Role of makers in secondary market?

maker to do this unless I had a good relationship (business and/or personal) with him, only if I had purchased the knife from him previously, only if the maker and I were at a show and the maker had already invested in a table and had already sold out or no longer made the knife/model I was asking him to put on the table, I would not want to ask for any extra ordinary effort on his part, I would always preface the request with the fact that I did not expect this from the maker and would not wish him to do it if it in any way made him uncomfortable and would ask if I could pay him something if the knife sold (and ask how much they felt was appropriate) and even if they said nothing insist on giving them something anyway and never ask that the knife be sold for less than it was originally sold for. Yea, all those things.

Totally up to the maker and no pressure of any kind to have them do it. You can always go to a dealer/purveyor and consign the knife. If the maker does it consider it a favor. MHO.

Mark
 
It is not uncommon to see a dealer-purveyor place a knife on the original maker's table for resale. I don't think that it should be any different for an individual that purchased a knife from a maker to hope for the same.

On the rare occasions that a maker as placed a knife of mine on his table for sale it has been with the understanding that my knife would be offered for sale when all of the maker's knives had been sold and delivered.

Paul
 
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