Are Carothers knives production or custom made?

Lorien said:
back in the olden dayes it meant fixed your post. Who the hell know what it means now. Probably something inappropriate, particularly with librarians, is my guess
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FYP in tiktok speak means “For Your Page.” It denotes content that has displayed on a user’s homepage.
 
They are short run bespoke knives.

They are ordered by a customer to his specification within the constraints of the product. Each knife is built for a specific person using their choice of the options provided by CPK.

It's a unique model which does not fit the traditional nomenclature.
 
Steven65 said:
They are short run bespoke knives.

They are ordered by a customer to his specification within the constraints of the product. Each knife is built for a specific person using their choice of the options provided by CPK.

It's a unique model which does not fit the traditional nomenclature.
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Well said, my friend. (Miss ya.)
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
These terms "custom" "production" "hand made" "mid tech" are not well defined so rather than try to define what we are by some fuzzy definition I prefer to look at the connotations of the meanings and see where we fit. I don't like the term "Mid tech" for us because it is usually applied to a low volume custom maker who does a production run by outsourcing the components of a knife and putting them together. It implies faster cheaper with less attention to detail. They're usually waterjet and the scales are usually something basic like slab with round over and the F&F usually isn't great. That's not us.

When you figure that I have the steel made and rolled to my specs and our heat treat is very not-off-the-shelf and we're making everything in house, I'd argue that we have more direct control over every aspect of our work than most low volume "custom" makers and the attributes of a "custom knife" such as attention to detail and pursuit of excellence apply to our work.

Production implies high volumes and a streamlined product and process optimized for that high volume rather than a focus on excellence.

I would define us as semi custom or high end low volume production. We're certainly a production shop (we were a machine shop before we got big into knives) so we should probably be over in the manufacturer's sub but I started out small and my forum fit best here at first though it should probably be moved over at this point. *shrug*
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If anyone should curiously need my opinion on this, figure I agree with 100% of what Nathan has just indicated here.............
 
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