mschwoeb
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Well, I will start off by using Buck knives and Tom Mayo as an example.
Mayo TNT - $500 from Tom, $1000 open market
very high quality, some of the very best materials, very high craftmanship
Buck/Mayo TNT - $200
good quality and materials, decent craftmanship
Buck/Mayo future TNT - under $100, probably around $75
decent quality, lower grade materials
So from this is seems to me that a knifemaker should not just have one level of collaboration with a company, but depending on his knives have several. Like I think that Ken Onion should have another level of knife offered with Kershaw, with better materials. I think that it would be awesome.
And the advantage to the knifemaker is that for every basic pricelevel that we know knife users buy at, he then has something to cover it. And it can lead to evetual progression from the low level to the higher level knives.
These are my thoughts on the subject, what do you think?
Mayo TNT - $500 from Tom, $1000 open market
very high quality, some of the very best materials, very high craftmanship
Buck/Mayo TNT - $200
good quality and materials, decent craftmanship
Buck/Mayo future TNT - under $100, probably around $75
decent quality, lower grade materials
So from this is seems to me that a knifemaker should not just have one level of collaboration with a company, but depending on his knives have several. Like I think that Ken Onion should have another level of knife offered with Kershaw, with better materials. I think that it would be awesome.
And the advantage to the knifemaker is that for every basic pricelevel that we know knife users buy at, he then has something to cover it. And it can lead to evetual progression from the low level to the higher level knives.
These are my thoughts on the subject, what do you think?
