook launcher in the grill dispensers for tire spikes
and oil slicks and for romantic nights out a built-in projector so you have a
movie theater wherever you want and what I'm most excited for is jet
engines in the trunk okay doing the ejection seat today
Grant: Check this out the sleeping pod yeah I recognize that on the way here I also
notice the train tracks and the walking path of that how you doing man good to see it
recognize you Ian good to meet you guys okay is this the one that you actually
have to be worthy?
James: Umm, this one's just really heavy
Grant: This is awesome, see this is what I love about your workshop is like you're doing all the things that I wanted to
Grant: I just gotta take a second to just take this all in there there is so much stuff
in here it's insane you got like your sleeping pods up here full on Iron Man
suit wonder women see which I'm guessing you use for like occasional parties on
the weekends yeah it's fun some of this stuff I don't even recognize I haven't
played video games since a Nintendo 64 so I don't recognize half this stuff and how many Thor's Hammer's
have you got cause I see them out front I see them...
James: I think we own about six right
now or making a few more so yeah try picking up
Grant: Okay so feels like lead?
James: yeah that's about 75 pounds
Grant: Dude that's that's got some weight to it
right uh it's not a one hander for sure you know what you need to do is almost
make a set of barbells dumbbells you know go to the gym and work out with a
thor's hammer wouldn't that be the coolest thing just like in the gym just
crank it this out that actually is really heavy what else you got okay so I
reckon it's funny I've seen a lot of your videos so I recognize a lot of
things it's not coming together I feel like I'm
James: Have you seen the blitz shield yet?
Grant: yes I didn't see you test it though
James: So we're still trying to find a gun range that
will let us shoot it through but the neat thing with this besides how
heavy it is is we got this little dial here
Grant: I know that reminds me of the world's brightest flashlight
James: yeah so this is this is getting up there like this is a 16 LEDs there apparently 9,000 lumens each
each okay it's r18 so that's like 165 thousand lumens yeah which is three
times the brightness of an IMAX projector okay yeah although an IMAX
projector is much more focused
Grant: How long can you run them?
James: It's actually not too bad I think I think we could probably get like half an hour
really out of the battery pack
Grant: See it you could hack in it yeah so it gets
pretty warm like if you feel here it's already getting a bit toasty that's what
I was wondering like could you hack an LCD screen to make your own like hundred
inch projector you could really your own IMAX screen for that matter yeah okay
Grant: so I have heard how heavy this is
James: So we actually did take it to an airsoft game
we were able to run slightly with it but Bogdan went a bit too crazy with it and
he actually trips and fell and like flipped over it because it was so heavy
so they'll be in the test video as well
Grant: And that's because you built it out of steel?
James: Yeah solid steel
Grant: Did you bend it too?
James: Bent it with Thor's hammer
Grant: Did you really?
James: Yeah we literally we put
on the table clamp it down I took Thor's hammer and smacked it, we've literally managed to use
that for like the past four projects for some element of the project we've hit a
project with the hammer
Grant: You know what you need to do is use that as a
counterweight for your flying like Iron Man project this new one it's really
Grant: That is really cool yeah I haven't actually seen the movie yet, I've heard that it's one of the best
James: All right so if you pull that extend
Grant: Well that's got some weight to it you
James: Yep everything we make super heavy alright and then you want to go back you
just flip this the other direction and then pull the switch again yeah so actually over here
That's our Han Solo blaster okay and we're planning on blowing up the Death
Star with the blaster that's just a flare gun
Grant: Good for you, it just shoots flares yeah awesome
I would love to talk to you about legalities in
Canada it's a bit of a gray area I've learned a lot about legalities recently
I actually sat down with the city yesterday before I flew up here
oh I'm sat down with the entire city chief of police all the fire marshals
the risk assessment manager the mayor of the city yeah so I learned a lot about
what the city thinks is legal what like very interesting system where like
nobody knows and it's a gray area for everybody there's no right way to do
anything it's just like do you get caught and do you get prosecuted or not
James: That makes a lot of sense actually
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James: Free Wi-Fi is the easiest way for hackers to steal your
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Grant: So you got a great great setup here you could pretty much do everything
James: Yeah let me show you the plasma cutter then so yeah this is oiur new baby and we
have literally used it for almost every single project since we got it it makes
everything so much easier especially for welding.
