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E57 - Beautiful Baby Dutch Sampler
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Jerid tells us all about his antics at Blade Show Texas. Denis is busy working in the shop so come join us and hear all about the BS.
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Transcript
Introduction to Triple T Podcast
00:00:02
echo_blades
Be better, Dennis.
00:00:04
Denis Tyrell
Suck it.
00:00:08
echo_blades
and am um um um
00:00:16
Denis Tyrell
Hello, everybody. Welcome to another fabulous episode of the Triple T for Knife Makers podcast. I'm with my dickhead host, Jared Sandoval of Echo Blades, and I am Dennis Terrell of Terrell Knifeworks. How are you all doing today?
00:00:34
echo_blades
Oh, we're doing really good, Dennis. Thanks for asking. We couldn't wait for you to ask how we're doing. ah didn't know this was a Q and a
00:00:44
Denis Tyrell
Okay, I will be auditioning new hosts starting next week.
Blade Show Experiences and Highlights
00:00:50
echo_blades
And I'll be starting a brand new podcast.
00:00:56
echo_blades
ah I kind of miss you. I kind of miss you.
00:01:05
echo_blades
Oh, dude.
00:01:06
Denis Tyrell
ah so
00:01:08
echo_blades
although Although we did have a great weekend, didn't we?
00:01:08
Denis Tyrell
happened
00:01:10
echo_blades
We hung out. we you know We went to Blade Show. Oh, that was that was Lawrence. My bad.
00:01:15
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:01:16
echo_blades
Yeah. That was Lawrence. My fault.
00:01:20
Denis Tyrell
Okay, so let's start. Tell me all about Blade Show.
00:01:24
echo_blades
It was fantastic. It was very, very, very, very fun time. um The show itself, to me, this is my opinion, no one else's.
00:01:36
echo_blades
It was, and i don't know if it was because i wasn't behind the table. um Maybe it's just where I'm at in my making and all this crap, but it was an entirely different experience. I really enjoyed being able to just go uh, and check tables out and talk to people, you know, walk down the aisle, see what caught my eye, go, you know, met a bunch of people that way, like, you know, just heading down the aisles and then something catching my eye and then start chatting people up.
00:02:10
echo_blades
Um, that was probably my most enjoyable, um, Personally, um there's a lot of highlights, but I think I really, really, really,
00:02:27
echo_blades
And but the vibe was super cool. Like everybody was like super friendly.
00:02:33
Denis Tyrell
Everybody was friendly and sullen.
00:02:34
echo_blades
Yeah. Like it. Yeah, I guess it's and because nobody's like, it's not that anybody's ever been a real dick at any of the shows, but it just had a good vibe. um It seemed like people were moving knives, like buyers were in in the building.
00:02:49
echo_blades
um Wasn't... Actually, pretty much almost everybody I you know talked to was saying that they were having... um By the end of it, anyway. Some guys had a good Saturday, some had a good Friday.
00:03:03
echo_blades
But it was cool, dude. Fort Worth was... I don't know. It was kind of, um,
00:03:12
Denis Tyrell
Careful, you can some Texas hate mail.
00:03:16
echo_blades
Oh yeah, no, it was, there wasn't anything bad. I don't know what I expected, but, um, it was, it was just, i guess different. I don't know. Like I, yeah, like downtown was, wasn't so downtowny to me from all the downtowns that I've been to, but it was cool.
00:03:25
Denis Tyrell
Different.
00:03:33
echo_blades
Um, the weather was a trip though. It was fucking 85. On Friday and then Saturday it was like high forties, rainy and windy as hell.
00:03:45
echo_blades
It was a trip.
00:03:45
Denis Tyrell
Oh, I swear every time I've gone, i've gone to the Texas show twice and the weather was phenomenal every time I've gone.
00:03:46
echo_blades
That's a big ass swing.
00:03:55
Denis Tyrell
Just beautiful.
00:03:56
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:03:57
echo_blades
When I was in, I don't remember when I went, but when I went for a week,
00:04:05
echo_blades
Last year, it was like perfect. But they had said, you know, it had just been like super hot or or muggy.
00:04:08
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:04:11
echo_blades
And then they're just, yeah, it's bipolar weather. So
00:04:17
Denis Tyrell
and That's good. So what was your favorite part of the show?
00:04:20
echo_blades
that's a really lame question.
00:04:22
Denis Tyrell
Come on. This is my wife asking me this question after like every trip. What was your favorite part? So that's what I'm asking you. What was your favorite part?
00:04:30
echo_blades
Well, I have a list of like 10 things here. So, um, I think
00:04:36
Denis Tyrell
So number one on your list would be your favorite part.
00:04:39
echo_blades
I can't, but they're, they're like mixed together because there isn't really a a major highlight. I think probably the maker spotlight was probably the coolest thing for me. Um, and then that was my personal one, but I think for me, it was checking in and, and seeing, um, the, the handful of, uh,
00:05:02
echo_blades
listeners that we had kind of show up and and track me down. um That was, i want to say uncomfortable, but it was, it was a very cool feeling to walk through the crowd and just have somebody scream, you know, Jared, Jared, you know, somebody's chasing me down, calling me gay. I mean, Canadian for my, for my best, ah somebody, you know, saying, Hey, they like what we're doing.
00:05:26
echo_blades
um You know, ah to me, that was, that was the, that was really, really, really cool Um, but i think, i mean, amongst all of them, um, there's, there's that or maker spotlight.
00:05:33
Denis Tyrell
very
00:05:41
echo_blades
Um, what my makers, the my, my pick for the spotlight that was, yeah, that was super cool.
00:05:42
Denis Tyrell
What do you mean our maker spotlight? What do you mean? Oh, for this week. i yeah
00:05:49
echo_blades
Um, and then, uh, I just lost my train thought. Um, gosh, dang it.
00:05:55
Denis Tyrell
I think it's really a train. It's more of a slow moving bus, but.
00:06:05
echo_blades
Every now and again there, Tyrell. Every now and again. That was a good one.
00:06:13
echo_blades
um Yeah, it was cool. and can't think of what I was going to say.
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Denis Tyrell
Okay, had you had two jobs.
00:06:18
echo_blades
I can't think of what I was going
00:06:20
Denis Tyrell
You had to go get some good barbecue, and I wanted you to go to Alicia White's, ah ah I don't know how to say his first name, Elijah?
00:06:27
echo_blades
Elijah.
00:06:29
Denis Tyrell
Because I look at the spelling, and it doesn't sound look like that, but Elijah White's table and do the little hand thing, and I but wanted to see a video, and I haven't, so
00:06:38
echo_blades
Oh shit. He did send me one. He did send me one. I did it.
00:06:42
Denis Tyrell
I didn't. I didn't see a I won post. So I'm guessing you you didn't.
00:06:47
echo_blades
I didn't, I did not win. I, he was very kind with his encouraging words of me being a bitch and not being able to squeeze that thing.
00:06:59
Denis Tyrell
Which one 100 pound one? I'm
00:07:00
echo_blades
The, I think it was two 50. Yeah. yeah i got the I got the one right below it, like, I mean, almost touching.
00:07:04
Denis Tyrell
i
00:07:09
echo_blades
And that that I had already blown my wad, though, on the on the big one.
00:07:14
Denis Tyrell
Could he do it?
00:07:16
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:07:17
Denis Tyrell
Seriously?
00:07:18
echo_blades
Swear.
00:07:19
Denis Tyrell
Man, don't mess with that kid.
00:07:20
echo_blades
is Dude's a beast. That was an impressive table, too. That young man is kicking serious ass. I mean, he's beautiful work, good yeah representation at the, at the table.
00:07:31
echo_blades
Um, had it like, you know, had a bunch of stuff going on. If you, you did, I guess if you squeeze one of the, the, the less one, you got to go pick some stuff out of ah out of a bucket for some handle material. That was really cheap.
00:07:45
echo_blades
He was selling strops. Um, it was really cool. Um, but no, I did not do it. He recorded it. I do have a video. Um, But I tried really.
00:07:56
Denis Tyrell
You need to, you need to post it ah on the triple, triple T IG.
00:07:57
echo_blades
i tried really hard.
00:08:00
echo_blades
I really, really tried. I really re tried. And I was i thought I was a lot closer than I was when until I saw the video and I was not close.
00:08:11
Denis Tyrell
I actually met him now, I guess it was three years ago, four years ago at, um, blade, Texas.
Teaching and Mentoring in Knife Making
00:08:22
Denis Tyrell
I think he was there with his father and, uh, recognize me and then I think we ended up chatting as they were closing down i think we chatted for god it felt like almost an hour um just standing in the aisle he didn't have a table or anything and that he was really new back then I remember he was just starting so that's awesome that uh he's now got a table and selling knives at uh at Bladeshow that's that's really cool
00:08:49
echo_blades
Dude, there was a handful of people that are, you know, in my wheelhouse of years making younger, you know, newer makers that that stepped out and.
00:09:01
echo_blades
Did it Brent from cross peen. um i don't, I Brent, if I'm, if I'm off with, with how long you've been making, i don't know. Sorry. But um that, that was his first ah shot at a table. Had a great, great setup. um Always good to, to hang out and talk with that guy.
00:09:20
echo_blades
um He did really well. um I'm going draw a blank now. Cause I need to remember, but Elijah's table was great.
00:09:30
echo_blades
Who else? Um, Eric rivers, they had that a cool thing, dude.
00:09:33
Denis Tyrell
Oh, yeah, he had a table.
00:09:35
echo_blades
And, and then, and, and Matt, I did, Matt was there, Matt rich. I, and I never, he wasn't at the table when I stopped by and I fucking never got to go back and meet him. I've been that dudes.
00:09:46
echo_blades
I was looking forward to meeting for the first time. Um, but I, but I didn't get to. Yeah.
00:09:50
Denis Tyrell
Oh, it's too bad. He's good dude.
00:09:51
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:09:52
Denis Tyrell
had dinner with him last time I was there.
00:09:53
echo_blades
Yeah, he's cool. I love what he does and, you know, good content and stuff. So that was a bummer. um I ah did realize that the next the next day that I didn't really get to get back with him and I didn't get any barbecue.
