#343 - Josh Smith: Montana Knife Company

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast

Black Rifle Coffee Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

This week’s guest on the Black Rifle Coffee Podcast is Josh Smith, Master Bladesmith and Founder of Montana Knife Company. From earning his Master Smith title at just 19 years old to building one of America’s fastest growing knife brands, Josh shares his journey of grit, craftsmanship, and relentless American ingenuity. He and Logan Stark dive deep into the evolution of Montana Knife Company, why American manufacturing matters more than ever, and how passing down a knife is about much more than just steel, it's about legacy. This is a conversation about building, grinding, and never settling. You don’t want to miss it.

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0:00.0	Black Ribble Coppy, baby.
0:02.0	Freedom kill them!
0:07.0	It's funny, I was thinking in here, we were getting this thing set up, and I was like, this kind, do you remember red green?
0:12.0	Oh, yeah.
0:13.0	Oh, dude.
0:14.0	I, like, I grew up on red green, and especially with how close this is right here.
0:19.0	Yeah.
0:20.0	I just feel like I'm on a red green set yeah like that
0:22.6	show was if they don't find you handsome they should at least find you handy like that show was my
0:29.3	youth i remember my stepdad showing me that like we would watch that show religiously and that was
0:36.8	in a weird sense it was like this redneck
0:39.6	comedy but like you felt like you watched that show and you're like I want to go do handy like
0:44.3	I want to go do handy stuff I want to go be handy my dad love that show yeah that in um
0:51.4	Escanaba and de moonlight do you remember that I don? I don't remember that. You don't remember them.
0:55.3	Okay, so it's Jeff Daniels. You got to go watch it because they go, they go to Deer Camp in northern Michigan.
1:04.4	And it's about these four guys. And Jeff Daniels is just in prime form like playing the true like
1:11.6	Michigander and like there's reminds me of the song the 30 point book yeah exactly
1:17.9	yeah it's like that but in a movie with Jeff Daniels and he just he just nails it
1:23.8	but yeah i was uh I was excited to get you on because uh of being handy and American ingenuity, you are like undertaking a pretty wild chapter in MKC history right now.
1:37.9	Yeah, it's been a it's been a wild ride.
1:40.3	I think back to when you and I were hunting deer in Arizona and sitting there
1:47.7	glassen and I was picking your brain for all it was worth to try to kind of learn what you guys
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