Full Blast

My Daughter Lila is Back! After a great year at college, we caught up with my champion!  We found out how West coast living is, talk about her successful summer Baking job, answered your burning questions and told some funny stories. Lila Rules and it’s always fun catching up while she’s home. Thanks xoxo-dad  Join us in Barcelona for the 2025 weekend Workshops! https://florentinekitchenknives.com...

Pat Quinn, Director of Center for Metal Arts is back to answer your forging questions! Listener Questions have been really great and Pat takes a lot of time to give thoughtful and insightful answers. We covered a lot of ground and look forward to doing more episodes monthly. To get your questions answered, follow the Full Blast Podcast on Instagram and DM us there.  Many thanks to Pat again and as...

Not Vachon of Vachon Knives is back on the Podcast and as always we had a blast. We talked about how business is going, what our forecasts for the future will be and what it’ll take to find happiness. We also detoured into some backstory about family and we analyzed my motivations based on my history. It got deep. Noah rules and is always great. Thanks again. - GF  Follow Noah on Instagram:  https...

What’s going on! This ep is a recap of being in Barcelona with my friends at Florentine Kitchen Knives, our incredible workshops and my 3 day stay on some topless beaches. I talked about being in Spain on the 4th of July and cracked wise. Thanks for your support!  Glad to be back and I’m invigorated and ready to roll! Join us in Barcelona for the 2025 weekend Workshops! https://florentinekitchenkn...

Ben Kamon is back of course. One of the best knifemakers on the planet, my friend Ben joins me to catch up with life trends, hot takes and what’s next. We also hit up some fun weird news too. Ben not only is a titan in the industry but has an incredible mind for calculating Alligator attacks. Always fun. Thanks again - gf  Follow Ben on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kamon_knives/ Go to his...

Pat Quinn, Director of Center for Metal Arts is back to answer your forging questions! Listener Questions have been really great and Pat takes a lot of time to give thoughtful and insightful answers. We covered a lot of ground on hand tools, steel qualities  and general forging info.  To get your questions answered, follow the Full Blast Podcast on Instagram and DM us there.  Many thanks to Pat ag...

Master Bladesmith Jordan LaMothe is back! Fresh off Blade show we had a great catch up on what’s going on in the knife world. We talked about the past and speculated about the Future. We even bridged the gap between art & craft, focusing on his latest piece: “Sojourn”, which represents the duality of his time spent as a student in India as it relates to his home on a farm in Upstate New York....

Ben Snure is Back! I just got back from a great weekend at Blade Show in Atlanta and we broke the trip down. We also told stories and generally had a great time as usual. Ben is the best and is a fantastic blacksmith and hammer maker. Always great having him on. Thanks again my buddy. -GF  Go follow Ben on Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/bensnure/?hl=en Buy his hammers from Well-Shod: https:...

My buddy Keith Johnson aka @Kjsawdust is an awesome furniture maker and content creator. He’s also the cohost of Shop Sounds Podcast with Jason Hibbs. Great having Keith back and we caught up and told stories about the stress and anxiety of installing build-in’s, railings and anything else you have to deliver and put in a clients house. Never in my life have I been more stressed than when I had to...

Pat Quinn, Director of Center for Metal Arts is back to answer your forging questions! Listener Questions have been really great and Pat takes a lot of time to give thoughtful and insightful answers. We covered a lot of ground and look forward to doing more episodes monthly. To get your questions answered, follow the Full Blast Podcast on Instagram and DM us there.  Many thanks to Pat again and as...

Chris Zeppieri of Make Everything Shop, is the best and I’m glad he’s back. When I have a question about Social Media tactics, I usually reach out to Chris first- and I listen to him. He’s very insightful on the matter. Watching him grow as a content creator, documenting the amazing builds out of his packed shop has been fun and well deserved. Motivated, hardworking and talented are just few words...

The illegitimate father of a lot of knifemakers who learned on YouTube is back. Aaron Gough’s Videos have been so helpful and the design of the Resolute MkIII is the result of years of hard work. Aaron’s use of CNC had made his work precise and when you have one in your hand you wonder: Is this art? We discussed that, among other things as well as some new life news.  P.S. I’m very sorry about the...

