Ep. 52 Rapid Fire Questions

Alex Duffey: Welcome to Watchamakin, a podcast about sharing ideas and connecting with the maker community. Your hosts are Alex Adams of Type A Furniture and Alex Duffy of Duffy Woodcraft. Watch A Making is proudly sponsored by Next Wave CNC. Watch A Making is out today. Got a couple addicts to show you the way from the blueprints to the shape of Donaco. Pull up a stool, let's see what's in store. Welcome to What's Makin, a podcast where we talk all about what's on our bench, spotlight makers throughout the community, and remind you that happy August 5th, everyone. It's National Underwear Day. It's the one day of the year where we're legally required to keep things brief. Tonight's main topic is rapid fire questions. I'm Alex Duffy and you can find me on Instagram and on YouTube at Duffy Woodcraft.

Alex Adams: And I'm Alex Adams. You can find me at type A furniture on Instagram. I like that underwear joke.

Alex Duffey: And what

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Alex Adams: Sounds wonderful.

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

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Alex Duffey: Indeed. Good news, everyone. So I'm changing that up and and playing that sound bite here at the beginning because

Alex Adams: How dare you?

Alex Duffey: I know. so Alex and I do have a little bit of news, folks. so you may have noticed we were off for a couple of weeks. we came back, you know, it's our summer little summer break. Alex had a lovely vacation, which I'm sure he's gonna talk about here in just a minute. but just wanted to let you know going forward, we're gonna be doing kind of an every other week. on the podcast. So it's not gonna be a weekly podcast anymore. You're gonna see us every other week. but yeah, just still lots more to talk about and things to pretty some cool guests coming up. We've got a specific somebody with some printing things coming up soon that I'm not gonna give away because it's gonna be a really cool guest and I'm excited to talk to him because I have questions. So many questions. But yeah. with that note, no Why that's the wrong sound bite. We need that sound bite. I still have it set up from last episode.

Alex Adams: Good sound bite.

Alex Duffey: So Alex, what have what have you been doing this week?

Alex Adams: so the past couple of weeks,

Alex Duffey: Two weeks.

Alex Adams: I've been yeah, I've been doing quite a bunch of stuff. so on the 3D print side of things, lots of 3D print inventory with a lot of assembly attached to it. So a lot of the key holders that I'd been selling at markets where it's like the back end or the front end of the car, continually trying to add more makes and models. To that inventory and those ones like they just make more sense as a assemble by parts in terms of how long the print time is, significantly better. but that involves a little bit of manual labor, so doing a little bit of that, and then my son had gotten us into doing little like clickers, so there's a lot of 3D prints where they use the like the little keyboard clickers that you put

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: into your mechanical keyboards. where it's various objects and things. We've been making a lot more like Minecraft type stuff since it's all like very blocky. And so we've been making a lot of clickers to utilize that. so those have been doing okay. And then right now I'm printing another stormtrooper helmet. it's I think I I just got all of the parts printed to that. there's still a few more supports that I need to take off before I actually assemble it. So it went a lot smoother than the last time that I printed the Stormtrooper helmet because previously I had used the like this cool plate supertack. And with those being such a large area and being longer prints, sometimes that super tack struggles a little bit with those long flat surfaces. And so it made the just a ever so slightly amount of like dimensional warping that made the assembly of the previous one a little bit more challenging. So I went with just a regular textured PEI plate. So I'm hoping that everything is good there. And then I was a lot more patient with taking them off of the print bed so that they had time to cool off while it was still on that very dimensionally flat surface. Because a lot of times some of the smaller prints like dimensionally it doesn't make too much of a difference so I can just pop off relatively soon after the the print is done.

Alex Duffey: How long does the helmet take to print, like the entire helmet?

Alex Adams: god. At least thirty hours. I can't remember I'd have to pull it up and

Alex Duffey: It's a long time.

Alex Adams: I'd have to pull it up and and look at how much each of the actually maybe this maybe it's more than thirty hours. Maybe it's like thirty-six. But it's spread across multiple plates.

Alex Duffey: Okay, how many rolls of filament?

Alex Adams: almost one full roll of white filament and then I can't remember how much black filament it is. It's probably like a couple hundred grams. so it's I mean it's a it's a sizable amount. I had to I I had to buy more white filament to to do all of that 'cause I was starting to get a little bit low. Same thing with the black. I did not get the, you know, your your typical printer, low on cyan type alert that you get on your regular inkjet printers. I've got plenty of cyan right now.

Alex Duffey: Good, good.

Alex Adams: and then moving over from 3D print stuff. so right now I'm kind of planning out some of the CNC projects. my order from IDC Woodcraft with all of my bits and everything that arrived when I was gone, so I've not had a chance to like actually use those bits yet for a lot of these upcoming projects. So I'm probably gonna do some cribbage boards to utilize the the little the drill bit that I'd gotten from I got like I can't remember how many I got at least four of those. so anyway I know I'm gonna be making some of those and then I had gotten their the tramming bar thing that you use for tramming the CNC.

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: So now I can actually do that properly. So I'll be doing that here soon. I think I got the I is it the I can't remember if it's the twelve inch and six inch sizes they come in and I got whichever one was the bigger one just because you get more precision out of the longer lever arm on that one. And it's

Alex Duffey: Mm.

Alex Adams: the the bed is big enough to handle that that it makes sense on the the CNC to do that. So I don't I'm undecided on if I need a tram before I do my next project because like relatively speaking It's dimensionally pretty good. If I'm if you're doing surfacing stuff, it's a little bit dicey, but other than that, it's it's okay.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, I mean, especially the with the H D twenty that you have, like those the tramming on that is so minuscule needed because they it because it it's also a base, you know, it's all one unit. Very rarely

Alex Adams: Yeah.

Alex Duffey: did I ever have to tram mine. the one I have right now, like I bump it and it's out of tram, which is kind of annoying, but I'm still working through how to fix that properly.

Alex Adams: Yeah, so there's I mean like I said, I know that it needs it especially for surfacing stuff, but I don't have too much surfacing stuff in the in the hopper quite right now. So it's I'm not like hard pressed to do it, but I'm like, if I'm drilling a bunch of stuff, it's good to have that at ninety degrees, but it's like Yeah. It's it's probably like ninety point two degrees or something like that, where it's like

Alex Duffey: If that

Alex Adams: yeah. So I'm I'm not I'm not super Super hard pressed on that one. and then yesterday I met up with a recurring customer to do some measurements on a TV cabinet. I think I can't remember if I had mentioned this before. because it was a project that was kind of on the like the maybe list for a little bit of a while, and I hadn't had a chance to get to it yet, but I finally had a chance to go and like take measurements. And so I need to like I actually need to do some more research on the types of hinges that we're doing. Cause it's gonna be the on this cabinet, the doors are gonna cover the entirety of the the cabinet. because it's only gonna be, I can't remember my notes if we said six inches or eight inches deep, just deep enough for the TV to be in there. And then the door panels are gonna be the same dimension as the the frame that goes around that that TV of that cabinet. And then it's gonna have the bifold doors is not the right term for it, but it's got two doors for each side of the of the hinge. So imagine, if you will, the the like the kitchen cabinets where it's like the corner cabinet where it's like two doors and it's connected with a piano hinge in between. So kind of like those, except for it's on a flat surface. So I'm kind of undecided right now. If I wanna do basically just do two piano hinges. one on the corner and then one between the first and second door on each on like the left side and then on the the right side. 'cause I'm considering doing just like the the Euro hinges for the the actual hinges because of the fact that they're adjustable. Cause if there's like cause with 'cause if we're talking about with both of the doors Together, you're talking about like a three foot span. So that's a huge

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: lever arm. So if you're ever so slightly out of alignment, you don't want that to sag. And so that's my only concern with the piano hinge, is like it's great unless it's out of alignment and then it's terrible because it's a pain in the butt to try and remedy that. So I've been researching trying to find a couple of different hinges. Plus I also need to be in 180 degree opening so that you can actually see the TV when you fold those doors all the way out and then fold them back. So it takes a it's taking a little bit of geometry and forethought of what's gonna be needed for the hinges to make it happen and make sure that you've got enough viewing angle with it. The good thing is that it's actually mounted on a very nice TV mount. That it's not the kind where it's like you just like hook it to the wall and it stays right there. It's the kind where it's like you can pull it out like two feet if you really want to. So it can

Alex Duffey: that's cool.

Alex Adams: yeah, so it's it's a very nice mount. And it's the same style of mounts that I have for the couple of TVs that I have in our house, which I always recommend those types of mounts that allow you to pull it away from the wall. Not because of the fact that like you may not need it to do that. But just for the ease of like if you ever have to switch cables, it's so much easier to pull it away from the wall. You have space to work and do what you need to do. So

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm. It's the kind of mount I have as well.

Alex Adams: yeah. So like those have always been good. And then how I'm mounting this because so it's pretty much like it's gonna be pretty much a cabinet, but there's no back to it. So it's just the wall behind it. so there's no what the right term for it is. Backsplash is not the right word, but that's kind of what I'm gonna say. yeah,

Alex Duffey: There's no backer, yeah.

Alex Adams: no, no, no backer at all. And so how I'm actually gonna mount it to the wall is I'm gonna put in a small strip that goes underneath the top that's gonna be affixed to the the frame. so it's gonna be like a, I don't know, maybe an inch by inch rectangular rod that goes the full top portion of it. that's attached to the

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: the cabinet frame and then screw into the straight into the studs with some black screws on there. and I forgot to mention this is gonna be maple with a just like a dark brown finish is is what it's gonna be 'cause I did a mitered mantle for them previously and that's what we did and so they wanted to do that same color again.

Alex Duffey: Nice.

Alex Adams: Yeah, and then fishing in Colorado. so my fishy

Alex Duffey: Fishing.

