Nobody Wins In A Knife Fight

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Colion Noir

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🗓️ 3 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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In this episode, Colion Noir sits down with master bladesmith Josh Smith, founder of Montana Knife Company. Josh shares insane real-life stories of knife accidents. Josh also breaks down what truly separates a high-quality blade from cheap imports, the craftsmanship behind forging, heat treating, and making Damascus steel, and why American-made knives almost disappeared. He opens up about his own journey—from being the youngest master bladesmith in the world, to losing his house, to building a multi-million-dollar knife company out of his garage with zero investors. If you care about preparedness, American craftsmanship, or just love behind-the-scenes origin stories, this is one of the most fascinating and unexpectedly gripping conversations you’ll hear.

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0:00.0	Well, they say nobody wins in a knife fight.
0:02.0	There's that.
0:03.0	You talk to guys who are special forces guys or whatever.
0:06.0	Within a certain distance, they'd way rather a guy have a gun than a knife. I was like, I'm gonna call you back. So, and there was blood everywhere. And I had my own little knife shop, and I got really serious about it all the way through high school. I actually became the youngest journeyman knife maker in the world when I was 15 and the youngest master blade smith when I was 19.
0:24.0	I made a sort of... high school. I actually became the youngest journeyman knife maker in the world when I was 15 and the
0:22.0	youngest master blade smith when I was 19. I made a sword for a shake in Abu Dhabi and he flew me over there
0:27.3	to deliver it. I got divorced in 2012 and then the next year my house burnt down. I was living in a
0:34.2	camper in 2013 in my driveway. Four kids.
0:38.2	I was so broke and so just like trying to just survive life.
0:42.2	Today we're over 85 employees and it's all still out of our house at my house today.
0:48.1	Really?
0:48.4	Yeah.
0:48.8	So 75, 76 people show up to work at my house every day.
0:53.3	This episode of the Collian Noir podcast is brought to you by Vetter Holsters. Welcome to another episode of the Koleon Noir podcast. And joining me today is Josh Smith, the man with the most unique name on the planet. Yeah, we just talked about that. Don't need to spell that one for no no no so montana knife company yeah
1:12.1	all right so i gotta give you the four-on-one about me and knives so you know how some people are
1:16.4	very like hoplophobic about guns like really scared of guns i'm kind of that way with knives
1:22.0	really yes yeah i purposely didn't tell you that off camera so it's not not that I'm, it's not that I don't like knives.
1:29.8	Yeah.
1:30.1	It's just like, somebody could pull out a gun right now and I'm like, okay, it's a gun.
1:34.6	Yeah.
1:35.5	Someone pulls out a knife, I'm like, really?
1:40.4	It's very, it makes no sense.
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