Vacation
Oh boy was the last week an experience. Took some time off of knife making as well as my day job to take a 2,500 mile road trip with the family. I have a couple god friends who live out in Colorado and have been after us to come visit for a long time. After my wife finished her cancer treatment last year we decided we need to experience more as a family. This was a hell of a way to start.
We started out by heading to the Omaha Zoo which was a good half way point to stop for the night as well as see a lot of cool animals. We’re big wild life lovers in this family and frequent a lot of different Zoos. The Omaha zoo is widely regarded as one of the best in the country and it did not disappoint.
After a few days in the mountains we started our drive home. We went north to see Mount Rushmore and then on to see Badlands National Park. Rushmore was cool but frankly could take it or leave it. Glad I went but don’t ever need to go again. The Badlands was something to see. Its amazing nature can make something like that. Also couldn’t believe the shear number of prairie dogs running around.
Okay now that that’s over I need to get back into the shop. Its been hard to find time with my Son being off. I’m so behind on so many projects. I really dont know how to find the balance between time with my family and trying to be a present and good Dad and my passions of being creative as well as productive. Maybe one day Ill figure it out.
Up Coming Release Items
My intent early on with this blog-ish page was to post quite often but for some reason the phone app stopped allowing me to post from my phone so adding photos and the like is a bit of a pain and I havent been over motivated to do so. None the less I intend to do it more often. I’ve got a few release items coming up in the near future. I currently have 4 custom damascus scalpels in the works that should be really cool. Two of them are a twist pattern that I have not used before and I think its going to end up really something special. I also am going to do a few non knife items. Ive got a good bit of damascus and other materials that arent the correct dimensions for knife work but would be cool for some other custom items so just for something fun to play with I’ll have those coming up.
With the help of AI I came up with a new sticker design that I thought was kind of fun. I have a ginger cat and I thought it would be funny to put her in some Vietnam era military clothing and slap a custom scalpel in her hand. Came out pretty cool so I had a bunch of stickers printed. When I have the new batches in I plan to put some sticker packs up on the website.
Damascus Pattern Dies Part 2
Here is how I decided I would attempt to fix my HUGE mistake. Still can’t believe I decided to shatter those dies after over 100 hours of laser time. I’ve never claimed to be smart…
New Youtube Video
Im starting a short series on Youtube where Im making some forge press damascus patterning dies using my fiber laser. This is part 1 of what I think will be 3 parts. Hope you enjoy!
Welcome to the blog
Ive decided to start writing a blog here on the website. With the state of social media and how little even avid followers get exposed to my material this may be a non filtered way to share my thoughts and general life goings on. Ill keep this mostly to knife making but Ill also be able to post things here that often get censored heavily by social media(i.e. knife test videos and the actual using of my knives). I hope you follow a long and get some value of what I post here. I appreciate you all and as always please reach out with any questions or thoughts!