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E36: Disney visits and birthday wishes
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Today is Denis' happy birthday! Jerid has a fun time in Disney. We even talk about knives and our upcoming trip to MakerCamp. Come check it out!
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Transcript
Introduction and Birthday Celebration
00:00:16
echo_blades
What's up, everybody? Welcome to another Triple T podcast for knife makers. This is a very special episode here. Tonight, I'd like to have you join me in singing Happy Birthday to the wonderful, beautiful Mr. Dennis Terrell from Terrell Nifeworks.
00:00:35
echo_blades
Happy birthday to you.
00:00:36
tyrellknifeworks
You're not really going to sing, are you?
00:00:37
echo_blades
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Dennis. Happy birthday to you.
Reflections on Aging and Retirement
00:00:48
tyrellknifeworks
Thanks, brother.
00:00:48
echo_blades
Happy 100th birthday, my friend.
00:00:49
echo_blades
How are you?
00:00:50
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, it feels that way.
00:00:54
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, everything, you know, everything's a aching a little pain every day. I'm getting old.
00:01:01
echo_blades
You're not really going to sing happy birthday. Get them out of here. I'm not going to do it. Happy birthday, my friend.
00:01:09
tyrellknifeworks
Thank you. Thank you.
00:01:10
echo_blades
What is the official number?
00:01:10
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. Uh, 54 born in 1970.
00:01:15
echo_blades
Nice.
00:01:18
tyrellknifeworks
So, uh, it's easy to calculate.
00:01:21
echo_blades
That is easy.
00:01:22
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:01:24
echo_blades
That's good. Good for you. Already retired, living the dream.
00:01:28
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:01:28
echo_blades
It's good to be Dennis.
00:01:29
tyrellknifeworks
Uh, yeah, I guess.
00:01:34
echo_blades
Well, I mean, it's better than me and Jared right now. I got to go to work tomorrow.
00:01:42
tyrellknifeworks
Good, good, how you been?
Mental Health and Personal Struggles
00:01:44
echo_blades
I've been all right, I guess, you know, if I'm going to being completely honest, which I guess that's pretty much the only thing I'm good at.
00:01:46
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:01:54
echo_blades
I'm I feel like shit. I don't know. I'm not feeling it these days. It's been a ah man, the ah
00:01:58
tyrellknifeworks
No?
00:02:01
echo_blades
The events from last week are not subsiding. subsiding um It's a real bummer. And so much that it was really hard for me to kind of connect with all the other bad shit that was happening, you know, um I had to remind myself to be to be grateful that I have what I have. But i yeah, I'm.
00:02:30
echo_blades
I'm just not it. You know, the, uh, the challenges in, in one's head sometimes are, um, an extremely tall mountain to climb. And I accept that and I will just keep on climbing and and we'll get through it. So that's where I'm at. I got zero done in
Preparations for Maker Camp
00:02:48
echo_blades
the shop. Um, at a short week. Um, so not, not much I could do about that. And, uh, I have.
00:02:59
echo_blades
to do some incredible stuff here in the next two days somehow.
00:03:04
echo_blades
But I'm not, I'm just, I'm not going to beat myself up about it. and I'm just gonna, I'm just gonna go. So no.
00:03:09
tyrellknifeworks
No, you totally should not wreck yourself trying to, what you're trying to work on your you're build for Maker Camp, right?
00:03:17
echo_blades
Yeah, which is so, so close, but, you know, it's just, it is what it is.
00:03:21
tyrellknifeworks
Hey.
00:03:22
echo_blades
I'm going to, everything's going to be all right. I'm just only sharing because I know somebody out there somewhere maybe goes through similar things and, uh, you know, it's all right.
00:03:32
echo_blades
And you just got to be sitting your feelings and that's okay. Sometimes, you know, there's for all the good, there's these times and. We just push through and ah everything will work itself out.
00:03:41
tyrellknifeworks
That's right.
00:03:46
echo_blades
And, uh, that's, that's what's happening. I hope you you had a fantastic
Disneyland Adventures and Family Bonds
00:03:51
echo_blades
way. I didn't talk to you at all. so
00:03:53
tyrellknifeworks
I saw your posts on on the socials, having fun in in the the Disney.
00:03:59
echo_blades
Yeah, I mean, on the upside, there was that I got the the opportunity to spend a good weekend with with my daughter and in Disneyland. We had some fun. And it was. a Long story short, the. All of the fun, all of the good. You know, you still ah that place is is the happiest place on Earth, right? And it's kind of hard to be bummed, but Yeah, I will just share that it was, it was difficult sometimes when you saw, um, groups of family with their, their matriarch, you know, helping.
00:04:38
tyrellknifeworks
Sure.
00:04:39
echo_blades
And and it was just like, just gut punch after gut punch.
00:04:39
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:04:41
echo_blades
And, but, uh, we had a good time. We enjoyed our, we'd enjoyed it.
00:04:45
tyrellknifeworks
Was it just you and your daughter?
00:04:46
echo_blades
It was just me and my daughter. Yeah.
00:04:47
tyrellknifeworks
Oh, let's see I see. I actually thought the family was gone. I didn't realize it was just the two of you.
00:04:50
echo_blades
No. Yeah, that but that's what was like super special. Like I was sharing with somebody, you know, when you're 22 year old, asked to go have a weekend with just you. Cause we used to do this all the time when we were younger, when they were, the kids were younger, especially my girls, I'd take them on operation, daddy, daughter dates.
00:05:12
echo_blades
And I would take take just them and shopping, or i we'd go to Disneyland, or we'd go do something. and you know But time flies, man. And now they're older. So I jumped at the opportunity and um tried to make the best of it, even though we're both kind of you know dealing with what we' we're dealing with. so But it was cool, man. I will say that no matter what is going on, ah there is always a massive massive amount of dopamine when I'm standing in the beignet line in the French Quarter.
00:05:51
echo_blades
I just am filled with giddiness and and all the happiness in the world.
00:05:55
tyrellknifeworks
Not the rides, the beignet line.
00:05:56
echo_blades
Well, the beignet is, I mean, that is, that is the business for me, ah getting in there and they're like, I don't even know why they sell three packs.
00:05:57
tyrellknifeworks
I feel you. I feel you.
00:06:05
echo_blades
Who the hell's buying a three pack?
00:06:09
echo_blades
So.
00:06:09
tyrellknifeworks
ah I once did ah a cooking class with a bunch of friends, and it was um like a New Orleans theme. And for dessert, we made beignets. I swear to God. i I ate like, I think it was 21 of them.
00:06:26
echo_blades
God. Yeah, I'm kind of bummed you didn't hit 22 cause those things.
00:06:32
tyrellknifeworks
My wife would know cause she was counting and making fun of me, but yeah.
00:06:34
echo_blades
That's funny.
00:06:38
tyrellknifeworks
One of my favorite desserts.
00:06:40
echo_blades
Yeah, they're, they're, they're good. So that was, that was fun. And then I did a, uh, you know, the rides there, there are either you're into it or you're not right.
00:06:51
echo_blades
They're not the most thrilling rides in the world, but I did do.
00:06:53
tyrellknifeworks
What? like That's blasphemy. How could you even say that? That's some of the best rides in the world.
00:06:57
echo_blades
Well, they are, but do you tell somebody that i wants to go to like Magic Mountain or those grill coasters and stuff like that?
00:07:02
tyrellknifeworks
Oh yeah, but that's, I saw that.
00:07:06
echo_blades
um But that Incredicoaster, I did a live video um of us going on that. I've done that before. Yeah, that was that was pretty fun.
00:07:14
tyrellknifeworks
I saw that. I am slightly annoyed that they took away all the California theme. Um, I liked it better when there's California screaming and everything was like California themed.
00:07:26
tyrellknifeworks
I'm kind of annoyed that they redid the, uh, the Monterey area.
00:07:26
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:07:31
tyrellknifeworks
Now it's like the big hero six thing that nobody ever saw. Like that movie didn't even do that well. And sometimes like, yeah.
00:07:38
echo_blades
Yeah. San Fran, Yokeo and like, yeah, they've they've done something. But I mean, it's, it's not about us that live here, you know, the, the other people and the and the money is, is all in there.
