So this may be the hardest part

[TLR]

...how do you decide which ones to keep for yourself

I did a batch so I could gain experience and hopefully get rid of them for material costs to friends so I can buy more materials and make batch number two. They're going quick. The issue I'm having is there are several I really want to hold on to. I recognize my next batch will be even better and then I'll want to keep several of those.

I like making things which is a big part of the reason I want to do this.
I really like knives which is a big part of the reason I want to do this.
To be happy and make more things I have to not keep things.

LOL how does a knife maker deal with the disease?

 

[Willie71]

SO far I have only kept one blade I have made. Every one I finish is better than the one before it, and I keep thinking, "I really like this one, I wish it wasn't for (insert name here.)"

 

[clivehamilton77]

Every knife I make someone always offers me money for it. So I figure that's another opportunity to make another that I "may" keep for myself. but hten someone will probably buy it. I do regret one that I sold that I
should've kept.

Of course they're were a few of my first ones that I shoulda never sold looking back.

 

[lonepine]

I don't have a problem holding onto a knife for my own use. And as you point out, I know I'll make a better one and the one that seemed so good will then become expendable. The only knife that a person really SHOULD hold onto is the first one they made, warts and all. Keeping any others are optional.

- Paul Meske