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Micarta can work well with pattern welded steel. It's not very dressy, but it still looks good.
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Damascus utility knife
- Thread starter Phillip Patton
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Great knife Phillip. Crazy about your damascus patterns.
Hate the micarta, but that's my problem.
I'm dreaming about what the piece would look like with a great piece of ironwood or amber stag.
The important thing Phillip is that you make a great knife. As far as materials go, some will always like this and some that.
Or some Mammoth Ivory!
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I'm not sure the customer is always right. I suppose in the interest of closing the transaction that is so, but it might not be as relates to technical, aesthetic or moral composition and/or construction. As a goldsmith, in years past, it wasn't uncommon to be asked to do something that was technically inappropriate; for instance mounting expensive jewels in settings that were too soft to hold them securely. Aesthetics are a much more difficult aspect to assess, but again I wonder if the customer is always right here? Perhaps they are when it comes to a custom order, but probably not when it comes to creations of the artists' freehand. Moral aspects are another issue all together. For instance, I was once asked to make a gold skull ring with garnet eyes that would leave a skull imprint in peoples' faces when this 'would-be-customer' got into fights. I did not take the commission.
I guess some of what I'm wrestling with here is that, ideally, creating a custom knife for a customer would be a collaboration between the maker and customer. An ultimate goal might be to come up with something that was "new" for both parties. This, of course, is an ideal. It almost implies a transaction between a master at his/her craft and an very sophisticated customer. Often artisans of this caliber are not open to taking custom orders, but rather render their own designs on their own time. In that case, certainly the customer is always right when he/she buys the knifemaker's knife! (How's that for full circle?)
I guess some of what I'm wrestling with here is that, ideally, creating a custom knife for a customer would be a collaboration between the maker and customer. An ultimate goal might be to come up with something that was "new" for both parties. This, of course, is an ideal. It almost implies a transaction between a master at his/her craft and an very sophisticated customer. Often artisans of this caliber are not open to taking custom orders, but rather render their own designs on their own time. In that case, certainly the customer is always right when he/she buys the knifemaker's knife! (How's that for full circle?)