00:07:48
tyrellknifeworks
I know.
00:07:51
echo_blades
There was some, it's different. It's different from the last time I was there. I will say though, that the, the rise of the resistance was fucking cool.
00:08:01
tyrellknifeworks
Is that the first time you've been on it?
00:08:03
echo_blades
That's the first time I've been on it. When I, last time I was there, the, the millennial Falcon thing was just barely brand new. So I hightailed it over there first thing. And I was like, there's nobody here. Like what's going on?
00:08:14
echo_blades
Like I was surprised.
00:08:14
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:08:15
echo_blades
And then we look back and I was like, what is this ride? She said, Oh, you haven't done that one. I'm like, no, it was, it was fucking cool.
00:08:23
tyrellknifeworks
It is, it is by far the best one at the park right now.
00:08:23
echo_blades
I like, yeah, the way they kind of like shift you, like being the way they utilize you being in line.
00:08:27
tyrellknifeworks
Um,
00:08:32
echo_blades
Cause you're still in the queue when you're going through like these different phases.
00:08:34
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, they're they stay in character very well.
00:08:37
echo_blades
Yeah, it's pretty good. I was, I was impressed.
00:08:41
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, and we hit that at like 945 or something really late and like it was at the point where like you had to pay $27 to go on that ride during.
00:08:52
echo_blades
That is, that is the fucking way it is all the time. I didn't, I was mind blown.
00:08:56
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, but. Go there right before it closed and we did it right after it had rained so everybody left the park.
00:09:03
echo_blades
Oh, okay.
00:09:04
tyrellknifeworks
And, uh, we get, well, there was no wine and we got on freight.
00:09:07
echo_blades
Oh, that's cool.
Disney's Business Strategies
00:09:08
echo_blades
Yeah. We had to spend the money that and for the, the cars, right.
00:09:11
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:09:12
echo_blades
It's a, it's a racket.
00:09:12
tyrellknifeworks
I've never been on cars every, every time I go on cars, it breaks down.
00:09:16
echo_blades
Oh shit.
00:09:16
tyrellknifeworks
Like the two times I've been in line for that, it was broken down.
00:09:19
echo_blades
That sucks.
00:09:20
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:09:21
echo_blades
Yeah, but it's a trip that, that place is a money racket. yeah I mean, I, I hate it, but I just, you respect the hustle.
00:09:25
tyrellknifeworks
Of course.
00:09:28
echo_blades
Cause those guys, they've got it figured out, man.
00:09:32
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:09:32
echo_blades
They just hand over fist.
00:09:34
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. And it's like every year they come up with some new way to make money on something that was never monetized before.
00:09:41
echo_blades
It's incredible.
00:09:42
tyrellknifeworks
Right?
00:09:42
echo_blades
It's incredible. It's incredible. Like, uh, yeah, probably next year.
00:09:44
tyrellknifeworks
Like pretty soon they're going to charge you for how much air you breathe at the park.
00:09:52
tyrellknifeworks
But I do love it.
00:09:52
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:09:52
tyrellknifeworks
It is the best theme park, but
00:09:55
echo_blades
Yeah, I i we we are a family that has enjoyed Disney for a long we've been like eight, ah seven Disney cruises and we did a lot of that stuff. So good times.
00:10:05
tyrellknifeworks
Well, Kim's birthday is May the sixth, so we're going the weekend of May the fourth next year.
00:10:09
echo_blades
Nice. Nice.
00:10:11
tyrellknifeworks
So the whole Star Wars thing.
00:10:13
echo_blades
Yeah, it was cool.
00:10:15
tyrellknifeworks
It'll be crazy packed in the the Star Wars area next year.
00:10:18
echo_blades
It is hard to do in just one day though, each park in one day. I skimped out and didn't do the park hopper pass. So we had to like really be purposeful with our day in Disneyland to get everything done.
00:10:30
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, we did the same thing last time in December.
00:10:32
echo_blades
Yeah. So we got it all done though. So it was good.
00:10:34
tyrellknifeworks
Good. You were there for two days or three?
00:10:37
echo_blades
Just two.
00:10:38
tyrellknifeworks
Two.
00:10:38
echo_blades
Yeah, I drove in on Thursday night. Took me every bit of six hours to get there. um And then, yeah, a couple of days there and then my dumb ass like I can't. ah We close, we didn't close the park down, but we I didn't get home till like midnight and then or to the hotel and then packed all my shit up and fell asleep at like twelve thirty. And then I was up at four o'clock and I was my poor daughter. It's like, get up. Let's go. We're out of here.
00:11:07
tyrellknifeworks
Oh, you mean you mean Monday morning?
00:11:10
echo_blades
the next morning. Yeah, I slept like two or three hours and I was like, let's go because I was doing some math. Like, I mean, if you leave at like nine with the rest of the the yeah, you're not getting home till three or four, you know, so.
00:11:17
tyrellknifeworks
Oh, yeah, you know like.
00:11:21
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, one hour turns into three if if you guys would have waited another two hours.
00:11:23
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:11:27
echo_blades
Yeah, so anyways, but yeah, through all the shit, ah I am. I am grateful to have been able to spend that time with with my beautiful daughter. And we had a we had a good time.
00:11:38
echo_blades
So.
00:11:38
tyrellknifeworks
How old does she know?
00:11:39
echo_blades
22.
00:11:41
tyrellknifeworks
22.
00:11:41
echo_blades
Yep.
00:11:42
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. My oldest is going to turn 21 in a couple of, in another week on the 14th.
00:11:48
echo_blades
Yeah, too fast.
00:11:51
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, totally.
00:11:53
echo_blades
And that's why you're 54 dude.
00:11:56
tyrellknifeworks
And for the next three days, uh, we're, uh, babysitting the grandkid. Well, uh, um, My daughter's ah doing a work trip, so we're gonna have the five-year-old running around, so I'm gonna feel like I'm 80.
00:12:10
echo_blades
Oh, yeah. Do we do a lot of walking? Holy crap. Holy crap.
00:12:16
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:12:16
echo_blades
My old ass.
00:12:17
tyrellknifeworks
yeah
00:12:17
echo_blades
My hips were hurting. on but I was like, what is this? I'm like, I can't have hip hip pain now. It's just it's too good.
00:12:28
tyrellknifeworks
ah Yeah, the first thing I pack when I'm going to Disney is Ibuprofen
Weather Concerns and Maker Camp Plans
00:12:32
tyrellknifeworks
now.
00:12:32
echo_blades
Yeah, yeah, that's a must.
00:12:35
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:12:36
echo_blades
But, uh, I did have some, some, like, I guess there's some things that we need to talk about. Like, uh, one of them was, is the, uh, the unfortunate, I mean, we just had the the hurricane last week and now we got another one. Just barreling right through Florida. So, you know, good vibes, prayers, positive thoughts for all the people that are in the, in the path of that one. Um, I know Brian and Brent and Travis, Florida, man, like, you know, on and on Brandon, they they're They're getting, they're about to get slammed pretty good.
00:13:09
echo_blades
Hopefully this thing takes a hard right. That's my thing because it's coming from the Gulf.
00:13:14
tyrellknifeworks
heard I'm not even sure what direction it's coming from, but...
00:13:18
echo_blades
It's like, I was talking to Brent earlier and he was saying like, this never happens. Like they don't really ever originate from where this one is. So it's coming from Mexico side heading East tour.
00:13:28
echo_blades
So it's going to slam right into Southern West Tampa Bay.
00:13:31
tyrellknifeworks
It's heading, yeah, because normally they're going the other way.
00:13:33
echo_blades
Yeah. And going, yeah. and And going up or coming from the the Caribbean and, but yeah, I know far too many, too much about hurricanes right now, but, uh, yeah.
00:13:44
echo_blades
So I don't know if they're going to make it up to camp this week.
00:13:48
tyrellknifeworks
Oh, is that what he's saying?
00:13:48
echo_blades
Um, yeah.
00:13:48
tyrellknifeworks
That, um, I mean, I've read it in your notes, but they're like, cause it's supposed.
