020 Show Info – John Coffman
Show Topic: John Coffman – Owner of Dragonfly Blade Works
Overview: Our guest tonight is John Coffman who was a police officer for the Cumming GA police department before he decided to do a career change and apprenticed under Andy Roy of Fiddleback Forge. He makes some awesome bushcraft style blades and has some crazy awesome pin outs on his handles. He has an awesome story about how he is on both sides of the maker dealer relationship now. John is the store manager for Olde Towne Cutlery and at the store they also do knife assembly classes where you can take a premade knife blank and put a custom handle on it. John is an awesome wealth of knowledge and it was great to be able to talk with him on the show.
Show Hosts: Dan Eastland of Dogwood Custom Knives and Kyle Daily of KH Daily Knives
Knife Perspective Music: Tom the Brit
Sponsors
- Dragonfly Blade Works
- NEW SPONSOR for the Podcast!
- Very unique handle pin out with small ⅛” pins on the top with one larger one usually at the bottom belly of the blade.
Dealers
- Olde Towne Cutlery
- Knife Center
- The Knife House
- Dogwood Custom Knives
Stay in Touch with the Podcast / Hosts
- Knife Perspective Podcast
- Website: www.knifeperspective.com
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- Dogwood Custom Knives
- Website: www.DogwoodCustomKnives.com
- DogwoodCustomKnives on Facebook, Instagram
- Email: [email protected]
- KHDaily Knives
- Website: www.KHDailyKnives.com
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- Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Shout Outs / Gear Talk
- Sweetwater Audio – Everything you could want audio related.
- Tom Koch is AWESOME and has helped improve the quality of the podcast audio greatly! If you need anything audio related (Microphones, guitars, drums, recording equipment) check them out for great customer support!
- David Moore – Quit showing Kyle pictures of Jedi Microtechs! It will be expensive for him!
Fundraiser Announcement!
- 50.50 Forge
- Lost 2 joints of his right hand index finger
- Makes some awesome damascus
- Tickets can be purchased at https://www.knifeperspective.com/product/50-50forge/
- KH Daily Knives – 7” Santoku in 154CM with Deep Sea Shokwood Handles and Thorn Filework
- Dogwood Custom Knives – Vulpine Fang in CPM154 Campfire Plantstone
- Dragonfly Blade Works – Sidecar in Aeb-l and Bocote
Interview
Early Years / Family
- Where did you grow up
- What was your first knife
- How did you meet your wife and where does it rank on the Dan and Kyle scale
- Dan – met his wife and asked her out at her grandmother’s wake
- Kyle – met his wife on the internet
- How are you able to balance work, family, knife designs
Education
- Apprenticeship
- Is there anything that you would do deferentially
- What are some of the most painful lessons for first time knifemakers
- If someone wants to come on as an apprentice what are some good ways to come to the attention of a maker and what should they expect
Knife Design
- Why / how did you get started with knives / knife industry
- What are your influence when you design a knife
- Pin out are very distinctive Rule of thumb for pin out
- How do you make your knives stand out (Question from Ben Palmer)
- Views on knife thickness / knife steel
- What is your favorite knife (Production / Custom)
- Why / how did you get started
- What handle materials do you like
- What is the must have tools in your shop
Knife Making / Classes
- First knife you made
- Favorite knife you have made
- What is your favorite tool
- What is your most used tool
- What is your most dreaded / most enjoyable part of the making process
- How often do you teach classes,
- How big are the classes
- What kind of knives can one make
- How can people sign up
Dealers
- What is it like being on both sides of the dealer / maker relationship?
- What is it like working with production companies
- What is it like working with customer makers
- Does your interactions at the store with customers, influence your designs?
- What was your first Blade Show like
Misc / End of show
- Where do you think the industry as a whole is going
- What is next for Dragonfly Bladeworks
- Service men and women overseas
Where to find more about John Coffman
- Olde Towne Cutlery
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