Have you ever?

[unky_gumbi]

Have you ever made a knife with the intent of selling it and the money to go towards helping someone out, then decide that you just don't want to sell it?

I am going through the dilemma right now I offered the proceeds of two back burner knives to help pay for vet bills for a members pet. These were knives that I ground out more than 18 months ago, and had the scales cut out, but thats as far as I went with them. It is also about the same time I started having problems with my landlord. When he sold the house out from under me and gave me 12 days to move out, they got packed away and more less forgot about till this summer. I sent them out for HT when I made the offer to the fellow forumite, but when they came back I didn't like the grinding job I did on them so I spent the time to rework them. Well I just finished them up today, still need to make sheaths for them, but all my eyelets are too short for the Kydex.

Thing is I have sort of fallen for the one blade. It fits my hand perfect, and I really like the blade shape

What I am thinking of doing is just sending the money for the one I like out of my own pocket and selling the other and sending that money once it sells. Would this be wrong? Its not like I was going to let a bidding war start on them, I had a set price ($90 shipped) in mind when I made the offer, and then I was going to round the dollar value up to the next $100, so I would be sending $200 total.

Normally I don't have a problem selling off the knives I make, but all I have made lately is bigger fighters. Not really something I would carry and use on a day to day.

 

[WA Martin]

...Its not like I was going to let a bidding war start on them, I had a set price ($90 shipped) in mind when I made the offer, and then I was going to round the dollar value up to the next $100, so I would be sending $200 total.

Sounds like the person is getting what you intended to give whether if comes from your pocket or through your pocket so I think you're good to go. Now if you said, "Here's $50 because I'm keeping it for myself," there would be some twinges of conscience.

 

[unky_gumbi]

Well after mulling it over for about a week, I think it will be going up for sale once I make the sheath. As much as I like the knife something deep down tells me to sell it. I guess that is what was causing the wishy washyness in the first place It also helped tha I took it over to my brothers and left it there for the week, out of sight out of mind, and I realized that I wasn't that attached to it.