The Bladeology Podcast

This week we sit down with the infamous Hank Greenberg of Blackside Customs to discuss the early days of knives and collecting to working at Microtech to forming his own brand and line of Hardened EDC knives and gear.

This week Jeremiah sits down with custom knife maker Larry Chew. We start with his early days in TX with a chance stopping at a knife show too his eventual development of his Dual Action knife mechanism, all the way to Scott Self and Tinives. Make sure to check www.bevelandbolster.com for all the updates and thanks to our sponsor The Drop Point Newsletter

Jeremiah (PVK) and Nick (NCC) return from the Makers Syndicate show hosted by Oz Machine Co in Indianapolis Indiana. This was the second year of the show but the first for our travelers! Nick was exhibiting and Jeremiah was buying, Chuck interviews us this time for a twist in the game!

This week Jeremiah sits down with living legend and certified lifetime Switchblade repair expert Mr Bill DeShivs, repairing knives lead to designing knives. The Leverletto is an infamous one that strikes the chord with so many Switchblade enthusiasts and here we are talk about the details! Remember to check out bevelandbolster.com for all your Bladeology updates.

This week we talk with Serge Panchenko of Serge Knives, we go over the early days of his introduction to knives and knife making all the way up to Coin Claw fam and the unstoppably cool ROOK model!

Today we go over some crucial Knife Dealer / Balisong history with the infamous Duane Weikum from EDCknives.com. Duanes photos inspired many with their early style and use of props along with clean and stylistic lighting and texture techniques, also famous for pestering makers who would not otherwise, to make Balisongs in their style and explore the Balisong platform for their art.

We are back from Blade Show 2024 with a combo wrap up and interview with Mr. Paul Farina of Farina Fine Arts, we talk about ancient swords and collecting art knives along with Krugerrands and more. Thanks to this episodes sponsor, The Drop Point Newsletter

THATS IT! Builds are done or almost done from Nick and Chuck, the packing begins and the traveling is all that's left (Unless you're nick and load up a bunch of last minute projects) Jeremiah talks about PVK sponsoring the first ever "Automatic Knife of the Year" award and stickers lots of stickers to be had!

The Bladeology crew sits down with lifetime maker Mr. John Kubasek to talk about his humble beginnings at the Northampton Cutlery in Western Massachusetts, he later developed the creditor and dog tag design that would be custom made by himself and later manufactured in a production version by Boker.

The Bladeology team sits down with father, Steve Skiff (Skiff Made Blades) and son Steven Skiff (Skiff Workshop) to go over the timeline leading to the present and all the fun along the way from Steve starting out making 100% handmade knives to transitioning to incorporating his son Steven and his CNC.