Attention all knifemakers!

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If you started your desire to make knives by putting together knife kits, please email me. This is for an article I am going to be working on that will be published at a later date. I'm looking to get some information and quote material for the text. Thanks in advance for the help

My email is knifenut@triad.rr.com

DDR, I will contact you later....
 
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, when are you going to write an article that I can give some input on?:) Sounds like a great topic Dex!!!
 
Well, I didn't start with kits but I can tell you about my controlled linear fisson method of cutting. Should be a big story there!:D
 
I always found the colorectalinear fussion methods worked best for me. :)

Hell, I'm still making kits. I bought one from Darrel at the Vegas show just last weekend. My first couple were kits too.
 
Howdy There..Dexter...!
I also started knife making with kits, if it wasn't for them I wouldn't have learned anything about knife making. Started buying blades and kits about twenty years ago. Hey, have you decided on your grinder yet..?

Later "Possum":cool:
 
Thank you for all those who have replied here and by email. I'll be in touch with some of you guys when the time comes.
 
Way back in the early 50's I put handles on some blades from "Indian Ridge Traders". Learned some
stuff about handles and had some fun with it.
 
I think most of us have tried kit knives. They are an excellent way of getting the feel for knife making without investing a lot of time and money. Usually a person who really wants to make knives will soon move beyond kits and start making their own blades. On the other hand, I have a friend who just likes to putter and I think he will just stick with kits. He gives his finished kits out as Christmas presents.
 
When I got into this when I lived in CA, a friend of mine was a prop maker, and he showed me how to make all kinds of different fittings for prepurchased blades, so I did that for a few years first. Kind of kit-ish.
 
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