I never thought you would still be making knives for this many years. Great to see the demand is still there for your products. All best for your 10th anniversary. You deserve it.
I went to your website and was blown away by the variety in the knives you produce. It's no wonder the quality of your products are amazing. Appreciate the shop tour. Definitely earned your success. Congratulations!
MAZEL TOV ! MY how time does fly. What a wonderful history and the best REALITY (type) stream on the web! Stay motivated John & Erik... By the way you both look marvelous! Thank you for intellectually honestly sharing your voice.
Awesome watching John & Eric's 10 year shop tour! I remember these guy's skateboarding,building CNC lathe's and anodizing machines. It's been a trip. LOL
You guys should do 10 years of progress wall plaques ,either for the whole business or each station. Would be great for you guys to display with all the video and old parts how far you have come with your product and processes not only as a reminder to yourselves but also for anyone new entering your company. I have watched many of your videos, KMT like 3-4 times as it's so inspiring, would be good for you guys to have that daily as a reminder of how far you have come. All the best for the next 10 years and thanks for bringing us along with you.
Huge congrats on 10 years of success! I noticed what appeared to be a half dozen transformers around. If you could possibly go to a standard shop voltage you could save yourself some good coin by letting the power company feed you the proper voltage. I would bet if you could ditch those transformers you would cut your power bill 5% or more every month.
Nice shop. Blaser lube is great. Glad to see some Kennedys, now you just need some Lista's and you'll be in there and your Swiss lathe....12 foot bar feeder! So nice to see someone your age making it and really enjoying it!
24:00 John and Eric: We've got to plan for hiring some new people. Me: LOOK AT THAT GIGANTIC HORSE FLY THAT'S ABOUT TO TAKE A BITE OUT OF YOUR PASTY CANADIAN LEGS!! 😱😆😎
Congratulations to everybody who've contributed to the success of this awesome company and its products. Great machine-tools, superb shop & environment!
Congradulations to John and Eric on the 10 year anniversary of Grimsmo Knives. I think back to the beginning when you were doing everything in John's garage using the Tormach 1100! Very impressive growth in 10 years and BTW you still make some of the finest knives that money can buy.
Congrats men ! Have been watching you and Saunders from the first chip and just proud of you three . lots of luck to you " all and Eric regards Skip Victoria Texas USA
It's cool to see how much your company has grown. I remember when y'all were in your garage! And speaking of Saunders, I remember when he was in his bedroom! Congrats to you both!
You continue to inspire and the audience continues to grow. Thanks for sharing all the lessons learned and knowledge with the masses and contributing to the community like few have. Cheers.
Wow, really nice Shop and a very nice collection of CNC machine tools. Thanks for sharing it with all of us. I have never purchased one of your knives but maybe I will in the future just because they are obviously extremely well made. Very Impressive John
Only just got to watch this video now. I've been here since the earrrrrrly struggles with the home-built CNC in your garage and just wanted to say congratulations to you and Erik. You've come a long way and it's great to see you both happy and healthy. Here's to another 10 years! 🍻
One of my biggest regrets of my knife collecting career is selling my Norseman, good thing I have me another one on the way LOL. Congrats guys on job well done!
Hey ! Don´t matter what happens remember, keep the old table !! Congratulations , it´s very inspiring for all of us , tons of health , prosperity and good business.
last time I checked in on your channel you were in your garage. Completely missed your last shop. Good to see you are still going. Quality products the Chines cant steel seem to stand the test of time.
John and Eric, congratulations to you both and the team you are to be commended for your efforts since we first started watching you in your garage. Lance & Patrick.
This was really cool. I have a Norseman being shipped out tomorrow (I hope!). Can't wait to get it. Love the behind the scenes look, even the admin and shipping areas.
Thanks John, deeply inspired by your work and your story. Took me a while to understand, but know i know what to do, same thing you are doing with your products, but with my telescopes. I wont imitate you but have you as my refference, alongside with Pierson and Saunders..... thanks from Australia.
@@ErikGrimsmo hey mate how are you? Yes Telescopes and equipment for Astro photography. Lets get in touch and i show you what i am doing in this part of the world.
