The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
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I wonder about that d2 sebenza you said you had. Haven't seen an update to your thread in the crk sub for over a month.I wonder what is the impact on knife sales of forums such as this one, percentage wise. Or how many sales result daily from people reading these forums.
Honestly?
Slim to none. Most people will never visit a knife forum unless trying to research a knife they inherited from daddy/grandpa/great grandpa.
"Knife Nuts" who regularly hang out at forums like this make up no more than 1% of the market.
The vast majority of knife buyers don't know, and couldn't care less what the blade steel is, or the differences between them.
They only want something that will hold an edge long enough to gut and peel a deer, is easy to sharpen, and costs under $10 or $20.
Some, don't even know the difference between carbon steel and stainless steel.
I read a review on another site, about/on a Böker Tree Brand Barlow that specifically stated in the description "carbon steel blades".
The reviewer claimed the knife was a "fake" and "not a real Böker" because "the blades stained after slicing a apple, and the blades rusted".
Believe it or not, there really are some not knife nuts people who don't know how to sharpen a knife, that send their existing knife to the land fill when it gets dull enough, and buy a new knif
Those who always recommend some Spiderco, or Hinderer, Benchmade, GEC, etc. make up an even smaller percentage of the market.
Taking the total market into consideration, I doubt as many as 0.05% are able or willing to spend more than $40 - $50 or so for a knife.
A good percentage of knife sales are impulse buys at the local big box stores, sporting goods, and maybe gun/archery shops.
(All the gun and archery shops I've visited in the last 10 plus years carried the same type inexpensive blister packed knives as the big three big box stores, and at truck stops -- and not just to truckers. Where and how do you think most M-Tec, Tac Force, and similar knives are sold? Yep. Impulse buy at a truck stop.
I also notice that a couple extremely popular brands here on the forums: Spiderco CASE, and GEC, to name a few, don't have a dedicated sub-forum like Buck, Ontario, and Cold Steel, do.
(Kinda tells you what Spiderco, CASE, and GEC think of us and/or how important to them we are, don't it?)
You’re throwing out a lot of opinions with some out and out untruths. Do you know the difference between facts and opinions? Honest question, your posts sometimes leave me wondering.Honestly?
Slim to none. Most people will never visit a knife forum unless trying to research a knife they inherited from daddy/grandpa/great grandpa.
"Knife Nuts" who regularly hang out at forums like this make up no more than 1% of the market.
The vast majority of knife buyers don't know, and couldn't care less what the blade steel is, or the differences between them.
They only want something that will hold an edge long enough to gut and peel a deer, is easy to sharpen, and costs under $10 or $20.
Some, don't even know the difference between carbon steel and stainless steel.
I read a review on another site, about/on a Böker Tree Brand Barlow that specifically stated in the description "carbon steel blades".
The reviewer claimed the knife was a "fake" and "not a real Böker" because "the blades stained after slicing a apple, and the blades rusted".
Believe it or not, there really are some not knife nuts people who don't know how to sharpen a knife, that send their existing knife to the land fill when it gets dull enough, and buy a new knif
Those who always recommend some Spiderco, or Hinderer, Benchmade, GEC, etc. make up an even smaller percentage of the market.
Taking the total market into consideration, I doubt as many as 0.05% are able or willing to spend more than $40 - $50 or so for a knife.
A good percentage of knife sales are impulse buys at the local big box stores, sporting goods, and maybe gun/archery shops.
(All the gun and archery shops I've visited in the last 10 plus years carried the same type inexpensive blister packed knives as the big three big box stores, and at truck stops -- and not just to truckers. Where and how do you think most M-Tec, Tac Force, and similar knives are sold? Yep. Impulse buy at a truck stop.
I also notice that a couple extremely popular brands here on the forums: Spiderco CASE, and GEC, to name a few, don't have a dedicated sub-forum like Buck, Ontario, and Cold Steel, do.
(Kinda tells you what Spiderco, CASE, and GEC think of us and/or how important to them we are, don't it?)
On topic answer, I would posit my personal, unsubstantiated theory that a great many smaller knifemakers* as well as those who sell knives that cost more than what Kershaw, lower-end Buck, or Gerbers cost would have a bad time if they didn't have their names and pictures of their products being spread across the internet thanks to places like Bladeforums, and many other knife-centric forums, as well as Reddit. On places like these, you can look up information on companies, steels, cutting performance, blade shapes and which is best for your needs, etc. You aren't getting quality information like that from the guy at the ammo counter at Wal-Mart. How many posts have we had where people came in not knowing anything, or wanting to know which knife they should get, who get pointed in the right direction? Millions of posts over the past 20 odd years.
I personally think the impact is huge, far larger than some might be thinking.
* Remember, most knifemaking companies we know and love ARE small companies. Look them up. Companies like Spyderco, CRK, Emerson, Medford, Koenig, Buck, CPK, Olamic, GEC, etc are all small companies.