Pic of knife after first use.

Phil I am a big supporter of properly fed and well treated life stock. From everything I have seen from you on this forum you strike me as a great guy and a walk the talk kind of environmentalist. I also have great respect for the work you do. I think if we all ate better and paid more attention to what we are eating in premade food products health care would be a smaller issue than it is now.

I don't like industrial scale farming and the meat that ends up in 99 cent hamburgers is some scary stuff. All that said I think most vegetarians view of hunting is a bit off from what the average hunter is about. Everything about commercial life stock treatment makes me value hunting even more. The animals harvested in hunting ate what mother nature intended plus a few non native plants thanks to us. Also I was brought up with the ethic that wounding an animal and it having to run off into the woods injured is 100% unacceptable. If I don't know I have the shot to put the animal down as quickly as possible, I don't take it. Hunting is how we got our food when nature was our constant companion and our greatest danger.

I personally think That alot of country folk I know are more green than a lot of vegans I knew in San Diego. My personal dislike for PETA is no endorsement for mistreatment of animals. Something I know is happening far to much in the modern age of huge populations. I think environmentally friendly and red neck can actually go well together. In fact hunters and fishers spend more money on wildlife preservation than all other groups combined in this country. I don't think that hunting displays any lack of values. I truly respect and am thankful for everything I eat. They are gifts.
 
I'm just saying I know a lot of people that eat meat that despise the butcher.. Here's a funny thing, one of my brother's business partners and cooks in their barbeque restaurant venture is a long time vegetarian (30+ years) and executive chef. He won't handle the meat until after it's cooked. He owns several of my chef's knives but I don't think one has had blood on it.

80% of my business is hunting knives, it's what I know how to do and I have a good customer base down here. The other 20% is made of people that use my EDC's and chef's knives.
 
I hunt and fish and don't mind blood.
However if you plan on using that type of photo for your advertising I wouldn't do it.
For me the blood detracts from the look of the knife. You could go with another picture of the animal hide and maybe the butcher paper wrapped meat the knife helped cut up with then knife in the photo. I'm, sure not only pita would find the bloody knife a distraction.
 
I think that the people here that don't like the blood in the pic are looking at the situation wrong. I think that if this were an advertising pic of the knife in a magazine, then yes, the blood is inappropriate because it covers the knife and perhaps obscures the craftsmanship.

However, that is not what this pic is. This pic is of a knife "after its first use" Its first use was obviously field dressing a deer. For this pic, I like the blood. If its first use was cutting a hamburger in half I wouldn't mind a little ketchup and mustard on the blade either, but I wouldn't put a ketchup and mustard covered knife as the pic of the knife in a magazine.

I wouldn't think there would be any problem with posting this pic on the website as long as there is a clean pic as well.

Great looking knife by the way.
 
The photo appears a little blurry, and does not show any real fine detail of the knife. For that reason, I would not use it to display the knife.

I also think the blood detracts from what I would want to see before purchasing a knife: its lines, details, and craftmanship. I'd lose the blood.

Mike L.
 
I am a hunter and knifemaker,so that pic looks great to me, hope to have some blood on one of my knives next week end myself, but there are some folks that would not think it looks so good, and some of them may be knife collectors that don't hunt, so I would loose the blood for a web site photo. Just my 2 cents, I tend to go with good manners.

Great Looking Knife, with or without the blood.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top