Changing taste

Good thread, Keith. :thumbup:

I still seem to be stuck on typical and not so typical ABS forged Bowie/fighters, choppers and hunters.
On monosteels I like to see the activity in the steel(hamon of course).
On Damascus not so much, a temper line or nothing at all, just the steel pattern is fine.
Construction methods and materials used on the handle/guard area peak my interest as well, with primo stag or exhibition grade wood being preferred.

Competition cutters are never out and something new for me would be tomahawks, got one coming soon. :D
I'll bump the thread when I get it. :p

Thanks to all here for the ongoing education. :cool: :thumbup:

Doug
 
I like a lot of different kinds of knives so my tastes can change between tables at the Blade Show. It makes it easy to have a good time at a show because I can nearly always come home with something I really like. I have found myself collecting knives lately though that are from makers I like without as much focus on the knife..... As long as it has a look that I like. Every now and then though a knife that is totally out of the bounds of my normal collection will catch my eye and follow me home. I end up with a collection that includes a 50's Randall and a Ronald Best integral with carbon fiber scales. There is a connection between the two and I will find it sooner or later.

From a makers standpoint it is fine with Charlie and I if someone decides that what they have ordered isn't what they really want. We don't want a customer out there with a knife he is not happy with. We will be glad to change the knife or make something else as long as it is something we are willing to make. We have no problems with someone that decides to cancel an order for what ever reason. No deposit, no obligation. We would like to get the cancellation as early as possible though.

Charlie and I do see a long waiting list as a problem though. Not only could the desires of the customer change over time, but we might not want to make that particular knife anymore either. This is one of the main reasons that we have recently decided to cut back on custom orders. Our delivery time had gotten longer than we wanted and we did not want to commit ourselves to making a knife a year from now that we might not want to be making. I don't ever want to walk into the shop and say that "I can't believe that I have to make another one of those knives."
 
Hillbillenigma said:
There are a few collectors that I describe as "knife explorers", they have a desire to see and experience all types of cutlery. This is driven I think by the pursuit of knowledge. This desire to see and experience something different often leads to obscure types of cutlery that are not as accessible to us in the mainstream
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This describes me to a tee. As a neophyte maker I want to have everything in my collection in order to draw different aspects of what I have into the designs I plan. Often when looking at a new design I'll grab 20 or so different knives to play with and extract what I want from them.

As far as change has gone- I like color more now than I did a couple years ago- plain black and dull brown are no longer what I am looking for. (besides, how can I match my knife to my shirt if they are all black).
 
Thanks for all the replies. I realize that a changing focus is not at all rare when it comes to collecting. Over the years my collecting has changed direction a few time, but when I started collecting bowies and fighters I found the direction my collection will take in the future. Even though I will add ethnic and stock removal knives, they will remain within the fighter genre.

At this point in my collecting I think things have gotten to the point of fine tuning rather than complete change.
 
Keith Montgomery said:
Even though I will add ethnic and stock removal knives, they will remain within the fighter genre.

At this point in my collecting I think things have gotten to the point of fine tuning rather than complete change.
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Keith - this is more or less where my collecting has taken me, as well, into fighter and fine tuning mode.

Thanks again for the thread, a good one.
 
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