Alex Adams: and he shall be my squishy. so this is so this is a cabin that my grandpa built in like I don't remember if it was the sixties or seventies. it's in north central Colorado. If people are familiar with the Red Feather Lakes, it's a little bit south of there across one of the mountains. Or if you know where Fort Collins is, it's about an hour west of there, which Fort Collins like what, like an hour or two hours north of Denver. So that's the general region.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, I know where that is.

Alex Adams: And so we had always growing up, that was kind of like the thing that we would always do in the summer is go up there and and fish, because it's mainly trout, mainly rainbow trout and then a couple of other subspecies. So we did a lot of fishing up there. And so the the fun thing about Fly fishing for me is the one, the casting is a very methodical thing where you're like casting, you're always trying like you're working with the wind. If there is wind, direction, where you think the fish are gonna be, so they can actually see it, thinking of it from their perspective, looking at what insects are in the area or on the surface to know what type of fly you want to use, talking to other people who have been fishing recently to know. what they've tried and what's worked and what hasn't worked. so there's a lot that goes into it. I mean, you don't necessarily have to do it to that degree, but that's how I approach it. so it's it's a lot of just kind of working with the hands and, you know, not a whole lot of chatter behind the eyeballs as you're doing it. you're just trying to address what's in front of you. So a lot of fun there. We had good fishing throughout the weather was good throughout the most part. there was a little bit of rain and a few storms that did come through. I will say there was there was a moment at one of the lakes that was basically like the scene from the good dinosaur when the dad and the kid are getting out of the ravine when there's this huge gush of water. except for in my scenario,

Alex Duffey: The Lion King moment.

Alex Adams: close, close. so basically what happened is so we had gone to the same lake a couple of times and it had started raining and then it kind of fizzled off, and most of the rain would go around us just because of like the geography and the terrain of the mountains and everything. well, lo and behold, this one time we It it starts getting to be rainy and this it it's a technically a reservoir. So they've been draining out the reservoir because they haven't had a lot of rain this season. So it's very muddy where we are by the edge of the water. And so as

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: it starts raining a little bit more, like if you've got a drizzle, it's fine. You can still fish. The fish are still active on the top. But then when it starts getting harder, then they back off quite a bit. And then we just kind of like stood there a little bit 'cause like And most of the time it's been dissipating after like thirty minutes. And then the lightning came in. and there was like lightning like on the other side of the lake. Like this is like a mile or so away. and so I was like, All right, we need to go now. And we're like right by a campground area. so I like basically at that point, like with that lightning so close, I was like we had caught two fish, they were on the stringer. Poked into the ground and they were in the water. I'm like, we're gonna leave that. There's some other things on the ground around us. I'm like, we're leaving that. We're heading out. We're turned around. It's starting to like get pea size hail. There's still lightning going on. And my son gets like, he gets up to the area that he needs to. And then I'm I'm in waiters because it's all muddy, and I get stuck. And because they're chest waiters, like you can't just. Leave the boots, like they're attached, like the whole thing

Alex Duffey: Right.

Alex Adams: is attached to you. And I've got like backpack and coat over top of that. And our like and our jackets, which do turn water, are like soaked now just because it's just been such heavy water. and so I'm just like there and it felt like an eternity trying to get out of the mud there. And I was just like, I was trying to stay relatively calm. And trying to like figure out like, okay, I know if I like struggle really hard, I'm just gonna dig myself in deeper. Not quite like quicksand, but very close. So I'm trying to because you try and wiggle your boot like left and right so you get that air underneath

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: and so you release that suction. So it probably took me like, I don't have the exact time, but it probably took me like a good minute to like figure it out. Cause I'm like trying to, cause you know, when you're down by the water, it's like you're the only thing down by the water. so it's like I don't want to be the high point by the water and get struck by lightning. So I'm trying to be like. hunched over, but also trying to get out of this mud. because they're like, because it's drained down, you have certain like vegetation that's in some spots that like makes it so you don't sink in, but there are other spots where there was nothing. And so you just like your boot goes down like calf deep.

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: so eventually I was able to get my foot out. And then, you know, we get you know, we're not trying to like hide under the trees, but we're kind of in the bush the like the bushes and the the vegetation that's close to this campground area. And so we kind of got to there. We were good to go. and then I it's like he's soaked. I'm soaked. If I was on my own, I would have gone back fishing after the rain had dissipated because that's how strong of a personality I have of like I want to go do something. But he wa he was

Alex Duffey: Uh-huh.

Alex Adams: still soaked. like, yeah, we gotta go back. And so because they had fires in this area Gosh, it's been four or five years. mudslides are much more prevalent because that vegetation is not holding all

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: of that ground in place. And so we were very careful on the drive back to make sure that like we're not going so fast that we get stuck in a mudslide and end up going down the side of the mountain or whatever because the road is washed out.

Alex Duffey: We

Alex Adams: yeah, so that was the one fun story. And then our other fun story, I'll try and keep this one brief. The The summary of this story is that every time someone goes into the cabin, there are these aspen trees that are about a half mile up behind the cabin on the mountain, where everyone carves their name in and the year that they went up. And so no one has been up there since those fires had rolled in.

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: and so like for me, like I do like tradition and that kind of things where it's like you're you know, you want to retain that portion of, you know, that memory of the cabin. And especially since my grandpa who had built this cabin had passed away in April, it was like I want to really see this if our piece of history is still there because they

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: had they had also done some backburning in that area to basically clear out the vegetation so then the fire doesn't come further down into the ravine and get to the cabin. So I don't know if this fire was from that back burning, if it was from Actual fire itself. So I had taken pictures when I had brought my son up there the first time in like 2018. So I had pictures of all of this stuff, and you get the GPS location attached to those pictures. So I was able to use that because the terrain had changed, trees had burned down, it doesn't look the same. There's still like rock features there. and so I'm going through and looking for all of these. Like the other weird thing is that. Like there were trees that were still standing, but they had died and the bark had fallen off in very, very huge chunks. So I'm like

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: looking at some of these larger trees where the bark had fallen off and like basically turning it over and seeing like, is there carving in here? and so I'm like going back and forth through this entire grove, going through all of these like pokey plants and everything. And like I'm I'm at the stage where I'm like, teary eyed because like I'm not finding anything. and so I'm kind of we're starting to make our way back down. And then we see a piece of bark that has some like vertical lines on it. I'm like, okay, like what what's going on here? and so we did actually find it was one of my brothers who had carved his name and his wife's name into one of the like one of the different trees because the original tree was was filling up with the names. And so we found that one, and so What I did was I took that bark and I took that back down to the cabin. And so that's still there. I might talk with the rest of the family about, I don't know, making a little project out of that or something like that to cut it down. Cause it's like this is like an eight-foot section of bark of the tree. And the part that was carved in is only like eight inches to a foot of that length. So it needs a little bit of.

Alex Duffey: But the original tree is gone.

Alex Adams: The original tree was still standing, but there's nothing underneath that bark. so I and I think that tree is dead from what I can tell. Like there's no leaves on it, but it's still standing upright. So I carved Adam's 26 into there with one of my car keys, because that's all I had on me. I didn't think to like I wasn't planning on carving anything up there. so that's what I that's what I did while I was up there. at least mark where this tree was that I pulled the bark from.

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: Because it's not like I can put the bark back on and it's not like it's only going to

Alex Duffey: Right.

Alex Adams: get more weathered while it's out there since it's not connected to a living being that's regenerating anymore. Cause you with those aspen trees, you have that nice white bark. So when you carve it, you get that dark contrast to the white bark. But as that white bark kind of peels off as it's as it's dyed being out in the weather, then it becomes less visible. so we'll see where where that transpires. And if I end up doing any type of project with that down the road, but there's no hard press time frame to do anything with that. Like I mean honestly I'd like to make something that's like framed that goes into the cabin or something like that. Or maybe give it to my brother or

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: something like that. Who knows? So so yeah, that's a lot of what I've been up to lately.

Alex Duffey: well, I'm gonna be a little quick, but so for me in the making section, I've just been doing a lot of restocking lately. So making seventy-five of my bread knives, like a hundred coffee scoops, hundred toaster tongs. I did take Tracy's recommendation from our last episode and I made a whole batch of the book readers. And funny enough, they were my first two sales at my market last weekend, so a lot of good comments.

Alex Adams: you already had a chance.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, a lot of good comments on them. So yeah, so that was what

Alex Adams: Remind me of the design of the book readers again.

Alex Duffey: it's just the little thing you put your f thumb through and to hold the paper. Yeah, yeah.

Alex Adams: Okay, the th the thumb one. Okay. I couldn't remember specifically.

Alex Duffey: so yeah, so I'll give those more of a a a shot and and try some. So I I've been doing a lot of restocking of that, and then that was all of what I made last week and this week, like tod today and yesterday, I've been cutting out soap dishes and whiskey smokers to restock all those. and then this past weekend I had a big restock, which I'll talk about in the which selling section 'cause it was kind of an emergency restock scenario. so

Alex Adams: Okay. And are you are you doing stuff that is more false specific right now as well?

Alex Duffey: no. I'm doing basically all of my like regular sale items, the things that sell all year round that I'm just running low on. Uh-huh.

Alex Adams: Okay, your your your rear your the year round stuff. When when do you typically start making your stuff that's more fall themed or fall specific?