Joyce Kutty is an artist, musician, angler and knife maker out of Rhode Island. Growing up on the water with her family she spent time fishing with her family playing soccer, the violin and making art. She’s just back from The New England School of Metalwork on a Maritime Knife Supply scholarship where she learned from Master Bladesmith Lin Rhea. We talked about the experience as well as her incre...

Hard to beat another fun episode with Noah Vachon! Noah is an amazing knifemaker outside of Montreal and we had a great conversation about business and how it’s all going the future of business on the internet, and the “Gig Economy”. Noah is a smart funny guy and someone I admire in this field. Always a good time. -GF Follow Noah on IG: https://www.instagram.com/vachonknives?igsh=MTE3amtyOXp6bTltY...

Bobby Gerhardt is a Maker in Utah who works with Veterans. After a career in the military, Bobby also works for Veterans Affairs and gives back to anyone and everyone. Incredibly supportive, and thoughtful, we had a great conversation about his life, the ongoing social media dilemmas facing the knifemaking community, a little eclipse talk, and a tribute to Damascus Dave RIP.   YouTube:  https://yo...

Pat Quinn, director of Center for Metal Arts is back to answer your forging questions. The listener Questions were awesome and we had a great time talking about them as well as contemplating the future of forging education, and the early days of restoring the Giant Hammers at CMA.  By all means submit more questions to this ongoing series on the Full Blast Podcast Instagram page. Consider furtheri...

Ben Kamon is back again and we had a great time as always talking about business and the struggles of being in small biz with new guidelines being added to social media often. Lots of customer service talk, Algorithm theories and while I’ll never do drugs again. Then straight into weird news. Outstanding as always. Here’s a link to the Charity Ben is involved in:   Klingen Für Gutes (@klingenfurgu...

Are you crazy of course Ben Snure is back. As always we had an awesome time catching up on what’s going on. We also followed up last weeks episode with Riley Kirkpatrick and Ben told his experience competing in the World Championship Blacksmiths. Ben explained the levels of competition and his experience in Matchplay forging. Then we dove back into Weird news about recreational Cobra Venom use, Gi...

Riley Kirkpatrick returns for another fun episode where we covered a lot of ground. Riley is an incredibly skilled Blacksmith, Farrier and cohost of  “Forging Brains Podcast”, a show that gives the listener a look into the farrier community and the incredible sport of Competition Blacksmithing. We talked for a good long time about the World Championship Blacksmiths- very exciting horseshoe forging...

Pat Quinn, the Director of Center for Metal Arts joins me for a new on-going series where the listener asks  forging questions for Pat to answer. This has been in the works for a while and we had such a good time doing it, we look forward to presenting this first episode. Pat’s extensive forging education experience gives the listener a different  perspective on a wide range of questions involving...

Another solo ep where I tell stories about how I use humor as a defense mechanism. Spending years working in metal shops where I wasn’t allowed to listen to music out of fear of injury made me resort to remembering strange points in my life and investigating how they informed my decisions later. The stories I told I’m not proud of but I will never ever apologize for. Haha I really swung for the fe...

What’s up! The Storm that passed through New York threw everything out of wack so I did a little solo ep. I ain’t trying to tell you what to do like all these other fleabag podcasts. I’m recounting stories that happened to me and how they influenced the directions I took. This was a dive into why I get mad about things and what I think caused it.  If you want to support Full Blast  Support  Feder...

Matt Stagmer and Steve House Join me together to tell the crazy story of building a sword for UFC fighter Conor McGregor. A wild story starting where Makers Camp ended and the fast paced build began ending with a forging demo in Times Square. Always have a great time talking with them and it’s a great story. Thanks again- GF   Follow Matt on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattstagmer/   Subs...

My buddy Jessie Uyeda returns! Jessie is a force of nature and a wonderful part of the Maker community. Jessie has taken on a huge project renovating “The Poophouse” with no experience she’s documenting the trials and tribulations of this massive undertaking. And on top of that, Jessie is raising a newborn rat found on the garage floor! Bet you didn’t think I was going to write that?!  We covered...

Coy Baker of Baker Forge makes some of the most beautiful, consistent and extraordinary exotic steel in the United States. From learning how to forge as a hobby, he worked in the family painting company taking it over from his father. After growing the family business, Coy started forging exotic steels and selling it out of his garage shop. As demand grew he used his business and leadership traini...