00:10:08
Denis Tyrell
yeah that was the one the second job you had is to go and have some barbecue and you didn't so epic failure from jared go to texas and not have barbecue don't even know what to say about that
00:10:17
echo_blades
Yeah. I had tacos.
00:10:24
echo_blades
Well, you better watch your mouth. My taco meter was fucking at danger level, danger level zero.
00:10:30
Denis Tyrell
danger level were were they decent tacos
00:10:31
echo_blades
And that brought me right back up to good. So yeah, that was good. So we got to, um, go out with, uh, with, with Micah from and MD edge works. And we, he was super gracious enough to let Lawrence and I kind of, uh,
00:10:52
echo_blades
like home base at his table, drop our stuff off. And, um, and, they go to this, they went to a bar one time during the show after the show.
00:11:09
echo_blades
And they found like this talk area where this, this older lady kind of like it does these satellite pop-ups, um, at different bar locations and then serves tacos from like seven to two in the morning.
00:11:21
echo_blades
And they were able to track her down. um So, and they were good homemade tortillas. Like it was good. It was decent. It was a good time. We had, we had a blast. We a blast.
00:11:32
echo_blades
So, but that was pretty much it.
00:11:33
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:11:34
echo_blades
Oh no, we went to, I did go to a good breakfast place called the old pancake house. And this, we go in there and the, ah their thing is like German pancakes.
00:11:49
Denis Tyrell
What's a German pancake?
00:11:49
echo_blades
I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
00:11:51
Denis Tyrell
Made with attitude? Like, what does that mean?
00:11:53
echo_blades
Yeah. I don't know. That's their big ad there. You know, it's a pancake house. So they had like, their, so their short stack was like 15 pancakes or something stupid. Like, but it was a cool ass, like old vibe type of place. Like, you know, stuck in the seventies and eighties kind of vibe, 24 hours, old coffee cups. The coffee was ass, you know, like it was, it was beautiful.
00:12:18
echo_blades
Um, And I go there and I'm looking through the menu and trying to decide what I want. and And I asked this lady, what the hell did she say? I have it written down in here. um I go, Oh, what is that? it was like these little mini pancakes with, with fruit and whipped cream and shit all over them.
00:12:35
echo_blades
And she's like, Oh, Oh, yeah, baby, that's that's the baby Dutch platter. The baby Dutch platter sampler platter. I was like, yes, we want one of those right now.
00:12:47
echo_blades
I was saying baby but baby Dutch platter sampler. Baby Dutch sampler.
00:12:50
Denis Tyrell
So you're telling me you had an appetizer at a breakfast place? Is that what this is
00:12:55
echo_blades
It was a pancake breakfast appetizer.
00:12:57
Denis Tyrell
But it's an appetizer.
00:12:59
echo_blades
it was That's what they they sell an appetizer for their maybe baby Dutch platter sampler. They were fire. They were so good. And then I couldn't fucking make up my mind what I wanted, chicken fried steak or eggs, Benny.
00:13:12
echo_blades
And I had the ah the baby Dutch platter waitress make my decision for me.
00:13:19
Denis Tyrell
Oh, and what was the decision?
00:13:20
echo_blades
She came back with Benedict.
00:13:22
Denis Tyrell
Oh.
00:13:23
echo_blades
So you can't win. You can't lose with that. But the breakfast was good. It was really cool. We enjoyed that.
00:13:27
Denis Tyrell
Okay.
00:13:28
Denis Tyrell
And that was with Lawrence?
00:13:28
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:13:29
echo_blades
That was with Lawrence. Yeah.
00:13:30
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:13:31
echo_blades
So he's good, man.
00:13:31
Denis Tyrell
How's Mr. Lawrence?
00:13:34
echo_blades
So what I've learned is that if you have the opportunity to hang out with ah Lawrence, our beautiful sponsor and friend from Maritime Knife Supply, um you're basically walking around with the president of the community.
00:13:51
echo_blades
I mean, literally, like I watched that guy do his thing all weekend
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00:13:57
echo_blades
and it was just crazy. it was very cool to watch. Um, he, he knows how to do treat the customers, right. You know, like his whole thing is, you know, his customers are are on the other side of the table. Right.
00:14:11
echo_blades
So, uh, he hooked all these people handing out, you know, uh, microfiber cloths and steel and just, it was fucking really cool to see him in action. And that's why,
00:14:24
echo_blades
We go to Maritime Knife Supply for all of our knife making needs because he is not only the president, but he he's also the client.
00:14:34
Denis Tyrell
He's also a customer.
00:14:40
Denis Tyrell
The hair club for knife makers.
00:14:42
echo_blades
He probably needs it a little bit, but.
00:14:45
Denis Tyrell
That's the only thing that tells Lawrence and I apart. If he's wearing a hat, were I think we're pretty identical. But if he takes hat off, that's what gives it away.
00:14:53
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:14:55
echo_blades
That's what it is, man. Yeah, it's for sure. All the steel, abrasives, machines, folder materials for all you folder nerds out there like my buddy Dennis here.
00:15:08
echo_blades
um He's got it all.
00:15:09
Denis Tyrell
and
00:15:10
echo_blades
Belts, abrasives. um Got the best deal on the new Razor Stars going right now.
00:15:17
Denis Tyrell
Absolutely. I got a bunch because now I'm ah thanks to Lawrence's support.
00:15:20
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:15:25
Denis Tyrell
I am sponsored by Norton. So Razor Stars are the jam. I love those things.
00:15:31
echo_blades
They are.
00:15:32
Denis Tyrell
So yeah, I definitely get them at Maritime Knife Supply.
00:15:35
echo_blades
the The cat's ass.
00:15:36
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, there's several cat's asses.
00:15:40
echo_blades
They'll go through several cat's asses, that's for sure.
00:15:42
Denis Tyrell
ah Yeah, yeah.
00:15:44
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:15:44
Denis Tyrell
We were kicking those over to the past week. I've been using the hell out of them. so
00:15:50
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:15:50
Denis Tyrell
I'm still waiting for my steal order, which should come any day.
00:15:55
echo_blades
Well, he was busy this week. Yeah. Chill out.
00:15:56
Denis Tyrell
No, it was already shipped.
00:15:58
echo_blades
Chill out, dude. I'll talk about my buddy like that.
00:16:03
Denis Tyrell
he's got employee He's got people. He's got people to do that stuff.
00:16:05
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah, he does. But yeah, man, so we, that was, that was cool. That was, you know, again, too many highlights to mention, but hanging out with Lawrence, watching him do his thing, cruising the, the, the event. But we were fucking whooped, man. We got in I left Thursday afternoon at like a 630 flight.
00:16:26
echo_blades
So here in the Bay area, a six 30 flight at SFO you need, like, I'm the worst. Like I don't ever want to be at the airport super early. You know that, right? I always make you uncomfortable.
00:16:36
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, we're always at odds.
00:16:38
echo_blades
Yeah. But, um, it's not, I don't, I don't necessarily like to just sit there and do nothing, but I got there about three hours early. because you know, if you're two hours away,
00:16:51
echo_blades
take every bit of two hours in the afternoon trying to get there. So I made sure got in early, plugged worked for a couple hours while I was waiting. um And then he, yeah the the way it was going to work out was he was going to get there like a couple hours before me.
00:17:06
echo_blades
um But then he started giving me these updates and he's like, well, thanks to Air Canada, you know, i'm my first flight's delayed. And then he's like giving me these, these play-by-play updates. And it almost turned out to where,
00:17:18
echo_blades
Well, his first flight got delayed and it almost turned out that it was going to be so late that he wasn't going be able to catch his connection. And then the next flight would have been the next day until the connecting flight got delayed as well.
00:17:36
echo_blades
And he was able to do it. So he ended up showing at the time that I was supposed to arrive.
00:17:41
Denis Tyrell
ah That was convenient.
00:17:41
echo_blades
And then, yeah, but then my fucking plane got delayed because someone broke the shitter.
00:17:47
Denis Tyrell
Was it you?
00:17:48
echo_blades
No, I hadn't got on the plane yet. i didn't even have an opportunity.
00:17:49
Denis Tyrell
Oh. Did you have too many tacos even before you got on the plane?
00:17:53
echo_blades
I did have a burrito before I left. Burrito meter was full.
00:17:59
echo_blades
But yeah, they were like, okay, we're about to board in 50. Nope, never mind. Cancel that. We have a laboratory issue here. Yeah. and They're like, well, if they can't fix the shitter, we're going to have to switch planes. And I'm like, what?
00:18:11
echo_blades
I mean, it's like a two and a half hour flight, guys. You hold it together. like Unless there was like little like shit flying out of the plane or something. not I don't know how bad it was. but
00:18:20
Denis Tyrell
Well, you don't know somebody's turtling when they get on, so.
00:18:22
echo_blades
Yeah, that's true. But there's other ones. So I got delayed an hour and a half. And then I didn't end up getting in until like after one o'clock in the morning. And then Uber over there. By the time we fucking wrapped it all up, it was like 3.30 in the morning.
00:18:36
Denis Tyrell
Oof.
00:18:37
echo_blades
it was It was pretty brutal.
00:18:38
Denis Tyrell
Wait, 3.30 local time? Okay. So you're, oh, 3 local time.
00:18:40
echo_blades
Their time, yeah.
00:18:41
Denis Tyrell
it's like 1.30 for you.
00:18:42
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:18:42
Denis Tyrell
No. Wait. you're oh three local times so it's like one thirty for you
00:18:47
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:18:47
Denis Tyrell
no
00:18:48
echo_blades
But, I mean, you still got to...
00:18:48
Denis Tyrell
wait yeah
00:18:50
echo_blades
Being on local time, we still had to get up.
00:18:52
Denis Tyrell
Sure.
00:18:53
echo_blades
Which we took it easy, but yeah. And then this is my good good buddy Lawrence telling me that the show doesn't open until 1230. So we had plans to go do some cool shit. And we're in the middle of doing that cool shit.