Alex Duffey: so I don't really make anything fall themed anymore. I make everything is games and like my year-round kitchen items. so I won't I don't make really anything that's that's seasonal in that case. I do stock up more for winter for the for more markets. So I usually start stocking up come September, so I'm getting ready to start doing that. Like I the last couple of weeks I've bought a shit ton of wood. so I have a lot of wood in the in the garage currently, to to make Yahtzee boxes and and more D D boxes and and just a whole bunch of games and stuff. So so I can get those ready. and I actually last week I went and chatted with so I was buying wood for my whiskey smokers at the local lumber yard that I go to to get white oak from. And it was very slow because it was supposed to be super hot that day and I had gone early, but apparently nobody else wanted to go. so the yard manager came up and we were chatting a little bit and it's the first time I got to meet the yard manager there and he's like, Hey, you know, random question. It's I know this isn't what you're buying, but do you happen to have any need for like laser wood like quarter inch thick or eighth inch thick ply of hardwood ply? I was like, Yes, I do. I use that a lot. I use it for magnets. I use it for my travel curvage boards, stuff like that. And so he gets a bunch of them and about they basically throw the pallets come in at like stacks of a hundred of these sheets. And when they do that, they usually end up like in the middle of some of the sheets, either get cracks or Or have some voids or things, so they can't sell the whole sheet. They have to cut it up. and most people don't buy it once it's cut up, for especially at their lumber yard. So he's like, hey, if you want to buy stuff at volume, I'll give you a good price on it. And I'm like, all right, well, what's your volume? Are we talking like a thousand sheets? Like, what are he's like, no, 10 sheets. And so I'm gonna get a four by eight sheet of plywood eighth inch plywood for twenty dollars. He's gonna cut it up. To my laser bed size, which is 12 inches by 24 inches. So I'm gonna get six of these sheets for $20, which right now I currently buy a single sheet for seven dollars, of a 12 inch by 24 inch sheet from a a wood supplier that has it already to size. So I'm gonna be saving a ton of money. so I'm super excited about this.

Alex Adams: All right, let's do the math real quick. You said it was twenty bucks for a full sheet, and how many of those twelve by twos can you get out of there? F is eight,

Alex Duffey: six.

Alex Adams: six?

Alex Duffey: Eight. Sorry, eight. I'm estimating six because he said these are ones that have voids or cracks. So I'm going, okay, so you can

Alex Adams: yeah, so you're gonna have some loss there.

Alex Duffey: get eight. So I'm gonna have some loss. So I'm gonna say I'm getting six out of So he's he's selling for me for twenty dollars. So divide that by six. That's three dollars and thirty three cents. Yeah.

Alex Adams: So six times seven's forty two. So you're basically getting it for half of what you would normally get.

Alex Duffey: No. I'm getting it.

Alex Adams: You said that that

Alex Duffey: yeah, yeah. I'm getting for half, yes. yes, you're right.

Alex Adams: Yeah, 'cause your normal one is about seven dollars for that one by two sheet, and if it's six of those, depending how much your yield is, about forty two. Okay.

Alex Duffey: Yeah. Well, and that's seven dollars to include shipping and all that stuff. So I I am coming still coming out way ahead. So I'm super excited about this. so I've he's basic he's basically starting to put put them aside for me and as he as he finds them and he'll cut up and let me know when they're ready. So I'm really excited

Alex Adams: It's a good win win.

Alex Duffey: about this. Yeah, super good win win. good way to save some money. so good, you know, good thoughts to you guys out there if you're listening. You know, make friends with the yard manager. You never know what kind of deals you might get. So

Alex Adams: Yeah. Well yeah, and I mean and I've done that too where you just ask them like, hey, like what what inventory are you trying to like clear out that has been, you know, not been selling good? Like it doesn't hurt to ask because if

Alex Duffey: Uh-huh.

Alex Adams: they've got something that you need, then great. 'Cause like I remember one time I was at a place and they had said, yeah, we've got a bunch of teak that we've had that we just haven't been able to sell. And I talked to him about it and it was not genuine teak, it was like plantation teak. So it's not it doesn't have the same material properties as like your traditional teak from way back when. Because this is not from

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: gosh, I'm blanking on where genuine teak comes from. Is it Myanmar? Or s it's somewhere in the Southeast Asia area, if I remember properly. It's a place that has

Alex Duffey: Yeah, I have no idea.

Alex Adams: a lot of political distress. So anyway. it doesn't hurt because it's like yeah. I don't necessarily need that, so I I passed on on doing that stuff. but yeah, it always helps to ask on on those things.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, absolutely. Anyways, moving on. So looking at what's your break in section, I'll why don't I just kick it off real quick? I been having a hard time working doing shot glasses for the C gypsy. So I did these once

Alex Adams: You don't have to drink each shot before you give it to by the way.

Alex Duffey: No, I I know I don't. But I'm making shot glasses for the C gypsy using my laser. And I've done this for them before. They didn't do so well because people complained that they couldn't see the designs. They didn't like the frosted glass look. They wanted paint in the in the frost. and so now I've been trying to figure out how to get them painted for it to stick and and stay well. so I've just been go I I've I've been I've destroyed probably about fifteen shot glasses trying to find the right laser settings to get it deep enough with enough textures for the t paint to grab onto and that so then when I wipe it away the paint stays in the groove but wipes away from the clean glass. anyways

Alex Adams: Because you have to you have to apply something to the glass as you laser it, right? Or is it I

Alex Duffey: No, not with this not with an infrared.

Alex Adams: Okay. I was trying I couldn't remember how it how it needed to happen. So

Alex Duffey: Yeah. Yeah, diode laser you do, infrared you don't.

Alex Adams: Okay, yeah, because I have a diode laser, so that's probably why I was thinking that. Can you

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: I'm curious, if you etch the design on there, can you put a stencil on it after the fact that's basically lined up and then basically spray paint from there to add the paint, or do you need to do like a paint on like a enable with a brush?

Alex Duffey: It's more of an enamel because the spray paint would run too much on the because it doesn't adhere to the glass very well. but

Alex Adams: I can't remember, are you doing a are you doing a square glass so it's a flat surface or is it a rounded? Okay. I I thought it was square.

Alex Duffey: Yes. It's a square. Yeah. but yeah, so if anyone's listening and has a knows of a really good way to do this, please reach out and let me know. I am pulling my hair out. I've been watching so many videos and they're just like, you know, rub and buff it on. And I'm like, no, it w rubs d F away. Like, no, it doesn't. Just rub and buff on. Come on. so yeah, I've just been struggling with it and it's been making me angry. And so I'm in the thick of it right now. I've thrown away like Ten shot glasses today alone. So I'm just angry.

Alex Adams: So right now are you are you just freehand painting it and then trying to wipe away extra as it like tacks up a little bit so it doesn't wipe away like the deeper stuff?

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: So you're kind of doing the like kind of like the screen print where they do the kind of like the squeegee kind of thing, right? Gotcha.

Alex Duffey: Yes, which is what everyone says to do online. all the recommendations I found.

Alex Adams: So it's more of a question of how deep you can get it so that that method works is kind of the issue. Is that what I'm understanding?

Alex Duffey: It's a combination of that, a combination of the right paints. Some people say to use acrylic, some people say to use an oil pen. I've been trying both. I haven't seen really any results, better results either way. regardless, I have to bake it afterwards so that it it cures properly. but yeah, it's just it's a little bit of everything with it right now. So it's just been frustrating.

Alex Adams: Yeah. Yeah, I I don't I don't

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: do a whole lot with paint, so I'm coming up dry on suggestions and whatnot. Sorry I'm not of more help.

Alex Duffey: No, that's fine. yeah, so that's really the really the only thing that's been going poorly. Though today I also broke a bit and and ran it when I ran into a a CNC clamp and that pissed me off too. So it was just one of those today was one of those days in the shops where I was just like, you know what? I'm walking away. I'm just I'm I'm walking out of the shop right now. So

Alex Adams: No, I'm curio no, you don't have a fiber laser. That's that's a whole other thing. 'Cause I was thinking of like those like medallion things that you adhere

Alex Duffey: I Right.

Alex Adams: to it.

Alex Duffey: I don't have I don't have a fiber laser. I'm hoping to get a fiber laser. I'm been so I worked with a laser company company a couple of years ago and they just released a fiber laser. So I I've been trying to get a hold of their affiliate team again to be like, Hey, let's work together. I want a fiber laser. because Yeah,

Alex Adams: Yeah, you've got a project for it.

Alex Duffey: exactly. well and I really I've really liked the idea I love the look of those 3D rel relief carvings people do with fiber lasers in the stone. And I like the Pacific Northwest beaches are known for rocky beaches, and I'm like, I'll just go get a whole bunch of stones and do Pacific Northwest themed reliefs on and then s I can sell at the Sea Gypsy so easily. and so

Alex Adams: I bet.

Alex Duffey: So that I like I really wanna do that, but I don't they're you know, fiber lasers start at like three grand and I don't want to invest in it on my own. So if I can get a content deal out of it.

Alex Adams: Well yeah, and it's a and it's a usually a super tiny workspace to begin with too. 'Cause it's like whatever it's it's like akin

Alex Duffey: Right. Right. Yeah, the

Alex Adams: to like what the laser peckers what most of their models are, right? Where it's like a you're talking inches by inches.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, most of them are one fifty, one fifty yeah, one fifty, one fifty millimeters. And so yeah, the company that

Alex Adams: millimeters for those who are not European American.

Alex Duffey: I so I I worked with Acmer, or AceMer or however you say it, A C E R. their current one, their PM that they just came out with is a two hundred by two hundred. So it's a little bit bigger, which is nice. so I'm I'm hoping to to work with them on that. So but I just need them to answer the email. So but yeah, that's what I've been breaking what about you.

Alex Adams: so on the 3D print side, I think I can't remember if it was the last time that we were on that I had mentioned that I had those PTFT sorry, PTFE tubes. Those are the tubes that the filament slides into when it goes between the filament roll and the the print head.

Alex Duffey: Right.