I’m on the Norseman Waiting list after seeing the amazing setup! I’m from MTL so it’s very cool to see such a quality product being produced in Canada. Thanks for the video!
OMG, it's not been ten years has it?...i remember you back in the Garage telling us "My wife has let me use Tuesdays Guilt free as a workday"....lol.Mrs Grimsmo needs a pat on the back for allowing you to make noise on a Tuesday...look what happened!!! It's been a ride bro...here's to another 10 years!!!
9 years snd still as awkward on camera lol. Also love the plants “planted” for the video. Congrats on 10 years and can’t wait to get my hands on a saga. Keep it up fellas.
We are still awkward, but those plants are overflow from my home or one's I wanted to watch grow while I work. I'd hope if they were "planted" it had been done more tastefully.
Nice work gentleman. I just got my first Norseman finally but need need need a chance to get one of those timascus knives. Love my new knife and keep up the good work.
10:21 I'm gonna need an quality inspection on that burrito that Skye's gnoshin on there. Something tells me there's barely any sauce and only a few crumbs of cheese on that bad boy... Sad the crate is gone! But shop looks awesome and I'm glad everyone is kill it!
After years of perfecting a skill, you know exactly how you’d do it. you can skip over all the years of trial and error and train someone new (and committed) the skill in far less time, they might even surpass your original skill. To the point that your jealous of how fast they picked it up. That’s why the most committed players become coaches, they can train someone to be better than them in half the time. Smart business move. You can go the next skill, then teach that. Love your content man. Good job on the camera work too. RU-vid channel is even full Grimsmo nowadays.
Nice shop it is so good and shiny, but your only weakness is the sharpening part , if the guy was sick for any reason your production will stop , i know its wery hard but you can program a robotic arm to sharpen the blades
maybe a lil late maybe not, but for sharpening blades repeatably at the same quality. you can look into one of those stands wich use a arm to guide a sharpening stone at a specific angle on the fixed blade
I would love to go through your box of fail. I actually bought a set of Spyderco Manix scales from you at Blade Show long ago. I was looking for an inexpensive way to leave with a custom folder and that set of scales was a slight machining mistake that you gave me a deal on and then you installed it on a Manix I bought at the show. I loved it and it was my EDC until I broke the plastic ball bearing lock holder when I tried to clean it. I guess you weren't Full Grimsmo yet. You did have a prototype Norseman but selling me a blem let me get in to the game and I have enjoyed watching your success even though I started with one of your "failures" (it seems fine to me). Congratulations, I'm sure you are going to be doing a lot more cool stuff over the next ten years, all Full Grimsmo and that box of fail will probably get smaller. I know you want to only put out the absolute highest quality you can but I'm proof that one of your fails can make a person very happy. You already know that seeing that box makes some people sad. If you want to fix that, I suggest you make a fail knife lottery and when you can put one together with mismatched scales or whatever, mark it fail, pull a name and sell it for $200. I would buy one and be happy if I had the chance. I would like it as much for the knife as the story too. Success without failure to go with it is a boring story!
I've realised and heard that I'm basically on the same journey as you - with different products - about 5-6 years behind you! It's really quite weird :-D Today we should be getting the keys to our first unit - moving from a garage (plus little container)
Congrats on Ten years!! I would have thought that your brother was your partner but when you said “that’s what I got this guy for” it made me feel as if that is not the case. He has been with you on this glorious ride since almost day one and he did come from across the country to take that first step beside you. Maybe it was just a slip up of words!! maybe not!! I would hope it was just a slip up!! And I don’t think we saw Frazier in this vid!! I assume he was shooting this video!!
@@ErikGrimsmo Have you done any testing? I’d imagine you wouldn’t get quite the same flatness as a plate quench but the production rate would be significantly higher. Probably much less distortion than an oil quench too.
So how do we actually order a knife? I cant seem to come right on your website and dont really want a "second hand" one. Plus how do you get a matching saga?
Please, for the love of comfortable seating, invest in some ergonomic chairs for downstairs too (Herman Miller, Steelcase, etc), it'll be expensive at first, but comfortable and ergonomic chairs will improve employee welfare. My back hurts just looking at some of the chairs you're using