The Bladeology Podcast
by The Bladeology Group
Bladeology is hosted by owner of of PVK.com, Jeremiah Burbank. Along with custom knife makers Nick Chuprin of NCC Knives and Chuck Gedraitis.Follow us along on this magical journey of exploring the ins and outs of the knife world from the perspective of people deeply involved in the community. We interview our friends and colleagues along the way to hear stories and life tales.
Episodes
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Episode 171 CCKS Fall 26 Wrap Up
The Bladeology cru sits down to go over the details of the California Custom Knife Show FALL 2026, along with the infamous Friday Night Blade Affair or the FNBA.
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Episode 170 Michael A Donato of KnifePurveyor
This episode of Bladeology welcomes Michael Donato of KnifePurveyor, whose passion for fine art led him into the world of custom knives in 2000. With more than two decades of experience as a dealer, collector, and knife show judge, Michael brings a discerning eye for craftsmanship and a belief…
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Episode 169 Ben Petersen of KNAFS
The Bladeology Cru sits down with the one and only, Ben Banters! Better known as Ben Petersen of KNAFS!!!
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Episode 168 Pursuing art to perfection
Jeremiah and Chuck sit down to fence about the topics of pursuing art to perfection through knife making, what is the true cost of art? What is the accepted sacrifice for ones art?
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Episode 167 TJ Schwarz
The Bladeology Cru sits down with Idaho based knife maker, TJ Schwarz! We go over some lore with TJ including some design work he did for one of PVKs favorite brands and go over building a business and moving shops.
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Episode 166 Dan Dugdale
Jeremiah and Chuck sit down with custom knife maker Dan Dugdale, Dan designed the original Gerber Chameleon knife and continues to make knives in that similar style to this day.
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Episode 165 The Ancient City Continental Show Wrap
Jeremiah and Nick return from Orlando Florida with reports from the first year of,... The Ancient City Continental Show!!!! Chuck continues to work through the summer and the crew dives into show preparation once again for the fall.
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Episode 164 Luxury Goods
What are things really worth? Jeremiah and Chuck sit down to discuss the transfer of hard earned funds for hard goods, what is the limit to humas urges to fit in with other humans? Chuck dives into building of manual folders for a short time.
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Episode 163 Montana Custom Knife Makers Show
Bladeology heads to Big Sky country for the Annual Montana Custom Knife Makers Show in Bozeman, we visit Yellowstone on the way and experience the Knife scene. Jeremiah sits down with Show Runner and Custom Knife Maker Ed Desch to go over some highlights and history.
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Episode 162 Accumulated Clips
Knife shows are time travel and time travel is reality is shop time as shop is life
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Episode 161 New Jersey Steel Barron Update
Jeremiah and Nick sit down to talk with Pete Bruno owner of New Jersey Steel Barron about the steel news and talk updates on the NEW, USA made Nitro V!
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Episode 160 Bill Saindon
Jeremiah and Chuck head to the great north woods of New Hampshire to visit the venerable original member of the New England Knife Maker school, Bill Saindon.
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Episode 159 Hypercut PNWCI
Jeremiah and Chuck catch up with Dylan of Hypercut Manufacturing to go over his PNWCI experience and hear about the workings in the shop this month.
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Episode 158 PNWCI Show Wrap
The Bladeology Cru returns home from the famed and wild, Pacific Northwest Custom Invitational show in Seaside Oregon.
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Episode 157 David Mayer and The Ancient City Continental
The Bladeology Cru sits down with David Mayer of the Ancient City Continental and talks origins and the future of TACC
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Episode 156 See you at PNWCI
The Cru is Portland bound for the Pacific Northwest Custom Invitational on July 25th in Seaside Oregon. See you there don't be a square
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Episode 155 July 4th 250th
This the conversation I hope we are still having in the future, Happy Birthday America! (this was supposed to drop on the 4th BTW)
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Episode 154 Hypercut Post Blade
Dylan from Hypercut Manufacturing joins the Bladeology Cru as we go over some show specifics and etiquette with our guest. Catching up and looking to the future, PNWCI is in the crosshairs and so are the builds!