00:13:53
echo_blades
Yeah. It's supposed to hit, it's supposed to hit Wednesday. And like they're talking like 15 feet surges and like all kinds of like just anomaly type things are are about to happen.
00:14:05
echo_blades
Um, so if they left, they drove, they would have to leave like yesterday. Cause now the, the only freeway that 75 is just a parking lot right now.
00:14:15
tyrellknifeworks
Hmm.
00:14:16
echo_blades
So it's a bummer. It's a bummer. Um, uh, like I said, just the good thoughts, but
00:14:25
echo_blades
Brent is, is, is the best bitch in the entire history of the whole world.
00:14:25
tyrellknifeworks
But...
00:14:31
echo_blades
Cause this fucker sends me the collab knife that we're working on all done for ready for, for my part. And, uh, I get a text message from my wife because he he was really interested in this.
00:14:45
echo_blades
Like, he's like, Oh, I'm sending it. You should be getting a tracking number. And I'm like, okay, cool. Thanks, man. You know, you're just sending me the knife, right? And then, uh, I talked to him a day before it came and he's like, Ooh, yeah, I just saw it. It's about to get there. I still didn't even pick up on it. My wife sends me a text message and she shows me this picture. And I'm like, this motherfucker, this dude went and the best part about it for me is that he spent his own personal dollars on this, but he bought a bunch of giants. Hey, and wrap this thing up.
00:15:18
echo_blades
It blazed an orange giant shit stickers all over. And I was just like, and if you guys don't know, like I despise the San Francisco giants. That is the worst team. And for me, I have some very dear friends that are, that are giants fans and, and they get a pass from me, but, uh, yeah, he, he got me pretty good.
00:15:39
echo_blades
ah the every Everything was wrapped in orange tape.
00:15:39
tyrellknifeworks
Well, but.
00:15:42
echo_blades
He sent me some hot sauce, the knife, he sent me a ah roll of chew too, all just covered in orange shit. I was like, you motherfucker.
00:15:52
tyrellknifeworks
Well, now that the A's are gone, don't you have to become a Giants fan?
00:15:56
echo_blades
No.
00:15:58
echo_blades
I'll stop watching baseball all together.
00:15:58
tyrellknifeworks
Why not?
00:16:01
echo_blades
Fuck that team. Sorry. No, it's a family show. It's not. Yeah, no, I, no, I would, if if I was to, not follow the A's anymore, I would be a Dodgers fan just because of how much I hate the Giants because that's their bitter rival.
00:16:18
tyrellknifeworks
Oh,
00:16:20
echo_blades
I know a lot of people love my buddy Andrew just puked in his mouth.
00:16:28
echo_blades
But yeah, so that was pretty cool.
00:16:32
echo_blades
It was a good break from from all the the nonsense, but
00:16:37
tyrellknifeworks
well that's a bummer that, uh, they may not make maker camp that, uh, that sucks.
00:16:41
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:43
tyrellknifeworks
Cause I know there were some plant planting some stuff and Demos and other things with the coal guys and yeah, that sucks hopefully Yeah,
00:16:52
echo_blades
Yeah, I told him whatever we' we'd help out if there's stuff they plan to do that because I know they send a bunch of stuff up there already. But I mean, the important stuff is that the shop and the houses and everybody's safe and yeah and all that.
00:17:06
tyrellknifeworks
of course, yeah Of course ah Yeah, cuz it would suck if well, when were they planning on flying out Wednesday?
00:17:15
echo_blades
probably Wednesday or Thursday. Yeah.
00:17:17
tyrellknifeworks
yeah
00:17:18
tyrellknifeworks
yeah think
00:17:18
echo_blades
So I mean, best case scenario is like, this thing comes through.
00:17:22
echo_blades
Everything is decent. And the airports are still working.
00:17:26
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:17:26
echo_blades
And they come up like on Friday or Saturday, you know, and they catch some of it.
00:17:26
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:17:30
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:17:31
tyrellknifeworks
The, the airports, uh, still working is the operative term there because those could be.
00:17:35
echo_blades
yeah Yeah. Yeah. cause They're gonna have no power. No, like, oh, it's all thanks. Yeah, it's bummer.
00:17:43
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:17:46
echo_blades
But yeah, and couple that with all the other, the, the Helene stuff, you know, so heart.
00:17:52
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, that's still ongoing and cleanup and...
00:17:54
echo_blades
Yeah. Heart goes out to to John for, for his loss and like, uh, you know, and primitive woodsman, I think there's so many people affected by all this crap.
00:18:05
echo_blades
You know, it's, it's just, it's just an absolute bummer.
00:18:08
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. I mean, I was talking to Kim and we're like, she's like, it's so weird. Cause like, you know, you don't think of hurricanes hitting North Carolina and Tennessee.
00:18:19
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:18:19
tyrellknifeworks
And this is like the, the, you know, the, the 50 year storm or whatever.
00:18:19
echo_blades
So yeah, I agree.
00:18:24
tyrellknifeworks
It's just bizarre.
00:18:26
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:18:26
tyrellknifeworks
All of a sudden. Earthquakes don't seem that bad.
00:18:32
echo_blades
Not right now.
00:18:33
tyrellknifeworks
No, but
00:18:36
echo_blades
Well, what have you been up to? Cheer me up, homie.
00:18:39
tyrellknifeworks
What have I been up to? um Last week, a little milestone. Last week was my Triple T number 200 episode.
00:18:50
echo_blades
Holy shit, you celebrated the same years old as your triple T birthday. That's awesome, dude.
00:18:58
tyrellknifeworks
um I can't believe I've done 200 of those Triple T videos.
Folder Build Series Updates
00:19:02
echo_blades
That's amazing.
00:19:04
tyrellknifeworks
200 weeks.
00:19:06
echo_blades
That's amazing.
00:19:08
tyrellknifeworks
I've probably missed maybe three weeks total ever Yeah Yeah, like coming up with 200 topics for videos that's crazy ah But anyway, yeah that
00:19:13
echo_blades
And that's a hats off, dude. That's a commitment doing 200 of anything. Yeah. yet Alone 200 weeks of, you know, videos and content.
00:19:29
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:19:33
tyrellknifeworks
um Yeah, it was, uh, got real pretty far into the folder build. Um, then he, then now the next one will come out this week, which will um pretty much have it done. Like the last one will just be doing like final grinding and, you know, handle prep and pretty stuff. But this week, um, on the triple T on the, the folder series.
00:20:01
tyrellknifeworks
Uh, we're going to be doing the lock and the detent ball, which is like the major finicky pieces that we need to make sure are perfect. So, uh, stay tuned for that on Thursday.
00:20:15
tyrellknifeworks
Um, I got my apocalyptic challenge build done actually almost.
00:20:19
echo_blades
Nice.
00:20:19
tyrellknifeworks
I mean, it's sitting in the coffee right now. I wanted to give it a nice overnight coffee etch. And then, uh, I mean, literally everything's done.
00:20:30
tyrellknifeworks
It's just assembly.
00:20:31
echo_blades
How much copy did you have to use?
00:20:34
tyrellknifeworks
half a jar. I mean, it's a pretty narrow look tall.
00:20:37
echo_blades
Okay. Tube. Yeah.
00:20:38
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. It's a narrow tube. Um, so, um, yeah, excited to, I'm sick. I'm going to be buying a few pumpkins and, uh, doing a cut test on that may probably this week because I want to get a film this week.
00:20:52
echo_blades
That's cool.
00:20:54
tyrellknifeworks
So maybe even tomorrow, I don't know.
00:20:55
echo_blades
Nice.
00:20:58
echo_blades
Cool.
00:20:59
tyrellknifeworks
If I get bored tomorrow, I'll whip out the, over to, yeah, make my my wife mad and chop up all her pumpkins she bought.
00:21:02
echo_blades
The pumpkin.
00:21:09
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:21:11
tyrellknifeworks
I better go buy some new ones.
00:21:11
echo_blades
Put some giant's logos on them.
00:21:16
tyrellknifeworks
Actually, I was gonna, I was gonna carve them first with like big, like, ooh, where like, ah kind of faces on them before I decided to chop them up.
00:21:22
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:21:24
echo_blades
Right.