Alex Adams: some of those had basically worn all the way through to the stage where they had kind of started getting stuck. and then so I had replaced some of those. And then there are short tubes that are in the the AMS, which is the unit that holds a lot of those different rolls of filament, where it goes from basically the front to the back of that, and then they all go into the the singular PTFE tube. So the singular tube was the one originally that I had replaced. and then I had a roll that had started getting stuck. it didn't make it all the way out to that singular tube. So I'm like, my other stuff that's been wearing down. It probably wore down that tube that's under there because it's only like a six to eight inch tube, I think. and so when that first happened, I was like, Well, I'm just not gonna use that slot of the AMS for a little while. and so after I gotten some projects in that I needed to get to, I 'cause you gotta unscrew and pull this unit out of the casing in order to access these tubes. And so I looked through and I was like, yep. That thing is is getting worn in. That's where the filament is getting caught. So I replaced all four of those short PTFE tubes in that AMS. And then I did it on the other AMS that I have on that printer as well. So while the one well, I took the one out, the the other AMS was it was still using that to print out the projects that I was working on. So while I worked on one, the other was working. And then I once that one was done, I put that back in, connected it, and then I swapped out the other one and got that one done. Cause I was like, well, if this other one is worn out, I guarantee these other ones are done. And I might as well just do it while I remember how to do this. Because it's been about a year, maybe a little over a year since I've had that unit. So it's like, if this is a yearly thing, yeah, I'm not gonna remember how to do this very easily. So I might as well just do it all at once. It's almost like swapping tires out on a car when it gets low on the tread, pretty much.

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: and then while I was doing that, I also had some issues with a little bit of buildup on the tip of the nozzle, for that same P1S printer. So I was able to go in and swap in some of the nozzles on those as well. Cause like, yeah, these have been running for a while. I haven't had too many issues with them, but they've been clumping. Cause I think I had I think I had recently cleaned them because they were just like caked on the nozzle. And I was starting to get like just little pieces of black filament kind of trailing and getting into some of the other pieces that it was printing. So like for a dark print that was black it didn't matter. But if I was printing something white it would be very obvious. Like for example, the Stormprumer helmet. that would not work well for that. So I got that like I originally cleaned it off, got it working, and then it kinda started caking up again. And then I like, Yeah, I'll just put a new nozzle on it 'cause it's I mean, nozzles are like ten or twenty bucks. They're not expensive. So they like they're a consumable part. They're I mean, it's the equivalent of a, you know, C and C bit where it's like you you can only get you can get a lot of life out of it, but only so much. And then a weird issue that I started having was on some of my printers, I don't know if it's the firmware update. but one thing that it does is if you have a roll of filament that is low and you have an identical roll of filament on your on your AMS that's that's hooked in, once it runs out of that role, it will feed in that other roll automatically. So like if you're doing a really long print, you don't have to worry about it runs out, it pauses the print. You have to wait until you get that new roll of filament on for it to start. And what was happening was the that last little bit of filament, it either didn't push it all the way through or didn't back it all the way out. so it just assumed that something was jammed in there when it was trying to feed in the new roll of filament. And so I had done this maybe once or twice where I just had to go in and remove that piece. so I had gotten 'cause this was maybe like the second or third time that I had had that issue. but it was just then that I realized, it's when it's swapping between these colors. So I don't have to completely shut off the machine. I can just take off this top portion, pluck that out from there, and then that new roll of filament filament will. feed in. So I'm hoping that the next time the firmware is updated that they'll that they'll have that issue. So I don't know I don't think there was a way for me to like report that problem, but I wish I could give some feedback on there. Cause like previously it had worked flawlessly. So I don't know if it changed the steps on how they did that that caused some issues. but on the other side of bamboo saving my butt, Since I had been doing more stuff with PET G with more outdoor things, especially those key holders, because the way I have to display them, like I gotta display them out in the sun. Like there's no other good way to showcase them. And those have to be at least PET G, otherwise they're gonna melt warp out in the sun. and so swapping between the PET G and the PLA, because for those who are not familiar, you cannot have those in the same print because they will not adhere to each other. It's just material properties. and so when I tried to print, I was like, why are you not recognizing this role of filament? Like that's the color that I have. And then I realized that it was the different type of filament. So it's like, yep, it saved my butt, which is one of the reasons I like using the bamboo filament is because it has those RFID tags in there. I need to venture into some other brands that do also have those RFID tags because it it's just nice automatically pulling in that info because I've been working with so many varieties of colors now that like it's hard to keep track 'cause I try to keep all of my PLA filaments on one wall, where everything is stored, and then I try and keep my PET G on a different wall so that like I mean there's labels on the actual side of the U the roll of filament as well. But sometimes when you're like you're just swapping stuff out and you're like trying to get things done, sometimes you just miss stuff and that human error creeps in. So that was That was good. And then I had mentioned that my order from IDC Woodcraft came in when I was traveling. so originally it was gonna be there a week prior, so I was gonna be able to have some time to play with it. but what happened was USPS like basically ate the package somehow and it got lost. So I had I messaged IDC and they got a replacement one sent out, but by the time that I had figured that out and sent them a message. It was like a day or two before I was gonna leave. So it's like, yeah, there's no way that this is gonna get all the way to me through USPS. So it, you know, it got there like a day or two after. So like, it's just sitting at my house for almost a week and I don't get a play with it. So it's just a little bit of a bummer that I had to wait. But it it sucks when USPS eats a package. So I'm I'm I'm assuming that they had insurance on their side because it was like it was like a thousand dollars worth of bits. So it was a it was a big shipment.

Alex Duffey: Ooh.

Alex Adams: So yeah, it was not small.

Alex Duffey: Ooh, yeah, that's never fun.

Alex Adams: So I'm I'm I'm sure that they had that. Yeah, I mean, especially if you're on the the sender side of things, especially if it's something that takes a long time to make or like has a lot of detail. That just always sucks. So ensure your packages, especially if they are something that's difficult to make or replace. and then one of the other things that we had breaking we had been doing a lot of yard work here recently because things have just kind of gotten overgrown. And so as we were doing some of this yard work, we have this huge metal horse statue, and you noticed that wasps had made nests inside of it because it was hollow. And so my son likes to help with this kind of stuff. So I was like, okay, if we both spray this thing from, you know, kind of like a a instead of being like directly across from each other so that you spray and the overspray like covers each other, it's like, okay, let's come in both at an angle so our angles are like projecting away from each other, we should be fine. so yeah, we go to spray and then my son moves and like he moves into my spray path over the was spray. And then he also gets me with some of the wasp spray. And it's like the foaming kind. And like it didn't get like in our eyes or anything like that, but it like got on our skin. And it was just like, all right, we gotta be done. We gotta go rinse this off right now 'cause I don't wanna get blisters and all sorts of other stuff. So that was That was a fun little thing where it was just like Yeah, it just it just went awry very, very quickly. So I I thought about what I can do to that statue to like make it better. Cause it's like it's it's multiple parts that get put together and it's hollow on the inside. So and I think it's it might be aluminum, but there might be a few parts on there that are steel that have that have rusted a little bit. So it's just like I don't know if we're ever gonna move this statue, so I might put a like like some type of like caulking on the outside of it to basically keep wasp from going in and then I can put like a clear coat on top of it of the what's the name of it? It's not epoxy, but it's like the aerosol rust oleum stuff. I've done that before where I've like coated things with it. It's like a crystal clear enamel covering on it or something like that. So

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: Anyway, I mean I probably should have put my other story about, you know, getting lightning by the lake in here on the what you're breaking, but yeah, it's fine. Probably

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: more well suited. But yeah, it was is it was very reminiscent of the good dinosaur movie, which if you've not seen that is a very enjoyable movie. I believe that's a DreamWorks movie as well.

Alex Duffey: It is. No, it's Pixar. The dinosaur movie's Pixar. It was.

Alex Adams: Was it Pixar? Or was it or was it a Pixar was it a Disney Pixar?

Alex Duffey: I just remember it being Pixar

Alex Adams: Una vez lo.

Alex Duffey: because it's it didn't it's it stood out odd. anyways.

Alex Adams: That's DreamWorks.

Alex Duffey: So for the what okay. well for the s what you're selling section. for me, markets are going well for the f the summer farmers market. for the most part. I would say the Ridgefield farmers market has been doing really well. I've been averaging a good amount there, which I've been very surprised, even on a couple of really rainy days. so those have been doing a lot more than I expected for the summer. So I've been very very happy with that. On the other side, last weekend.

Alex Adams: That's a s that's a sing is that a single day farmers market, not a multi day? Okay.

Alex Duffey: Single day, yep, Saturday market, farmers market. on the other side, last weekend, I didn't go to the farmers market and I went 'cause I had booked a craft fair in Port in actually in Portland at a place that was doing like the booth fees were going to charity for a dog charity thing. You know, I was like, I'll do this a excuse me. I apologize. I was like, I'll do this. I know the artist who's putting it on. And there's gonna be like 40 booths there, and they're it's very art centric. So I was like, that's totally Portland vibe, gonna pull in a lot of people. Did not. It was dead. It was complete. It was a beautiful day, and it was so dead. so barely made what I would normally make at the at the farmer's market. wi in double the amount of time later in the day too so I got like the whole day was wasted. And it was a really weird vibe. Like all of the other market people were just you could tell that they either are new at this and and are too afraid to talk to people or were just grumpy and didn't want to talk to people. And so like my wife and I were just like this sucks. This this whole experience is Stupid because it was so boring. And ever and the people that were around us were just grumpy and we just didn't want to be there. So yeah. so that that market sucked. but like I said, the normal Saturday market's been going well. And I had some other good news, and this was what I alluded to in the the what you make in section. so on Friday I got a call from the museum that I just started selling at a couple weeks ago. They called me to let me know that somebody had come through and bought out all of the Sasquatch figurines that I sold there because they were wanting to do it for a wedding. and they were gonna use them as centerpieces. And they asked if I could

Alex Adams: nice.

Alex Duffey: make five more for the bride and then also make more to restock them. So so yeah, I did an emergency Sasquatch building session this weekend and I made forty five of them to do a restock for the store and then five to go to the the wedding that 'Cause they wanted another five.

Alex Adams: How far is that store away from you?

Alex Duffey: About an hour.

Alex Adams: Okay, so that not like terrible, but still a little jaunt.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, and actually because my my wife was off today and so for my day j and I was working at my day job, so she actually went and delivered for me today. which was very nice of her. But it was yeah, it was just a quick make forty five sasquatches, get get the tongue oil on and l let sit for forty eight hours to cure and then off they went. So but yeah, fun problem. I I can't wait. I told them to ask the bride if they would and I guess the event is taking place with with part of the museum or something. I didn't get quite of that, but the events coordinator said she's gonna get me these photos. So I was like, Yeah, if you're gonna since the Sasquatch is gonna be one of the centerpieces, like get a photo of the Sasquatch and then tag the museum and myself and you know, let's drum up some business for the store. So

Alex Adams: You'll go crash the party in a Sasquatch suit, right?

