Stick removal, diet coke

David,

There is nothing prefab about stock removal. Whether a knife is forged to shape, or a maker starts with a piece of bar stock, it ends up stock removal before it's finished. Any maker who buys a piece of damascus, or uses one he didn't make, is doing stock removal.

The two limitations to stock removal are billet size and imagination. With forging, the only limitation is imagination. A smith forges a blade out of bar stock, ball bearings, leaf springs or whatever. He still has to grind it to finish it. There is no less grinding, or stock removal skill required.

High end materials can add a lot more to the cost of the knife that whether it was forged. So can embellishments like engraving.

Basic knife cost has to do with time and materials. If it takes more time to forge, expect to pay more. But to consider one far superior to the other is simply being uninformed.

Gene
 
2knife said:
But, high ticket stock removal? isn't that like making a fine birthday cake with fake sugar, turning up the oven so it will cook faster, using pre-fab materials. Is the customer getting the best possible "custom" product?
the wheels on cars, spinning shiny rims, on a cheap car. expensive, for looks. you can glorify it, dress it up, but under the makeup, whats different, it? you haven't changed anything fundamentally. Ultamately all art is like this too, unless design is the issue.

I'm thinking of moving to Utah and changing my last name.
David
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Yes...high ticket stock removal.

The majority of knives at the AKI that sell for the higest value is stock removal, and usually folders at that.

Don't worry about it, David, it is not a game that you could, or would choose to play. The knives you collect you were MEANT to collect....the same can be said of the others makers and collectors out there.

You probably would sleep better at night if you didn't concern yourself with things that you will never understand.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
The amount of time that it takes to make a stock removal knife will depend on the steel that is used and the tools employed by the maker. Some steels are very easy to grind, some are difficult, and some are a bear. It doesn't necessarily mean that because stock removal was used, that it took less time or effort to make than a forged knife.
 
Keith Montgomery said:
The amount of time that it takes to make a stock removal knife will depend on the steel that is used and the tools employed by the maker.
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Like Wolfe Loerchner...the man only uses files and sandpaper to make his knives...no one should be disparaging that, right?

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
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