Grant: Could this double as a waterjet table also
James: No only yeah
Grant: Did you use this for the Han Solo blaster?
James: Yep so we got at the Han Solo blaster we've got
Frostmourne it's a sword we're building part of the Captain America shield
brackets
Grant: That explains why it's heavy it's like really heavy
So I see the color scheme its kind of like you got the fire engine red and the gold, is that anything to do with
James: So that is kind of Iron Man themed
Jarvis: The render is complete
Tony: Little ostentatious don't you think tell you what throw a little hotrod red in there
Jarvis: Yes that should help you keep a low profile
James: And then everything else is
yellow and red which is very just a comic book okay right primary colors
Grant: I always wondered why instantly comical because you very much there make it real
yeah I'd say like you probably got to handle on make it real I mean I think so
I'm saying even the Wonder Woman lasso ooh uh-huh all you need to do is attach
electrodes to the end that does a lie-detector test
true yeah
James: And then back here we have some more of our really nice equipment this is a
tormach PCNC 440 milling machine so it's a small CNC machine Tormach's been
really great to us they've given us all these machines
Grant: Okay so I got a question for you you have some pretty impressive pieces of machinery in here okay is
there anything in your workshop that you don't have the you wish you had
James: So the plasma table was like I keep saying it was the last piece of the puzzle and I
truly believe that because we have literally used
like almost every single project since we got it in here and I've wanted one for
years because my very first piece of equipment that I ever bought was a CNC
laser cutter which can only do plastic and wood but because it could do plastic
and wood it opened up so many possibilities for projects that coupled
with a 3d printer so I saw the plasma table as the next evolutionary step
where you can make stuff out of metal
Grant: Let's check out upstairs
James: Our motto
So the actual ones have started shipping so I'll be getting my actual
boring flamethrowers soon and I'm really excited I'm I'm just curious how he even
did it
Grant: Can we expect that as a video on the Hacksmith Channel?
James: Oh yeah and then obviously a comparison to show that this one is much better
yeah obviously this is where we film stuff we've got one camera set up here
constantly just as it's easy because we always do the intros and outros here did
Grant: Did you build this shop?
James: No so this shop was built back in the 80s actually so it was
actually built by a trucker that's why it's got the huge door
he's need to actually pull a transport truck in here
Grant: it looks like it's in pretty good shape
James: Yeah so it was very well built we're lucky that it was in decent
shape because before I bought this place the previous owners rented it out to
some rather sketchy clientele and literally when we got this place it was
like a hoarders nightmare my guys really there's a piles of garbage everywhere
and we had to clean it all out but luckily the bones of this place were
fine and we painted all the walls to there for the dirty ceiling still kind of
Grant: I remember when you're starting out your wall had nothing on it except
your Wolverine claws
Are these the pans you're talking about yep from PUBG yeah
James: So we made a few mini ones to do as a giveaway
Grant: Oh interesting what would you say the
project you're most proud of
James: Probably the Captain America shield the new one because that was a good solid
weeks of like six weeks of design-build and the whole team like I spent the
first one or two weeks designing it and then it was almost a month straight of
the entire team working full-time to build it like each of those shields
probably took maybe like a hundred hours of labor at least just inlike welding and grinding
Grant: And you've got 3 of them okay there's a prototype up here on the wolfpack wall
oh wow is this the railgun this is the wait a
minute it's the crossbow style yeah oh that's right you shot a red hot rebar
through like a zombie head yeah yeah right and that stayed monetized no
problem
James: It did actually and really yeah
Grant: Okay this looks familiar I got one of
these I actually just started using this the Lulzbot TAZ6
sat in my workshop for a year and collecting dust it's because I don't
know how to do any 3d model on your 3d mock-ups yeah I finally got into fusion
360 okay I still feel like a beginner but I designed a couple Lego bricks nice
and printed them lock and I've almost got them to fit together so I'm really
interested in picking your brain on the whole 3d modeling for sure cuz I feel
like once you once you get that lock down then it opens up access to all
these tools
James: yeah so we got more printers into there yeah we have four of them actually
Grant: Are you working with the manager
are you negotiating all your deals
James: Pretty much all self-managed
it's a lot of work
Grant: What did you used to do?