Alex Duffey: I was debating it.

Alex Adams: Yeah.

Alex Duffey: I well, I kinda wanted to be like, hey, give me the bride's or the the bri the bride and groom's info and like I'll send them like a special like Sasquatch thing. But but also like

Alex Adams: I was gonna say, like, didn't get get a cake topper.

Alex Duffey: Right? Like yeah. But also I just kinda wanna show up in a Sasquatch outfit and be

Alex Adams: Yeah.

Alex Duffey: like, what's up?

Alex Adams: Yeah. So what d what do those Sasquatch things retail for?

Alex Duffey: they retail but depending on the store between fifteen and twenty.

Alex Adams: Okay. So yeah, that's let's see, quick math. What around nine hundred to a thousand dollars worth of retail retail value, somewhere around there, if you're doing

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: forty five.

Alex Duffey: Yep. so

Alex Adams: Yeah, that's that's that's worth an hour drive.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, absolutely. And everything else. So I got my first report from the museum actually on Thursday. It was funny because then it was the next day they called about it. But on Thursday I got a rec a report for the first two weeks of sales. and in two weeks of s

Alex Adams: They were doing quarterly, right?

Alex Duffey: yes, they're doing they're gonna pay me quarterly, but I asked them to give me a report every two weeks so I know How quickly things are moving, when I need to restock, that kind of stuff, because it does you know take me a few days to make stuff. and

Alex Adams: So you'll have a little bit of buffer before you actually get your invoice fulfilled for that for this upcoming quarter, right?

Alex Duffey: Yeah, so unfortunately it won't be until October till I get paid first, 'cause the the first of July was the start of their quarter, so their next quarter, so I won't get paid until October. But Or what's that going with this? I got that report. And the report said for two weeks I did just over five hundred dollars in sales for the first two weeks. So not bad. so I'm hap ho hopefully it'll continue and you know, if that's another thousand dollars a month, you know, that's that's really good because that's what about I'm averaging now that the C gypsy is reopened as well there. So it'd be good. Just a lot of Lot of restock making that I'm having to do though.

Alex Adams: Yeah. Is the what what time of year is the C Gypsy the most like active or has it been kinda all over the place? Like is is there a certain season that they sell a lot more?

Alex Duffey: summer is their busy season.

Alex Adams: Okay, so they're still able to get a little bit of that good summer inventory cleared out, hopefully.

Alex Duffey: Yes. Yeah. Yeah. so I'm I'm hoping that we they she she makes a good and she said this first month has been done it went really well, so that which is good. So and like I said, I got paid already for the first month and it was just about a thousand dollars, so a good it means sales are right back where they're supposed to be. So yeah. So good times for me. What about you? What have you been what have you been selling?

Alex Adams: so I have been hitting the kind of like local, like I don't know if it's a Midwest thing or just a small town thing where it's like insert town name and then days where you do like, you know, you do the parades and you like show the fire trucks that are from the local police or the local fire department and you do like you've got craft fairs and you've got like all sorts of like it's not like the fair, it's like close to it, but it's like, like a lot of these communities that settled, like, it was primarily like Czech or German or whatever. And so they do a lot of like very themed events over the course of like a long weekend. Does any of that happen in your area where it's like Portland days or something like that, where it's like I

Alex Duffey: yeah.

Alex Adams: I guess for bigger cities you probably have more more events. But anyway, for these smaller towns, they have some of these and and a lot of times they actually do a like a car show tag together with it or some other events. Or they have like a huge water balloon fight or like some other local event that they that they do. And it draws in people from not just that small town, but the community. so I did a couple of those. One of them, it was really good. And that was just a a singular day. And then the one that I did the following weekend, which was the day before I left, I had actually squeaked in because when I had asked if I could do that one, they were full. And and I had asked pretty late. Like it was like maybe less than two weeks from prior to the event. Cause I told them I was like, Well, if you have anyone cancel, like I could slip in last minute, and lo and behold, they had someone who wasn't able to make it. So I was able to slip in. and that one I don't think it had a vendor fee. And this place is like maybe this town was like fifteen minutes away from me. so super low, like basically nothing for cost going into other than driving and then my time there. So it was it was okay. It was really, really hot. so it was just steaming hot during that day. and I mean the the people who are running it were like They were great about walking around with water, giving it to people, making sure everyone was okay. Like they did a great job managing the event. so I was between like what I would normally get sales-wise, between my like weekly farmers market and like a good like day, single like a single day craft fair. Like obviously the the Fourth of July the event that I had where I did like really, really well on a singular day. That one's a much bigger one, so it's not gonna be on that caliber level. So this one was like. I couldn't tell if it was like the size of the event or if it was more the weather that was kinda making things trail off. So I think it'll be worth it to do this one again because there was I think there was well, the other thing too is that my town that I live in, which is bigger than this other one, 'cause this other town is only like less than a thousand people population minus ten thousand. Mine also had a like citywide garage sale where like everyone sets up their garage sales so people can go around and like find deals and whatever. I think they might have also had like sidewalk sales at the like local downtown area. So a few people might have been pulled in to do that stuff as opposed to go to the one that that I had as a local community event. So there might have been a little bit of that that changed the attendance to it. And there was there was actually another event at the it was the place where I had restored the church pews. They were having an event. They were gonna have a car show, but they didn't have enough entries for that car show, so they canceled that portion of it. And the car show that was at the event that I had attended, they had like s at least like 60 cars, like classic cars there for that car show. so I'm guessing a lot of the people that Would have gone to this other one. I ended up going to this one. So I made the right choice of where to go. So because I kinda had my pick of where to where to set up. So overall I did okay. I do have a fun story about the stormtrooper helmet. So the farmer's market, which was on the Thursday prior to this. so I had someone Buy the display stormtrooper helmet, but then their parent like, Hey, can we like, can we have a fresh one and not the like the display model version? Cause you know, when people put it on, you get some scratches and dings and stuff. So I'm like, Yep, sure thing. I can do a fresh print for you guys. because like some people care, some people don't. So I was like, it's it's whatever. so then on Saturday, someone buys the display one, and my wife was like, No way, like. Cause like this has been I've had the Stormtrooper helmet for four or five months now. And you always get attention from it, which is what it's designed for. Like I didn't expect it to sell. But then within the span of like

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: 72 hours, I sell essentially two of them. so that's why I've been printing. I had alluded to printing another stormtrooper helmet. So I've got to print one to essentially close out that sale and then probably print another one so then I actually have one on display. for the county fair that's coming up in like two weeks. 'Cause it's not my next like big event that I'll have. I'll have a couple of farmers market in between. but that's the one that I'll make sure in stock up for 'cause I'm sure I'll get at least several people that are interested in it and maybe one or two that might actually consider buying it. that and the the like that tribal kind of Mandalorian mask that I that I printed 'cause I sold that one at the fourth of July event. And then I actually got some sales from some custom sales. So I have someone, a couple people who are regulars that come in and get stuff because it's like the grandparents, the mom, and the kids, like I I see them on like a normal basis. I've sold them a lot of like Pokemon stuff and other things, and they're like always kind of come and buy for things. So I've got a custom hitch cover that I made for the for the mom. and then I also had a a couple of light switch covers that have like the little Lego brick circles on there so you can snap Legos onto the light switch for them. And then they had like a they have their little like golf cart that they putz around in. So they wanted a little like golf cart keychain that looks like it, to go with the keys for it. and then one of the other vendors, and I've seen this other vendor at the normal weekly farmers market that I have and at this weekend event and they wanted some I don't know the name for it. Like they make wind chimes is what they do. And so they wanted a specific design for the you know how you have the in the wind chimes you've got the like the metal chimes that make the noise you've got the string in the middle that has like the metal thing that hits those and then below that you've got like bobble of some kind or something like that. So it's it's a it's a little piece

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: like that that's like like the equivalent of like a coaster size. so they want a few of those. So I'm making a few of those as well for them. So that's kind of a interesting thing for me of like making pieces that go into what other vendors are selling. So we'll see how that goes. And then the last thing that I have is before I left, I reached out to in our downtown area, we have this little it's like a little boutique like popcorn shop where it's like specialty popcorn that's like in the pre popped bags that you get. so like the kettle corn stuff and like things with like mixed in MMs and all sorts of stuff. So I I so I talked to them. 'cause there's a younger girl that that runs it and her like younger sister is in my son's class, so they know them and all that stuff. And she go like this girl also goes to my wife's workout classes. So there's like all this intertwined like connections. so I I go and I talk to her, I was like, you know, I can 3D print popcorn buckets for you that are like speci specifically themed because back in The winter during Christmas, one of the gifts that we had for the like the family white elephant thing was it was like a Santa bowl. And we had bought some popcorn sp actually from them as like a movie night bundle where it's like, yeah, like you get your popcorn and your popcorn bucket. And so I talked to them a little bit about doing theme stuff where it's like a popcorn bucket that's like a certain movie franchise, you know, that Not only would they be able to sell something, but also sell their higher margin product that they make in in-house. Cause I'm like,

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: I'm sure you get like people who run shops always get people coming in, hey, you could sell this and make money. And it's like, well, like there's only so much shelf space that they have and like they need to move product. and so there's there's considerations on their end. So I try and think from their angle of like, how can I help them make more money in general? So I haven't talked to them since then because I've been out of town. but the other thing that I might float as an idea for them is a lot of times when you have little kids' birthday parties, you've got the little like take-home like party gifts that you send home with the kids where it's like, okay, it maybe there's a bundle there where it's like, there's like a toy and like a thing of popcorn that's maybe their like take-home thing because if it's a pre made gift item, then the the parents who are putting together that birthday party, that's one less thing for them to like bundle together and put together. Because like with our son, like we've had, you know, every birthday party my wife puts in a lot of work to like make a nice cake and then you send the kids home with like extra stuff. And it's like the stress of doing all that stuff, it's like maybe potentially doing one like checking one of those items off and being able to offload that to someone else. There there might be something there. there may not be, but I'm just trying to think of like, you know, the people that come in and and buy stuff at their store and trying to think of like how what I have fits in with their customer base and also helps them sell some of their higher margin items that they that they make in-house as well. So just having that

