Fire and Steel

Ep67 Dave is a fun guy to chat with and a prime example of how to grow a social media platform doing what you love all the while keeping your integrity. Check out his links below. Links Instagram https://www.instagram.com/daveerving_evaderknives/ Website  https://www.evaderknives.com/   UKnifemaker Supplies https://www.instagram.com/uknifemakersupplies/ https://www.facebook.com/UKnifemaker-Supplie...

Ep66 Joel and I speak about his training at Hereford and his reason he makes the sort of knives he does including why he adds emojis to his knives and where its going from here. Links Instagram https://www.instagram.com/joelblacksmith/ Website  https://www.joelblackknives.com/   UKnifemaker Supplies https://www.instagram.com/uknifemakersupplies/ https://www.facebook.com/UKnifemaker-Supplies-115420...

Ep65 Jo was hysterical to chat to she's a young lady knife maker a real girly girl with a tough side making knives, dirt bike racing, horse riding. She was so fun to talk to and is coming to knife making from a completely different angle to anyone I've met. I'm really excited to watch her knife making grow over the next couple of years. Please go and follow her at the links below. Links Instagram...

EP64 Fingal Ferguson an extraordinary maker from Ireland. "when I first started out there was a next and eggs next to my grinder" "Part of me was like hey let's have fun with this, lets use sweetcorn handle material " "Knives were always on the back rung apart from my sanity lol" "every mess up of a knife has taught me something I think that you take those collection of mistakes and they become th...

EP 63 It felt time to get an Aussie back on and who better than the one and only Jerarmie Heywood, steel supplier extraordinaire. This was a full interview right back to little tiny baby Jezz of old. Links Instagram https://www.instagram.com/oblivionblades/ Website  https://oblivionblades.com/   UKnifemaker Supplies https://www.instagram.com/uknifemakersupplies/ https://www.facebook.com/UKnifemake...

EP62 Great way to start the year by talking Sandy Young from Young knives. About knife making, taking a break from knife making, family, and loads more. Links Instagram https://www.instagram.com/youngknives_/ Website https://www.young-knives.co.uk/   UKnifemaker Supplies https://www.instagram.com/uknifemakersupplies/ https://www.facebook.com/UKnifemaker-Supplies-115420697027398 www.uknifemakersupp...

EP61 We end the year of 2020 with great thanks for your support as the listener and just with thanks that 2020 is over. Looking forward to an awesome 2021 Where things can only get better as D:Ream once sung. I have the 2 awesome guests on to chat the year out and the new one in Sam Gleeson and Sam Dunn. Links Sam Gleeson Instagram https://www.instagram.com/thisiswhatwedoo/ Website www.thisiswhati...

EP60 My guest is Dean Bruce from Gemini Bespoke Knives. We chat about some of the things that make him tick like the restoration of old tools and knives.   Links Instagram https://www.instagram.com/gemini_bespoke_knives/ Website https://geminibespokeknives.com/   UKnifemaker Supplies https://www.instagram.com/uknifemakersupplies/ https://www.facebook.com/UKnifemaker-Supplies-115420697027398 www.uk...

EP59 Catch up with me and my recent move to the UK, UKnifemaker Supplies and arguably the best guest ever.   Links UKnifemaker Supplies https://www.instagram.com/uknifemakersupplies/ https://www.facebook.com/UKnifemaker-Supplies-115420697027398 www.uknifemakersupplies.co.uk  UK Knife Maker Beginner Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/816973399135620/   Find us at https://www.instagram.com/tobyfi...

EP58 Chatting with Matt from the UK Knifemakers Guild.   Links Instagram https://www.instagram.com/uk_knifemakers_guild/ UKnifemaker Supplies https://www.instagram.com/uknifemakersupplies/ https://www.facebook.com/UKnifemaker-Supplies-115420697027398 www.uknifemakersupplies.co.uk  UK Knife Maker Beginner Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/816973399135620/   Find us at https://www.instagram.com/...

EP57 Owen Bush, highly respected knife maker, blacksmith and teacher.   Links Instagram https://www.instagram.com/owenbushbladesmith/ Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/owen.bush.73 Website     https://www.owenbush.co.uk/   UKnifemaker Supplies https://www.instagram.com/uknifemakersupplies/ https://www.facebook.com/UKnifemaker-Supplies-115420697027398 www.uknifemakersupplies.co.uk  UK Knife Maker...

EP56 With Leszek Sikon a UK home grown knife maker educated at Hereford collage of art where he did his bachelor's degree in blacksmithing. He now works out of Kingdom Forge In heart of Suffolk creating his knives and teaches knife making. Links Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lsikonblacksmith/ Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/LSikonblacksmith Website     https://www.lsikonblacksmith.com/ UK...

