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Episode 291: Kevin Estela Talks with Axe-Maker, Liam Hoffman with Hoffman Blacksmithing

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FieldCraft Survival

Sports, Wilderness

4.93.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Kevin Estela sits down with Liam Hoffman of Hoffman Blacksmithing @hoffmanblacksmithing. Liam's company makes the best-performing, hand-made and high-demand axes in the country. Kevin and Liam discuss axes, motorsports, blacksmith basics, travel, and custom boots.


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0:00.0

Hey guys, this is Kevin Estella with Field Crafts Revival and you're listening to the

0:27.8

Field Crafts Revival podcast. This podcast is brought to you by some of our good, good, good, good friends.

0:33.8

Blackriple Coffee over in Salt Lake City, Evan and the Boys. They are doing some really, really cool stuff for the coffee industry,

0:41.8

making some amazing coffee that keeps us running on all cylinders over here. And I will tell you that I am highly, highly caffeinated for this podcast coming up today.

0:50.8

So please check out Evan and the Boys. Blackriple Coffee.com is the website. Check them out on all their social media. They are hooked up with Travis Pastrona now, doing a whole bunch of racing and wild, wild stuff.

1:02.8

And we're really excited to be working with them to bring you some really incredible content this year. And we're really excited that they're helping us bring you this podcast.

1:13.8

So please check them out blackriple coffee.com and all the social media is at Blackriple Coffee. The other sponsor that we have is currently writing in my appendix. And that is SIGSHOWER.

1:27.8

SIGSHOWER is America's leading firearms company. They're making all sorts of amazing firearms, the 320, the 365, the SIGCRAFT, the SIGMPX, which I am dying to get my hands on.

1:39.8

And not to mention they make phenomenal ammo. If you've never tried their match grade ammo, I will tell you that their 65 Creedmore OTM round, their match round, is the best I've ever seen.

1:51.8

It is ridiculously, ridiculously consistent for long-range shooting. I swear by SIGSHOWER. SIGSHOWER Academy is a great place to train. We're a training company, but I'll tell you, go train with them too.

2:04.8

They are phenomenal. All the instructors over there, good, good folks. So please check them out. Guys, this podcast is going to run pretty, pretty fast. You're going to find it to be pretty exciting because I'm going to be hyped up on coffee.

2:20.8

So settle back or settle in. Is it settle in or settle back? I think it's settle in, relax and get ready for this podcast with my good buddy, Liam Hoffman of Hoffman Blacksmithing.

2:32.8

Guys, check it out. Here we go. Liam Hoffman of Hoffman Blacksmithing is joining us today on the podcast. Liam and I go back, I don't know, how many years now, probably five or six.

2:45.8

And we've got a lot of interesting history together. I've used his tools. I will tell you that you're not going to find a better American made acts anywhere else in the country, then coming out of Liam Hoffman shop.

2:58.8

And the guys got a lot of interesting interesting background and he doesn't know it yet, but I think he's a field craft guy. So Liam, how the hell are you?

3:09.8

Good. How are you doing?

3:11.8

I'm doing fine. Thanks for joining us after a long day in the shop. I know you, you know, you bust your ass every single day in there and you're one of the hardest working guys I know.

3:19.8

So what were you working on today?

3:21.8

Yeah, you do. Right now. What were you working on today?

3:29.8

Well, we're working on a batch of hawksville axes, which is the double blade at acts. And those are always a good challenge because I have to do twice as many blades in the same amount of time.

3:41.8

So they're, they're always fun and good challenge.

3:45.8

I think a lot of people understand like your background because I mean, they see your axes. If you go on social media that you can follow Hoffman Blacksmithing on Instagram on Facebook, and you'll see ridiculous following.

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