 A few weeks ago I had probably one of the worst days of my life when I came out to our workshop and found it on fire and in a matter of minutes the entire space was burned pretty much to the ground. Was very devastating to watch it happen and for the past year I've been working on moving into a new workspace allows us to customize it for a lot of the wide variety of projects that we do and done a lot of just manual labor over the past year trying to get it ready and set for that and safety is always a major concern. We do a lot of hot work with blacksmithing, ceramics, and glass blowing so I'm always very cautious about the dangers of something getting too hot and right away which is kind of frustrating I guess because none of that type of work can be done for the past week or so and not really clear what exactly started the fire at this point. So we do have insurance and it's in a very long and slow process of investigating and figuring out what was in there and what's going to be covered and what's not. Some things are a little up in the air and the actual structure itself it's unclear if that will be covered. A lot of equipment sounds like it will, minus obvious deductibles and everything. Needless to say it's going to be a major blow both financially and just a blow to the stomach I guess. There's a lot of work went into both the space and then all the tools and projects we had made, upcoming projects that were still in there, projects we wanted to keep working on, all are potentially lost. This point of insurance is still in the process of investigating things or wants to be able to investigate so I can't actually go in there so at this point there's unclear what actually survived. There's a lot of projects, a lot of our more primitive projects likely survived because they're made out of iron and bronze that should have survived so probably do a follow-up video once we get the all clear to enter it to see what we can salvage kind of a part of this series makes you really appreciate everything that goes into making things so I think a big thing is going to be trying to see what we can salvage, see what we can restore and a lot of the iron stuff is fine just needs to be refinished, some electronics are probably toast but we can see what we can salvage and see what all can be recovered from catastrophic failure like this. So those are things a little unclear about the future but I'm hoping it can be used as an opportunity to build something even better and to even incorporate into the channel as a series where we can explore the building process of rebuilding our studio space. The plan right now is to try and rebuild everything, not exactly clear how much money we're going to get from insurance if anything to rebuild so I'm going to put together a GoFundMe if anybody wants to donate to help us in the rebuilding process. I'm going to try and turn it into an ongoing video series or explore kind of how to make buildings and everything and kind of the more money we're able to get the bigger building we can build and that opens the door for bigger and better projects so if you're interested check out that. So we had a lot of stuff that wasn't in here was in storage and other locations so a lot of old projects and I look into potentially doing an auction to sell off some of these old projects to help raise some additional funds so there'll be more information about that in the future and since a lot of our projects and some of our equipment are now destroyed and need to be eventually replaced and we are lacking in the actual workspace to do blacksmithing and other things. Some of our community videos are going to be a little different some of them are just gone in flames some of them have to be kind of scaled back and some projects probably just have to cancel for the time being so content might be a little bit more sparse for the next few months as we figure things out and yeah and if you want to help us kind of make it through the next few months probably be a little bit of a challenge financially feel free to donate to our patreon and support us there really disheartening it's a lot of work went into trying to turn this into something to have it all just go up in flames but I'm hoping things will work out for the best and just want to let everybody know what's happening and why things are going to be different for a little while yeah so thanks for watching and thanks for everybody's support