Blakelike (A Lot of Things)

Embroidery / Digitizing - With a PR670e
Sneaker Reselling
Japanese Pokemon Card Importing and PSA Grading
Leather Sewing / Dying / Painting - Artisan 1797AB 10 ounce leather sewing machine
Graffiti - Blackbook drawing / Ink and Dye Making / Font Creation
Graffiti E-commerce - Local Ink + Custom Items - magicgraffshop.bigcartel.com
Crypto
Stock News / Day Trading
Thrifting (For Reselling Purposes)
Sports - Varsity Water Polo / Golf / Baseball / Varsity Volleyball
Woodworking (Not that much to be honest!)
CAD (Computer Aided Design)
Tomfoolery, General Farting Around
Cars - Owned 2003 350z + 2003 Mazda 3 + 1999 Porsche Boxster - (All Manual)
Car/Motorcycle Mechanics
Fabrication
Mechanical Keyboards
Mechanical Pencils
Fountain Pens
Surron LBX / Talaria MX5
Drift Car - 2008 RX8 with 1997 Cobra SVT Engine Swap
HPDE Events - Did it once with my 2003 350z
Car Flipping - Changed clutch and Resold 2003 Mazda 3
Fashion - Clothing Designing, Marketing, Really into Archival / Yeezy
Construction Management
Journaling
Milk (BlakelikeMilk is what started this all)
Computer Building / Software Troubleshooting
Linux (I use Arch btw)
Sim Racing - Full Simagic setup and 800 hours of sim drifting/tandeming
Arduino
Fishing - Shore, Freshwater, but Mexico is the best
Hunting - Northern California Boar/Deer + Colorado Elk/Mule Deer
Drone Racing - Tiny Whoop and 5 inch
RC Planes - Went to Flitefest by Flite Test in 2017
Adobe Cloud - Photoshop / Adobe Premiere
3D Printing
Kanye West
Traveling
Art - Water Color / Paint Pens / Pens / Pencil
I love Cats
Owner of many animals - Horses, Donkys, Chickens, Guieni Pigs, Rabbits, Goats, Sheep, Fish, Dogs, Cats
Napping on Planes
Videography / Funny Sketches
Photography - Film and Digital (BlakeTakePhotos) - Nikon F3AS + Nikon Z4 + Digicams
Graphic Design
Pressure Washing (As a Business)
Car Photography (As a Business)
Diabolos
Vintage Video Game Console Collection (The peak of my collection is an In Box Commodore 128 but that doesn't really count)
Flea Market / Estate Sale Hunting
Entreprenurship
Cooking (Cast Iron Skillet Only
Blogging - This website!
Website Building - Also this website
Productivity Maxing
PEV (Personal Electric Vehicles)/Emoto/EUC - 42v custom mx650 + Surron LBX + Talaria MX5 + Sherman Max
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Skills: Hardware

Wood Fabrication
Small Scale fabrication - advanced soldering, power tool use
Car fabrication
Mastery of Car system knowledge
Film Camera settings
Making sure animals live
Leather Sewing, Dying, Painting
Art - watercolor, charcoal, oil, pen
Proper Spray Painting (for all uses)
Basic understanding of chemicals utilizations
Fishing
Drifting / Track Driving
Hunting / Proper Firearm Edicate

Balisong Reviews (In Order of Owning) @blakelikebali

LDY Orion v1.5 - first bali great beater but on the light side after trying more things - 7/10 fun + cheap
BBarfly Ssuperfly KS Series - jimping is horrible but flips good with no weights - horrible resale but good beater i guess? theres better ones in price range for sure - 6/10 lot of bang for money but eh
B+ Rep - Awesome, real is better tho but i got this for 35 used and its certainly something nice to have - 6/10 g10 mid
LDY x Zippy Frank-Z - I broke this but it was cool i guess - overall just dont get a plastic bali - 3/10 good when works
BRS Aluminum Barebones - I really liked it at first and it has a super nice square handles and somehow does fans really well? For 100 ish used these are AWESOME - 7/10 good but eh
MachineWise Prysma v1 (Trainer in silver) - flips very uniquely and HOLY SMOKES it sounds AMAZING but uniquely, a bit weird to get used too. For 100 used this is the best performance wise tbh - 7/10 good but eh
Squid Industries Tanto Flow Kraken - a fancy speed channel kraken. I dont like it very much esp compared to regular kraken. Pass but good experience. - 5/10 bit silly in weight distro on handles
Squid Industries Nautilus winter purple v2 - Very very light but was pretty nice, blade bends easy and seems fragile. - 7.5/10 interesting
Squid Industries Tanto Kraken - Awesome, boring but awesome, kinda perfect? Does everything and auto finishes some moves. Is boring. - 7.5/10 the gold standard
HOM Bas R (on kuski barrels) - i got this as a beater very cheaply and it has the coolest blade shape hands down and honestly is super awesome. Kinda light but theres something about it and it just does everything super nice. - 8/10 awesome
EPS 101 v1 - CRAZY nutty, the most nutty balisong ever, i really like it the handles are super skinny and I sold it but plan to get another v2 or v3 - 7.5/10
BRS Ti Barebones - Almost perfect handles, a bit short, overall cool but too expensive for my morals - 6.5/10
Flytanium Zenith v2 - it was $35 shipped from garage sale and better than LDY orion as beginner bali. I like it a lot super square super awesome. - 7/10
Madko (Satin blue first prod 08/100) - Super handle biased, feels like a tank, is horrible for choker fans, super duper fun and flowy - 7.5/10
LDY Frank Alu - SUPER tip weight, chanwhich alu so cool noise, overall AWESOME and i got it for $40 its a no brainer super fun but not necessary or required to get - Frank/10
BRS Thin AB with regular blade - super heavy, is satisfying and fun but i cant figure out how to flip it for some reason it always pops out of a thumb rollover. Also chaplins suck and hurt cause the finish is super gnarly - 7/10 on barrels alt blade better it seems
FrankenForge Static w/ Kukri blade - Might be the most perfect bali I own. Looks super rad, kukri blade awesome. Channel ti so it sounds good. Has square handles but theyre milled so they roll easy? Im not sure the science but it flips exactly how I want it when I want. A bit boring but awesome. - 7.8/10
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Currently: (8/20/25)

Currently: (4/19/25)

Blakelike (A Lot of Things)

Skills: Software

Skills: Hardware

Balisong Reviews (In Order of Owning) @blakelikebali

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