Forge Side Chat

Ep 61 Gabriel Clerk of CouteuxCLK in St. Jerome, Quebec, Canada.

It was turkey weekend and of course my computer decided it wasn't going to allow me to edit this before we headed to the cabin or the weekend. Beyond busy with project but I stayed up late and got this one put together after a couple hours of cleaning up the hard drive on ye old Mac.

Hope yall had a super awesome long weekend(to our Canadian listeners that is)

We sat down with Gabriel a couple of weeks ago now while I was sick with covid and Nick was stuck at home with truck problems. Gabriel was awesome enough to make time in his crazy schedule to sit down and tell us his story. Holy smokes what an awesome chat. Lots of great info packed into this one folks. While many of us struggle to find the ability to run our small scale businesses, Gabriel has taken this on head strong with a team of employees now. This guy has the good when it comes to working for it.

Hope all yah folks enjoy

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Episode 60.

Adam Doherty of Black Rock Forge in Nova Scotia, Canada.

Adam has been a long time supporter of Forge Side Chat so we were more than happy to bring him on and chat blacksmithing. He has been running his own forge for about 4 years now while also juggling 2 boys in motocross and a full time factory job. He finds himself quite busy but between shift work he finds himself putting out some really great work in not only knives but artistic pieces as well.

Hope you all enjoy. My apologies if I'm not quite myself. Covid sucks. Thanks to Nick for keeping tempo and our guest Adam for being great!

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Episode 59 Miles Vollman of @vollman_forges in Red Deer Alberta

Miles has been playing with blacksmithing for a while now, but has a long history of working in the trades. We talk about his knowledge in that regard and how that has translated to him being an well rounded maker. He has built many of his own tools and is now producing his own 2x72 grinders with some excellent reviews. We actually have a abnormally long chat with Miles, but by all means it was a good one. Hope you all enjoy!

Mentions

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Episode 58 James Afseth from Chaplin, Saskatchewan.

Doing a random midweek drop to make up for the missed episode a couple weekends ago. My family is still coming to terms with the crap life dealt us recently, but the show must move on.

James knows a lot about that and through his convo you can get a little insight into how his life has led him down many paths including knife making. While not necessarily a new maker, James definitely has lots the new makers can learn from.

I hope you enjoy this convo as much as I did. James was a great chat and I look forward to hopefully meeting him one day. Thanks @james.ja.7355

We throw out a few names during the episode.

@stevedupras

@princess_auto

@rainydayforge

@caleb_royer

@abstract_blacksmith

@airidromich

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Episode 57 Mathieu Larocque

@toasted_metal_forge

Mr. Laroucquez joins the list of new smith's with just over 1.5 years in the game. Although he has had his eye on the prize much longer than that. Mathieu shares some great tips with us that might really surprise you even as a well apt smith.

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Episode 56.

A week late releasing this one. Sorry everyone. Life gets hectic sometimes and yes I am only human.

I sat down with a young man for this episode by the name of Gregory Reimer. Gregory is out of southern Manitoba and has been dabbling with blacksmithing for a few years now, but is starting to take it much more serious lately. We chat about his endeavors towards that and go back and forth about some different ideas.

It's a bit of a longer chat and we had some technical difficulties while recording, but it was still a good episode. One more down and a years of more to dice into yet if life allows it.

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Episode 55 Joshua Vandenhoek.

It's been a hectic couple of weeks that left me on a solo mission for this episode. I think it still works out fairly well, but I'd love to hear feedback on that from the listeners.

Joshua is still somewhat new to the game but he has ambition and goals! He has been working hard to get his shop and business in order to start producing product as well as to start hosting classes. Its a very nice shop space to allow for that and being located in Sterling Alberta he is in the heart of cattle country. The perfect place for a blacksmith to call home. After spending time working with Shaun Cunningham of @frontstepforge through the @NAIT programs Joshua very quickly became engrained to the lifestyle of a blacksmith. We toss around a few things he's learnt on his journey as well as a couple of the things he plans to work towards. Hope you all find this episode to be another great source of info, education and entertainment.

We drop a lot of names in this episode and I may have missed some on this post. I'll be honest, that's a ton of work and if there is anyone out there that wants to work with me on proofing the edit so the names can be jotted down for the post I would love to hear from you.

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Forge Side Chat has taken on a task of venturing towards new makers for a short series. In this episode you will hear from Ethan Blinkhorn, TJ Bremner, Conner Ashton and Shane Gange. These gents all bring a different perspective to the table and each has their own highlights for you to gain from. This episode required some odd editing so I hope it still comes across as a good show for all.

This week's chat was with Nick Verbree of @oldsoldiertoolworks

Nick was a great chat and we might just hear him more often in the future.

Listen in to hear about his use of knowledge in the woodworking industry to help him find his niche in the blacksmithing world.

We also announce a very special competition on the show, but you have to listen because it's not the official release yet. This is your chance to get a head start!

We've been getting lots of messages lately about how awesome the show is. Thank you❤

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Episode 52!

This marks 1 full year of podcasting releases for us. 1 hole fricken year has gone by and Holy crap look back it's been insane to think everything that has happened in that one years time. So many thanks and gratitude towards the people in this community! Amazing to say the least. Much love to all you people.

This week we wrangled up our good friend Justin Lamoureux of @rainydayforge

You all remember Justin from when this show started and probably know quite a bit about him. We learn a bit more and find out what he's been up to since his hiatus from the show. We also discuss family vacation time and trying to maintain sanity.

The Canadian Blacksmith Collective comes up during discussion. @smithnwelding

As well as www.smithlist.ca

Great places to find Canadian metal workers, supplies and events!

Some great names were mentioned during the show(sorry but after editing g with a house full of little kids I totally missed a few so make sure you listen up for some great people to follow. Just follow everyone on the collective to be safe😉.

Some of the names dropped

@bigforgeblacksmithing

@black.cat.metal

@paulreimerblacksmith

@bell_mts

@countrycustomfab

@blackdragonforge

@thebuildersessions

@alan_sloas

@storchknives

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