Is it important to follow trends? Well I am part of the big tactical trend. But if you don't like doing tacticals I think it shows when you try to create them unless you are exceptionally talented. But at the same time I don't like it alot when a maker continues to call himself a custom maker but will only do the patterns that he is currently producing. One of my favorite makers has now resorted to that and I doubt I will order from him anymore even though I am otherwise very happy with him. There are too many others out there that are eager for my business that can do a good job. If I want a pattern knife I can get that from the good manufactors that were originally custom makers or from factorys that collaborate with custom designers.
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Ken
I was at the Blade show also. I walked the aisles and look till my eyes crossed. What caught my eyes were varried, but something about the shape of the overall knife made it look like a user. It could of been one of yours or John Greco's or one of several hundred other makers. The style of the blade combined with the shape of the handle just "Looked Right". It must of course fit the hand as an extension not a tool. After that the fit and finish must match the intended use. Is it a rough and ready fighter, a finely finished "art knife" collectors piece or somewhere inbetween? Also as was said earlier a little of the maker needs to be in each knife.
What catches each one's eye is as different as each of us. But for me your knives make the cut, they look right.
Dwight
I was at the Blade show also. I walked the aisles and look till my eyes crossed. What caught my eyes were varried, but something about the shape of the overall knife made it look like a user. It could of been one of yours or John Greco's or one of several hundred other makers. The style of the blade combined with the shape of the handle just "Looked Right". It must of course fit the hand as an extension not a tool. After that the fit and finish must match the intended use. Is it a rough and ready fighter, a finely finished "art knife" collectors piece or somewhere inbetween? Also as was said earlier a little of the maker needs to be in each knife.
What catches each one's eye is as different as each of us. But for me your knives make the cut, they look right.
Dwight