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OK I guess I should clarify that statement. It really wasn't made to be funny. It takes as long as it takes, means it depends on the level of work you see fit to put into the knife. Or the level of product you want to get out of the knife. There is no tried and true formula in my opinion. It depends on time that it takes to accomplish the finished knife. Even a simple knife using on hand tools takes a lot of time. The rub is you will learn things that work and things that don't. Once you graduate on to power tools in the finishing of a knife, of course the time frame get shorter, but the finish work is usually what eats up the most time, and a lot of that is hand work.
The knife may be a simple knife but the details on a knife is what makes it special.
I think some get too hung up on how much time they put into the knife. Often if something is not going exactly to plan I have learned it is better to lay the knife down and go onto something else. This often avoids a screw up and allows my brain to re tune to that particular knife at a later date, giving me the time to see something I might not have realized at the moment.
Sometime I will use this time to work on another knife and sometimes I just have to walk away for a while.
So that is kind of what I mean by "it takes as long as it takes". I have discovered that when I make more than one of any model I almost always learn something on the first one or two that allows me to save time on the next one and yet maintain that quality that I am looking to produce!
After all this is a custom knives we are talking about. Not one of those the big companies stamp out by the thousands! The details that took you hours to produce will be worth every minute of that time, when you can look at the finished product and say, Wow I really like that! I guess that is why I don't see this as a big money making business for me! I done construction for years and there was always two kinds of work out there, quantity and quality! It is really hard if not impossible to crank out both. But those who appreciate quality will be willing to wait for it and will keep coming back to the well for another drink of quality!!!!!
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