yeah so I was a product developer at a company that made projectors but I helped work on
designing digital projectors by the company that used to make IMAX
projectors okay so imax actually when imax went
from film to digital they had their projectors made by
Christie digital which is actually a local Kitchener company which is the
world leader in digital projection technologies maybe they're one of the
biggest most movie theaters you go to it's a Christie projector and then this
is the original laser cutter
Grant: How often do you use this?
James: Oh we still use it probably on a daily basis so it's it's still super useful
Grant: That's what i wanted to ask you, what's your must-haves like which tools would you consider like the staples
James: yeah if I was to start again I'd probably get a 3d printer, plasma cutter, and welding
equipment if I had enough money plasma table right so yeah
Grant: So yeah this is for cutting wood and plastics yeah so even I kind of like little puzzle
boxes yeah
James: So it's great for doing electrical boxes for like little
projects and whatnot and the neat thing with this is this is generated from a
website called makercase.com you very say I want a box that measures 8 inches
by 12 inches by 4 inches and automatically makes the plans for you
with the cutout you hit print you can hot glue it together really so it's just
another one of those like super convenient things
My frustration with YouTube is the the projects I'm really passionate about and feel like really
good about, don't get watched yeah I don't get promoted they don't get
any revenue you and then I'll do something where I'm like this is really
stupid I almost feel bad about posting it and
then it'll just go viral
James: yeah I have the exact same issue and that's why we're
trying to do one-day projects as well because it's just like why do we spend
hundreds of hours Engineering something to have it fall flat on its face
that's the problem yeah it doesn't matter how much time you put into a
project it's how you present it and how cool it is yeah
Grant: I want to know about your Captain America suit though that's legit where do you get something like that?
James: yeah that came from the killer body Chinese company it's licensed so it is it's a pretty legit costume and we we
weathered it to make it look even better so when we walk over there you'll see we
uh we actually tore holes in it and rub it in the dirt and a bit of black
spray-paint brown shoe polish
Grant: You know I was looking at your pictures from your photo
shoot and I was like this yeah it looks very realistic yeah
James: so what one of the cool features we added which we saw in a screenshot from the movie before the
movie came out is this yeah so some people said it was like vibranium scales
or something it was something that was never even mentioned in the movie but we
literally ripped holes and found this material glued it in and made it look
like it's actually inside the entire suit so it's funny you
mentioned this so we are looking at industrial properties now because we
want to expand we don't have enough room like this is actually only half the team
right now and it's already getting crowded here
this is Evan he's our Video Editor Evan and then we've also got Benjamin
who does electronics engineering as well Oh awesome
but anyways we're torn between trying to find a farm to buy because a farm means
we'd have lots of outdoor space for big projects or an industrial property in an
actual industrial district well I'm totally not planning that
Grant: I'm gonna be honest man I'm pretty impressed and pretty jealous it's a setup that you got
here looks amazing this really is and I love how secluded it is it's so
there's your next trick is to make an Iron Man suit it's got muscle definition
James: That would be quite the challenge
Grant: Can I see your pod yeah
James: This was actually this is the very first example
of being able to build a really cool project because of a sponsorship and we
were really excited about it so just like I love wait we can get paid to make
something cool that we get to keep afterwards
Grant: like literally in my house
I'm gonna have one of these just cause sometimes you just need to get away
where it's quiet and air conditioned there yeah can I step up and
take a look again yeah if I wanna see what motors you're driving it with
James: It's actually a garage door
opener it's literally a garage door opener strapped to the bottom really yep
and then all the tech in it is literally just consumer tech that has apps for
Android or iPhone or whatever and we just have it all controlled by that
tablet
Grant: Now this isn't a one day build now did you conceptualize it
James: Ian actually designed this one I j
Grant: That's something we can talk
about like when it's more casual like the companies are working with ad
agencies experience his numbers definitely awesome
James: And with that we'll cut
secret meeting time!
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