00:19:05
echo_blades
And I think Micah text me, you know, did you guys get in? And I'm like, we're nowhere near getting in here. I thought the show opened at 12. He's like, no, it was at 10. So we were about three hours late to get in there.
00:19:18
echo_blades
But we did go and shoot a bunch of guns. I got to shoot some pulley autos for the first time.
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00:19:27
echo_blades
um Yeah, that was his.
00:19:27
Denis Tyrell
So whose idea was that? Was that Lawrence's idea or yours? and didn't know he was a gun guy.
00:19:32
echo_blades
I don't think he is. I think he just, you know, went in Rome, do as the Romans kind of thing. Right. So got his ah big cowboy hat on and we were out there just, it was fun.
00:19:42
echo_blades
It was good. I haven't been in in a long time. was kind of a shame to myself, but at any rate, the the full autos, I'd never, I'd never had the opportunity to to do that. So we shot some really cool stuff.
00:19:53
echo_blades
It was fun.
00:19:54
Denis Tyrell
Very cool. have to take Parker to that next time.
00:19:55
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. I will be going back. I will be going back. It was a lot of fun.
00:20:02
Denis Tyrell
Cool, cool.
00:20:04
echo_blades
um And then
00:20:05
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, but I think skipping at least the first hour is smart because the first time I went to Texas, I stood in that line. That was dumb because I'm not a collector. I wasn't there to collect.
00:20:19
Denis Tyrell
um i wasn't racing to the production booth. Standing in line for an hour and a half was just dumb. ah You're better off showing up at 11 and just walking in.
00:20:29
echo_blades
Yeah, we it was perfect for us. There was zero line. We dropped off your your knife to get the pictures taken.
00:20:33
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:20:38
echo_blades
um then we went in and still whooped, though. So we kind just got the lay of the land, checked out some stuff. Then we ended going to dinner with Koi
00:20:52
echo_blades
His beautiful wife, Grayson from Greyblades, Josh from
00:21:08
echo_blades
That was pretty enjoyable. was a great time.
00:21:10
Denis Tyrell
nice
00:21:11
echo_blades
Appreciate the invite, Koi. And then they were going to go out and start to do their thing. And I said, negative. And Lawrence, where I were probably out by like 10 o'clock that night, 10, 1030.
00:21:27
echo_blades
Whooped. um And then
00:21:30
Denis Tyrell
so you guys didn't when they do the awards the awards are friday oh so you didn't get you guys didn't see the
00:21:33
echo_blades
they did it that night. Yeah. No. Oh, fuck. I'm going to do a disservice. Sorry, Lawrence. So Lawrence needs me to wrap myself out here. So here's the deal.
00:21:46
echo_blades
We have reservations at 7 o'clock. It's like 645. six forty five We head start heading down. And we have, you know, I'm like, ah that'll be fine. 15 minutes, go down, grab an Uber. um And then he's like, are you sure you want an Uber? And I'm like, yeah, dude, I look at the fucking thing up and I'm whooped, right? Been walking around all day and tired.
00:22:03
echo_blades
And I go, dude, it says it's like a 20 minute walk. I'm like, that's about 15 minutes past how much I want to actually walk. So we get a new call in the Uber.
00:22:14
echo_blades
It says it's 12 minutes away. So like, right, we're going to be like a little late, but it's going to be right on time. Halfway through that, like five minutes left, the fucking Uber cancels the ride.
00:22:27
echo_blades
I'm like, what the fuck? So I try to get another one and now I can't confirm a ride. He goes and grabs one, finally gets it. It's another 12 minute thing. And then he's lagging.
00:22:39
echo_blades
We go down, you know, five blocks or something like that in the city to, ah to the Del Fresco's and we get there I'm like, Oh yeah. Hey, we got meeting some people here.
00:22:51
echo_blades
Um, Koi, blah, blah, blah. They're like, nobody by that name. I'm like Baker Baker.
00:22:56
Denis Tyrell
You heard the wrong one.
00:22:58
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. No, nobody by that name. I'm like, what the fuck? they're like, Oh, well there's another Del Fresco's right down the street. And I'm like, how in the hell do you have? Like ah the only other time I've ever eaten this place was in downtown Manhattan.
00:23:12
echo_blades
Like it's a, it's a nice restaurant, right? But apparently Dallas has our Fort Worth has, two of them within within 10 minute walks of each other.
00:23:18
Denis Tyrell
Two.
00:23:23
echo_blades
So then we end up fucking walking from this place to the other place, which would have ended up being like a five minute walk, like just across the fucking courtyard from the Sheraton, go through a little fountain area to the Hilton.
00:23:23
Denis Tyrell
Jesus.
00:23:37
echo_blades
And that's where, oh ah yeah.
00:23:37
Denis Tyrell
Oh, yeah, that's really close.
00:23:39
echo_blades
And, and Lauren, he was fucking pissed.
00:23:44
echo_blades
yeah He called me everything short of a lazy fat bastard. And we were like a half an hour late. So that was.
00:23:51
Denis Tyrell
But you guys wouldve would have walked to the wrong one anyway.
00:23:55
echo_blades
Well, yeah, we would have. But I mean, had we known the right one, it would have been like it would have worked out perfectly. But yeah, that was that was pretty shitty deal. and So.
00:24:06
Denis Tyrell
Well, you had a story when you got there.
00:24:08
echo_blades
Yeah, yeah. And a bunch of apologies, like meeting a couple of people for the first time, like, hey, hey I'm here. Let's let's finally eat. So, um, yeah, got a bunch of handle material.
00:24:17
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:24:22
echo_blades
Um, yeah, I'm going to put together a really snazzy, uh, segmented handle thing.
00:24:23
Denis Tyrell
Saw that. Saw that.
00:24:31
echo_blades
Um, not quite sure I want to say, but I don't want to know if I want to say what it is, but it's going to be super cool.
00:24:34
Denis Tyrell
What do you mean?
00:24:38
Denis Tyrell
Oh, okay. Keeping me in the dark, huh?
00:24:42
echo_blades
Yeah. All of you guys.
00:24:48
echo_blades
What else? What else?
00:24:52
Denis Tyrell
What, that's it?
00:24:53
echo_blades
No, I'm trying to go through. Oh, fuck. So I ended up getting a hammer.
00:24:58
Denis Tyrell
Oh, yes, this is very cool.
00:25:00
echo_blades
Yeah. So I, I was walking by and wind burn forge. The guys that do the swords. And I walked by, I see this.
00:25:11
echo_blades
fucking you know like their style hammer sitting on the thing i'm like i didn't know you guys did that so i'm talking with dale and we're just you know bullshitting back and forth i'm like this is fucking really cool and it's you know it's like a dwarven dog head something or other it's got all this cool etching and shit on it and so i started bullshitting with him and um yeah we work out a pretty cool deal and uh i walked away with a fucking hammer. And I think this community is, is, is incredibly awesome that we're willing to, you know, do the things that we, we can do maybe barter type stuff, you know?
00:25:46
echo_blades
So I was super, super pumped and happy to have that thing.
00:25:50
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it's badass. I'm looking forward to giving it a try.
00:25:53
echo_blades
Yeah. It's got like two, two spots to, you know, grip on like a little ah choked up grip and then a longer big grip down at the, at the base of the handle for some,
00:26:04
echo_blades
some heavy shit. It's probably heavier than I can um actually It's like three and a half pounds. So yeah, i was going to say, I'll be tapping for sure.
00:26:11
Denis Tyrell
That's about two and half pounds too much. It'll be good for a little tap-tapping.
00:26:16
echo_blades
Yeah. I'm going to be tapping just to get it up off the handle.
00:26:22
Denis Tyrell
uh it's cool i like the i've never seen or used a hammer like that that had a like an angled um handle so uh and it's um it's a yeah dog's head right
00:26:23
echo_blades
Oh,
00:26:40
echo_blades
It is.
00:26:41
Denis Tyrell
yeah with the little the little backs back whatever you call the backstop whatever the little the flat area on the back which is nice You don't often see them, dog's heads, with those.
00:26:53
echo_blades
yeah
00:26:54
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, it's cool. Cool. well sounds like you had a yeah good time.
00:27:00
Denis Tyrell
um
00:27:00
echo_blades
Yeah, dude, it was, there was all kinds of shit, dude.
00:27:03
echo_blades
Like it just endless time. But again, I think the, the cool one of the the really cool was just when we finally got on the second day time to just check out the tables and start talking with people, met a bunch of new people, you know, ah that, that I hadn't heard of made a, you know, bunch new, I don't want to say connections, but you know, friends and um saw some really, really interesting,
00:27:26
echo_blades
inspiring stuff. Um, but that was, i was going to say about like the guys that were up there for the first time, absolutely completely 100%. Some of the most and inspiration that I've, I've had, like, I think I've shared enough here that, you know, my current situation with the day job has kind of handcuffed me with my making time.
00:27:47
echo_blades
And, um it gives me a lot of, uh, I don't want to say help, but like, uh, it, it, it, it does me good to see other people getting after it and putting themselves in that uncomfortable position of like, can I do it? And, you know, it reminds me of a conversation I had with one of Brent's friends, um, John, um, who like the entire trip back from, uh, Atlanta to Florida, he was just like, you why don't you have a table?
00:28:23
echo_blades
I couldn't come up with an answer. Like, yeah're you're a knife maker. You're supposed to sell knives and you're at a knife show. what Why don't you have a tape? You know, so ive I've been struggling with that for a long time. But obviously, you need to be able to get inventory. But I was super pumped and just full on behind all these people that were out there just getting after it. So that was super cool.
00:28:43
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I'm going to a hard time filling the table this year. I don't think I'm going to be bringing very many pieces, but we'll see. I'm already counting counting down.
00:28:54
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:28:56
Denis Tyrell
But, yeah. But as far as what I've been doing for the last week, it's been, gee since I spoke to you last week, It's been class after class.
00:29:09
Denis Tyrell
um Christian, who is the infamous, I'm not, I'm not, I'm Canadian guy, who Jared loves.
