The Catch Bit Show

Neal and Mike spend some time talking about the Grand Knife Adventure that occurred on October 18 & 19 and talk about how the show might look next year.

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Mike Moran: @moranknives and on the web: moranknives.com
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Eric is back a week later to rejoin the conversation on his journey in knives. On the last episode, we left off with Eric recounting his Canal Street Cutlery days and so that's where we pick back up. We get to hear Eric's perspective on the closing of Canal Street, some personal stories, and Mike tries to get to the bottom of the Schrade factory conspiracy. We (Mike) did get a little excited about shop talk, so we dive into some of the particulars of making knives. Neal does his best to get Eric to agree to do a set aside of "Maker's Select" knives - we'll have to see if that happens! Hope you all enjoy this one as much as we did.

Eric's website: https://alberscutlery.com/

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You guys are gonna love this episode. Eric joins us from upstate New York and talks about how he got into knives and eventually found himself at Canal Street Cutlery. We do our best to keep a chronological order to things, but our excitement got the best of us! One thing to note is that Eric may be the last in a line extending clear back to early Sheffield cutlers. From those famous and brave guys who got caught up in the Chartist Movement in England, to Matteawan, to New York Knife Co, to Walden Knife Co, to Schrade, to Canal Street, and perhaps the last man standing - Eric Albers.

Eric's website

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Charlie's with us at the close of summer. As he starts his 80th year he joins us to talk about his new knife called the City Stock Knife. Of course Charlie couldn't help but meander into what knives he's picked up over the summer. Lots of pocket knife history "tid-bits" were thrown out in this episode by Neal and Charlie for us to gobble up!

Neal even makes a bold statement on the "perfect" pocket knife and Mike tries to claim that the old Schrade factory sat on a toxic dump site. You guys listen and decide!

One note on this episode - Neal came out strongly against GEC's "faux pas" of calling a knife with a smaller bolster a "Barlow." While we all agree with Neal, we don't endorse him in fear of Bill canceling our podcast!

Thanks to all our listeners!

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Great chat on this episode with David Valdivieso (Slipjoint_spa) on the socials. We talk about knife recovers and modding and get to know David a little better. Listen in to find out why he still parks his car in his shop!

Also, we mention Lone Wolf McQuade, Mike was wrong regarding the town the movie was based on, but he was in the ballpark!

Links:
David's Instagram
David's Youtube
Lone Wolf McQuade!

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Mike and Neal catch up a little and we talk about two hammer ins that Neal attended the weekend prior.

Links:
https://www.northstarforge.com/
https://irontraditions.com/
https://gearheadgettogether.net/
https://traviswuertz.com/wuertz-hammer-in/

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You guys just had to suspect that we would eventually have our friend Bill on the show. Bill is the great-grandson of George Schrade, one of the finest American knife inventors that there ever was. Bill carries on the knife-making legacy, and continues to make one of the switchblades that George invented. We had a nice chat with Bill on what he's up to today and we even hear some great stories from his childhood. 

During the show we referenced both Bill's website and a video he was featured in by the current iteration of Schrade.

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Mike updates Neal on the Grand Knife Adventure and we talk through the 1922 edition of American Cutler.

2024 Grand Knife Adventure Tickets

American Cutler 1922

Norton's "Grits & Grinds" from 1909

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Crossing the threshold into our next 50 episodes, we had a well-known collector and all-around great guy - Myron Tupa on the show. Myron is known for his elaborate and themed displays at knife shows and he joins Mike and Neal to talk a little about how he got started, his love for Navajas and switchblades, and the ins and outs of displays. And if that wasn't enough, we even delved into the world of automata!

Links:
One of Myron's inventions featured by Automata Magazine
The Franklin Institute - Maillardet's Automaton

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Neal and Mike wade into the waters of switchblades. Along the way, we cover book publishing and some of Neal's past books. Links below!

Art of the Switchblade
Switchblades of Italy
The Latama Legend

Neal's first switchblades.

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