Knifemaker Membership and Marketing Techniques

[Don Nguyen]

why are you people so damm f@#$%^ cheap??? I am a gold membership and proud of it. they ask a little bit of money for the membership and you guys stay as Registered User. if you dont want to pay for the right membership the find a board that lets you break the rule. I can not afford a dealer membership so I dont sell my old stock knifes here because that would be just plain wrong to sparkie.
what you pay to take out your family for dinner one time is a membership for one year.

I speak as a full-time college student only working very few hours during the week, that it's incredibly hard for me just to buy some steel, or some epoxy, or some belts, etc. I have to prioritize everything I purchase, including equipment and whatnot. If I can possibly cut a corner and save a little bit of money, that might mean one extra knife I get to make in the near future.

 

[peter r]

be a nice guy and help those who ask for help....and make a good knife.

the rest will take care of itself.

 

[Phil Dwyer]

Here's an interesting discussion from the Custom Knives Forum that may be of interest, The Internet and Handmade Knives: Past, Current, and Future....