Valentine’s Day is Sunday. Did you remember to get your loved one a special gift? Of course not. If you’re like me, then you’re breaking out in a cold sweat just thinking about the holiday. Maybe you’ll run to your local drugstore and purchase an overpriced stuffed bear holding the world’s smallest box of chocolate. Maybe you’ll visit a florist who ran out of red roses days ago but could offer you a bouquet of chrysanthemums instead. Or you could think like a child and make your partner something from the heart. And what says “I love you” more than an axe with a decorative scene etched on the blade. In a recent video, YouTuber Kirill Runz demonstrates how to use ferric chloride to etch your one-of-a-kind design onto an everyday axe.
About the Author
Alexis GajewskiAlexis Gajewski
Senior Content Strategist
Alexis Gajewski is a manufacturing writer and editor with nearly 20 years of experience covering the people, practices, and technologies that keep industrial facilities running. For more than a decade, she served as Senior Content Strategist for Plant Services, creating content for plant managers, engineers, and maintenance professionals on a variety of industrial topics.
During her tenure, Alexis worked to develop the brand’s digital strategy and helped launch and produce Great Question: A Manufacturing Podcast. She also created The Lighter Side of Manufacturing, a weekly blog that explored the inventive and sometimes humorous side of the industry.
Alexis co-founded Influential Women in Manufacturing, a recognition program that honored 49 women in its first two years, earned an industry award for Best Product Launch, and received a proclamation from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker and a commendation from U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth.
She also led newsroom operations and development at a large media company where she set editorial standards, developed training curriculum, and helped support AI adoption for more than 150 editors across 80+ brands spanning manufacturing, industrial processing, automation, and more.
Additionally, Alexis works as a freelance writer and editor, and her areas of interest include continuous improvement, the skilled workforce, and the role of emerging technology on the plant floor.
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