Start from the beginning, a new knifemaker

<p>For the first episode in the Toby fire and steel podcast, I figure a good place to start is the beginning.  Since the start of every knife maker's journey is as a beginner, let’s start the podcast the same.</p> <p>This week is the first of my podcast series and I speak to Shane Savage of Savage Custom Knives, who talks about what it's like to be a new knife maker and YouTuber, a bit about his background and development, and also chat about some of the pitfalls he's found, and some of the tools and help from others that have helped him on his journey.</p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Shane and I discuss his background, how long he’s been making knives for, and what he did before he decided he wanted to be a knight maker and YouTuber.</li> <li>What it's like to work practically with your hands when you've never done it before.</li> <li>Taking advice and ideas from others including experience makers.</li> <li>The steps of order from start to finish to complete a knife.</li> <li>What made him decide to start using resin in his handles the aesthetics.</li> <li>Shane's Steel choice (stainless or not?) The reasons for his choice and who is his main buyer and what steel would they choose.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Shane's favorite knife type and how he feels about what he is prepared to make, depending on the client’s requests.</li> <li>The choice to use Knifeprint for his design process and what benefits it affords him that drawing doesn't (find our link below).</li> <li>Support network; includes family friends and other makers, how that helps with the process and how you can make likeminded friends and repay them.</li> <li>How regularly he finds time to work on knives and work on YouTube channel.</li> <li>Shane's Facebook group Blacksmiths, knifemakers, Armourers and Leathercraft, how its growing, the reason he created it and the need of being on social media.</li> <li>Future plans and what he is leaning towards and what he sees his path being.</li> <li>Chasing YouTube's algorithm - Understanding how content creators must be constan