00:21:26
tyrellknifeworks
but
00:21:28
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:21:29
tyrellknifeworks
Um, but I'm glad to have that thing done. Uh, and now actually I'm just trying to, I've got that big commission that I'm going to start, uh, next week when we're back from maker camp.
00:21:36
echo_blades
Katana
00:21:40
tyrellknifeworks
Uh, yeah, the dual Katana, the dual kumai Katana build.
00:21:41
echo_blades
boy.
00:21:44
echo_blades
Nice.
00:21:46
tyrellknifeworks
Um, so that one's going to take a while. So I'm just trying to get through all of the, um, I had six of those sand tigers. I was finishing.
00:21:56
tyrellknifeworks
I had those chef knives. And I have a W2 Hunter. I may push to get done for Maker Camp. He treated it today.
00:22:06
echo_blades
Okay.
00:22:07
tyrellknifeworks
So I got three days. Maybe I'll finish it. and But if it was this if it was a full tang, it'd be no problem. But it's a hidden tang, so it needs a guard.
00:22:17
echo_blades
Hmm.
00:22:18
tyrellknifeworks
So that is the issue.
00:22:22
echo_blades
Right.
00:22:22
tyrellknifeworks
So if I get a bug out my ass, then I'll finish that. It all depends. It's got a hormone on it. So it all depends how good the, if the hormone looks really nice, then I'll, I'll be motivated to finish it.
00:22:35
tyrellknifeworks
So yeah,
00:22:36
echo_blades
There you go.
00:22:39
tyrellknifeworks
but that you saw, I've had like, it's one of those once in a while you get, again, you get those really productive days where I've got like, you know, five irons in the fire kind of thing, a bunch of things going.
00:22:49
echo_blades
Right.
00:22:52
tyrellknifeworks
I'm doing a chef knife. I'm doing like, I'm basically finishing all these builds. I finished a sand tiger today. I finished a chef knife today. I was working on the W two Hunter. I was working on the apocalyptic challenge build. And so it's, it's nice to be at the end of a bunch of builds, you know, like when I, whenever I start to handle work and I'm starting on,
00:23:18
tyrellknifeworks
Like sand, I know like when I'm sanding a handle, it's like imminent. I'm almost done. And that gets me motivated to just get it out of the way and finish it. So.
00:23:30
echo_blades
I get that. I get that a hundred percent. But yeah the difference is you get, make progress on those five things. I tend to think about five things a lot and get a little bit done on all of them. So.
00:23:51
tyrellknifeworks
You know, and and this kind of relates to my my maker spotlight for today, but I'm getting a little antsy that I haven't like I want to do a really nice Damascus. I haven't done a really nice Damascus build since. um I mean, I did the dagger, but that was relatively simple Damascus like i haven't done anything really fancy since the Viking sword.
00:24:14
echo_blades
Right.
00:24:14
tyrellknifeworks
Um, and I've just seen all these like Damascus that I want to do. And then I've got, you know, all these commissions lined up and I kind of made the decision over the last week or so that I'm going to shut the commissions down. I'm i'm going to finish the ones that I have that I've promised. Um, but then I'm just gonna, I'll take commissions if you want to do, and I'll have a list.
00:24:45
tyrellknifeworks
actually got this idea from, I was listening to um the guys over the pond there in um for the Forgecast, the guys in Australia. And he's saying, yeah, he only takes commissions ah that are specific. they had um They had their old host on. I forget their guy's names. But he basically he basically said, look, I'll take commissions, but only if it's these. And he'll list out specific builds that he wants to do. um Like any Damascus buoy knife, any dagger. Like if you want a Damascus dagger, then let's talk. Like that's for me, that's what I would do. A buoy knife, a dagger,
00:25:32
tyrellknifeworks
maybe a European sword, anything else, stop asking me for katanas. Like I am after this, these two builds, I am not doing a katana for a long time. I am like OD'd on katanas.
00:25:48
tyrellknifeworks
So that's the way I'm gonna approach things. Because I wanna do, I wanted to make what I wanna make and just sell those. And i'm I'm actually sick of now that I've done,
00:26:02
tyrellknifeworks
I'm at the point where I've got all this by the end of the week or end of next week, I'll have all the stock that I want to have for the website for Christmas.
00:26:05
echo_blades
Nice. Right.
00:26:11
echo_blades
nice
00:26:12
tyrellknifeworks
Um, which is not huge. It'll be whatever a dozen knives, 15 knives or something like that.
00:26:16
echo_blades
right
00:26:19
tyrellknifeworks
But they're the lower end knives, the knives that I think I can sell for the Christmas rush while I'm working on this commission.
00:26:25
echo_blades
Right.
00:26:29
tyrellknifeworks
But then after that, i don't want I'm not doing any stainless knives for a while. I'm going to be working on higher end knives that I want to do.
00:26:37
echo_blades
right Right.
00:26:39
tyrellknifeworks
Some fancy, i have ah I have a really fancy Damascus pattern and something I want to do.
00:26:46
echo_blades
Like originalers are nice.
00:26:46
tyrellknifeworks
So yeah. yeah Yeah. Yeah. So.
00:26:52
echo_blades
What is it? I'll do it first at your house without you knowing.
00:26:59
echo_blades
No, I mean, I'm, I'm really looking forward to just like this, this weather to, I know it was probably a broken record.
00:27:01
tyrellknifeworks
ah hey you yeah
00:27:07
echo_blades
People are like, shut the fuck up. But like we just had another heat wave.
00:27:11
tyrellknifeworks
yeah
00:27:12
echo_blades
And ah thankfully I, I was gone for a couple of days, but it was like ah another three, four days of a hundred plus, right?
00:27:21
tyrellknifeworks
and it It changes my workflow like because I don't like using the router or the table saw.
00:27:23
echo_blades
It in doors.
00:27:29
tyrellknifeworks
went inside the shop because it just it it makes a mess.
00:27:29
echo_blades
Yeah. I agree.
00:27:33
tyrellknifeworks
And then when it's 100 degrees outside, i if I open up the garage door, all of my nice cool air leaves.
00:27:38
echo_blades
Yep.
00:27:41
tyrellknifeworks
And then I'm like, fuck it.
00:27:42
echo_blades
Yep.
00:27:43
tyrellknifeworks
i' i Either I'll wait and I'll do it tomorrow morning while it's still cool.
00:27:47
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:27:48
tyrellknifeworks
or yeah So it totally changes my workflow. And it's like, I want to finish this knife, but forget it. I'm not doing it.
00:27:56
echo_blades
Yeah. And forging too, though, like that's, you know, you got to do what you got to do, but it's, it's far more enjoyable, you know?
00:27:57
tyrellknifeworks
you know and
00:28:05
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, yeah. And I got some classes coming up. I mean, my next one, I think I have one probably in a couple of weeks, a guy I've been talking to and then not a four day one in November.
00:28:18
tyrellknifeworks
um So classes will start to ramp up now that it's cooler and, you know, that'll be better doing classes when it's, you know, a hundred degrees, even 90.
00:28:23
echo_blades
Right.
00:28:27
echo_blades
Nice.
00:28:33
tyrellknifeworks
It's just not fun.
00:28:36
tyrellknifeworks
It's yeah.
00:28:36
echo_blades
No, it's not. It's not. So it's almost here.
00:28:43
tyrellknifeworks
yeah
00:28:43
echo_blades
Hopefully this is the last one when by the time we get back, it should be back to the beautiful California weather we're used to. It just shouldn't be 104 in October. That's, that's crazy.
00:28:55
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, I agree. It's been a weird year, but I'm looking forward to the nice cool weather that we're going to get in upstate New York.
00:28:58
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:29:05
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:29:05
tyrellknifeworks
Probably a little too cool at night, but, uh, you know, we'll suffer sixties, which is totally comfy because I think it got down into the forties when we were there last year.
00:29:07
echo_blades
I haven't checked actually. Is it? Okay. And that nice.
00:29:18
tyrellknifeworks
Cause I remember it being really cold. Like if you were standing away from the fire, like you were kind of having to rub your hands together kind of thing.
00:29:29
echo_blades
Yeah. You either roast your balls off or, or you freeze them off.
