A Knife For Life: Evan Siembida and the Best Hunting Knives in the World
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
If you had to own and use just one hunting knife for the rest of your life, what would it be? This episode we go over blade characteristics, types of steel, handle shapes and material, edge geometry, field sharpening, and more. Custom knifemaker Evan Siembida lends his expertise and walks through the process of designing and building a truely capable hunting knife. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | Life on the edge, folks, or perhaps better put, life with a hunting knife. If you had to pick |
| 0:06.8 | just one hunting knife and live with it and use it for the rest of your life, what would you |
| 0:12.1 | choose? I'm Joseph von Benedict, and this is the Backcountry Hunting Podcast. Thanks for tuning in. |
| 0:17.7 | Today we've got a very special guest. This is Evan Sumbeda of Sumbita custom |
| 0:22.9 | knives, and we're going to talk through some of his new models and about stuff like the best steel for |
| 0:29.2 | blades and so forth, edge geometry, various different things that will help you choose to make, how to, you know, choose the right hunting knife for a lifetime of use. |
| 0:40.5 | So, first, Evan, thank you for coming on the show. |
| 0:43.8 | You've been on before. |
| 0:44.6 | You're always a popular guest. |
| 0:45.9 | I just enjoy visiting with you. |
| 0:48.3 | Well, likewise, man. |
| 0:49.3 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:50.3 | It's always fun just hanging out and talking knives is kind of my thing. |
| 0:55.3 | It better be. I've got a few on the table here, a few of your extraordinary knives that I want to show people as we talk about them. |
| 1:05.2 | And of course, we'll talk a little bit about the Northern Shrike that you and I collaborated on, kind of co-designed on |
| 1:11.5 | clear back in 2019 or 2020. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, it was, I think, 2020. |
| 1:17.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:18.0 | And we've been selling, you've been building limited runs a couple times a year ever since, |
| 1:23.4 | and we just sell them through the podcast. |
| 1:25.1 | I still think we got it absolutely right. |
| 1:28.2 | It's a really nice knife. |
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