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Episode 152 Blade Show Clips
Lift the velvet rope and step behind the curtains as I get lost in the wander of Blade Show, enjoy this clips episode brought to you by your host Spider Jerusalem
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Episode 153 Meta-Analysis
The Cru takes a look in the mirror and reflects on "The Game" after Blade Show, this is the episode to explain to your friend's how this all works. Are you trying to figure it out? Are you lost in the market grasping at answers in the shadows? Perhaps we can shed some light on the gears turning…
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Episode 151 Blade Show ATL 2026
The Cru returns triumphant from yet another sacred trip to the far off lands of Atlanta! Better known as The Blade Show, stories and adventures-drama and Buc-ees. Bladeology has you covered!
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Episode 150 Pre Blade Show 2026
Jeremiah sits down with Chuck and welcomes back their co-host Nicholas Chuprin! The trio is in rare form for the Blade Show in Atlanta, Nick also debuts his new model collaboration!
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Episode 149 Pre Pre Blade Show 26
Welcome to the Pre-Pre-Blade Show 2026 Episode, Jeremiah and Chuck sit down to discuss the ongoings of recent, including hot weather and strange neural pathways that we end up walking down in these twin path woods.
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Episode 148 Joshua Swalec
Jeremiah and Chuck sit down live in person with local Damascus forger and ironworker Joshua Swalec to talk practical blacksmithing and putting swords on the wall.
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Episode 147 Make Switchblade's (You Won't!)
Nick continues to bail on recording, send prayers we are hoping the penicillin is working. Jeremiah and Chuck go over the linage of production VS custom Automatic knives, Jeremiah jests listeners (You can't do it!) Chuck takes it a step further (You Won't!)
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Episode 146 Say no to Speed Holes
Jeremiah sits down with Chuck to get an earful on Speed Holes! Remember opinions are like elbows everyone has a couple and Bladeology has a handful!
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Episode 145 In the Shadow of the mountain
Jeremiah expands on concepts of EDC, human consciousness and heat treat. Yes its another clips episode from Bladeology.
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Episode 144 Blackstone Valley
The Cru heads to Woostah MA to checkout the annual Blacksmiths of the Blackstone Valley event at the Worcester Center for Crafts, there will be an accompanying blog post with the instant photos from the event.
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Episode 143 Time Travel and House Fires
Jeremiah sit's down with Chuck this week to discuss a recent "Spa" that he did from a customers house fire knife, Jeremiah dives into a maker visit to the shop and wraps in Time Travel (You should have seen that one coming) HASHTAG-78
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Episode 142 BSTX26 Clips
Follow along inside the strange, Jeremiah floats in the wander collecting audio from all corners of the show map. Untraditional is a term, Quantum Entanglement is the goal, the Tangible Theory of Time Travel is the way.
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Episode 141 Blade Show Texas 26 Wrap Up
The Cru returns from yet another thrilling show in this packed early spring circuit, Jeremiah is in the wander searching the show trying to find exquisite greatness , Nick is tied to his new Texas booth and Chuck is timely and well prepared
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Episode 140 Mystic Mindset
Mystic NCCA Clips, a walk through the travel and conversations to and during the 2026 show. Thoughts on permanence, time travel and some great live auction sounds from the hotel.
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Episode 139 Levon from Knife Nuts
The Bladeology Cru sits down with OG podcast host and original knife influencer Levon Dirkirkorian to go over what was, what is and what shall be in the future.
