Has anyone ever experienced this before?

I had a display of knives at table I had at a gun show. A lot of people stopped by to look at and handle the knives (and to leave greasy fingerprints and spittle all over them). One guy asks me as he peruses the knives, "are these forged?". I tell him I do forge but these are all stock removal. He says "I'm only interested in forged knives". You know what I said? Nothing. Let him keep on walking. He is trying to show me that he knows forged knives are better, making him a discerning buyer. Ok, whatever. It is not worth me engaging an ignoramus in a debate or discussion while I have other "less knowledgeable" but perhaps more open-minded customers at my table. If he had asked "are forged knives better than ground blades?", that would be an invitation to educate him. But don't waste your time trying to debate a know-it-all.
 
Hey, i4Marc. I would have politely told him about the forger further down the row who had great knives and suggested he check them out. Get's him out of my space.
 
All steel is forged before I get it to make stock removal knives. Go figure.
 
I remember a long time seller (some of us know who he was) who did shows and sold $40 damascus blades and $65 finished damascus knives. They were all the cheapest grade Pakistani junk, but he told every customer he forged them and did the HT on his back porch using his BBQ grill. They were maybe Rc45 at the most.

I guess he was a forger in two ways.
 
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I remember that guy. He had a table at the Oregon Knife Collectors Ass. show a few years ago. He told me he made all the Damascus knives. He was selling them for $40 to $80. I haven't seen him for a few years.
 
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