This week, for the first ever episode of EDC Unlocked, we have Samson Tran, aka Raven the Pirate. We first connected with Raven the Pirate back in 2020 and he has become an almost honorary member of our Holme and Hadfield brand, providing us with invaluable feedback and helping to shape the development of some of our most-loved products over the years. He’s also provided us with some incredible images of our products, showing them off in all their beauty, and so it only felt right that he should be the first guest on our show!Raven the Pirate is a widely-known member of the EDC community, and has an incredible talent for photography and an ever-evolving creative flair, amassing over 47k followers on Instagram. In this episode we discussed: How Raven the Pirate came to do what he does, the journey to get there, and the story behind his nameHis advice to any other aspiring EDC photographers who are just starting out in the spaceRaven the Pirate’s experience of the EDC communityAnd I put your questions to him, shedding light on how Raven the Pirate works with brands, his workflow, his love of the process and how this fuelled his learning in the early days, his go-to favourite knife brand, and his views on the underdog brands of the EDC space…If you enjoy this episode, please follow, rate and review the podcast and share it on your socials - at the moment this is a limited mini-series but if you love it and want to see more, we would love to bring you a series 2! And if you want to engage with our brand on a deeper level, we have our own Holme & Hadfield Facebook community, where we give members up to 35% off new product launches and do consistent free product giveaways. We are also consistently asking this community for feedback throughout our product development phase and therefore provides them with a sneak peak of new ideas but also with the opportunity to have a massive say in the direction of our business and our product design choices. In fact the only reason we are doing this podcast is because they told us it was a good idea!If you want to join, please request here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/431190052165494/And to view our product catalogue and what we have to offer, please go to www.holmeandhadfield.com - we promise to debunk the myth that men are hard to buy for!Amazon store - https://links.holmeandhadfield.com/storeInstagram - www.instagram.com/holmeandhadfieldTikTok - www.tiktok.com/@holmeandhadfieldIf you want to connect with Raven the Pirate himself, you can find him at www.instagram.com/raven_the_pirate and www.ravenartworkx.com

We came up with the idea for EDC Unlocked earlier this year when we realised there was a gap in the market for an EDC podcast that gave the community the chance to hear the stories behind the brands and personalities they love whilst also asking them the questions they have always wanted to ask. And boy did we do that... This limited mini-series includes episodes with: Jeremy Siers Founder of Urban EDC Supply - Yong-Soo Chung Founders of BigiDesign - Chadwick, Joe & BrantleyRaven The PirateFounders of Orbitkey - Charles & RexFounder of Nomad - Noah DentzelBen BantersFounder of WESN - Billy ChesterExcessorize MeAnd founders of Holme & Hadfield - Phil & IanThe first episode will be dropping this Sunday 28th May at 7pm EST. We would love to hear your thoughts on this and whether you want to see more so please let us know if the comments. If you would like to engage with our brand on a deeper level, we have our very own Facebook community where we give members up to 35% off new product launches and do consistent free product giveaways. We are also consistently asking this community for feedback throughout our product development phase and therefore provides them with a sneak peak of new ideas but also with the opportunity to have a massive say in the direction of our business and our product design choices. In fact the only reason we are doing this podcast is because they told us it was a good idea!If you want to join, please request here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/431190052165494/And to view our product catalogue and what we have to offer, please go to www.holmeandhadfield.com - we promise to debunk the myth that men are hard to buy for!Amazon store - Instagram - www.instagram.com/holmeandhadfieldTikTok - www.tiktok.com/@holmeandhadfield