How do you "Feel" when you sell a knife?

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Hankins

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How do you "Feel" when you sell a knife?
Affirmation
Pride
Warm N Fuzzy
What:D?
 
That's how I feel, too. "All right, groceries for another week, and none too soon!"

And some affirmation too, I suppose. What's good is a sale on a forum often leads to some orders as well.
 
yay! gas money!

I have some worry actually. All my knives have been sold from a picture. While I'm 100% confident in my product, i don't want a customer to unbox the thing and have anything at all be different than expected....size, etc. I always think someone's going to call me back and be like HEY CAN I RETURN THIS? Thats just the absolute perfectionist in me though. With the exception of a particularly salty old guy not happy with a sheath, (it was beautiful), I've had nothing but happy campers.
 
I always feel happy at first but then there is always a bit of apprehension just because I worry they wont like it:)
 
Honored.

It's one thing for family friends and me to like something I make but when someone is willing to lay down their hard earned green backs in this day and age it's an honor.
 
When I first started selling, I felt happy and, at the same time a little bummed that I had actually made a knife that someone would buy, but that I had to let to go. LOL. Now I feel relief.:D
 
There is definitely some warm and fuzzy when I have a happy customer, but these days I am mostly grateful that there are still customers at all in this economy.
 
Another thing I would think the first several knives I sold- "I can't believe I'm actually getting paid to do this!" because I was not used to the possibility of loving one's job.

I still get this sometimes.
 
panch0 said:
I feel like kungfumo does.
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+1, kungfumo said exactly what I would have:o

I also agree with cpirtle. It's one thing for those who know you at home to say "Nice job, I love it!!", but when you are dealing with customers who don't know you from Adam it's a whole 'nother ballgame!
 
I haven't REALLY sold a knife yet. I gifted one and was paid $50 for it anyways, haha. I already know that when these few I'm making now sell, I'm gonna feel very proud, excited, and slightly nervous. I want it to be the best knife they have ever bought, anything less will not be satisfactory to me. I know that somewhere down the line there will eventually be someone that doesn't like an aspect of the knife or sheath....but, I really dread that day.
 
I have actually been lucky enough to sell 3 now and gifted 2, and with each one that has left I felt a little saddened:(
 
It depends, if it was a knife that stood out in my batch as a really good one I am sometimes a bit sad wondering where it will go and how it will be treated by its new owner. Other knives I couldn't care less, because there are bills to pay.
 
I definitely feel like kungfumo. unless its a knife that turned out really well, Then I just wish I could keep it. Then I think "hmmmm.....what tool do I want next".

-Josiah
 
I always worry that there will be something they don't like and watch for the email that never comes. Beyond that, yeah groceries, sanding belts, replacing the last broken tool

-Page
 
I don't sell, but I did give one to my father. I wanted to give him a tangible product of my efforts, a physical reflection of my feelings for him.

In doing so, it was hard to choose which one to give. I could have gone with one that had a blade made by a master that looks prettier than the blades I produce... or one that I made from scratch, so to speak. I went the latter route, because it had more of me in it.

In the end, it was easy to part with the knife and rewarding in the sense that he clearly appreciated it (though not necessarily the effort that went into creating it). I had no regrets nor any trepidation. Though these things embody a lot of effort and creativity, they are in the end just things, and I have less of an attachment to things than some folks.

I will probably never sell anything I make, so I will not experience what you professionals do when a total stranger crosses your palm with cash for one of your handlmade things... but I somehow doubt I'd be more moved by that than I was by watching my father handle his new knife.

- Greg
 
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