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Ask the maker.....questions for JK

How do you deliver a truly custom knife, made entirely by your own hand, for less than the cost (in some cases half or less) than the cost of a knife produced en masse by a machine?

Why don't some people know what art is?

I guess that's two questions. Artistic license since I started the thread....
 
darkmatter35 said:
I'm an entry level fixed blade buyer and I think that the Trapline knife I bought from you is not an entry level knife. I use it every day. I'm on this forum almost every day looking at hand made knives from many knife makers and I also go over your line up all the time. The problem I have is that I don't see any knife that I would rather have,or replace the one I have. It does every thing that I need it to do. One maker talks about edge geometry, it has my curiosity but not enough to buy it. John, do you have any thoughts about edge geometry? Any way, your knives are great and you are a great person.
John Smith
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Edge geometry depends on what the knife will be used for. Kitchen knives will have a thinner edge than a knife that will be abused.
 
outdoorsfan said:
How do you deliver a truly custom knife, made entirely by your own hand, for less than the cost (in some cases half or less) than the cost of a knife produced en masse by a machine?

Why don't some people know what art is?

I guess that's two questions. Artistic license since I started the thread....
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I figure that if I charged what the knife is really worth (time and materials) I would not sell any. Art is in the eye of the beholder.
 
Have you considered a new or different makers mark?

I know the first few weren't marked, then the bottom K, and now the top K.
 
Have you ever done a knife with a hamon?

Some of those look pretty cool, though I'm not sure what kind of performance gain a differential heat treat would give O1.
 
kyturkey said:
Have you ever done a knife with a hamon?

Some of those look pretty cool, though I'm not sure what kind of performance gain a differential heat treat would give O1.
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If you look closely at some of my larger knives you can faintly see a hamon.
 
B JACKSON said:
Why no double edged blades?
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I will do double edge like the old John Ek knives, (kind of a double scandi), just not like a Gerber.
Like this.

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Is there any style/type of knife that you haven't made that you would like too?

Any type of material (steel, handle material, etc) that you haven't worked with but would like too?
 
kyturkey said:
Is there any style/type of knife that you haven't made that you would like too?

Any type of material (steel, handle material, etc) that you haven't worked with but would like too?
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There are a couple of designs I`ve been considering, but nothing firm. I will be working with a new wood for one of the Marketplace knives, bocote.
 
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