00:29:22
Denis Tyrell
yes. he yes um so he arrived last Wednesday,
00:29:22
echo_blades
wonderful human being wonderful what top contributor to the podcast without by far
00:29:35
Denis Tyrell
And, um, we, so he's here for seven days. It actually ends up that he's probably going to be here closer to nine days. Um, because it was looking, we were behind, um after day three, we were really behind. We were a day, a full day behind where we wanted to be.
00:29:55
Denis Tyrell
So, uh, he actually moved his flight, um, But he's going to end up staying for a couple more days, and we're going to do some grinding and some other little tutorial things. But um we started with and one of the reasons it took a little long. we so he He wanted to do a feather Damascus buoy beginning to end.
00:30:15
Denis Tyrell
And then he showed me a picture. He said, hey, this would be cool. And I looked at it. I'm like, yeah, yeah, we could do that. And he wanted the feather totally encapsulated in black. Okay, so imagine a feather.
00:30:28
Denis Tyrell
with black all around it and then that in the shape of bowie knife so imagine a buoy that's you know there's like a a black border all around it and then the feather okay well the issue with that is it has to be forged exactly the shape
00:30:41
echo_blades
okay
00:30:48
Denis Tyrell
perfectly to shape because if you want a black border that means you got to forge the tip you got to like we were you know where i was envisioning yeah we're gonna forge a little bit of it and then we're gonna cut the rest out but uh yeah so that took a whole day half day to just forge the feather after it was done we ended up um fish mouthing the front and then closing it up so you get the black um anyway it took uh quite a bit more doing so like it took us three days to get the the blade profile, uh, instead of, uh, two days.
00:31:23
Denis Tyrell
that would, that's put us a little behind, but I think it's going to come out amazing. So we're ready to do final etch and we're actually going to be hot bluing, hot salting the guard.
00:31:37
echo_blades
You got him like hand sanding in his hotel or something.
00:31:41
Denis Tyrell
He did some of the hand sanding. i did some of the hand sanding just to get it through. Cause I didn't, Honestly, I didn't like, I want him to finish this and I want him to get through some of the techniques.
00:31:52
Denis Tyrell
So I said, Hey, like after you leave, I'm I'll, I'll finish the hand sanding after two 20. And like, so there was a few things that I just took over and did just so I could, we could teach him things, you know, him sitting here and hand sanding by himself for four hours is not really worth the, the time of me teaching him.
00:32:00
echo_blades
Right.
00:32:03
echo_blades
Mm-hmm.
00:32:12
echo_blades
Right.
00:32:12
Denis Tyrell
So, uh, so I helped him out with that. But in the middle of all that, I had another guy come for a class on Friday. and this is someone I had a woman reach out to me over Christmas, wanted to get her father a gift certificate for a class.
00:32:32
Denis Tyrell
And they're from near Bakersfield. So when he arrived, I was like, hmm, I don't know exactly. His name was Dan. I don't know exactly how old he is, but he's certainly...
00:32:44
Denis Tyrell
certainly retired, like certainly I'm guessing in the 70 year old range and you got a forge. And I was like, Oh Yeah.
00:32:53
echo_blades
You guys graduated the same year?
00:33:00
Denis Tyrell
i yeah
00:33:00
echo_blades
You're describing you right now.
00:33:01
echo_blades
I see like i think you're capable. What's wrong with Dan?
00:33:05
Denis Tyrell
So, so um he didn't have, he, he came in, he didn't have any expectations. Like he didn't, like, I guess his daughter didn't, you know, didn't tell him what, what, it what it was going to entail.
00:33:16
Denis Tyrell
Uh, so when I told him, oh yeah, you're going to here's the piece of steel. You're going to be forging a knife. You're going to be doing every one of the steps. And, uh, he was a little surprised and there was some times when I stepped in, but he did great.
00:33:28
Denis Tyrell
The knife looks, uh, looks really good.
00:33:28
echo_blades
That's awesome. That's cool.
00:33:31
Denis Tyrell
Um, ended up, it was it, the one, the one day course is a little, um, like a petty small chef knife kind of thing, but it was awesome.
00:33:38
echo_blades
Sure.
00:33:40
Denis Tyrell
He did really, really well. And the knife looks amazing. So that was fun having him in the shop. And now he told his daughter, he sent pictures, and then she reached out to me the very next day and said, I'm totally going to book ah my two son, my, sorry, my three sons and my husband um ah later this year.
00:34:04
Denis Tyrell
So I thought that was cool.
00:34:05
echo_blades
Nice.
00:34:05
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:34:06
echo_blades
Yeah, that's cool.
00:34:07
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:34:08
echo_blades
Yeah, you ain't going to make anything.
00:34:08
Denis Tyrell
And she found me through a Google search, which I thought was bizarre.
00:34:12
echo_blades
Oh, shit, just random.
00:34:13
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:34:15
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. But back to Christian. ah So you came over Sunday and. um
00:34:15
echo_blades
Hmm.
00:34:25
echo_blades
I didn't even, you guys were having lunch, I didn't even go in the shop and check anything out.
00:34:29
Denis Tyrell
and No, yeah, you didn't. But you'll you'll see I'll post pictures tomorrow. But, um you know, you left whatever we were talking today. And Christian goes to me, he goes, you know,
00:34:41
Denis Tyrell
I don't. like He's like, I'm careful how I talk to people because I don't know how they speak or whatever. And then he said, as soon as Jared came over and fuck was the second, every second word out of Jared's mouth, I feel like I can talk a little freer now.
00:35:00
echo_blades
You're welcome, buddy. I'm here to provide comfort for everybody.
00:35:04
Denis Tyrell
And I lost it. I said, oh, yeah, we're going to talk about that on the podcast tonight. but
00:35:09
echo_blades
That's funny. Yeah.
00:35:11
Denis Tyrell
um
00:35:12
echo_blades
That's, that's funny. I, yeah, I guess that that's a, that's a fair stance to have when you're, you know, that's somebody else's place and,
00:35:21
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. and And of course, I get that all the time because people, you know, I'm so straight laced on the YouTube. And then.
00:35:27
echo_blades
I think you're abundantly full of energy and chipper.
00:35:31
Denis Tyrell
you're Such an ass.
00:35:34
Denis Tyrell
that's That's Jared being a dick, by the way, just just in case you didn't know.
00:35:36
echo_blades
Oh, my bad.
00:35:39
echo_blades
that
00:35:39
Denis Tyrell
But I did get the best compliment from Christian the other day. and he said, oh, yeah, I don't want to blow your head up. But he said he's had classes with Lynn Ray, Kevin Cashin, thank Kevin Cashin.
00:35:53
echo_blades
Who I met.
00:35:57
echo_blades
okay
00:35:57
Denis Tyrell
and And he said, of all of them, he said, I was the best teacher.
00:36:03
echo_blades
Cool.
00:36:04
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:36:04
echo_blades
I don't agree, but you know, whatever.
00:36:04
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. At least the most enjoyable class to be in um is what he said.
00:36:10
echo_blades
That's cool. No, that's really cool, man. That's cool.
00:36:12
Denis Tyrell
i was I was blown away by that compliment. So thank you, Christian.
00:36:15
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Ray was a fucking sweetheart of ah a dude, man. Like I really enjoyed the time I got to chat with him. i don't know how you're cooler than him, but.
00:36:24
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:36:26
echo_blades
Oh, you didn't say cooler.
00:36:26
Denis Tyrell
I didn't say cooler.
00:36:27
echo_blades
Yeah. Okay. All right.
00:36:30
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:36:31
echo_blades
No, I think, you know, I think to be honest with you though, like not that cash in or Lynn Ray are better or worse in any capacity.
00:36:31
Denis Tyrell
But
00:36:39
Denis Tyrell
Of course, of course.
00:36:39
echo_blades
It is completely about the connection that the teacher and the student have that, that this there's,
00:36:43
Denis Tyrell
Absolutely, absolutely, yeah.
00:36:47
echo_blades
different people receive information in different ways. And and when you find somebody that can, you know that speaks your language in that way, it's, that's where the magic happens. Right.
00:36:56
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:36:57
echo_blades
So that's cool. I'm just sorry, Christian, that it has to be Dennis.
00:37:05
Denis Tyrell
ah You know what we did use lot a lot this week, this past seven days?
00:37:09
echo_blades
Tell me.
00:37:10
Denis Tyrell
ah the magical two bastards straight peen hammer.
00:37:15
Denis Tyrell
ah i we use the hell out of that thing. that That is the one that did all the work when we were trying to make that feather into a buoy.
00:37:15
echo_blades
Yes.
00:37:25
Denis Tyrell
So yeah, you need yourself a hammer. You go talk to Frank and Nita, a two bastards, Texas Smithian supplies. You get yourself one of those fat peen hammers because they are the cat's ass.
00:37:25
echo_blades
That's beautiful.
00:37:38
echo_blades
They are definitely. And I had the wonderful, wonderful pleasure of getting to hang out and have some really cool conversations with, uh, with Frank and Nita. Um, well, they were, they were at the show.
00:37:50
echo_blades
Um, he's, he's just a hoot.
00:37:52
Denis Tyrell
Oh, he's a hoot.
00:37:52
echo_blades
He's a hoot.
00:37:53
Denis Tyrell
he's He's three hoots.
00:37:53
echo_blades
Yeah. He, yeah, like I just, it's not a dull moment. There's no, ah you know, weird pauses in your conversations. Like he's, he's just, he's the shit dude. I love that guy. And we're so grateful to have him, you know, support the show in the way that he does. And, you know, the, I mean, how could you not love a guy that brings all the peens on the scene?
00:38:15
echo_blades
You know, it's just, it's incredible as you're giving them a hug and a handshake and, you know, Oh, it's good to see you. You're like, you get them. You got to get past fucking 15 fucking guns, knives, hammers, fucking killed. You know, I,
00:38:29
Denis Tyrell
Oh, yeah do was he rocking kilt?
00:38:31
echo_blades
ah Yeah. He had one day he had it.
00:38:32
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, of course.
00:38:33
echo_blades
Yeah. So super cool, man. ah Good to see you, Frank, Anita. Like always, always a pleasure. I'm happy you that we got to actually um hang out a bit more that Blade. It awesome.