00:29:33
tyrellknifeworks
and front Yeah, I'm pretty sure it was in, it was cold.
00:29:35
echo_blades
It's like, you don't have any in between.
00:29:40
tyrellknifeworks
You could see your breath. I remember that.
00:29:42
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:29:45
tyrellknifeworks
And, and the weather in, uh, I'm crossing my fingers as I say this, but the weather in New York is supposed to be quite a bit better this year.
00:29:57
tyrellknifeworks
So no rain, decently warm, and yeah, yeah can't complain about that.
00:29:58
echo_blades
Yeah. I don't see any rain.
00:30:01
echo_blades
Yeah. 60s and low 40s. Yeah, that'd be good. No, no, not at all.
00:30:14
tyrellknifeworks
So i'm I'm looking forward to it. See, uh, hopefully see, uh, everybody there. Sounds like we may maybe, uh, down to the, down to the wire to see if they're going to go some of the folks, but, um, yeah, well, let's hope for the best.
00:30:22
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:30:34
echo_blades
Absolutely. And then just to like a, uh, pre warning for everybody is that, uh, we'll be traveling back next week. Um, and it is highly unlikely that we'll have, um, an episode out next week. Um, unless it's like really late.
00:30:57
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. Or maybe we do it a day late. Maybe we do have it come out Wednesday instead of Tuesday.
00:31:01
echo_blades
Yeah. if that That's best case scenario that if that happens. so um Just heads up.
00:31:06
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:31:12
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. Bear with us.
00:31:13
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:31:14
tyrellknifeworks
And then, uh, and then we'll have some fun the week later. So, uh, I was thinking about it today.
00:31:20
echo_blades
That's right. Yeah, I forgot about that.
00:31:26
echo_blades
Nice. Yeah, that's exciting.
00:31:29
tyrellknifeworks
ah We have.
00:31:29
echo_blades
Stay tuned. We got some cool stuff coming up for you guys.
00:31:35
tyrellknifeworks
Oh yeah, but that's been my week.
00:31:35
echo_blades
Hello.
00:31:38
tyrellknifeworks
um Don't think we're doing anything super special for my birthday. I guess today when you guys hear this. um like We're going to go for dinner.
00:31:49
tyrellknifeworks
We got the we got the kid. My grandson and then. Yeah. Probably take it easy.
00:31:57
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. I'm whooped, dude. I, yeah. um I've been on the go a lot and this is, you know, going to just roll right into um more things. I got a lot of work stuff going on too. So I'm trying to set things up. Cause I mean, you probably remember back when you used to work.
00:32:20
echo_blades
Um, you can, you take time off. It's like when you get back, it's, uh, you question why you even did it.
00:32:28
tyrellknifeworks
Shit just piles up.
00:32:28
echo_blades
I guess if it's, yeah, if it's even worth it, which is sad because I don't think that's like a, a normal state, but it is my normal.
00:32:28
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:32:36
echo_blades
hey God forbid I take, you know, I get hundreds of emails every day. So if I'm not there for two or three days, that's, that's a lot.
00:32:47
tyrellknifeworks
See my, here's what, here's what my third theory turned into.
Managing Work and Personal Life Balance
00:32:51
tyrellknifeworks
If I'm going to take time off. then I'm not just going to take two or three days or a week off. If I'm going to take time off, I'm going to make take two weeks off because you could just delete all the emails from the first week.
00:33:03
tyrellknifeworks
Cause if that shit didn't get handled, you know, somebody handled that. You only have to deal with the the email for the last week. So you might as well take two weeks off. That's my theory.
00:33:14
echo_blades
and Those are high-tech issues, man. That shit doesn't fly in construction.
00:33:19
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, but I mean, she it can't go unhandled for two weeks. Somebody dealt with it, right?
00:33:26
echo_blades
yeah or they didn't and there's somebody really pissed or they're calling me while I'm gone, you know, but yeah, so I've just, but I mean, you know, just prep plan, you know, put people in place to handle all the stuff that needs to get, get taken care of.
00:33:42
echo_blades
And it's only a couple of days. So it's not going to be that bad, but I took a day off last week and, um,
00:33:45
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:33:48
tyrellknifeworks
Were you, at did you work today? Monday?
00:33:50
echo_blades
I did. Yeah.
00:33:51
tyrellknifeworks
Oh, okay. So wait, you drove at 4 a.m.
00:33:52
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:33:55
tyrellknifeworks
six hours. So would you get to work at like noon?
00:33:59
echo_blades
No, I left the night before. I left Sunday. we we we I took off Thursday night.
00:34:03
tyrellknifeworks
Oh, okay.
00:34:05
echo_blades
It was there Friday, Saturday, and on Sunday, I got up. and and oh and I don't know how many hours of sleep you get. I'm like six hours tops.
00:34:17
echo_blades
It's kind of like my my sweet spot. um So if I go to bed at seven, at night or eight o'clock or nine o'clock, I'm getting up six, I don't matter what fucking day it is.
00:34:26
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:34:27
echo_blades
So um but I do that for a couple weeks. And then I have one day where I'm just like, um I like recharge and catch up. But I got home around one or two.
00:34:40
echo_blades
And then I was asleep by like six o'clock last night. That's like a rarity, dude. And I slept all the way through till this morning, so I still don't feel caught up. But I am dreading that red eye.
00:34:57
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, I broke down and I had to buy myself a a window seat because, you know, you can't just get a window seat anymore. You got to pay for one.
00:35:06
echo_blades
Oh, really?
00:35:07
tyrellknifeworks
um Well, because there's no there's no assigned seats on that flight. You get your seat at the gate, basically.
00:35:17
echo_blades
I guess I bought all mine because I have all my seats already. I did that right off the bat.
00:35:19
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, you must have bought yours.
00:35:21
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:35:21
tyrellknifeworks
So I didn't until. My wife was like, you're crazy, you should be buying, and I'm like, fine. So I paid like 50 bucks. The important one was the red-eye there.
00:35:31
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:35:31
tyrellknifeworks
um So I paid for that one. um But on the way back, there's no seats to purchase, which I didn't get. It means all the seats are assigned, I don't know what that means, or it's not close enough or whatever.
00:35:41
echo_blades
o
00:35:46
echo_blades
Gotcha.
00:35:46
tyrellknifeworks
so But I don't care, that's like an afternoon flight, like I'm not gonna care as much, I'll be awake for that one.
00:35:48
echo_blades
Yeah, they just sent me an offer to.
00:35:54
echo_blades
Yeah, supposed to be already whooped from. All the other stuff, but yeah, I got ah an email for to upgrade for 150 bucks.
00:35:58
tyrellknifeworks
yeah
00:36:06
tyrellknifeworks
Uh, I, you mean to first class?
00:36:08
echo_blades
I don't know if it's for this, just it said it's it's it's best seating, ah most comfortable ever.
00:36:09
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:36:13
tyrellknifeworks
yeah Yeah. I read, well I saw that. And when I read the fine print, it's like, this is quoted on the, the, um, cheapest flight, the cheapest flight of your four flights.
00:36:27
echo_blades
Gotcha.
00:36:28
tyrellknifeworks
So that wasn't like going from Charlotte to, uh, Albany.
00:36:34
echo_blades
Oh yeah, yeah, that's great. 150 bucks for a puddle jump.
00:36:36
tyrellknifeworks
which is like 150, it should be $150 flight to begin with.
00:36:39
echo_blades
Yeah, exactly. But you do get two free bags with that.
00:36:43
tyrellknifeworks
ah yeah
00:36:44
echo_blades
That's.
00:36:45
tyrellknifeworks
ah you You're going through the same thought process I did when I saw it until I read the fine print and like, yeah, it's probably an extra $800 to go first class from SFO to Charlotte.
00:36:48
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah.
00:36:58
echo_blades
Yeah, I may consider, I would have considered 150 bucks if we had direct flights.
00:37:04
tyrellknifeworks
Oh, yeah i it was sold.
00:37:05
echo_blades
A hundred bucks. Yeah. I mean for, yeah, easy.
00:37:08
tyrellknifeworks
Like it's worth it. Just in the baggage.