EP55 Onur Caglar. Knife maker and youtuber it's a No Show Notes episode. So who knows what we said, you better just listen. Links YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/Diesineveryfilm Instagram https://www.instagram.com/diesineveryfilm/ Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/diesineveryfilm/   Sponsor UKnifemaker Supplies https://www.instagram.com/uknifemakersupplies/ https://www.facebook.com/UKnifemak...

EP 54 The man behind UK Blade Show, Vinz. Possibly the most calming voice in the industry. We chat blade shows, customer awareness and more. links Instagram https://www.instagram.com/ukbladeshow/ Website     https://ukbladeshow.com/home Facebook    https://www.facebook.com/ukbladeshow   Find us at https://www.instagram.com/tobyfireandsteel/   https://www.facebook.com/MurrillandSon/ website   www.t...

EP 53 Forged in Fire Champion, knife maker and Damascus making extraordinaire. I was a great conversation talking about so many facets of knife making like incredible damascus, being a parent and knife maker, steam power hammers ect. There isn't the best internet connection and a little bit of extra noise in the background on this episode. Its so worth it and I was honoured to have Salem on the po...

EP 52  First UK episode I had a great conversation with Craig I'Bell from Swift Knives UK. We chat about his forced patina techniques, etching his makers mark about as cheap as one possibly can, knife style and so much more. Craig's links Instagram https://www.instagram.com/swiftknivesuk/ Website www.swiftknives.co.uk                                                                      Find us at...

Darren Ilias and Rob Semmler Are the 2 men behind the idea of the Australian Maker collective. A group and community designed to bring together makers from all over Australia not only to help makers financially but mentally too. Giving people a place to sell and buy and to ask question, chat about things they are struggling with etc. They will also be using the platform to help different deserving...

Ep 50 WITH GIVE AWAY. Special Guest Mark Dainer of Dainer designs on YouTube comes on to chat about his movement "Makers make it move" a cyclical idea designed to support fellow makers by purchasing materials for our projects from other makers/ small suppliers and telling others about it on social media to help money stay in the community. We also talked about his passion for creating furniture ou...

Great conservation with Steve Calvert of Green Beetle YouTuber. After following him on YouTube for years it was so cool to speak to him. He is such a down to earth guy and so keen to teach and learn, we discuss Social media, YouTube how and why he got into knife making and the pros and cons to part time and full time knife making.   Steve's links Instagram   https://www.instagram.com/greenbeetlekn...

Mens mental health n stuff with Rob Semmler Ep 48   Rob Semmler is one of those guys who seems to have flown under the radar for years. Learning his skills learning his craft and always trying to help someone out all the while. As he starts to transition into a full time maker, he is beginning to be more vocal on line with but still holding the same message and wanting to help makers get a start....

Talking to Luke Scheepers about knife making from automated machines point of view and how making knives with CNC and designing with CAD helps him with his want to make different and better knives. It feeds his curiosity from the standpoint of what is possible in the making and designing stages.   Luke's links Instagram https://www.instagram.com/scheepersbuilt/ Website https://www.scheepersbuilt.c...

Chatting with Tim Kingsford Australian knifemaker about knifemaking, moving house and edc prybars. Toby Fire and Steel T shirt Pre-order   https://www.tobyfireandsteel.com/shop/tshirt-tfs-preorder https://www.tobyfireandsteel.com/shop/tfs-hoodie-black-pre-order     Find us at https://www.instagram.com/tobyfireandsteel/   https://www.facebook.com/MurrillandSon/  Products and site   www.tobyfireands...

Ep 45 talking about tool restorations, blacksmithing and a little bit of knifes. Links Facebook https://www.facebook.com/planeoldiron           Instagram https://www.instagram.com/planeoldiron/ Toby Fire and Steel T shirt Pre-order   https://www.tobyfireandsteel.com/shop/tshirt-tfs-preorder https://www.tobyfireandsteel.com/shop/tfs-hoodie-black-pre-order     Find us at https://www.instagram.com/to...

EP 44 As a knife maker and knife shop owner Nathan Roennfeldt has a bit of a different view into the knife industry including the different types of people that buy knives. We discuss his style of knives, motivation a house builds amongst many other things. Links   Instagram https://www.instagram.com/naroe_blades/ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/naroeblades Toby Fire and Steel T shirt Pre-order...

EP43 Baz Is a knife maker that works at Tharwa Valley Forge bit is a man that doesn't let constraints of any sort stop him from making anything. A keen astronomer he decided to build his own observatory so he didn't had to set up his telescope every day. Ready for a new challenge he decide to build a mark 4 Iron Man suit and if that wasn't big enough he is now building a full size mark 2 colonial...