00:38:44
echo_blades
you know, uh, what in Atlanta, it was kind of, that's just all, you know, all gas, no pedal there. Break. Oh, gas.
00:38:52
Denis Tyrell
yeah I'm like, what?
00:38:52
echo_blades
Oh, gas. No break.
00:38:53
Denis Tyrell
That's a new one.
00:38:54
echo_blades
Yeah. Oh, pedal. No pedal. ah yeah. So that, that was really cool, man. And, uh, he's, he's got, uh, some, a couple of things, uh, in the cooks for us.
00:39:04
echo_blades
So hang tight.
00:39:05
Denis Tyrell
Cool.
00:39:06
echo_blades
Yeah. Really cool.
00:39:08
Denis Tyrell
Nice.
00:39:09
Denis Tyrell
Well, that's good.
00:39:09
echo_blades
Yep.
00:39:09
echo_blades
Because you know what we always say, Dennis, tell me,
00:39:11
Denis Tyrell
I know what we say. Ain't it grand to have a fat peen in one's hand?
00:39:18
echo_blades
That's right. I don't know if it's one's hands.
00:39:18
Denis Tyrell
Or two's hand. I don't know.
00:39:19
echo_blades
It's twos, yeah. Three's hands. All the damn hands.
00:39:25
Denis Tyrell
And of course, you got to hang out with the man, the man with the steel, the bearded steel wizard, Mr.
00:39:25
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:39:32
Denis Tyrell
Coy Baker. from a Baker Forge and Tool. If you guys, you want to have some impressive looking knives, you got to move over and check out some steel from Baker Forge.
00:39:43
Denis Tyrell
ah This week is the, wait, no. Oh yeah. I was like, that's the last week's. um The Elite Compromise Drops, Ripple, Rainbow, and Wavy.
Travel and Blade Show Challenges
00:39:57
Denis Tyrell
Very nice. So go check them out. If there are any left, go grab them up, use the app, And when you're ready to etch that, make sure you're using that Gator Piss. And um we got something special on the horizon.
00:40:09
echo_blades
Hit him.
00:40:13
echo_blades
Hit him.
00:40:14
Denis Tyrell
them, hit them, get them.
00:40:15
echo_blades
Hit him with it.
00:40:16
Denis Tyrell
ah Now, for those that are moving into stainless, because, you know, that stainless is coming from ah Baker Forge. Of course, you can get Gator Piss Max.
00:40:27
Denis Tyrell
This is like they're using both nipples on the Gator for that stuff. I don't know.
00:40:32
echo_blades
Both nipples? Yes!
00:40:38
Denis Tyrell
I guess that's how they get the max. I'm not sure.
00:40:39
echo_blades
a Yeah, they ain't getting it with one. That's for sure, son
00:40:42
Denis Tyrell
through Right. And then how do they get Gator Piss Heavy? Is that like the fat gators?
00:40:47
Denis Tyrell
Like, what is that?
00:40:47
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:40:48
echo_blades
Yep. Yep. That's the big pin they go to.
00:40:51
Denis Tyrell
Right. But Gator Piss Heavy is a new ah offering. Koi brought some up with us. Down? down Up? Left? I don't know.
00:41:01
Denis Tyrell
When he came up to see us, he brought us some the gas both of them but some the Heavy.
00:41:08
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:41:08
Denis Tyrell
And that's great for you guys doing um things like sand my or you just want to etch something for stonewash. You just want to make some mono steel really dark.
00:41:19
echo_blades
get some shit dark.
00:41:19
Denis Tyrell
That's what the heavy is awesome for.
00:41:21
echo_blades
Yep. yeah Yep.
00:41:22
Denis Tyrell
So especially if you're doing i mean, I do it a lot. If you're doing um like BL stainless and you want to stonewash it, the heavy is the shit.
00:41:33
Denis Tyrell
That's what you want.
00:41:34
echo_blades
Yep. We got to see, uh, uh, Jordan's, um, from JV, blades. He had his, that, that, uh, that stainless that he was working on and he was showing fucking sweet, dude, just absolutely sweet.
00:41:45
Denis Tyrell
That folder?
00:41:50
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:41:52
echo_blades
So that stuff's coming. I think they put out a video, uh, real last week.
00:42:02
echo_blades
So cool stuff coming out of them. Always innovating, always onto the next thing. You know, if you're, uh, you know, into innovation, then for sure, go check out Koi and the boys at Baker Forged and Tool, uh, use the discount code triple T 10 and that's TTT 10 for 10% off of that cart that you slammed full of all kinds of shit. And if you can't wait, then I'd suggest that you download the Baker, Forged and Tool app because then at that time you can get a early access to the drops before everyone else.
00:42:36
echo_blades
So, um, If you're not on the app, you're probably not getting the steal that you want. So you got to jump on that and go do it. So yes.
00:42:45
Denis Tyrell
get on it
00:42:47
echo_blades
And at a wonderful time, it's just, it was so cool to, you know, I felt like it was a more of a a goodbye this time from him leaving a couple weeks ago, you know, knowing I was going to see him in a few, you know?
00:43:00
echo_blades
So we got hang tight for a few months, but i'm always good to see him and, all the, all the people there. Um, it was just him him the, and the wife.
00:43:11
echo_blades
Um, but yeah, really cool.
00:43:11
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. He didn't have an entourage.
00:43:14
echo_blades
No, just, uh, I guess, yeah, there was, there's always, he, he, he carries a crew.
00:43:20
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:43:20
echo_blades
Yeah. But I think all the boys were back doing their thing.
00:43:22
Denis Tyrell
A posse.
00:43:23
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:43:23
Denis Tyrell
It is Texas after all. You got to posse.
00:43:25
echo_blades
Yeah. Shit. That was one of the fucking coolest things that happened. That was one of the coolest things.
00:43:28
Denis Tyrell
What?
00:43:29
echo_blades
It's unfortunate that it did happen, but so I think it was Saturday. We're like mid mid show and then get a announcement over the loudspeaker. And it's like um tension, everybody.
00:43:42
echo_blades
Sorry to inform you, but we've confirmed that someone's in this building is stealing knives. And everybody, you know, Ooh, you know, and then it's like, if you find him, go and do whatever you want with them.
00:43:56
echo_blades
was I was like, fuck yeah.
00:43:58
Denis Tyrell
What, they just announced with the loudspeaker that someone was stealing knives and that's it?
00:44:03
echo_blades
Yeah. Well, mean, they didn't, they didn't know who, but that somebody probably reported some shit missing. Right. And so they were telling everybody, you know, keep an eye out. And if you catch that fucker, go ahead and do whatever the hell you want with him.
00:44:15
Denis Tyrell
Wow.
00:44:15
echo_blades
I thought that was cool.
00:44:15
echo_blades
You know it wasn't like bring him in, report us, you know, try him to the fullest extent of the law. And yeah.
00:44:21
Denis Tyrell
This is Texas, man.
00:44:21
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:44:22
Denis Tyrell
People can, like, concealed carry like crazy. Open carry.
00:44:26
echo_blades
Oh, yeah, plenty of that.
00:44:27
Denis Tyrell
ah
00:44:29
echo_blades
You know what's funny? I'm from California, and and I felt safer. i saw a lot I saw a lot of that, and i just no metal detectors going through.
00:44:36
Denis Tyrell
yeah
00:44:40
echo_blades
It's just an entirely different vibe than here in ah in a very cool way. so Yeah, I thought that was hilarious, though. Do what you want with them. I was like, everybody's yeah, get them.
00:44:55
Denis Tyrell
Oh, that's awesome.
00:44:57
echo_blades
Yeah, it was pretty fucking cool.
00:45:00
Denis Tyrell
Oh,
00:45:01
echo_blades
um
00:45:02
Denis Tyrell
So I do want to talk a little bit about the Triple T like this week, which you probably didn't watch.
00:45:11
echo_blades
I did not. This one I did not.
00:45:12
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, i I didn't think you were going to watch. Even if you were thinking about it, you would have saw the title. You'd be like, no, I'm out.
00:45:19
echo_blades
Oh, really? Really?
00:45:20
Denis Tyrell
ah I knew this one was going to be a very select audience. um But our buddy Rick gave me a call, and he's like, man... these fucking calculations to do the size of the mosaic. So he was trying to gauge. I'm not going to go through the whole video, but basically when you tile a mosaic, you know, the last part where you the tiles, you remember that when we did it?
00:45:46
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:45:48
echo_blades
of that I don't know what happened there. I'm so sorry. I fell asleep.
00:45:56
echo_blades
I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Yes.
00:46:02
Denis Tyrell
um so when you remember that part when you tile and then you have to draw it out well if you don't prepare the size of the billet beforehand when you draw it out it's just going to stretch the fuck out of it and it'll look like shit you usually want to get back to square well he was like how do i do how how tall do i make this and i'm like you know
00:46:03
echo_blades
a
00:46:07
echo_blades
yes
00:46:19
echo_blades
hmm.
00:46:22
echo_blades
Okay.
00:46:31
Denis Tyrell
I could math the shit out of that and I could probably come up with a spreadsheet for you. he's like, yeah, do it. And he basically challenged me. I'm like, fine, I'm going to make a video and provide a spreadsheet that people can use. They can just plunk in the numbers. I have my, my thing is this wide. I want it. It's this thick. I want it this thick at the end.
00:46:50
Denis Tyrell
Here's the width. Tell me what the height is going to be. So I put this little calculator together and worked great. It took me like two hours to get all the math right, honestly.
00:47:02
echo_blades
Did you just do like a a Martian reference with math the shit out of it?
00:47:02
Denis Tyrell
um
00:47:06
Denis Tyrell
Yes, I did.
00:47:08
echo_blades
know. That's good.
00:47:12
Denis Tyrell
didn't say science. I said, i'm i'm I'm a math major, right?
00:47:13
echo_blades
Yeah, I know. Oh, I had to dig for that one.
00:47:14
Denis Tyrell
So I math the shit out of it.
00:47:16
echo_blades
Yeah, I like that.