00:37:11
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:37:12
tyrellknifeworks
Cause I was, I was looking at the thinking like, even if you don't get it, that pays for both of our bags.
00:37:12
echo_blades
That's what I was thinking.
00:37:17
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:37:17
tyrellknifeworks
Cause there's two check bags.
00:37:19
echo_blades
Yep.
00:37:21
tyrellknifeworks
So yeah.
00:37:21
echo_blades
But we're cheap.
00:37:24
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:37:24
echo_blades
We're cheap. We're cheap.
00:37:27
tyrellknifeworks
I'm retired. I don't have that kind of money.
00:37:29
echo_blades
Get out of here. Get out of here. My mister, my inventory is stocked.
00:37:36
tyrellknifeworks
Hey, it's not sold, it's just start.
00:37:38
echo_blades
But yeah, man. Well, I am fire. I'm not quite pumped. I'm going to be honest. I'm being, being honest here. Like I'm, I'm,
00:37:51
echo_blades
fucking struggling to find the good and in things right now, but I am so looking forward to hanging out with our buddy Lawrence Lake over at Maritime Knife Supply. ah the I look forward to this and blade show to just to hang out and tell Dick jokes and have a good time. But if you are looking for Dick jokes and anything for knife making, you should go hit up Lawrence yourself because he's got everything you need for your knife making endeavors from steel to abrasives, to grinders, heat treating ovens, handle material, pin stock.
00:38:28
echo_blades
I, you name it, he's got it and he'll get it to you quick. So, um, and that also is now official that the, the Kero two bastards hammer is now there. So if you're looking for a fat pain.
00:38:45
echo_blades
I was dying the other day because I started thinking about the curve pain. So maybe Frank, you gotta, you gotta figure out a way to get this curve pain going. Cause I want to hit it from around the corner, buddy.
00:38:59
echo_blades
But that is in stock there ready to go. So go get yourself that. And if you are in the, in the market for a hammer, hammer go check out Frank and need a two bastards hammer and get yourself a fat pain. Cause like I always say, ain't it grand to have a fat pain in your hand?
00:39:14
tyrellknifeworks
And while we're doing sponsors, we're happy to to let you guys know that Baker Forge and Tool is back up and running, starting
00:39:23
echo_blades
That's right.
00:39:24
tyrellknifeworks
ah With riptide ultra um their ripple drops now um What is this forged in the spirit of recovery post hurricane Helene This bar embodies our communities resilience featuring a high contrast eye-catching ripple pattern with copper mask is cladding nickel in 1084 shim and a Damascus core So we'll check that out all of their stuff is incredible So go get yourself some bigger forging tool and use that discount code TTT10.
00:40:00
echo_blades
Yep. And if you're already, you should have it already, but if you don't go get the app, cause you get early access, uh, before all the website, uh, people do.
00:40:12
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, that's important if you really, you you want the you want the key stuff, get it in the app.
00:40:14
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:40:19
echo_blades
Yeah. Cause you can get your preferred dimensions for, for the bars that you're looking for. Um, but yes, we are super happy that they're back in um and action and, um, and on the recovery train from all of that madness that was happening there.
00:40:38
echo_blades
So we'll do that for sure.
00:40:39
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. And tomorrow morning, when I pull that um apocalyptic challenge sword out of the coffee, I'm going to hit it with some Pelican paste, some ah hard wax, brighten up that coffee finish, get it all nice and durable. um So get your hard wax, soft wax, Pelican, all hand salve, gritty soap, ah get it all at Pelican paste.
00:41:08
tyrellknifeworks
and use the discount code TTT10, get yourself 10% off. um I'll be looking forward to spreading some paste on that sword tomorrow and shining
Shop Life and Social Media Warnings
00:41:20
tyrellknifeworks
it up and see how it looks.
00:41:20
echo_blades
You you little pace spreader you look at you go. I love that.
00:41:25
tyrellknifeworks
I'll send you a picture.
00:41:27
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:41:30
echo_blades
Yes, good stuff, good stuff. um I did have a funny thing I think I shared the other day that our last episode that um Mrs. Echo Blade was out in the shop um helping me out one day last weekend. And while my daughter and I were heading back, um she sent me this video. And um i'm meannna it will be a post, 100%, I'm gonna make a reel out of it. but she records herself coming out in her, in her croc.
00:42:03
echo_blades
She slips into the, uh, to my, uh, Brunt work boots, walks in, opens up the shop. We got to cool the shop down before it gets too hot out here and walks over to the hand sanding stations and starts to turn there.
00:42:16
echo_blades
And up next is hand sanding and blah, blah, blah. It was super cool, man. I, I,
00:42:20
tyrellknifeworks
She sent you that video?
00:42:22
echo_blades
Yeah, she sent my daughter and I, it was pretty cool.
00:42:23
tyrellknifeworks
Oh, that's awesome.
00:42:25
echo_blades
Yeah. And I will make a reel out of it, but she's like, I don't know how you guys do that. Cause I couldn't start it and stop it and blah, blah, blah. And I was like, that's a bitch. That's why you got to take multiple videos and you know, link them all together to make a, you know, a decent reel.
00:42:40
echo_blades
So, but it was funny. Uh, it was, it was good. It was a good laugh. but I was just dying when she walked out and dinner, dinner slippers or whatever. And then she jumped into the, to the work boots and started moving around in there. So it was pretty cool.
00:42:56
tyrellknifeworks
Okay. I mean, you say, let me know when that's up because I got to show that to Kim and ah and I'm going to set some high expectations of what I want her to do.
00:43:06
echo_blades
Absolutely. I'll tag in it. I'll put it on the, on the triple T one.
00:43:12
tyrellknifeworks
Do it.
00:43:12
echo_blades
Yeah, it was good. it was it was ah It was a good laugh. Well done, my love.
00:43:19
tyrellknifeworks
Oh, that's awesome.
00:43:20
echo_blades
Yeah. um I do have a listener's question, but it's more of a a kind of like my heads up. The problem is is that I haven't been
00:43:38
echo_blades
super, uh, productive, but I did get, um, a ah message from Kyle, um, daily. And, um, he had an interaction with somebody and I've been seeing this happen quite a, quite a bit lately where these scammers are coming up and, you know, through Instagram and, um, trying to.
00:44:04
echo_blades
just
00:44:07
echo_blades
trying to purchase a knife. ah there Their accounts look real. They have you know profiles that look like normal. ah their ah followers, sometimes, you know, they, they catch some of ah our fellow people, but basically this guy kind of reached out to him, said that he was interested in a couple of knives.
00:44:28
echo_blades
Kyle kind of, you know, started talking to him, telling him that he wasn't, um, he could purchase them through the website. The guy says, no, I need to do PayPal starts going through this whole thing.
00:44:39
tyrellknifeworks
Is he from overseas?
00:44:40
echo_blades
I don't know where the the guy is from. Um,
00:44:44
tyrellknifeworks
I had this from someone from like Barbados or something like this and same kind of thing. Wanted to buy a whole bunch of stuff off the website. It's probably the same scam.
00:44:53
echo_blades
Yeah, but then he's like, No, I can't buy it through the website. So send me a PayPal, and they have this interaction. And then he's like, Oh, no, the bottom. The end result was like he goes, Oh, hey, i I'm gonna overpay, but I need you to send me the difference to my PayPal account, you know, and Kyle's like, yeah, bullshit, go, go get fucked, dude. I'm not, I'm not doing that. But this account is some dude, Edward Brandon or something like that. But yeah, I mean, you guys just keep, keep up on your game and you know, don't get tooken for a ride and make sure that you know, most people are
00:45:32
echo_blades
are able to buy from your from a website if that's how you got your stuff set up and just make sure you you're protecting yourself and not falling for any crap.
00:45:40
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. that Absolutely not.
00:45:42
echo_blades
You know, don't give anybody any money for any reason.
00:45:46
tyrellknifeworks
The one that was going around last year was um someone from overseas would want to buy everything and ah they want you to pay the, they want to use their shipping guy, but you, they want you, you have to use their shipping guy.
00:46:05
tyrellknifeworks
So then you would have to pay all the shipping costs upfront. whatever to get a shipping label or it's bullshit um to ship all this stuff down.
