Are there too many good knife makers?

The Virginian said:
What in the hell are you talking about?
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Well doesnt a cnc cut out scales and blades so you dont have to.

Where as without one you gotta do it yourself.

Making full time part time.

design one cut 16 a day while your sleeping.


It was a funny joke hahahahahaha
 
coping said:
Well doesnt a cnc cut out scales and blades so you dont have to.

Where as without one you gotta do it yourself.

Making full time part time.

design one cut 16 a day while your sleeping.


It was a funny joke hahahahahaha
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Funny stupid, not funny haha.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
coping said:
Well doesnt a cnc cut out scales and blades so you dont have to.

Where as without one you gotta do it yourself.

Making full time part time.

design one cut 16 a day while your sleeping.


It was a funny joke hahahahahaha
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The Internet is a flat medium. Humor like that doesn't always communicate well. I certainly did not get it - but perhaps everyone else did.

Anyway, that is why I like emoticons. :cool:
 
coping said:
Well doesnt a cnc cut out scales and blades so you dont have to.
Where as without one you gotta do it yourself.
Making full time part time.
design one cut 16 a day while your sleeping.
It was a funny joke hahahahahaha
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You are a troll. Go away.
 
I think more new knife makers could be whipping out more collectable looking blades like the kerhaw composites, such as the leek.
Would love to see a composite titanium with a 3rd gen powder steel edge with a handle style not yet seen.
But without so many people cracking out their own lines it may take 100 years to see one at which point itll be out my price range.

Plus lion steel could do even more callobrations.
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Plus more ppl will become bankrupt leaving repo auctions on heat treaters etc then I could afford to smith my own knives.

Its only collectors thatll have problems if they like so many knives but cant afford em all :p

I was only needing a knife for a 4500 mile or so trekk but thanks to you collectors out there I have a million or 2 choices and then a few bajillion combination of material choices, and youve given the ability for manufacturers to produce some seriously good steels, they are called japanese. Lolsap.


The industrys only just started.

Downside is im not paying for knife, im paying for collectors inflation.

More competition would be good, but the bigguys probably drop the rest of you with smaller businesss.
 
I only make a couple knives a month but yet wouldn't consider myself part time, more like a hobby. I also wouldn't say my knives are mediocre. Althought every knife maker has His/her skill set and with experience will improve there f&f and grinds and overall quality of the knives they produce. I still have my first knife as well as my dads first the f&f and quality of both are laughable compared to what we produce now. A bijillion sounds like a made up dollar amount for America's deficit. Wich isn't far from the truth
 
Robert Carter said:
I only make a couple knives a month but yet wouldn't consider myself part time, more like a hobby. I also wouldn't say my knives are mediocre. Althought every knife maker has His/her skill set and with experience will improve there f&f and grinds and overall quality of the knives they produce. I still have my first knife as well as my dads first the f&f and quality of both are laughable compared to what we produce now. A bijillion sounds like a made up dollar amount for America's deficit. Wich isn't far from the truth
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Shame they let civillians suffer and force them to sell their collections and homes to buy their soup instead of just printing some of that invention all country governments have designed and printed themselves called human currency.

No such thing as mediocre knife. Trust me ive been a proffessor in knives for a month know while choosing just one for my 4500-6500 trekk.

Heres my educated response to mediocre knifes.
Thry dont exist.
It breaks or it doesnt.
It bends or doesnt.
It stains or it doesnt.
Its cheap or its not.
They lied about heat treat or they didnt.
Etc.

Nope nothing inbetween to be considered mediocre lol
 
I haven't read the whole thread... comments on the original question.

I'd say the more makers the better, it can only improve the product. There are a lot of great makers now compared to in the past, the quality has gone up tremendously over the last 40 years or so.
 
Daniel Fairly Knives said:
I haven't read the whole thread... comments on the original question.

I'd say the more makers the better, it can only improve the product. There are a lot of great makers now compared to in the past, the quality has gone up tremendously over the last 40 years or so.
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I have to agree here. With the internet, it has become incredibly easy to benchmark yourself against other makers. A professional maker has two options: become even better at his craft or fall behind and be forgotten. It's basic free market principles, when this many people or businesses compete against each other, a maker can reduce his prices only so much. Turning out higher quality work is the only option to stay competitive. Obviously this doesn't apply so much to hobbyist makers but they still help the market by increasing public awareness locally. As far as I can tell, only good things can come from having more makers.
 
I have a ponderance: how does the increase in "production" knife quality factor in here?

Or marketing phenoms like CRK or Busse, who are probably eating big chunks out of the lower end of the collector market.

There is a lot going on, with factory knives producing great collaboration knives, mid-tech's creeping into "custom" territory and a possible glut of decent makers, at a time when the economy sucks and disposable income is in a huge slump.
 
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