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Steven and Kylie Cocker, described themselves as a "little mester" and a "lady mester".

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00:00yeah yeah it's just that we enjoy doing it and well that's how we work it too
00:08yeah and it's keeping the trade going and we both enjoy it so yeah no we like
00:14working together well we make bespoke old Sheffield patterns so we'll get like
00:25from an old pattern book pick a pattern we like to do and design it like draw
00:31around it make every single part and just recreate it the old traditional
00:36Sheffield way. Little Mester was someone who worked in a small little workshop
00:41similar to this but worked for did work for bigger firms so they were like like
00:47an out worker but they focus on say like making pocket knives or putting handles
00:53on knives grinding and then they do it for the bigger firms so they were like
00:57the Little Mesters the machines I've inherited from cutlers I've worked with
01:01I've saved them from the scrap so I've worked with various Little Mesters and
01:05when they've come to retire instead of just saying like get rid of it pass it on
01:10to me yeah it's a bit of both yeah yeah it's just that we enjoy doing it and well
01:17it's how we work it too yeah and it's keeping the trade going and we both enjoy it so yeah
01:24no we like working together in my family we've had knife makers silversmiths always
01:30working in Sheffield I think your family have as well yeah so we're still doing my
01:35family tree but my family's Haywood so I could be related to Joseph Haywoods who
01:40were knife makers as well and their emblem was a teapot well I liked it my dad used to
01:47run to workshop on Sylvester Street in an old cuddly works and I just enjoyed
01:52watching the old like people making scissors knife makers and it was just
01:56something I was just drawn to so I was about nine year old me and my dad made my
02:00first knife yeah I've made a few like exhibition knives one in particular I made
02:05they went on display in the Millennium in the in Kalamana Museum sadly stolen when
02:10they had a break in along with some others but that was a 14 piece like
02:16exhibition knife but I've made others for I made Tony capstick one who was a BBC
02:23radio Sheffield presenter and some other people I've made so yeah made quite a few
02:28for several people yeah I think it has yeah especially where we where we were we it
02:35used to be Eggington's and they've just been taken over by Durham Duplugs and
02:38they're focusing on traditional handmade knives all made in Sheffield and every
02:43part back again still done in Sheffield yeah I think they could I mean it's it'd be
02:49difficult to build up certain equipment that you'll be able to pick certain
02:53things up and it's get to know who you know but no if people are interested in
02:57there's there's many people out there will be able to help them to encourage
03:02them be inspired by Stan Shaw I knew Stan Shaw very well Trevor Ablett and then
03:09there's another guy called Frank Carr you were brilliant bow knife maker I've
03:12known them personally they've always I inspired me to to make knives

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