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: that mindset going in of like not being someone who comes in and like What can you do for me, but what can I also do for you? You know, throw in that JFK quote or whatever, but modify it. So yeah, that's

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: that's what I've had going on. also one last thing. so I had a guy at my farmer's market who had swung by. He had been last year at the like it was like the holiday Christmas market that I had gone to. he was one of the people that had dressed up that was part of like the five first for Star Wars stuff and had come by and he had actually he had bought one of the like stormtrooper hitchcovers that I had made. And when he came by, he's like, you should really go to all these like different like different cons that are in the area. You know, you're like nerd cons or insert whichever, you know, sci fi thing is, 'cause there's there's a few towns nearby where they're like they're not huge, but they're they've got like a population of like sixty or seventy thousand, like enough to have enough people that are like Who like to do that, but may not be able to make it to like the big comic cons that are like on the coast or whatever, but still go to like the local ones. And he's like, You've got enough good variety of your stuff. And he's like, I've seen what a lot of other 3D print people have done there, and it's a lot of like print in place, just like gadgets. And he's like, Honestly, a lot of that stuff is like almost junk. Like your stuff is way better. So it's always nice getting those compliments of like, yeah, you're like you're selecting the right things to have at your booth that people would actually like. So I might investigate some of those events and see if it's worthwhile. But those are the ones where it's like it's more akin to some of those events that you go to where it's like, you know, several hundred dollars a little bit more of a drive, you might need a hotel room. So the amount invested in is a lot higher, but the risk to reward, like there's a lot higher upside for sales, but it's always a little bit scary going to some of those events because you're like, What if I don't do good at it? But anyway, we'll have to see about some of those events and get into my calendar.

Alex Duffey: Okay. Somebody's watching me. It's my anxiety. I was a little quiet. all right. So what are we watching this week? so my first one, I'm gonna shout out our good friend Tracy and her partner Mac, who we had on last week. Tracy and Mac posted a Halloween themed balloon, so from the the movie Halloween, the Pennywise balloon and it, I guess too. it was really creepy. It looked really good, it was very well carved and very well engraved in b and woodburned biography. But it was creepy. So go check it out if you're a horror fan.

Alex Adams: Yeah. It's also like if you have like a little like drainage on your street, it's like the perfect Halloween decor to just have a balloon sticking out from underneath of there.

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: we've had people in our town do that and it's like, God, that's good.

Alex Duffey: I bet. Yeah, I bet. I might actually I might do that because I have a a drain near us too. I might do that for Halloween this year. That'd be a good idea. Red balloon.

Alex Adams: Yeah, I just put a little little weight on the end of it, make it extra long, and then that's just flying in the wind, flapping around. Excellent, excellent decoration.

Alex Duffey: I like that.

Alex Adams: All right, first one that I have is outer underscore woods. let's see. so they had a a really good reel that was it was about making a fix on a very big project. and so I I I am blanking on what the actual project was. I think it was a table. so basically what happened was like Router bit jumps, you take a big gouge out of something, you've got to fix it somehow. And so what they had done was from the glue up, they had ripped to whatever the length dimension was, so they had this extra off cut. And it was a very good lesson in like basically saving your offcuts from a particular project because this gouge was, if I remember right, it was like right on the glue line in between these two boards. So not only did you have to like grain match, but you had to grain match in between two boards that were really close to a glue line. so they were able to pull basically like cut out a clean shape and then make that plug essentially from that off cut piece where that grain kept on continuing, so that they actually got the grain match. So it was it was just very nice to see like my horde like my my hoarding is like valid, like it's okay to have it. I mean, obviously you wanna like probably toss or use the off cuts after the project is done, but hold on to them while you're still excuse me, working on the project.

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm. my next one is from the Clever Carver or the Clarver Clever Carver. Cleaver Carver, yeah. Whatever. Kinda like that.

Alex Adams: Cleaver Carver? Cleaver Carve? Say that ten times fast.

Alex Duffey: I know. so they jumped on the Jimothy bandwagon. Have you heard of Jimothy?

Alex Adams: God, yes. I I am loving it.

Alex Duffey: I you were on vacation. I don't know, you may have missed Jimothy. For those

Alex Adams: It was it was it was it started before then, so I I was all up in it.

Alex Duffey: Also, by the way, so one of our fans and and podcast and patrons, Jim Jimmy or Trash Panda, like is he just Jimothy?

Alex Adams: I I think he is the Jimothy. I think he is the

Alex Duffey: I think he is the Timothy.

Alex Adams: the the human ambassador for Jimothy. Or maybe he's the reincarnation.

Alex Duffey: Okay. Well yeah. Well anyways, the Clever Carve jumped on the Jimothy fad and did a hand wooden carving and then painted it of Jimothy. it was really cute. It was really well done. I had thought of doing a Jimothy related reel, 'cause my wife was like, You should make some Jimothy earrings using the laser and I was just like, nah, I don't want to be on that fad. It's one of those things where I'm like

Alex Adams: Yeah, it's I mean yeah, jumping on fads can be a feast or famine.

Alex Duffey: Right.

Alex Adams: I know I know I know Braden's opinion on that from Little Bug, how he

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: he sold one hawk to a hat and then it got returned. So Yeah.

Alex Duffey: Yeah. Yeah.

Alex Adams: but yeah, like honestly, like if I actually had capacity right now Like that would be a fun project where like I would make it just to make it. I'd probably list it to sell, but I wouldn't expect it to sell. the

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: but one that gosh, think it was was it Platte Valley Woodworks? He's in he's in Omaha or sorry, he's adjacent to Omaha. and I think his daughter made a it was I think it was like one of those like bead things where you put them together and then you melt them together. So they did like a gay Jimothy where they did the Jimothy as like the gay pride flag. And I was just like, that is so good, especially since it's in in that in that metropolitan area. I was like God, that would that would sell like hot cakes. but yeah, I'm I've been loving Jimothy so much.

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm. Anyways, that's that was my little Jimothy bit. What about what's your next one?

Alex Adams: the next one that I have is from Malden Woodwork that is spelled M-A-U-L-D-I-N Woodwork. so they did a fun little ASMR tool shop sounds and their baby like they had grabbed sound bites from their baby making noises and so it was like the baby like blowing raspberries like when the wood went through the planer or the baby like doing like grunting noises as they were like chopping on the miters and it was it was very, very well done. Like this noises like they they actually match up with the operation. so it was it was glorious to to watch and listen to. So it was a lot of fun. So if you've not seen that, that's a great piece of content to watch.

Alex Duffey: Nice. my last one is from Cullenway Wood Turning. they made a beautiful bowl on wood turning bowl, but it they turned it upside down, drilled through it, and made it a pendant lamp to hang, you know, over their kitchen table. but it was so thin you could see through it when the light was turned on. And it still had the bark attached to the bowl, which was really impressive. Because bark is so brittle and the fact that they got it that thin and it didn't shatter off was really, really impressive. So I was

Alex Adams: Is it the one where the the bark was like on the tips of the bowl, like the edges? Okay, yeah, when you

Alex Duffey: Yeah, at the bottom. Yep. On the edges. Yep.

Alex Adams: flipped it over it'd be the bottom. Yep. Yeah, those are those always look really

Alex Duffey: Yep. Yeah, I

Alex Adams: cool.

Alex Duffey: I was very, very impressed.

Alex Adams: and it is the clever carver is the the Instagram carver

Alex Duffey: Clever carver, thank

Alex Adams: of the one who did the the Jimothy.

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: I love her SpongeBob that she did. That's cool. and she's got the

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: little nerds guys, those are awesome. Sorry, I'm getting distracted.

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: she's got a Snorlax too. Sorry, ADHD. Alright, so

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: that was yours. next one that I have is Wood Shop Diaries. so they built a cedar drive driveway set of gates. and it's the part that was really cool to me was not only the fact that they use like black hard like black hardware just looks awesome in general. Like black hardware, I I I love that aesthetic and that look. But what was really awesome too is that they like there's actually kits for like automatic gate openers that they attach to it. So it was like a fairly basic install to it, where it's like it just grabs one spot on the gate and then they can open up automatically. And I was just like, if I had a really long drive, I would do something like that to like protect my like privacy from people turning it in or whatever. But I was like, be so awesome.

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: That'd be such a fun project to do. and especially like, and that's a big like that's like basically a timber framing project there as well. So like the the amount of mass that that thing is moving. really, really cool. Really, really fun build. the since you're since you're out and you haven't stolen any from me, my next one is Omar builds it. So he had a reel where he he showed since he's got a lot of cabinet making projects, where he put in his medallion into the bottom of the shelf. Well not the shelf, but the very bottom of the cabinet, like the floor portion of the these, these cabinets. so it was kind of like nestled on the inside edge. And I was like, that's a nice way to be able to like because like Cabinets, it's kind of hard to like put your like logo in some spot. And I I I personally hadn't seen someone throw their like maker coin or whatever into like a set of cabinets like that. So I was like, that's a nice, a nice way to display your branding. So this is something that I had not seen. So very cool, Omar. and then the last one that I have is from Stick Rubber Woodworks. so This has been like a series of of reels that they've been documenting this process of making a memorial plaque that was for a fallen Coast Guard rescue swimmer. so it's basically like a carved set of snorkel goggles and flippers. So it just looks really, really well done. They've done a great job of of documenting this process that they've gone through. so definitely take a look at those because it's a really cool project. And also, I mean like a really you know, it it's it's also got a story behind it as well, which is always very endearing to to learn about. And that's all I got.

