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Bill, I wasn't sure you were done, just didn't hear your call, but I had a question for you anyway. I mean, the boxes sound great. That's cool. I'm also impressed. How do you make a knife? I mean, is this just forging something and grinding it down? How do you do that? Back to you. Sorry, I kill a Mike 7 off a Yankee Delta. I used to do that, but then when your shoulders go away, I just buy blanks from a knife blade supplier in Texas and another one over in Tennessee. Really good steel. I can get different types. I can get Damascus steel, which is really a pretty steel. But if it's going to be a working knife, I use 440C surgical stainless steel. It takes an edge. It just keeps it there. And then I make the furniture for it, the handles, and I use mostly Sonora Desert ironwood. It's an absolutely beautiful wood. Then I'll do some inlays with some acrylic, some ivory, which I'm legal to do, brass, nickel silver. This is for Peter Station Kilo Kilo 7, November, November. I shape them for my clients in Hampton. And then I make a sheet for it. Different kinds of sheets. I make a cross draw, I make a cowboy, I make a traditional hunter. And they're all unique too. I like every part of it. I like working the steel, I like working the wood, I like working the leather. It kind of depends on which I'm working at when you walk into my shop. Sometimes it smells like a leather shop, which everybody seems to like. Anyway, break KAN-7 AYD.