Among the top five tools you take hunting, rifle, ammo optics and so forth, a good knife is always one of them.

Welcome to the show today folks. Thanks for tuning in. I'm Joseph von Benedict and I've got a fine custom knife maker on the line with me today.

This is Evan Simbaita, owner and Knifsmith at Simbaita Custom Knives.

And welcome to the show, Evan.

Thanks for joining me today.

Well, thanks for having me.

You bet.

I've been a fan of your knives for a while now ever since we made acquaintance and it's a pleasure to have you on the show and I'm hoping to,

how shall we put this, pick your brain and learn some and help our listeners get educated as well on some of the finer points of knives? So first tell us a little bit about yourself your I't know, your personal history if you will.

How long have you been making knives?

Oh, I've been dabbling for probably 10 years now, but I didn't really get, I guess you could say,

serious about it until about six years ago.

And the first couple I made were absolute hack jobs, really rough. I didn't know what I was doing,

didn't have the proper tools. I mean, but you know, I wanted to make something sharp that I could call my own.

And you never know. Someday those hack jobs may be in a museum somewhere as in the beginning.

That would be something.

I've got a couple of buddies that swear that they're like, oh man, you ever get rid of that?

I want it because someday I'm going to get rich and I'm like,

bro, if I ever get well- known enough have my old stuff you worth something then man you can

have all my knives to start off with. There you go.

What led you to begin making knives?

Well, a lot of it is, like ever since I was a kid, I mean, as far back as I can remember,

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