00:47:18
Denis Tyrell
um Well, it's like fucking grade nine math. It's not like it was a challenge, but
00:47:22
echo_blades
That's about five grades more. That's another thing. You damn Canadians all week. And was bullshitting with Lawrence and he's telling me, you know, when I was in grade seven, I'm like, motherfucker, you were in seventh grade.
00:47:34
echo_blades
Like what is grade seven?
00:47:39
Denis Tyrell
It's how we say it.
00:47:40
echo_blades
The universe primary. And I was just like, get out of here, dude. You're in preschool, elementary, first, second, third, fourth grade. It was, don't know.
00:47:49
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:47:49
echo_blades
It was funny. A lot of, a lot of that kind of stuff.
00:47:50
Denis Tyrell
So, yeah.
00:47:53
echo_blades
But anyways, back to here your amazingly entertaining story.
00:47:53
Denis Tyrell
<unk> Back to my story.
00:47:57
echo_blades
Good.
00:47:58
Denis Tyrell
No, the interesting part was, for me, is I wanted to supply this spreadsheet, but I didn't I can't just throw it on the website somewhere. At least I don't know how with my website builder to just put a file up there that people can download.
00:48:12
Denis Tyrell
um So, of course, I can give it to my patrons, but I wanted everybody... what i shouldn't okay I should have put it up for free for patrons, and then it would have made people go to my Patreon. but
00:48:24
Denis Tyrell
the
00:48:24
echo_blades
Oh, but then you would have lost that listener that we had last week.
00:48:27
Denis Tyrell
Right.
00:48:27
echo_blades
Or that that viewer, right?
00:48:28
echo_blades
That guy that, yeah.
00:48:28
Denis Tyrell
ah Yeah, right.
00:48:29
echo_blades
You have to be a patron to get anything from Dennis.
00:48:29
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:48:33
Denis Tyrell
um but But what I did was I put it on the shop section of my website for $0. But the genius part of this is now I'm seeing all these GoDaddy announcements of people buying it. So now I have all your data. Sorry, people. I can now, you know, you're on my mailing list now.
00:48:51
Denis Tyrell
So I thought that was, oh, man, that was actually really smart. So now I have all the marketing data for everyone that bought one. or Or Patreon members who just got it from Patreon.
00:49:02
echo_blades
I would have rather you not said that because now you're like, you I'm Google Terrell stealing all your information.
00:49:02
Denis Tyrell
so
00:49:08
Denis Tyrell
Hey, come on. You know you're gonna the information is going to get captured. You buy something off a website. but But it was good.
00:49:14
echo_blades
Uh,
00:49:16
Denis Tyrell
I was surprised how many people have gotten it off the website. Like we're in the 20 or 30 people already, um which is way more than I thought we're going to be pulling down a calculator to figure out mosaic tiles.
00:49:29
Denis Tyrell
But yeah.
00:49:31
echo_blades
Yeah, there's there's some ambitious people there.
00:49:35
Denis Tyrell
But um yeah, it was cool.
00:49:38
echo_blades
That's cool. That is cool. That is cool. Thank you. Another wonderful service you're providing for our community.
00:49:41
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:49:43
echo_blades
We all thank you, Dennis. Thank you so much.
00:49:45
Denis Tyrell
Good. Yeah.
00:49:46
echo_blades
Yeah. And I will watch it.
00:49:48
Denis Tyrell
ah
00:49:48
echo_blades
I just didn't watch it.
00:49:51
Denis Tyrell
What else is going on the shop? The Nickel Storm Bowie knife is making good progress. um Figured out the the curved fuller.
00:50:02
Denis Tyrell
So got that... done it's all heat treated so now I'm on to final grinding and yeah so looking for I'd love to get that mostly done before I go to um Seattle so I can bring in show to Dave but I don't know if I'm gonna get it done but I hope so I might start doing some some ah Instagram posts on that thing
00:50:30
echo_blades
um Did you post the the knife that you made that I got pictures of?
00:50:35
Denis Tyrell
oh Uh, yeah, uh, on Instagram? I don't think I did on it Did I don't remember. I did the video of it because that's the one I did, the Etching Damascus video.
00:50:45
echo_blades
Oh, that's the other one I didn't watch.
00:50:48
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, of course.
00:50:48
echo_blades
Yeah. I'm sorry.
00:50:50
Denis Tyrell
You should watch that because you asked me a million questions.
00:50:51
echo_blades
I know. i know. I do. i do. I'm sorry.
00:50:56
Denis Tyrell
Um...
00:50:56
echo_blades
I give you too much shit.
00:50:56
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:50:57
echo_blades
you're You're such a sweetheart. You deserve better. i told everybody that I contacted that, you know, these, we really do.
00:51:01
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:51:04
echo_blades
We really are friends. It's not, it's not, I mean, nothing changes. It's really like this, but it it has to be.
00:51:09
Denis Tyrell
We must be friends. how Why else would I put up with your shit?
00:51:12
echo_blades
Yeah. There's no reason why it's, it's like endless, you know, bombardment.
00:51:17
Denis Tyrell
Well, it goes both ways.
00:51:19
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:51:19
Denis Tyrell
um
00:51:20
echo_blades
Well, you do, but not, you know, whatever. But the, uh, the
00:51:26
Denis Tyrell
What?
00:51:28
echo_blades
I need a message for anybody that got that joke. God dang it.
00:51:30
Denis Tyrell
I mean it. I heard you mumbling, that's all.
00:51:32
echo_blades
ah Yes, yes, yes. He goes both ways. Okay. All right.
00:51:37
Denis Tyrell
No.
00:51:41
echo_blades
Oh, man. That's so great.
00:51:42
Denis Tyrell
know
00:51:43
echo_blades
So you know what I did get to do, though? And what i what was it amazing to see was um as I was cruising through all the tables and stuff, I got to see so many knives with ah one of our awesome sponsors, ah Rock Solid Scales.
00:51:57
echo_blades
Grip tech galore all throughout the thing. I think one of the coolest parts about that was when we got to our, like holding other people's knives and seeing how different the finish comes out from table to table to table.
00:52:10
echo_blades
um You know, it just kind of a testament to, you you know, a process of how you choose to finish stuff and and the different results that you can get. All of them are super cool. um So if you're looking for a, you know,
00:52:23
echo_blades
a different type of a handle material, uh, as well as, you know, all kinds of acrylics, stabilized woods, uh, all kinds of stuff. Uh, make sure you go check out rock solid scales. Um, fill up that cart with all that awesomeness, grippy, grip, grip, and, uh, use the, yeah and you can get the discount code triple T 10 for 10% off.
00:52:39
Denis Tyrell
creepppy grip
00:52:43
echo_blades
That's tt T T T 10 for 10% off. Uh, that was really cool. I really enjoyed that.
00:52:50
Denis Tyrell
Cool.
00:52:51
echo_blades
And you know what else was there? A shit ton of Pelican paste on everyone's table. There was other people like doing wax, you know, like kind of waxy stuff. But for sure, ah behind the table, I saw a shit ton of Pelican paste.
00:53:05
echo_blades
So if you're in the market, and I don't know.
00:53:05
Denis Tyrell
Was the Pelican ferry visiting or what?
00:53:08
echo_blades
Maybe just, you know, they but everybody filled up their cart and used the discount code TTT10 and got 10% off those huge orders. And they were already stocked and loaded at Blade Show Texas because it was everywhere.
00:53:18
Denis Tyrell
wow There's a lot of smart people in Texas.
00:53:20
echo_blades
I, yeah, they just love orangey citrus fragrance on top of that premium wax.
00:53:26
Denis Tyrell
goodness
00:53:29
echo_blades
So if you're in the market for any premium wax, then go check out Pelican paste, Travis Haynes at pelicanpaste.com. He's got hard wax, soft wax, Pelican oil, hand-solve soap, um, custom tins with, uh, your logo on it.
00:53:42
echo_blades
If that's what you're into with providing those little small, I can't remember the weight, but I'm gonna say half ounce, uh, Is that, I think it is a half ounce, huh?
00:53:50
Denis Tyrell
what's announced think it's announced the little ones i think they're one ounce
00:53:51
echo_blades
Is it one ounce? Oh, okay. Yeah. Cause the big ones are three and a half.
00:53:57
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:53:57
echo_blades
think you're right. Yeah. But he, he does all that. um And yeah, go check out our boy, Travis at Pelican paste.
00:54:06
Denis Tyrell
Get some.
00:54:07
echo_blades
Get some.
00:54:09
Denis Tyrell
I still got to get some of that soap off him because my hands are always nasty.
00:54:14
echo_blades
I love mine. Mine's almost gone.
00:54:16
Denis Tyrell
I will be using some of the the hard wax after we gator piss and then coffee etch the blade we're working on with Christian tomorrow. So
Community and Camaraderie Among Knife Makers
00:54:27
echo_blades
Very cool.
00:54:28
Denis Tyrell
we're going to get some orange, rock the orange tomorrow.
00:54:31
Denis Tyrell
Yeah,
00:54:31
echo_blades
Nice. Oh, you know what I did get to do is on my way back. Oh, fuck. So we booked a flight home at seven o'clock on Sunday.
00:54:45
Denis Tyrell
yeah that was dumb. Okay.
00:54:46
echo_blades
That was stupid. You know, it was even more stupider and stupider is the appropriate word here. Even mean more stupider. Then being stupid and getting an early flight on Sunday, booked an early flight on the spring forward day.
00:54:57
Denis Tyrell
Oh.
00:55:04
Denis Tyrell
Yes.
00:55:04
echo_blades
So but Lawrence and I are, we were back at the room. We're going to get it early. No, we got to get up early and we've, we figure it all out. We got to get up at like four 30 to, you know, make everything work. And it's like 1130 and, no, i was about, it was about 11, 1030 or And i'm talking to to my wife um on facetime and she's like oh yeah it's spring forward tomorrow i'm like oh no you didn't as soon as he we were like all kind of like falling out and as soon as she said that like we're just bing up like freaking tweakers and shit because it was like 12 o'clock i'm like lawrence dude we got to fucking shut this thing down because it's actually one o'clock now we're like gonna sleep you know an hour or two so that was shitty i actually slept on the flight coming home that's how
00:55:50
Denis Tyrell
Wow.