00:46:15
tyrellknifeworks
And then you never hear from them and they get all this money for shipping. It's bullshit.
00:46:19
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. This dude says, Oh, I understand something, but yeah, I need to make an additional payment of 250, but I'm needing your full trust that once I send it, you'll send this 250 back to me immediately.
00:46:33
echo_blades
This guy was like, yeah, you're a scammer. Get out of here. And he's like, how dare you call me a scammer? So they're, they're getting creative at least, you know, but
00:46:42
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:46:44
echo_blades
Yeah. So I appreciate the heads up, Kyle, and and and the good service to kind of pass that forward for for other people that may come into contact with somebody with that, you know. So take their money.
00:46:55
tyrellknifeworks
yeah
00:46:56
echo_blades
Don't ever give any money back.
00:46:57
tyrellknifeworks
No, no. I did have, I did have an interesting topic about like commissions to take and commissions not to take, uh, or,
00:47:11
tyrellknifeworks
You know, and and I think he they even talked about this. I didn't listen to the after show on, uh, um, on work for it, but I think they touched on this too. And I just had a guy ask me for a commission and this is one of my red flags. When, when someone asked for a commission and they're way too specific, like this is usually a red flag of a guy I don't want to deal with. And, uh, a guy reached out to me and he wanted.
00:47:37
tyrellknifeworks
He wanted me to do, he goes, yeah, I want you to do this knife, but, um, but I have some very specific, whatever. I'm like, okay, I'm not really taking commissions right now, but let me know what, just in case it's something I'm interested in. And he's like, I want to, what the hell were they, uh,
00:48:00
tyrellknifeworks
falchions or whatever, two swords. And I want, and he was like really specific. I want the, I want the handle to be six inches and I want the blade to be this. And I want it to be 90 layers of raindrop Damascus layered with it. He will even specifically on the steel he wanted layered in this. And I'm like, dude, I'm not your guy.
00:48:20
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:48:22
tyrellknifeworks
I am not going to be you know zero creative freedom on this one.
00:48:28
echo_blades
Right.
00:48:29
tyrellknifeworks
That's usually a red flag for me when someone is so specific because you know they're going to be up your ass on every single detail on this knife. and
00:48:37
echo_blades
Yeah. They're not going to be happy. Some spec, some things not going to be perfect for them and you're going to be fighting over, you know? Yeah. Yeah. Boo.
00:48:48
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, not. Yeah. So I told him, no, I'm not your guy. Um, and you know, and then all this discussion is before any kind of price range discussion, which is never a good thing.
00:49:01
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:49:02
tyrellknifeworks
So, but anyway, so let's do make your spotlight. Who do you got this week?
00:49:10
echo_blades
Well, this week I have our buddy and one of our um awesome sponsors, Mr. Travis Haynes over at Bird Forge, and I picked him today because Travis gets a lot of ah currently is has a lot of attention for the Pelican pace, but he's a hell of a knife maker. And I was just checking out his um his page and just saw that he had
00:49:49
echo_blades
1500 followers. So I thought, you know, in case there's somebody out there that's not following the Mr. Pelican paste himself, ah but you need to do that um because he makes awesome knives. I actually own one of Travis's knives that I i won in a ah and a raffle from him a while back. And we use it in the kitchen all the time. So um Go check out Birdforge, 1,500 followers at Birdforge on IG and go show them some love.
00:50:27
tyrellknifeworks
That's right, not everybody has Steve Schwarzer on his posts, his post feed.
00:50:33
echo_blades
Yeah, em and him and I kind of talk every now and again about how how we're we're pretty lucky. you know I got ah got you in my corner.
00:50:43
echo_blades
He's got Steve in his corner. you know like it's it's
00:50:46
tyrellknifeworks
that That's not a comparison.
00:50:48
echo_blades
yeah yeah Yeah, of course, but I don't want to tell you that.
00:50:49
tyrellknifeworks
He's he's better off than you. know
00:50:54
echo_blades
Don't let Dennis know that we feel this way. Okay, guys? But yeah you're being modest, dude. they There's a lot of... There's a lot of awesome experience makers out there.
00:51:05
echo_blades
And I'm grateful to have have you in my corner. And I think that's pretty cool that he has, you know, Steven and his too. So really, really cool. But go check him out. And he makes awesome knives.
00:51:16
echo_blades
And one thing I like about him is he's got a damn forged name with endless amounts of names for knives.
00:51:24
tyrellknifeworks
Yep.
00:51:26
echo_blades
I think it's awesome hummingbirds and
00:51:27
tyrellknifeworks
Yep.
00:51:30
echo_blades
pelicans and albatrosses and yeah blah, blah, blah sparrows. And it's pretty cool. So, uh, go check out our boy and, uh, show him some love.
00:51:41
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:51:41
echo_blades
Go buy some bags too.
00:51:41
tyrellknifeworks
He's Dan. He's a, he's a damn good maker.
00:51:43
echo_blades
Triple T 10.
00:51:45
echo_blades
Yeah. He sure is.
00:51:48
tyrellknifeworks
So this week, um, on my, my Damascus, um, uh, what you call it? I don't know. Envy. Um, I was, uh, you know, once in a while you just come across post finally, once in a while you actually get a post from someone you hadn't seen. And, uh, I got, um, I, maybe he followed me. Maybe that's what it was. Um, but, uh, metal nasher.
00:52:35
echo_blades
wow
00:52:37
tyrellknifeworks
ah just incredible um Damascus and obviously he's been doing this for a while because it is spectacular gold inlay like just perfect just really really nice so why
00:52:40
echo_blades
Wow.
00:52:53
echo_blades
She's Louise. i had I had not heard of him. I just gave him a follow on myself right now. This stuff is outstanding.
00:52:59
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:53:01
echo_blades
Goodness.
00:53:01
tyrellknifeworks
Outstanding. So definitely go give him a follow. He's at 3169 followers. um And just, just really, really nice does folders as well.
00:53:14
tyrellknifeworks
um Just looking at some makers like this, this is what makes me want to run into the shop and make some Damascus. He's got some just amazing
00:53:25
echo_blades
Did that, that dragon skin is insane.
00:53:32
tyrellknifeworks
I'm pretty sure that's probably Bertie Vettfeld's Damascus. It looks like his dragon skin. This is the, he's the only maker I know that, that makes that.
00:53:44
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, it is Bertie, Bertie Rietveld. That's his Damascus.
00:53:48
echo_blades
Did that stuff is just bananas.
00:53:52
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what that is. Whether it's like. It's heat, like a heat process on ball bearing.
00:54:02
tyrellknifeworks
It's probably what it is.
00:54:03
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:54:05
tyrellknifeworks
It's almost like it's anodized stainless ball bearings or something.
00:54:11
echo_blades
See, that, that's, that's mind blowing.
00:54:13
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, it's crazy, right?
00:54:14
echo_blades
Yeah, but this, yeah, but yeah, this dude's, yeah, those Brazilians know what's up.
00:54:20
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, they sure do.
00:54:20
echo_blades
That's for sure. um That's a good one. That's a good one, Dennis.
00:54:24
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. Um, and I'm anxious to be, um, doing some, uh, some folder work after I finished this series, I'm going to be doing some Damascus folders, some really high end Damascus folders. Um, so I'm excited to get into those. Um, yeah, just, and it's, it'll be fun because it'll be.
00:54:48
tyrellknifeworks
you know, more bang for the buck on the Damascus, like you're making a blade like this big instead of something that's, you know, 12 or 14 inches long. And, uh, the Damascus goes so much further than, um, or, or you make a buoy and, uh, and a folder out of the same bar easily kind of thing. So looking forward to that.
00:55:12
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:55:14
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
00:55:15
echo_blades
That's yeah, that's that's optimizing inefficiency right there, buddy.
00:55:20
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. Um, still I'm debating whether I want to make one more folder after the folder series. Um, I probably will make, um, just, uh,
00:55:31
tyrellknifeworks
and di yeah, yeah. Um, Jared sitting there pointing at himself, like he's getting the next one.
00:55:39
echo_blades
That's right.
00:55:40
tyrellknifeworks
Um,
00:55:41
echo_blades
Oh.
