I have a shop in Orange. Always have. Paulo, a couple others and myself pooled all of our machines together in this spot and we run our individual businesses within one shop. I do not have anything to do with Balzano Knives, his sales, his emails, his texts, his DM's, etc. Paulo Balzano and Paulo Balzano alone is Balzano Knives. It's quite simple to understand so not sure why anyone struggles with this so much. Paulo and I have worked together on things and it has always gone well between the two of us. I've machined parts for him and everytime it has gone well. He's supplied good files, deposits and paid his balances when parts are completed as any good customer of mine does. Regardless of him being in the same shop it's handled as any dealing would be handled between client/vendor.
The majority of his knives he makes himself manually on his machines he owns and has here at the shop. I've made parts for him and will be making the parts for his Kickstarter. By trying to maliciously shut his Kickstarter down you'll be hurting many small businesses including mine, our local waterjet vendor, a heat treat shop here in California, and anyone else that's owed money or knives by him including BladeHQ. FOU's are currently in process and will be completed shortly, I can guarantee this.
Paulo is a friend of mine, sticking up for him is what any friend would do. Funny how FlipinBean bean hates on this so hard when he's doing the same exact thing for Arena every single day of his life. Only difference is what Flipin bean keeps talking about he had absolutely nothing to do with himself. I was involved from the very beginning between those dealings between Paulo, myself and PDW. For the record, PDW shafted him, as they did me on a separate job as well as at least four other well known makers that I'm aware of. There's a reason nobody wants to work with them. Funny how it was all blamed on Paulo because he's a "thief" and "drug addict" when the only person that stole anything was Arena Knives from my waterjet vendor and the "drugs" we're Paulo's girlfriends prescription (which was a full unopened bottle) in his car.
I can't deny Paulo owes anything to anyone but that has nothing to do with me or my business.