Alex Duffey: Wonderful. Well, I don't really have a good sound bite for our questions today, so I'm gonna go with this one. I am the smart Esther Martin. So today's main topic is just some rapid fire questions to get to know Alex and I a little bit better and just yeah, get our thoughts on some things. We had a couple of questions come through, so

Alex Adams: Are we gonna time it to see how fast it takes us to go through these? Like that kind of rapid fire? we're not gonna go that fast.

Alex Duffey: No, I wasn't going No, I was just gonna No, we're just gonna g I'm gonna I'm gonna read and then we both answer and call it good.

Alex Adams: Okay.

Alex Duffey: Alright. Walnut or Maple?

Alex Adams: Walnut. Always walnut.

Alex Duffey: Walnut for me as well. All right. On that same, domestics or exotics?

Alex Adams: Domestics.

Alex Duffey: Same. Also same. Coffee or tea?

Alex Adams: I don't do very often, but coffee.

Alex Duffey: My wife loves tea. I am a coffee drinker. I absolutely love coffee. I would drink it all the time, no matter what, if I could not not sleep, you know. on that note, early bird or night owl.

Alex Adams: Both.

Alex Duffey: Both. How do you how? Okay.

Alex Adams: Yeah, I you just don't sleep. honestly like honestly my preference is early bird. but just with like family stuff and my son, it's been an easier to do like like night owl after he goes to bed. So it's kind of a it just kinda depends on the the time of year now of which one that I do. I I'm just all over the place. My sleep schedule's terrible.

Alex Duffey: so I used to be a night owl and then in my college and early thirties I was definitely an early bird consistently. and I've been shifting back to night owl lately, I've been finding, because mainly because it's the time I get to play video games.

Alex Adams: Mm-hmm.

Alex Duffey: but I still have to get up early for my work, which I but I

Alex Adams: Yeah, I was always like I started as an early bird, like well into high school and college and then it's kind of shifted to night owl. but yeah, like I was always an early bird, especially because you had to to get your Saturday morning cartoons. Like that yeah,

Alex Duffey: yeah.

Alex Adams: that was like that was the only reason that I woke up early on Saturday mornings was to get my cartoons. And I was like, I was dedicated. It's like we didn't have Netflix back then, so it's like if you missed that episode, like you missed it.

Alex Duffey: You didn't know what was going on. Yeah.

Alex Adams: Exactly.

Alex Duffey: I well, I would regularly be out with my friends on Friday night or like over at their house sleep and do we would not sleep and so we'd stay up so we could watch Saturday morning cartoons and then go to bed.

Alex Adams: Yeah.

Alex Duffey: all right. beach or mountains.

Alex Adams: Mountains.

Alex Duffey: I'm a beach. Give me

Alex Adams: Yeah, you are.

Alex Duffey: some Yeah, I am Pina Colada on the beach.

Alex Adams: I mean that's that's where I vacation was in the mountains, so that's kinda.

Alex Duffey: Yeah. sweet or savory?

Alex Adams: Sweet.

Alex Duffey: Savory. Hand tools or power tools?

Alex Adams: Hand tools.

Alex Duffey: Power tools all the way. C and C baby. mesh sandpaper or standard sandpaper?

Alex Adams: go with standard standard sandpaper. 'Cause we're talking the not the film

Alex Duffey: standard.

Alex Adams: backed, but the like paper backed, right?

Alex Duffey: Yeah, the paperback, yeah. I can't stand mesh. I think it's overrated.

Alex Adams: The yeah, mesh like yeah, it's well the other thing too is that it can also cause issues with your backer pad as well. So like there's some

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: wear considerations on there as well. Like they do cut great for like flat surfaces, but it can be a little bit challenging, especially with rougher grits, because that that mesh doesn't allow the those particulates to come through quite as easily. So I think as as you get to higher grits it's it's not as much of an issue but it's especially better with the standard paper especially with the larger hole pattern with those lower grits because I I personally like I use forty grit all the time on projects so I yeah it's like especially with live edge stuff

Alex Duffey: really? I don't usually go go below sixty. Huh.

Alex Adams: forty grid. It's like yeah. It's like rub it's like rougher than concrete.

Alex Duffey: Yeah. The the the amount of times though I take off skin with eighty grit, I can't imagine having a forty grit and drunk.

Alex Adams: I well so I get like I have to be cognizant of how often I'm switching sandpaper because I will literally start wearing through the skin on my thumb from where I grab that sandpaper. So yeah, it's

Alex Duffey: Yeah, I bet.

Alex Adams: it's a consideration, especially if you're not wearing gloves.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, I've started wearing nitrite the black gloves. the I think they're nine mil or whatever, and I've been wearing those more. Yeah, it's

Alex Adams: Yeah the nitrile gloves. god, nine mil? That's like almost like the rub that's almost like the like the yellow rubber like cleaning gloves. Those bastards are thick.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, but but I do a lot of small hand sanding and stuff. And so I now don't have to worry about like rubbing away the sand or the

Alex Adams: Yeah.

Alex Duffey: skin on the edge of my fingers while I'm doing stuff. And so yeah, I really like it. okay.

Alex Adams: Damn, I think that six mil is kinda like thick, but nine mil. Whew.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, nine mil. Yeah, you get them at Harbor Freight. They're they're awesome. okay. spray finish or a rub slash brush finish? I'm a spray. I prefer the spray if I can get away with it.

Alex Adams: Yeah, I mean i it's nice to have the spray. I'm just not set up for it, so I haven't had to really like get used to it and actually use it. So I mean like

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: I'll I'll I I'll use a rattle can for stuff occasionally, but not very often. But it's I mean it's it's an expensive way to do it.

Alex Duffey: It is. what food could you not live without or live without?

Alex Adams: Hmm. Probably Oreos.

Alex Duffey: Hmm. Double stuff.

Alex Adams: Hell yeah, it's the only good one. I and I will say double

Alex Duffey: Okay. Yeah, I agree.

Alex Adams: stuff is the proper amount. Mega stuff, too much. Standard Oreos,

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: not enough.

Alex Duffey: However, I use standard Oreos when I make Oreo cookie ice cream because I find the double stuff it gums up the ice cream too much. If you're making homemade ice cream. mine's cheese. I can't live without cheese.

Alex Adams: Yeah, that's yeah, cheese is pretty good stuff.

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm. what is your biggest guilty pleasure?

Alex Adams: Mm. No. Probably any show on HBO.

Alex Duffey: I would say for me, Smosh reads Reddit stories on YouTube because I I

Alex Adams: yeah, that's good stuff.

Alex Duffey: I listen to these Reddit stories and it makes my life feel a lot better.

Alex Adams: Mm-hmm. Yeah. I mean the other thing too is like I I really don't have any shame. Like I don't care. So like guilty pleasure

Alex Duffey: Yeah, yeah.

Alex Adams: is kind of a loaded question for me 'cause it's like you like what you like, it's fine.

Alex Duffey: Right, exactly. Yep. Okay, next one. If Voldemort offered you a hug, would you accept?

Alex Adams: No.

Alex Duffey: Why?

Alex Adams: Broge is cold and clammy. Did you see how he hugged

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: Malfoy? Ugh.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, but but what if that's all he needs? What if a hug is all that it it's gonna take for him to to not try and kill Harry?

Alex Adams: Well, now you're talking about like hugging Voldemort as opposed to Voldemort hugging you. Like it's it I think that's a little bit of a different distinction.

Alex Duffey: Well it's true, but if he's like, Hey, I need a hug and you're like no and he's like, Fine, murder everybody

Alex Adams: give him a hug, you know, sure. But if he's like

Alex Duffey: Yeah.

Alex Adams: hugging me like he hugged Malfoy, like no thank you. It was. Which it was I mean,

Alex Duffey: It was pretty creepy.

Alex Adams: that was that was the intention.

Alex Duffey: Say good day, mate, in an Australian accent.

Alex Adams: Good day, mate. Put another shrimp on the Bobby. God they god our Australian

Alex Duffey: Good night, mate. That's really good. Mine sucks.

Alex Adams: guys are gonna hate us now. Yes.

Alex Duffey: Sorry, Steven. We love you. all right. what is your biggest pet peeve?

Alex Adams: It is when my son is eating something and he is just like smacking his lips and just like eating it like a hamster, like a strawberry or something like that. Yeah, like that kind of stuff. Not not just like chewing, but like just like gnawing on something and not actually eating it and making the noise. It just like makes my blood boil. Or when he like just cranks the volume on the TV and I can't hear anything in the living room. I love my son, but he does get on my nerves. I mean it to be fair, it's it's summer and he's home a lot, so you know, his some of his summer programs have been ending, so he's been around a lot. It's I was also just with him for an entire week. Also, randomly he started laughing like a snake recently. Or like he'd laugh like

Alex Duffey: Wait, how do snakes laugh?

Alex Adams: Whereas he's like Like he started laughing like that, like during

Alex Duffey: So

Alex Adams: the trip and I'm just like, Where did you get this from? I've never heard you do this. And you like started it on the car drive there, you know, in the car with him for eight hours or less than

Alex Duffey: And now he's doing it just to annoy you.

Alex Adams: Probably.

Alex Duffey: That's funny. my biggest pet peeve.

Alex Adams: But yeah, it's the it's the like the eating noises.

Alex Duffey: Yeah. My biggest pet peeves is either if I'm late or if somebody i is late. I hate lateness. it it bothers me. if you're not five minutes

Alex Adams: Yeah, I'm

Alex Duffey: early, you're late.

Alex Adams: Sorry. I do that too much to you. I am trying to get onto the show as soon as I can, so it's like Trying to like whiplash into there as soon as I can after picking everyone up and

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: doing stuff. So I'm I'm sorry for my lateness.

Alex Duffey: It's okay. It's okay. if there's a spider

Alex Adams: Is it though?

