Hey folks,
Karen and I are considering a new video(s) that we think might benefit many of us who use and enjoy knives. Our proposal is to create a video (s?) that profiles a few knife makers and knife making classifications. Let me try to explain a bit more clearly as this is a huge topic.
We would look at a variety of names in the knifemaking industry. These would NOT be industry "giants"
We want to look at custom makers including those who produce "stock removal" and "hammer forged" custom blades.
We would look at "Benchmade" knives. (Knives that are production built but have significant amounts of manual labor involved.)
and finally, possibly, at "Factory" knives.... the big automated systems. For the sake of clarity I would also like to develop a set of terms that we can use throughout the video.
All of these makers would be USA based. They could be fixed blade or folders.
What we are hoping to do is take a look at the skill, time, design and effort that goes into a custom blade as well as some of the testing that each maker does to assure the quality of the product. We could hear arguments in favor of various materials and try to understand the conditioning (tempering) each material undergoes.
We expect that we cannot tell the whole story but we can begin to lift the covers off of the subject.
Please understand this is the seminal discussion. I cannot think of a more capable group than this forum to help guide us in this proposal. We would like any constructive comments and or directions you might like to offer.
If you are a custom maker and would like to be included, please let us know.
We are considering July as the beginning of production. We would need one or two days with each maker involved.
There are many details yet to work out.
Thanks for your comments.
Ron
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Karen and I are considering a new video(s) that we think might benefit many of us who use and enjoy knives. Our proposal is to create a video (s?) that profiles a few knife makers and knife making classifications. Let me try to explain a bit more clearly as this is a huge topic.
We would look at a variety of names in the knifemaking industry. These would NOT be industry "giants"
We want to look at custom makers including those who produce "stock removal" and "hammer forged" custom blades.
We would look at "Benchmade" knives. (Knives that are production built but have significant amounts of manual labor involved.)
and finally, possibly, at "Factory" knives.... the big automated systems. For the sake of clarity I would also like to develop a set of terms that we can use throughout the video.
All of these makers would be USA based. They could be fixed blade or folders.
What we are hoping to do is take a look at the skill, time, design and effort that goes into a custom blade as well as some of the testing that each maker does to assure the quality of the product. We could hear arguments in favor of various materials and try to understand the conditioning (tempering) each material undergoes.
We expect that we cannot tell the whole story but we can begin to lift the covers off of the subject.
Please understand this is the seminal discussion. I cannot think of a more capable group than this forum to help guide us in this proposal. We would like any constructive comments and or directions you might like to offer.
If you are a custom maker and would like to be included, please let us know.
We are considering July as the beginning of production. We would need one or two days with each maker involved.
There are many details yet to work out.
Thanks for your comments.
Ron
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Learn Life Extension at:
http://www.survival.com ]
