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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...

Brian House of HouseMade Industrial is back for a little hang out. We talked podcasting and what’s going on his great podcast ‘Work for it”. The business end of the maker community is less talked about than what we see on social media. It’s always good catching up with Brian! Thanks again, - GF Follow Brian on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/housemade.us/ Visit HouseMade. US and check out wha...

Happy New Year! This is the first ep back and kind of a reintroduction. I had insight into the exact moment in my childhood where I started as a maker and I’m clear where my motivation came from. Thanks again and here’s to a positive new year.   If you want to support Full Blast  Support  Feder Knives -  https://www.federknives.com/ Follow The Full Blast Podcast on Instagram: https://instagram.com...

We’re celebrating the end of the year with the legendary Aaron Gough of Gough Customs. My guy is back! He’s been on an 18th month hiatus from knifemaking to make a huge announcement! Aaron is easily responsible for some of you learning how to make knives. Tell the truth. Aaron’s YouTube videos definitely helped me on my way to starting out and I always tell people to watch them. And with that said...

My buddy Ben Kamon is back! Love having him on and hearing his perspective. Ben is on my Mount Rushmore of Knifemakers; his experience as a machinist and ornamental blacksmith has informed his design, techniques and business style and I’m here for it. We talked about business, social media, business directions and had a great time. And Ben pointed out the potential for a big hurdle for users of in...

This Week Chris Powell of @full_steam_designs joins me for a great conversation about developing yourself and the direction you take through life. Chris has spent time as a mechanic, a welder in the Navy and working for a CNC company. Now he’s a full time content creator whose videos are awesome, helpful and in a lot of cases lures for engagement. We talk about how peoples negative comments also h...

I wasn’t going to record this week. Frankly I was looking forward to a break because my daughter was coming home and I couldn’t bear with missing a minute while she was here. But 2 parts of the weekend dovetailed into a story that I couldn’t pass up. talk soon - gf  If you want to support the show  Support  Feder Knives -  https://www.federknives.com/ Follow The Full Blast Podcast on Instagram: ht...

Every Black Friday I like to have a show where we talk a little bit about this and that and fool around with my friends reading crazy stories and commenting on them especially with Ben Snure. We also  talked about the Instagram Algorithm in the Maker community ands how it affected people right before the holiday season. We also covered why it’s happening and it’s pretty easy to understand. There’s...

Tom Nugent is a knife maker in New Jersey who recently started his company Knives by Nuge after a career in law enforcement. We talked about his start in the Boy Scouts and how it influenced his decisions to become an EMT at 16 and a police officer. Tom’s Knives are primarily Bushcraft and his years of fishing and hunting have inspired his decisions. We talked about how hard starting a small knife...

Brian House is Back! From Housemade Industries and the Work for it Podcast Brian rejoins me to talk about what’s been going on with him including roll out of the Apollo Forge, The Revolution Grinder and all the crazy things coming out of his shop. This man is busy and it was great actually meeting him in person at Maker’s Camp. We also talking about business practice and how the perspective of tim...

Noah Vachon of Vachon Knives is one of the best. He’s an incredible Canadian knifemaker, who I finally had the privilege of meeting in person at Makers Camp a few weeks ago. We had a great time this episode catching up. Talking about the struggles of being a small biz. How the Panny changed sales and what’s next. Love Noah and we got a peek into how he makes his incredible micro knives. Thanks aga...

Nick Anderson of Nanda Knives is back! Nick is a blacksmith and glass artist in California. Nick is in a new shop and we talked about the new beginning, teaching and a nice conversation about being an artist and how to combine art in the knifemaking process. Loved talking about his glass work and what it means to “Garage it in the Kiln”. Love talking to Nick and always look forward to where is wor...