Alex Duffey: in your house, do you kill it or do you set it free?

Alex Adams: I set it free.

Alex Duffey: I smashed that sucker.

Alex Adams: I I used to be the kid who would like,

Alex Duffey: And then you burn the house with fire.

Alex Adams: you know, smash the ants and that stuff, but I've become much more benevolent and caring of living beings. Except wasps. Those

Alex Duffey: Now if the

Alex Adams: those bastards deserve to die. Yeah.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, they do. n if the spider's outside, I let it be. That's its domain, it can be fine. But if it enters my domain in my house, he's dead.

Alex Adams: They do have a place in the house. Like they they keep the bugs away. I will say, I can't remember did I tell you this one time when I was in my basement doing laundry, I had a house centipede crawl up my leg. Have you seen one of those? Well, I was just like like I

Alex Duffey: yes, I have.

Alex Adams: like yeah, like I I felt something on my leg and then I see a house centipede and like, that's interesting. Like I like I didn't expect them to like crawl up my leg. And those 'cause those like guys are good 'cause they'll eat pests and things. So it's like, yeah, I want to have one of these guys around so I don't kill

Alex Duffey: no, murder. all right. it superpower, invisibility or super strength?

Alex Adams: Can the visibility be turned on or off? Or is it constant?

Alex Duffey: Hello, it's your power. You choose.

Alex Adams: Okay, we'll we'll say that it's on and off, that you can control it. that's a tough one. probably go with super strength because like my shoulders are just freaking terrible and carrying around lumber sucks.

Alex Duffey: Yep, that was kind of my thought too. I could carry a lumber a lot easier, so super strength.

Alex Adams: Yeah, and just doing chores around the house or whatever, where it's like moving crap around.

Alex Duffey: If you could instantly learn any skill like matrix style, what would it be? You only get to choose one.

Alex Adams: I would say I mean this is kind of on the on the path of Matrix style where it's like basically being able to code or interface with any platform, either it you know, you know, DevOps or other stuff or like just basically full stack developer, like that level of like kung fu.

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm. That's actually was kind of my choice too. I was like hacker. It's

Alex Adams: Yeah, pretty much.

Alex Duffey: some kind of internet hacker skill. okay. And then lastly, this comes from our our friend Jimothy, or Jim Jimmy, Trash Panda. he did a he did a voice message and I couldn't get it downloaded, but it's basically how if you had access to somebody's shop, how would you go about making think that's Making that someone think that their shop is haunted.

Alex Adams: Mm. It would definitely be something electrical, but like safe electrical, not like sketchy electrical. Like I'm not gonna make like arcing electricity in their shop. But like say it's something that like randomly makes their dust collector turned on. Like, not turned off because you don't want to ruin their stuff while they're working, but just like it randomly turns on. But they don't know how it happens. Something something

Alex Duffey: Mm.

Alex Adams: like that is probably what I would do. Because like I like I'm not gonna do the like annoying sound thing that's just like you put it somewhere, but like something like that that just like electrically like turns on or flickers or whatever. Something something along those lines is what I would do. Also, my like my my personal approach when it comes to pranks and other things is it should be like It should be as easy to tear down as it was to set up. So like it

Alex Duffey: Yes.

Alex Adams: should be like maybe within 10 minutes or maybe even five minutes of someone to like basically undo the prank that you did. Because like it's one thing to like do something but that's like ha ha funny, but another thing to like inconvenience someone where it's like, we like covered your car in petroleum jelly, where it's like. you would have to like get that professionally cleaned or something like that where it's like yeah like

Alex Duffey: Mm-hmm.

Alex Adams: are damaging someone's property. Like I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do something along those lines.

Alex Duffey: I I agree. most pranks I'm not a fan of. But so I go on the psychological side of this. And I would be like, I'd need to get their significant other involved to find out like it this assumes that I have direct access to their shop for a good period of time. and so I would like get their significant other involved and find out like things that they did that they don't want other people to know or stuff like that, and I'd write it. in the sawdust. cu and so

Alex Adams: I'm assuming that I'm like I'm like there, I have to do something, and then I leave. That's that's my assumption.

Alex Duffey: Yeah, my assumption is is like I can get in there overnight or something and I would leave messages in the sawdust for them to like find.

Alex Adams: Okay, if we're Okay, here here's what I So if I had access like overnight I told you that in confidence. It was a mercy killing.

Alex Duffey: be like, Alex, I saw you kill that bunny. Yeah.

Alex Adams: so what I would do is I would start if I was doing something like that, like I would overstock something that they had, like sandpaper, where it's like they're over like always overflowing on like 220 grit sandpaper or something like that, where it's like they know they've used a bunch, but then they don't know like like they're probably happy about it, but they're also concerned about like it's like the gosh, what is it? The what was the biblical story of like the never ending jar of oil or something like that that just like keeps on producing more and more. So like their bin or stack of like sandpaper is like always like overflowing. So it's like they're happy about it, but they're also a little bit concerned. Especially if it's like a but that would have to be like a shop where it's like just one person. 'Cause in in a multi shop setting, like it'd be like, someone just like restocked it or something like that. So like that would be a prank to pull on like a Pete but not like a Dan, 'cause Dan would probably just be like, Braden just stopped by and restocked this, that's cool.

Alex Duffey: Right. Yeah. Yeah, that would definitely or like for me too, like I'd move stuff around. Like if they had like a wall of chisels or something and like they I'd rearrange the wall of chisels or, you know, things. Just just enough. Just and like just like maybe

Alex Adams: I don't know if I I don't know if I would touch their tools like that.

Alex Duffey: like two things in different spots. Just enough to be have them be like, Did I put that in the wrong spot?

Alex Adams: So you'd you'd go into Cross and Miter's shop and mess with his pristine wall of hand tools.

Alex Duffey: yeah, I'd love that so much. 'Cause I'm jealous of that.

Alex Adams: But I swear to god, if you would put a thumbprint on there and let it condensate and rust, mm.

Alex Duffey: no, no, I'd wear gloves because one I don't want any any type of, you know,

Alex Adams: Evidence.

Alex Duffey: evidence around. So no fingerprints or anything. So get my nine mil gloves on. Alrighty. Well that ends our

Alex Adams: not yet, not yet. Since you made a rapid fire, I made a rapid fire that you're not aware of. But this one we're gonna go like super fast. So I I will

Alex Duffey: okay. Super fast.

Alex Adams: I will ask the questions. but you gotta make sure that I and I gotta there are a couple of duplicates in here, so let me I think it was just one duplicate.

Alex Duffey: Okay. This is exciting. I didn't know you did some.

Alex Adams: No, it's spicing things up. All right. All right. We're gonna go rapid fire super quick. All right. Ready, go, yin or yang.

Alex Duffey: Yang.

Alex Adams: Down cut or upcut.

Alex Duffey: Down cut.

Alex Adams: Coker Pepsi.

Alex Duffey: Coke. Diet Coke.

Alex Adams: Oiler poly. Polyurethane finish, film finish.

Alex Duffey: I was like, what the hell is that? oil.

Alex Adams: market or boutique? Sorry, boutique.

Alex Duffey: Market.

Alex Adams: Market, okay. Ford or Chevy.

Alex Duffey: Ford.

Alex Adams: Air or kiln dried?

Alex Duffey: Kill him. I don't want bugs.

Alex Adams: Pet G or P what?

Alex Duffey: I don't want bugs.

Alex Adams: PETG or PLA.

Alex Duffey: P L I.

Alex Adams: A personal garden or farmer market?

Alex Duffey: Ooh, farmers market. I can get a better variety.

Alex Adams: Moon or Mars?

Alex Duffey: Mars.

Alex Adams: Chamfer or roundover?

Alex Duffey: Jamfer.

Alex Adams: Hot summer or frigid winter?

Alex Duffey: Summer.

Alex Adams: Super salad.

Alex Duffey: neither salad?

Alex Adams: pocket holes or tenons.

Alex Duffey: tenants.

Alex Adams: umbrella or raincoat?

Alex Duffey: Ring coat. I'm an Oregonian. We don't use umbrellas.

Alex Adams: Simon Regarfuncle.

Alex Duffey: gotta go Garfunkel.

Alex Adams: live edge or dimensional?

Alex Duffey: dimensional.

Alex Adams: Alright, that's the last one. You pass. But barely.

Alex Duffey: All right. I pass. Okay. Glad to hear. All right, guys. let's move on over to Good News, everyone. All right. So

Alex Adams: But you already did that.

Alex Duffey: I know, but we, you know, that was for a different announcement.

Alex Adams: It was a thing.

Alex Duffey: This is our maker news segment. So not much go going on. the main woodworking event is actually gonna be happening right now. As you're listening to this podcast, they'll be setting up. And it'll be in the next couple of days. So if you don't already have tickets, you might be too late, but you should find out.

Alex Adams: I'm sure they could still go 'cause they're super cheap anyway. I'm I'm sure you could make it in. I'm sure they will welcome you.

Alex Duffey: Yeah. Yeah, but I'm excited to s yeah. I I'm sad I'm not gonna be able to be there, but I'm excited to see all the stories and everything about it.

Alex Adams: Yeah.

Alex Duffey: and then Texas Woodworking Festival, remember, is coming up. It is coming up September twenty-fifth through the twenty-seventh. I am teaching at class and I will be there, so if you are a listener, just reach out and let's hang out. I'll grab lunch, whatever. It'll be fun. I'll have stickers.

Alex Adams: Mm. And speaking of listeners, if you do wanna become a patron of the show, you can go to patreon dot com slash what you make and show or you can, you know, find it in your app on your phone. Go into Patreon, search what you make and show and we'll be there.

Alex Duffey: Perfect. All right guys.

Alex Adams: But but we won't mess with your shop. We won't mess with your shop, we promise.

Alex Duffey: No, no promise we won't make it haunted. thank you guys so much for listening and just remember In case I don't see ya good afternoon, good evening. Good night, everybody.

Alex Adams: Night night. too spooky for me.