Wednesday Review: Arts and Crafts (Patreon)

First and foremost: I am happy.
I thought of an idea, planned it, and executed it without much issue.
Granted it was just some leather tags for the shotguns I'm gathering (I've been having trouble keeping the intro dates in my head) but I managed to design them and get them into the laser cutter with some futzing.  No lost leather, no crazy headaches.

Meanwhile, Bruno is working on realizing a sort of tool I appear to have invented.  Might make this shotgun project easier.

https://youtu.be/Q05tEl5ePew

It's very rare I get anything done on the first pass.  I have what is known as "Sodom's Touch."  It's like the Midas Touch but instead of gold, everything my fingers grace turns to shit.

As for the new Adpocalypse: I have no idea what the touch is going on.
Our numbers are about where they were last year, which is the first year-to-year we have not seen growth.  It could be we plateaued... but I don't think so.  However, I don't think we're being suppressed either.  

Yes, Anvil rarely monetizes now and may have our channel "marked," but all of Primer is currently green-lit.  So I think this goes beyond just ads or not.  I suspect our subject matter is just... not being shared by the platform very widely.  I'm not sure how to work around it.  

For the immediate moment we do have a backup channel on Bitchute, however this was experiencing extremely troublesome upload errors for the past two weeks.  I think I have the solution now (it was wigging out due to non standard characters in the description field) and will try to get it caught up in the next week.   It's slow going thanks to Bitchute's unique upload process. 

Before anyone comments about it: I cannot use Full30.  We've had an upload error there for 2 years and frankly they have no interest in actually fixing the site.  There is no focus on the end user NOR the uploader.  

Sandwiching on more positive news: I spoke to a friend tonight about possibly starting a short, monthly review show that has a greater emphasis on more modern firearms.  It will, however, have a truly unique twist.  Mae and I have agreed to help him test the concept.  More on that as it comes to fruition!

The only other thing of merit is that I will be heading to the Cody museum in the middle of July and stopping in on some friends at Rock Island and Brownells along the way, and perhaps the Kansas City museum and some others coming back.  I'll try my best to call out some of the pit stops along the way!