00:55:51
echo_blades
I, I, I've, it's never done.
00:55:51
Denis Tyrell
I never sleep on a flight.
00:55:54
echo_blades
It wasn't like a full, like, you know, I don't have the luxury of, you know, closing my eyes and then waking up because they landed, you know, but, uh, I did get, get to break it up with a couple of good power naps.
00:56:06
echo_blades
And then I had the wonderful opportunity to stop by and see, um, our buddy Justin at, uh, JW blade works. That was really cool.
00:56:16
Denis Tyrell
Very cool.
00:56:17
echo_blades
Yeah. He lives like, I don't know, 10 minutes from the airport. So, um, we were chatting prior earlier in the week and I told him, Hey man, I'm going to be flying in. I'm going to get opportunity. Like,
00:56:29
echo_blades
that works out like that um so i i swung by saw his shop uh met him and his buddy um bud i believe um and uh got the shop tour started talking a bunch of stuff and it's just really cool man when you get to expand that that local local maker um I call it a support group, but that's just cause I'm in recovery, but, uh, yeah, everything's a support group to me, but, uh, yeah.
00:56:59
echo_blades
So that was really cool, man. He's got some awesome stuff. Um, kind of talking me through the process of the key holes and, you know, um, he's got power hand. He's got all the fucking cool shit in the shop. Um, just good dude. Um, good dudes, cool stuff.
00:57:14
echo_blades
Um, I'm looking forward to, uh, for us to get over there and, um, or collab, you know what I'm saying? Just get together here soon.
00:57:21
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, yeah, yeah, make some stuff.
00:57:23
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:57:24
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, I told him, I don't know if it's going to be this month, but probably April I'd like to go over there and yeah make something, figure something out.
00:57:32
echo_blades
Yeah. That was cool.
00:57:34
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Yeah, he's good dude.
00:57:36
Denis Tyrell
And yeah, he and I might go hunting at some point. We'll see.
00:57:36
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:57:40
echo_blades
so Okay. I guess I don't like to hunt, but whatever. Fuck off.
00:57:43
Denis Tyrell
Well, you would need an actual hunting license, doofus.
00:57:46
echo_blades
Well, it's not like they're un are impossible to get.
00:57:49
Denis Tyrell
You're... Okay, go spend your eight hours at Bass Pro and take the course and then come back and talk to me when you have your hunting license.
00:57:57
echo_blades
I'll just go fishing. It's all good.
00:57:59
Denis Tyrell
See, I figured.
00:58:02
echo_blades
Yeah, that was cool, though. ah that was That was really cool. Did I tell you about the time that Lawrence made me walk 15 blocks to go get a cup of coffee?
00:58:10
Denis Tyrell
ah No.
00:58:12
echo_blades
Well, I just...
00:58:12
Denis Tyrell
Was the coffee that good?
00:58:13
echo_blades
No. No.
00:58:15
Denis Tyrell
Don't they have coffee shops on every corner like they do here?
00:58:19
echo_blades
well, if you ask Lawrence, it was within eyeshot of the convention, but I'll tell you what I was there and I did all the walking and it was like at least 15 miles.
00:58:29
Denis Tyrell
You know there's a Starbucks right across from the convention.
00:58:31
echo_blades
Yeah. But if you're hanging out with fricking the hockey fan, Canada, he doesn't, it doesn't like that stuff. So yeah, it was it actually, it was, it was a good cup of coffee, but
00:58:39
Denis Tyrell
Oh, well.
00:58:44
echo_blades
it And it was only like three blocks, but the whole time I was, that was probably, if there was, this was the next day.
00:58:49
Denis Tyrell
Wait, was this before or after the debacle of getting to dinner?
00:58:54
echo_blades
Yeah.
00:58:54
Denis Tyrell
Oh.
00:58:54
echo_blades
Like we were in the middle of the show and he's like, I think we were talking to, to, to Seth Lopez and he looked in his cup and something, something tickled his fancy. Cause he's like, Hey, where'd you get that coffee? And he's like, come on, Jerry, let's go. I'm like, that was probably that the biggest bitch I was so'll say that during that walk, he was probably sick and tired of me.
00:59:14
echo_blades
It was pretty good.
00:59:15
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, he probably needed a little pick me up after listening to you all day, all night.
00:59:21
echo_blades
Yeah, there's there's no he's a saint. He's a saint for sure.
00:59:23
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
00:59:26
Denis Tyrell
ah Let's do some maker spotlights.
00:59:28
echo_blades
Go ahead. Who do you got?
00:59:30
Denis Tyrell
So this week, and honest this is, I think, someone that reached out to me for a question. And what? Wait a second.
00:59:44
echo_blades
Yeah, who is it?
00:59:44
Denis Tyrell
Okay. it's a No, the page is not coming up for me. So which was, it's throwing me. So i'll I will correct the link. ah You go first. I got to find this link because either I typed it wrong or something happened.
00:59:59
echo_blades
Do do do do do. All right. Shit. Now I'm lost.
01:00:10
Denis Tyrell
Man, where this is the broadcasting at its finest.
01:00:15
echo_blades
Oh my god. Well, welcome to episode number one, where Dennis and I have zero professionalism.
01:00:21
Denis Tyrell
Oh, it has an underscore at the end that I missed.
01:00:26
Denis Tyrell
So, okay, okay.
01:00:26
echo_blades
Okay,
01:00:27
echo_blades
I'm ready, but you go ahead.
01:00:30
Denis Tyrell
Who I have this week is... um Fuck, where'd it go? Damn it. Man, I am batting zero. um 4G McForgeface.
01:00:43
Denis Tyrell
Which... Just the name of the profile got me. um And so this guy reached out but with a question. He's up in Canada. so And we were chit-chatting. I went back and forth on some questions he had.
01:00:57
Denis Tyrell
But I thought I'd shout him out. he for you i don't know his actual name, or at least I don't have it handy. um But go check him out.
01:01:05
echo_blades
Thank you.
01:01:06
Denis Tyrell
He's got 529 followers. He's got some chef knives. He's got some... looks like some Skinner-type knives, all kinds of stuff. so But it's 4G, F-O-R-G-E-Y underscore MC c underscore Forge underscore Face with an underscore at the end, which is what I missed.
01:01:28
Denis Tyrell
So 4G McForgeface up in Canada. Go give him a follow and and check him out. Well, I'll have the link in the in the show notes because that one was a mouthful.
01:01:41
echo_blades
I got it. It took me a minute, but I got it. Now I'm checking them out. oh I dig that deep edge.
01:01:50
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. Yeah, like it.
01:01:51
echo_blades
That's, oh yeah. A lot of them are like that. That is, that's really cool.
01:01:57
Denis Tyrell
I see some, i don't know, these are fire pokers or steak. i don't know if they're steak flippers, fire pokers. Hard to tell. um Yeah, it's a lot of stuff.
01:02:05
echo_blades
It's of like a little EDC kitchen-ish. cleaver looking things, but I love that deep edge, low contrast. That is, that's really cool.
01:02:16
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:02:16
echo_blades
That's a good one, man.
01:02:17
Denis Tyrell
Yeah. So, uh, who's your, uh, who's your maker spotlight this week?
01:02:21
echo_blades
Very cool.
01:02:23
echo_blades
Give that name one more time. Cause that was a bitch to find.
01:02:26
Denis Tyrell
ah
01:02:26
echo_blades
That's 4g underscore Mick MC underscore forge underscore face underscore.
01:02:33
Denis Tyrell
Right. 4G Mick forge face. I'm
01:02:37
echo_blades
with a metric fuck ton of underscores.
01:02:41
Denis Tyrell
underscores.
01:02:43
echo_blades
All right. I given them a follow there.
01:02:45
Denis Tyrell
Uh,
01:02:46
echo_blades
That's for sure. Cool. Um, this was really, really, really, really cool, dude. So walking through the show and, um I was talking to can't remember who it was. Sorry.
01:02:59
echo_blades
um think it was, I can't, I think while talking in in a conversation and I just, my attention kind of turns over to the right. And I look at this table and I see some like cool. um What are those things?
01:03:15
echo_blades
kirish Kira, Kira, Kira dashes.
01:03:17
Denis Tyrell
Oh, Kyridashi.
01:03:19
echo_blades
I wanted to say Kardashians.
01:03:22
Denis Tyrell
Those are are different tools.
01:03:23
echo_blades
I'm not going to lie. I can't. Yeah. But I want to say it's of Kardashians and. And I was like, oh, cool. that's That's really cool. I started checking it out. And then i I kind of just wandered over the table. And I see two adults and and a kid behind the table. And the guy says, you know oh, hey, yeah you know check it out. And then and he'll he'll tell you about them.
01:03:45
echo_blades
Starts talking to me, chatting him up. And it turns out this kid, 10 years old, his name is Adam. I didn't catch his last name. But um he's on Facebook.
01:03:56
echo_blades
And the... ah Forge name is Imperial Forge LLC. He's only on Facebook, but 10 year old maker. And this dude was absolutely bringing the thunder.
01:04:12
echo_blades
His entire table was full of just some really awesome things. The, the, the, Kardashians, a bunch of you know hunters, full polish, like some edge stuff.
01:04:27
echo_blades
Like it was just fucking badass. I was so impressed.
01:04:30
Denis Tyrell
yeah i'm looking at the picture of the table now this is incredible
01:04:34
echo_blades
Yeah, absolutely incredible, dude. Like and and he murdered the show, like absolutely murdered it. um And I am so. I am so bummed that I got, I was talking to him, you know, started chatting him, introduced myself, um, and, and to Lawrence, we got, you know, made sure that he, he, you know, is going to be going through Lawrence to get his stuff.
01:04:57
echo_blades
Um, him and his, uh, Lawrence and his dad had some really weird CPA connection thing going. It was, that was super awkward for me, but ah listen it to two accountants talk.
01:05:08
Denis Tyrell
accountants yeah yeah used to work at an accounting company uh yeah that's pretty spooky
01:05:09
echo_blades
you say Yeah. Yeah.
