A good case of the marketers taking a name that is cool and using it is Benchmade Knives. For us that have been around knives for a while it was the description of what is called custom knives today.
It was borrowed by a knife company that became successful and we actually lost the word benchmade from the handmade knife collectors common useage. An easy way to confuse a lot of people is to throw the word benchmade into a conversation concerning custom knives.
As previously mentioned that's the evolution of our language and katana is taking a hammering.
It was borrowed by a knife company that became successful and we actually lost the word benchmade from the handmade knife collectors common useage. An easy way to confuse a lot of people is to throw the word benchmade into a conversation concerning custom knives.
As previously mentioned that's the evolution of our language and katana is taking a hammering.