00:55:42
tyrellknifeworks
but I want to make a Damascus one but then I have the cutoff from the gold um Damascus that I'm still I have that one earmarked so and I've got some fancy um mammoth tusk
00:55:52
echo_blades
Oh, that's cool. Oh, that's cool.
00:56:02
tyrellknifeworks
then I'll be using for the scales on that. So it'll be all around, you know, thousands of dollars of material on now.
00:56:08
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:56:10
tyrellknifeworks
And so it'll be an expensive folder.
00:56:11
echo_blades
Nice.
00:56:11
tyrellknifeworks
I want to make sure it's perfect.
00:56:14
echo_blades
Yeah. That sounds cool. Freaking gold.
Low-key Birthday and Daily Routine
00:56:22
tyrellknifeworks
But um that's it, man.
00:56:22
echo_blades
What else you got?
00:56:24
tyrellknifeworks
I got nothing else. I had nothing else to say. I'm going to have a nice happy birthday tomorrow. I'd like to say I'm gonna sleep in but of course I'm not because and You see you can only sleep for six hours for me.
00:56:36
tyrellknifeworks
It's like my back will start to hurt It's the back pain kicks in at about seven hours and that's when I wake up Yeah,
00:56:44
echo_blades
So it's the, the day is tomorrow.
00:56:48
tyrellknifeworks
well Tuesday the 8th our shows airs Tuesday morning so for everybody that'll be Today tomorrow time shift whatever
00:56:57
echo_blades
Yeah, your day it's today though, right?
00:57:00
tyrellknifeworks
It's Tuesday, the eighth.
00:57:03
echo_blades
This is even better. I didn't miss it. I thought I missed it.
00:57:07
tyrellknifeworks
You did not miss it.
00:57:09
echo_blades
But happy birthday.
00:57:09
tyrellknifeworks
It is.
00:57:10
echo_blades
d I will.
00:57:12
tyrellknifeworks
i I expect you to sing that again at midnight. All right.
00:57:18
echo_blades
I'll come over right now. That's kind of weird. I will not be going over there.
00:57:22
tyrellknifeworks
And you will not be awake at midnight.
00:57:25
echo_blades
That's for sure.
00:57:26
tyrellknifeworks
Liar.
00:57:26
echo_blades
That is for fucking sure. But yeah, man, I guess that that's it for us for a while. ah We'll be ah heading out to New York on the Thursday evening and getting ready to do that.
00:57:39
echo_blades
i Let's just make sure we touch bases before we go so we can make sure we have all the essentials that we need. because I haven't even checked out like the schedule and what, what's, what's happening.
00:57:56
echo_blades
Uh, what do we need to bring? I don't bring a hammer and some stuff like that.
00:58:00
tyrellknifeworks
yeah well i wonder Yeah, I if our friends aren't going, that's who we're staying with.
00:58:01
echo_blades
I know we talked about that last week, I think.
00:58:06
echo_blades
Yeah. Well, neither we're good. Yeah. Don't worry.
00:58:11
tyrellknifeworks
ah So we'll have to get that arranged. but um the
00:58:15
echo_blades
No, we're good. We're covered.
00:58:18
tyrellknifeworks
um yeah i mean Besides a hammer and maybe a bit of steel, some I'd probably bring a mask, like a vent respirator.
00:58:29
echo_blades
I think I brought my apron and some stuff. I am bringing the apron.
00:58:31
tyrellknifeworks
I think I brought gloves.
00:58:32
echo_blades
I'm bringing my apron because I did the that wood carving and just destroyed myself at the, uh, what is the name of that? Sabre. Sabre.
00:58:42
tyrellknifeworks
Oh, so yeah, yeah, Sabre.
00:58:44
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:58:44
tyrellknifeworks
No.
00:58:46
echo_blades
I can't.
00:58:47
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, yeah, Sabre. Yeah, it's burr, B-U-R-R.
00:58:50
echo_blades
Sabre. Yeah. Yeah, I i was using their little door their speed birth. I was freaking I could have been a tree iss covered in dust.
00:59:01
echo_blades
so
00:59:02
tyrellknifeworks
And well, depending on what, what suitcase or my, my apron is so heavy that I'm not going to be walking around in that thing. The leather one. I'm not wearing it. It was warm though.
00:59:16
echo_blades
But there you go.
00:59:18
tyrellknifeworks
yeah
00:59:18
echo_blades
Yeah. Oh, we're going to have fun. We're going to get after it. I hope ah the weather is going to seems like it's going to be better. So we'll be able to do some more Flint napping and freaking all the stuff that we kind of just had to huddle around and look at each other last year.
00:59:34
echo_blades
So I'm i'm looking forward to some good stuff.
00:59:35
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah, I think it's going to be, it's going to be a really good year this year.
00:59:39
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:59:39
tyrellknifeworks
So we won't have, uh, cause we, there was all kinds of things we wanted to do that we just, we couldn't cause of the rain.
00:59:44
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:59:47
tyrellknifeworks
There was a bunch of demos that got shut down.
00:59:50
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:59:50
tyrellknifeworks
We had like a whole, almost a whole day that we lost power in, in some of the tents that we couldn't do anything.
00:59:56
echo_blades
Yeah. I'm just really looking forward to seeing everybody too and and and hanging out and having a good time.
00:59:59
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
01:00:01
echo_blades
So, uh, if you're within reach of it, it's not too late. I think there's, there's still availability. So go, go check it out if you can.
01:00:09
tyrellknifeworks
Oh yeah. g Yeah.
01:00:12
echo_blades
Yep.
01:00:12
tyrellknifeworks
You can definitely get, get passes. I don't think they ever closed down the, uh, the entry passes.
01:00:18
echo_blades
Yeah. I don't think so way either.
01:00:19
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. And it's not expensive. That's the crazy part.
01:00:23
echo_blades
It's not.
01:00:23
tyrellknifeworks
It was not, not expensive at all. I mean, with meals, it's like what, 200 bucks or something.
01:00:26
echo_blades
Yeah. if we can It's probably a little more, but yeah, it's about that for for two days of breakfast and dinner.
01:00:33
tyrellknifeworks
No, but I mean, without it just for tenting, I don't even think it's, Maybe, maybe it's two 50. I don't even think it's that much, but that includes all your meals and your tickets.
01:00:42
echo_blades
then Yeah. Minus lunch, right? That's breakfast and dinner for three days or two days or something like that.
01:00:47
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:50
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
01:00:50
echo_blades
Yeah, it's a, it's a steal if you don't live across the country, but yeah, I'm stoked for it. And, uh, and looking forward to just getting the hell out of here and yeah.
01:01:07
tyrellknifeworks
Yep.
01:01:08
echo_blades
So.
01:01:09
tyrellknifeworks
All right, man. Yeah. We'll talk in the next couple of days, compare notes and, uh, yeah, I need to make myself a list and start packing and finish some knives, that kind of thing.
01:01:20
echo_blades
Yeah.
01:01:20
tyrellknifeworks
The thing is, if I bring something for, uh, maker swap, it's got to have a sheath. It's got to have like, Oh, I don't think I'm going to have time for all that. Like for this new knife that I want to do.
01:01:28
echo_blades
Yeah.
01:01:30
tyrellknifeworks
So yeah, I'll probably just pull one off the shelf and take that.
01:01:31
echo_blades
Oh, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:01:38
echo_blades
That's probably what I'm going to do.
01:01:41
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
01:01:41
echo_blades
I have one. But we'll see. i't I know.
01:01:45
tyrellknifeworks
Yep.
01:01:45
echo_blades
Like I said, I'm not gonna stress off it is what it is. All right, my dude, we'll, uh, we'll catch up with you and, uh, everybody else. We will see you hopefully next week.
01:01:55
tyrellknifeworks
Yeah.
01:01:56
echo_blades
Maybe we'll try to make that happen.
01:01:56
tyrellknifeworks
I think we just do a day late. We'll just do it a day late next week.
01:02:00
echo_blades
Yeah.
01:02:01
tyrellknifeworks
All right.
01:02:02
echo_blades
Yeah. Okay, brother.
01:02:18
echo_blades
And that's a wrap.