Saturday, April 4, 2020

Giaco Whatever Unboxing

In a fit of retail therapy I paid money to a Kickstarter in order to get a specialty retractable utility knife from a maker named Giaco in Italy. I stumbled across it while watching videos from Jimmy Diresta. In this video, I open up the package and check it out for the first time and give my thoughts. I will do a review of it in a couple weeks.

Enjoy


Setting up the Shop

I finally got some time and weather to get into the shop and get things essentially placed. I was able to dig up a knockoff GoPro camera my wonderful wife gave me a few years ago so I could have a couple different camera angles for this video. I also used a licence free music site called “Epidemic Sound” for some of the video. It was an exercise in creative problem solving moving some of those items alone but I succeeded.

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A new Beginning

I’m not a New Year’s Resolution person,
like, AT ALL.
I don't need a special day dedicated to making promises I’m not likely to keep. I do, however, like tidy increments of time so since it’s January I’m launching an overhaul of my YouTube channel. I haven’t been able to get out to the forge at my dad's house for months mostly because it’s inconvenient to wedge into my schedule, so I made a decision. I’m moving the forge.
Again.
My house has a two car garage and I am going to give up parking inside so that I can put together a shop where I can work both on home projects and other creative endeavors.
I want to start making regular YouTube videos showing the creation of the shop and the projects that go through it. I’d like to augment that channel by creating corresponding posts here. I would use these posts to provide more details and explain things that either I didn’t have time for in the video or would be too tangential.
My gear and expertise in video creation is fairly sketchy but I hope to improve that with time.
The first video in this series is called “A New Beginning” and I’m literally, starting from scratch. I used my phone and the YouTube app to shoot it. It didn’t sound or look that great but I got it done.

Enjoy