Average Age of a Knife Maker?

I'm not full time, but I'll be 38 this year. Made my first knife about 9 years ago.
Don't have a lot of time to make them...job, house, wife, 2 kids under 6, 2 dogs. Lots of family obligations and general "chores" that takes priority over making knives. Great hobby though! My time will come, oh yes, it will come! :D:thumbup: -Matt-
 
Hey Tim,

I'm 31. I have been playing for the last 12 months or so. Only started to take it seriously in the last 2-3 months.

Matt
 
I started making my first knife when I was 14, I am 44 now, so my average age of making knives is 29
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-Page
 
I just had birthday #33.

I started my very first knife attempt at 12.

Started buying big boy toys (Burr King, bandsaw, Baldor buffer) at 18. :)
 
I'll be 29 later this month. Started dabbling seriously in '99, didn't start selling until 2005.
 
I'm going to be 39 in March. I have been making my own knife shaped objects since I was 16... but have only been "serious" about it since 2007.
 
I'm 42,been forging about a year.I put handles on blanks before that.I've made several knife shaped objects over the years.I just really got serious after my first visit to a local ABS mastersmith.A little later another well known maker offered to allow me to work a little out of his shop.

I'm still working a day or two a week out of my friends shop.I have a Bader BIII,vice and drill press under a tarp on my front porch and trying to find the time and money to build a shop.I only build a few knives at my own speed to sell.
 
i turned 50 last july. i took machine trades in my last 2 years of high school but never got into making knives until 1990. i wish i had taken up knifemaking back then when i was a lot younger :D
 
I started making knives when I turned 37. In fact, I joined BF on my birthday last February, so I've been doing this less than one year. I'm not counting the one I made in high school.
 
I'm 59 years old and stumbed around until we got internet. I joined this forum in Dec. 1999 and have been here ever since.
 
I am 59 now and made my first "knife" if you could call it that in HS. I got back into it in about 2004 and have been get more serious about it all the time.

The most valuable thing I have is my inner peace!
 
Hi Tim,

I'll be 42 in July.

Finished up a project my Pop had started some 10 or so years previous to my 15th summer here on Earth when I discovered it in a box of scrap metal. Spent that entire summer worrying over it and learned many a lesson. Still have it somewhere, in fact, I was thinking recently I should post it just for kicks.

Was bitten by the bug immediately and from that point on, made several knives a year as gifts and tools for myself, but went full time in 2009 when the factory I worked at closed their doors permanently.

I have to give my amazing and beautiful wife all the credit. When I asked her "What now?", she said, "Sounds like a good time to turn that hobby of yours into a source of income!"

Never thought getting laid off would turn out so good. Sometimes a shove out the door is all it takes to see the world from a different perspective.;) We're by no means wealthy, or even entirely comfortable yet, but I've never been so eager to get up and go to work (which entails a brutal 120 ft commute to our shop out back:D) most days.

Taylor
 
That's s great story taylor. Sounds like it all worked out perfectly and your wife sounds like an angel!
 
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