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Episode 138 NCCA Mystic Show 2026
The Bladeology Cru visits the connecting state between Ma and NYC, more commonly known as Connecticut! We were back in Mystic for the annual NCCA "Big Show" hosted by our local club, the Northeast Cutlery Collectors Association
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Episode 137 CCKS 26 Southland Tales Part 2
Jeremiah, Chuck and Nick are finally back and settling in from a wild trip to the west coast, this is the traditional wrap episode along with the official announcement of the Music City Custom Invitational (MCCI) www.themcci.com
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Episode 136 CCKS 26 Southland Tales Part 1
Jeremiah, Nick and Chuck traveled to the California Custom Knife Show and the Tactical Knife Invitational (TKI) on February 19th with a return flight February 22nd. Due to extreme weather in the Northeast they returned home February 26th. This is the first part of that Odyssey
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Episode 135 NYCKS 2026
Jeremiah, Chuck and Nick travel through frigid tundra and ominous skies, braving the New England cold-fighting the hordes of hellish needles carried by wind to arrive under cover of darkness in a land away, NEW JERSEY! Join us for this odyssey, listen to tales of the NEW YORK CUSTOM KNIFE SHOW…
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Episode 134 Shot Show 2026 Recap
Jeremiah and Nick go over Shot Show 2026 with Chuck, including the Antique Arms Show and hanging out with Gavin and be very jaded and sarcastic about all the things
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Episode 133 Steven Paolantonio CKC
Jeremiah and Chuck sit down with CEO and owner of Colonial Knife and Tool in Rhode Island to go over the business of making knives and the history of this family operated New England lineage knife manufacturer.
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Episode 132 Matt D Knifecenter
The Bladeology Cru sits down with the infamous Matt D! Renowned OG dealer in the industry currently working for The Knifecenter, we talk about the early days, trends and more goodness. Do dealers collect knives still? Are they real people like the rest of us!? We answer these questions and more.
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Episode 131 NJSB Take 2 / NYE 25
The Bladeology Cru catches up with Pete Bruno for the monthly steel report and goes over some details about what NJSB offers, Jeremiah sits back and runs the NYE 2025 recap.
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Episode 130 Sea Change
Jeremiah and Nick sit down for some Bladeology updates, we go over the future of the podcast and possible new directions for 2026.
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Episode 128 Protech California Weekend
Jeremiah and Nick hit the road in this mobile micro-cast, HEADS UP! this a wild soundscape of thoughts and travel idioms from your hosts, if you're not a hardcore listener you can skip this non-episodic drop. We'll be back next week with an interview episode.
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Episode 127 Collin Maguire - Mag10 Knifeworx
The Bladeology cru sits down in studio with New England maker, Collin Maguire of Mag10 Knifeworx to go over his burst in Damascus popularity born out of his early Mopar days and a fascination with the heat and explosive violence found deep in the heat of the forge.
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Episode 126 New Jersey Steel Baron #1
Jeremiah and Nick sit down with Pete from NJSB for our first of a new monthly segment going over steel supply and plant closures and more fun! Look forward to this monthly catch up, NEWS from a source that matter!
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Episode 125 Tim Wilson
Jeremiah and Chuck sit down to talk with Tim Wilson about his carrier in knife making handling a carrier working with the DEA and other federal outfits
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Episode 126 November Microcast
Quick update about happenings including Jeremiah's ramblings on Nashville! Nick introduces the new monthly segment that will start next week featuring Pete from New Jersey Steel Baron.
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Episode 124 Creely Blades
Jeremiah sits down with Gary Creely of Creely Blades to go over some serious in depth info on knife steel types and the growth of his brand through experimenting with those same steels.
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Episode 123 Tony Baker
Jeremiah and Chuck sit down with guest Knife Maker Tony Baker, we go over his early knife days developing into a fine craft maker of modern interframes, we get some great Kious and Osborne stories tied in with the importance of people and live knife interactions at shows.
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Episode 121 Matt Venier
The Bladeology Cru sits down live in studio with Matt Venier to go over the forging and creation process of his own steel and his history making Japanese inspired swords.
About this show
Bladeology is hosted by owner of of PVK.com, Jeremiah Burbank. Along with custom knife makers Nick Chuprin of NCC Knives and Chuck Gedraitis.Follow us along on this magical journey of exploring the ins and outs of the knife world from the perspective of people deeply involved in the community. We interview our friends and colleagues along the way to hear stories and life tales.
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The Bladeology Group
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