01:05:13
echo_blades
Yeah. No, that was cool though. But ah good good parents is what I'm trying to get at. Supportive. And this 10 year old walked me through his table ah in detail, you know, ah handle material finishes, knife styles, man. I was absolutely blown away.
01:05:30
echo_blades
So for the future ah that, that our, our community is in when we got young men like this, we featured a handful of younger makers, ah spotlights on here.
01:05:45
echo_blades
um And it's just, it's incredible to see. he had a video of him, you know, doing all the making, uh, ah playing on the table in case, you know, you're going to try to call bullshit. Like you didn't do that. No.
01:05:56
echo_blades
And he's got, you know, he's got some reels too on the, on the, ah on his page um of him grinding stuff and getting busy, man. It is just, it was so awesome.
01:06:09
Denis Tyrell
uh you know what you guys have in common have you seen the picture of his grinder he's got a yeah miami vice grinder his grinder is purple and green or either that or it's the incredible hulk one of the two
01:06:12
echo_blades
What's that?
01:06:16
echo_blades
um
01:06:19
echo_blades
Oh, shit. That's so awesome.
01:06:25
echo_blades
Oh, there's no, no green in mine, but he does have a cool ass grinder. I'm seeing that now. Yeah.
01:06:30
Denis Tyrell
i thought it was greening is yours just purple
01:06:33
echo_blades
Miami vice is purple and like, like really, really hot pink and hot blue.
01:06:39
Denis Tyrell
oh okay sorry was all the other gay colors
01:06:39
echo_blades
There's no green in it. Get out of here.
01:06:44
echo_blades
No Canadian.
01:06:44
Denis Tyrell
good
01:06:44
echo_blades
I mean, yeah, but yeah, you get it. Um, So anyways, shout out to Adam, to his parents. This 10 year old was just absolutely killing it. Make sure you go.
01:06:56
echo_blades
you're on Facebook, you're over 40, obviously. But go check that out. um Give him a follow and support it. But I was bummed because I got sidetracked during the after I started talking with him, took a picture, did all that.
01:07:09
echo_blades
I even let him know I don't ever do do that. But like as soon as after I i talk with him, I was like, you know, hey, check out the podcast. I'm going to feature you on this podcast. on the next episode. Cause I'm just wowed by what you're doing.
01:07:21
echo_blades
I walked away and never got back to the table. Cause i was 100% going to buy one of, one of this kid's knives. So I still will, but, um, it was, uh, a missed opportunity there on my part, but I come back today and, uh, or today I started seeing some posts and,
01:07:37
echo_blades
Um, you know, I wasn't the only one that, that noticed him. So, um, I think Jordan JV blades had, you know, um, posted a picture of him, but it was just super cool.
01:07:49
echo_blades
Um, and you gotta, you gotta check this kid out. He's, he's, he's killing it. 10 years old.
01:07:53
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, that's incredible. And i love stories like this. Like, 10 is definitely the youngest. um
01:07:59
echo_blades
I, yeah, for sure. For me. Yeah.
01:08:01
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, because we had um um behind us, God, i why am I blanking on his name in Atlanta? um
01:08:09
echo_blades
Blackie little Blackie forge or yeah.
01:08:09
Denis Tyrell
Sergio's, yeah, a little Black Ironworks, but I'm trying to remember his name. um Why am I blanking on his name? I know his father's name. I can't remember his name.
01:08:22
Denis Tyrell
um But yeah, but he's like 14, 15 now. But it's great to see someone as young as 10.
01:08:26
echo_blades
Yep.
01:08:28
Denis Tyrell
that's That's really cool. Very cool.
01:08:32
echo_blades
Yeah. Easton.
01:08:34
Denis Tyrell
Easton, yes. Thank you. God.
01:08:36
echo_blades
Yes.
01:08:36
Denis Tyrell
Sorry, Easton.
01:08:38
echo_blades
Yeah, no, all good. i do if If I need to remember it, it's not coming out of my fucked up head. So, yeah, but that was really, really cool.
01:08:44
Denis Tyrell
Yeah.
01:08:47
echo_blades
I just have to have to have to have to have to go check him out. ah in Imperial Forge LLC on Facebook.
01:08:54
Denis Tyrell
yeah
Reflections and Nostalgia at Events
01:08:58
Denis Tyrell
yeah facebook yeah really very cool very cool it sounds like you had a fabulous time i'm sorry i missed it and honestly i i do miss the eve you know we do get a little bit of chance to walk around but it's not the dedicated time that when i'm at texas when i don't have a table um
01:09:05
echo_blades
I'm.
01:09:18
Denis Tyrell
You know, because I always have this nagging thing in the back of my head. Oh, I should be back at my table selling stuff or talking to people. um So that part was I envy being able to be the the free spirit nomad and walk around. so
01:09:34
echo_blades
Yeah, it was by far the two date for me. And I think, again, a lot of that has to do with like where you're at, like Blade Show West. My first one was the most overwhelming, awesome thing I'd ever been to in my life.
01:09:48
echo_blades
Right. And then we get to Blade Atlanta and I'm just like ba heads you know on fire. But then, you you know, we're on the other side of the table and we're, you know, Dylan talking with the people and doing all that, which is a great experience all in itself.
01:09:53
Denis Tyrell
yeah
01:10:02
echo_blades
But the the The ability to, you know, and know a few people now. um And yeah, that's yeah.
01:10:08
Denis Tyrell
people know you more a lot more and what the number one thing this tells me is we have to do something for the podcast for atlanta
01:10:11
echo_blades
Yeah. A lot more. That's for sure. Crazy people.
01:10:20
Denis Tyrell
like shirts and stickers and we we gotta do we gotta get something yeah we yeah
01:10:20
echo_blades
What do you want?
01:10:24
echo_blades
Yeah. That was a missed, that was a missed opportunity on my part. I should have at least stickers. We got this fancy new logo from, from our buddy. um Help me out. Reaper.
01:10:36
Denis Tyrell
reaper i'm like what yeah yeah bobby at uh
01:10:37
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. and and And my wife did a couple. yeah Bobby from, from Reaper manufacturing. Yeah. So we got to do that for sure. Yeah.
01:10:47
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, well, Atlanta, we're definitely going to have some some at least some stickers, if not some T-shirts. We'll we'll figure something out.
01:10:53
echo_blades
Yeah. Yeah. At minimum. Um, so yeah, that was, uh, that was really cool, but I do want to just, ah before we wrap up here, I did get tracked down by, ah John Chandler, um,
01:11:11
echo_blades
and I'm walking through the the show. I hear Jared and I turn around and on set because Friday it was hot as hell. I wasn't wearing that damn vest. have No chance in hell.
01:11:24
echo_blades
But on the on Saturday it was nice and cold. So i I wore the vest and, you know, they stuck out like a sore thumb in there. But I got as we were walking in, I get some people. Oh, hey I like your best. was like one, two, three, four, five. I
01:11:39
Denis Tyrell
Those are pity people.
01:11:41
echo_blades
I guess. Whatever it was. But Lawrence was dying. I'm like, that's five. We're not even in the damn building yet, dude. So I'm telling you, you guys.
01:11:47
Denis Tyrell
Wait, wait. Did they say they like your best or did they go, bless his heart?
01:11:52
echo_blades
No.
01:11:52
Denis Tyrell
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
01:11:55
echo_blades
The first one was ah was a homeless dude. I thought that was great. He was like, oh, man, I like your best. But ah d what am I trying to get at?
01:12:06
Denis Tyrell
he He was hoping you took it off and give it to him
01:12:09
echo_blades
Yeah. But that was cool. Took a picture with him at Jeff Carey from Armored Up. A really cool time. ah A guy from Dominion Blades named Jimmy Rogers, I believe.
01:12:24
echo_blades
Right as we were leaving, i hear my name in the, you know, And I turn around and he's like, I wasn't going to leave here without meeting Jared from ankle blades and checking that vest out and just fucking awesome dude.
01:12:35
echo_blades
Um, really cool, uh, to, to have a listener come up to you and start hitting us. He, you know, he hit us with the, you know I'm one of the, the original five, you know, and I'm like, it's not original. It's, it's the top count. Like, yeah.
01:12:52
echo_blades
it's not It's not an exclusive club, dude. I promise you. I'm sorry you're in it. But, you know, hit me with the jarring things, the like just a bunch of the you know the the standard stuff that we talk about on our on our podcast. It was really cool.
01:13:07
echo_blades
Turns out he's super local. um And when I go back in a couple weeks, I'm going to make sure to have dinner with – with him. I think Jeff and I are going to try to get together.
01:13:19
echo_blades
So I'm, I'm looking forward to heading back up to Fort worth and, and, and hanging out. So again, if you guys are in the area um during the week, I think it's the all that week.
01:13:39
Denis Tyrell
Yeah, you got to redeem yourself on the barbecue.
01:13:43
echo_blades
Yeah, I do.
01:13:44
Denis Tyrell
You do.
01:13:45
echo_blades
I lived, it was all right.
01:13:48
Denis Tyrell
All right, man. Well, that sounds like a shoe.
01:13:52
echo_blades
ah what, a shoe?
01:13:53
Denis Tyrell
shoe. i was doing...
01:13:55
echo_blades
what is the What is a shoe?
01:13:56
Denis Tyrell
You see? See, I'm older than you. you don't yeah That was a Ed Sullivan imitation.
01:14:01
echo_blades
i don't know that.
01:14:04
Denis Tyrell
You're such a young pup.
01:14:06
echo_blades
i know.
01:14:07
Denis Tyrell
You've never heard the Ed Sullivan show?
01:14:08
echo_blades
Well, I've never had a student that was the same age as me that's retired either, go fuck yourself.
01:14:16
echo_blades
Yeah, no.
01:14:17
Denis Tyrell
oh
01:14:18
Denis Tyrell
All right. All right.
01:14:18
echo_blades
Let's get out of here.
01:14:19
echo_blades
I like it.
01:14:20
Denis Tyrell
All right. Bye. Bye.
01:14:22
echo_blades
Later. guarantee you Lawrence is going to call message me with, you didn't say this.
01:14:37
Denis Tyrell
probably
01:14:37
echo_blades
Guarantee it. yeah And that's a wrap.