For Sale: Custom Knives (Individual) Forum

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A great many mid-tech knives continue to be offered for sale in this forum. Reporting does not help much. Occasionally they get moved but the damage is already done to other posters of legit customs due to being bumped down. We all know that Page 1 gets most of the action. I know there is a way to move a thread and obliterate it from the inappropriate thread as I have seen this a few times. Please Mods, don't let these offenders continue to benefit from posting in the Custom Forum! Just because you move them really does not change their position on Page 1 the way most of you do it.

Most of the Direware, Begg, George, and other tactical makers being posted are Mid-Tech! Look at the blade grinds first, please! Same issue for a long time with Hinderer. I know, I was guilty myself!

This situation is grossly unfair to posters of legit custom knives. Please fix it!
 
Brad, what I've used as criteria for what is a custom vs midtech is simple. I may as well share it here with others.
If you can buy a knife wholesale from Blue Ridge Knives or Moteng, it's more than likely a Midtech. To me, a custom knife is something thwt is not mass produced by CNC machines only. There is a human element involved, such as hand grinding (preferably by the maker whose name is on it). I understand not everyone may agree with thwt, but it's a good enough starting point.
 
RevDevil said:
Brad, what I've used as criteria for what is a custom vs midtech is simple. I may as well share it here with others.
If you can buy a knife wholesale from Blue Ridge Knives or Moteng, it's more than likely a Midtech. To me, a custom knife is something thwt is not mass produced by CNC machines only. There is a human element involved, such as hand grinding (preferably by the maker whose name is on it). I understand not everyone may agree with thwt, but it's a good enough starting point.
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I very much appreciate the response. In Tony Bose's words a custom is defined by a hand grind on the blade. Some of the makers, like George, even name their knives mid-tech but this not deter folk from posting them as custom. I have even seen several examples where the poster has put mid-tech in the subject line.

This is not too difficult to my mind, at least we can tell the difference between a Wire, Water Jet or CNC cut blade without any hand grinding. I would like to think that the makers would prefer a distinction being made as well as they get significant price upgrades for hand grinds.

Again, I thank you for having input into this matter. It is a problem.
 
ptradeco said:
I very much appreciate the response. In Tony Bose's words a custom is defined by a hand grind on the blade. Some of the makers, like George, even name their knives mid-tech but this not deter folk from posting them as custom. I have even seen several examples where the poster has put mid-tech in the subject line.

This is not too difficult to my mind, at least we can tell the difference between a Wire, Water Jet or CNC cut blade without any hand grinding. I would like to think that the makers would prefer a distinction being made as well as they get significant price upgrades for hand grinds.

Again, I thank you for having input into this matter. It is a problem.
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So we are to believe that "Nathan the machinist " knives are not custom? I am fairly sure that what he makes on CNC machines takes more skill and knowledge than a lot of hand ground customs that I see. If you disagree, maybe we put him in front of a grinder and an average knife maker in front of a CNC mill and see who comes out with a knife ;)
 
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