Knife Names??

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Great input. I think those that said the name their knives so that customers can refer to them is the main reason I like names. I was going to go with acronyms on all my knives but find that most are taken already (BenT! :D). Also for some reason the names I choose like the AGRO. people can't pronounce right for some reason it becomes ARGO?
 
I find acronyms get pretty overused these days... what with T.O.P.S taking almost all of em (and every slogan every military movie has ever used) and now have a hard time taking them serious, so i steer away from those, but it is just super diffecult to come up with unique names that fit the image of whatever you knife is. at least hard to find ones that haven't been taken already. the same with names like AGRO... people don't generally know what it means, so they somehow associate with ARGO, which could be good... they "go anywhere" lol
 
I prefer the more descriptive generic sort of names like "Coffin Handle Dagger" or "Integral Fighter".
Many of the made up names just don't catch my attention when I am scrolling through the forums and deciding what to look at.
When I see really wild names like "Screaming Dragon Slayer" I just skip over them assuming it is just a sharpened piece of steel from a teenager.
While some made-up names might fit, I prefer them to be used conservatively. "Like I should talk".
Just my 2 cents.

an afterthought,
Knife Names are a lot like user names on the forums.
 
This subject really had me thinking last night.
It caused me to re-evaluate how I do things myself.
After a good bit of thought my opinion is that made up names combined with a descriptive knife name work best for me.
an example "Alamo Bowie"
 
Knife names??

My cartoon watching 4 year old daughter proudly named these two....

.....Big and Small :D: (those with small kids will understand).


"Hey Big can you come out and play?"
"Sure, how's about mumblypeg?"

I have fun with names. "Alloyed Force", "Big Red", "Intrinsic Motivation" and "Extrinsic Motivation", "Whiplash", and "Thorn" are all creations of my addled brain. However, I guess these all fly in the face of my steadfast belief as a career chef that a culinary creation should acquire a descriptive name rather than "Pasta Leslie", or "Tuna Ft. Lauderdale" - a real dish from a real menu in upstate NY, of all places.
 
For me its mostly for ease of ordering for me and my customers. Almost daily I get emails asking about "that one knife, with the micarta handles and the sheath."
Any knife I like and make a template for, I will normally name or title.
For me if it helps me sell knives and my customers like it then I will keep coming up with ridiculous acronyms! :D
 
I seem to have an unusual naming convention...
Most of my designs so far (I'm very new at this!) were drawn up with a specific purpose in mind, so that's easy:
hiker, hunter, necker, paring, etc.

Then I scale them up and down in size, so I just use the scaling percentage. This has caused a number of questions, but it makes it easy for ME, and conversations about size with a customer are straightforward: 85% hunter, 115% mountain knife, etc.

Those of you who are actually *accomplished* at this trade and make all kinds of stuff have a tough time of it. :D

-Daizee
 
RyanW said:
Does anyone one else hate coming up with names for knives. For some reason I feel the desire / need to name them, but hate doing it. What is wrong with me?
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NAME EVERYTHING!!!!!! I name every knife that I intend to turn into a model and make continually. This is an incredibly important part of my business strategy I learned from watching Jerry Busse at Blade Show. Expand this to everything you do, and name every feature of the knife also. (Bullseye tube, spalted steel, convex sabergrind, talon hole, snakeskin micarta, Tuxedo Config, Doublemint Grips, etc) This allows your customers to learn the names and inspires them to collect large groups of your knives.
 
Fiddleback said:
NAME EVERYTHING!!!!!! I name every knife that I intend to turn into a model and make continually. This is an incredibly important part of my business strategy I learned from watching Jerry Busse at Blade Show. Expand this to everything you do, and name every feature of the knife also. (Bullseye tube, spalted steel, convex sabergrind, talon hole, snakeskin micarta, Tuxedo Config, Doublemint Grips, etc) This allows your customers to learn the names and inspires them to collect large groups of your knives.
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Thanks for posting Andy, I think maybe one of the reasons I find naming knives so hard is, I am naming them for the wrong person (Me). Great post!
 
The names don't have to be great. My Hunter simply named for the function it was designed to serve. Same with the Carver. Sometimes a name pops in to your head, sometimes it won't. That isn't important. But just describing the knife doesn't get the customers all excited the way a name does.
 
When I hear "Loveless Big Bear" "Snody Boss" "Hartsfield Strongboy" "Randall Smithsonian Bowie" I know exactly what they are referring to. Much easier then playing the 20 question game trying to figure out what they are talking about.
 
Okay, here are a few names that you all may use (or not) as you see fit.

* Sever Master
* Bloodletter
* Texas Scrotum Scratcher
* Piecemaker
* Bone Whittler
* Boxcrafter
 
tryppyr said:
Okay, here are a few names that you all may use (or not) as you see fit.

* Sever Master
* Bloodletter
* Texas Scrotum Scratcher
* Piecemaker
* Bone Whittler
* Boxcrafter
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Haha, I'll try to use Piecemaker, I see the cleverness :D
 
tryppyr said:
Okay, here are a few names that you all may use (or not) as you see fit.

* Sever Master
* Bloodletter
* Texas Scrotum Scratcher
* Piecemaker
* Bone Whittler
* Boxcrafter
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I'm all for Texas Scrotum Scratcher, though I may change it to Tennessee. I may just have to make something that fits just to use the name. LMAO.
 
I wanted to agree with the sentiment that IMHO some of the knife names I see floating around aren't helping any of us with the sheeple of today's society. And it isn't because I'm some prude or because I want to squash maker's artistic freedom... :rolleyes: :)

Telling people you're a custom knife maker is greeted with enough negativity by the majority of people as it is...

FWIW- the most "morbid" one I came up with was just a joke that rolled off the cuff when a buddy was visiting my shop while I was making this one: 12" of 52100 blade in a Southwest Bowie style---- The Southwest Rib Tickler. :foot: ;) :D

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NickWheeler said:
I wanted to agree with the sentiment that IMHO some of the knife names I see floating around aren't helping any of us with the sheeple of today's society. And it isn't because I'm some prude or because I want to squash maker's artistic freedom... :rolleyes: :)

Telling people you're a custom knife maker is greeted with enough negativity by the majority of people as it is...

FWIW- the most "morbid" one I came up with was just a joke that rolled off the cuff when a buddy was visiting my shop while I was making this one: 12" of 52100 blade in a Southwest Bowie style---- The Southwest Rib Tickler. :foot: ;) :D
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As long as the Ribs ur Ticklin have BBQ sauce on them, i don't see an issue Nick ;)

I agree completely with your statement about knife names not being Sheeple friendly. One of my favorite knives back in the day was the "FleshEater" by Jim Hammond. Kinda Scary... The Name I mean.
 
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