Advice on knife making as a future career.

Siliver forge those books look great. I will definitely be getting them. I think I have made up my mind on getting the associates in cnc operation. I did a little bit of work with a small cnc in high school and made some wall art. I found a few band logos I liked, changed them to vector images, and let the machine do the rest. When I remembered these two gems I thought "hey I could sell that kind of art to people for a big profit". If I remember right the small cnc that the high school had was only 3000 dollars. A lot of money for me right now, but it could do so much that I could sell that it would soon pay for its self. It would at least be extra income.
 
You are correct about the expenses on that $60000 and lets not forget that you have the pressure of making 25 knives per month every month in your scenario and that income is taxable as well and don't ever get sick or take a day off or things like repossession of your car and foreclosure of your home could happen. I could not live like that or mass produce knives either. It ought to be a passion when the heats off you and it is pure fun. Otherwise you would make more mowing lawns and working for cash like 95% of the gardeners in Southern California and they take days off when it rains!
 
Just so everyone knows I have changed majors to work towards an associates in cnc operation and then possibly a bachelors in industrial technologies. I'll make pretty good money with that and I'll like what I am doing. It will also allow me to buy equipment and hone my knife making skills until I can eventually do this full time. It will also allow me to have a skill to fall back on if knife making doesn't work out for me. Thanks for all the advice in this thread guys and I hope that other new makers will read this and get some kind of advice out of it too.
 
Andy
All the best Brother, whichever path you choose.

The rest of you
I wish I had you folks around me when I was starting out. More good advice from these few pages than I've had in a lifetime and I'm in my 50s now.
I know you're all helping Andy but you sure helped me as well.

My humble thanks
 
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