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KIFARUCAST

Kifaru Lead Designer: Eric Bender

KIFARUCAST

Kifaru International

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness, Education

4.92.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Eric Bender, the brain behind current Kifaru designs, joins the podcast and, gives us insight into his design process, manufacturing constraints, and upcoming pack designs. Kifaru Become a Patron!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Ke'Faro Cast everybody Frank here with Aaron Snyder in a very special

0:06.6

Ginger guest

0:10.3

Our lead designer Eric Bender what's going on Eric? What is up? I guess you would be the original ginger because

0:18.1

You were here before we met Alex, which is the big ginger

0:22.7

So you would be you're the OGG. Yeah, yeah OGG

0:27.8

Yep, I've been here for it's gonna be seven years and

0:33.0

Seven years next April feels like two decades. Yeah

0:37.3

Yeah, so one of the reasons we wanted to get Bender on here is

0:42.7

He plays a pretty vital role at Ke'Faro

0:48.4

And here they didn't get well, you don't ever know when I mentioned your name because you don't pay attention to this shit

0:53.2

But you do get a lot of love but it's just so you everybody kind of understands

0:58.1

The parts that Bender plays and the process here what he does and kind of what he's designed

1:04.0

Sometimes I got to correct people because they'll think I've done something that I definitely have not like the Ontario

1:08.9

There's a good example

1:10.4

I think at the very end you showed me that and I said looks good just do it don't bug me about it

1:15.0

And that was kind of the end of it. Yeah, that's kind of one of my favorite things to do is go rogue

1:19.4

sometimes it gets me in trouble and I'll just

1:22.6

I'll bring something to you. That's at least probably what 75% of the way there or sometimes a little bit more like

1:29.9

Today you came in and there was a bunch of shit on your your desk and your

1:34.5

Shares like a 90% pass rate and the 10% may still get a go so that was a good one. Yeah, but

1:42.7

Bender

1:44.2

So your Bender has a lot of jobs here his main job

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