The $50,000.00 knife shop

Does having more expensive equipment mean that you could make more knives? :p

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
Does having expensive equipment mean that you could make better knives is the question?

You also have to know how to run the equipment to make knives with it.
 
Sornberger,one of Bob Egnath's friends once said," If I won $1,000,000.00 tomorrow,I still keep on making knives.....till it was all gone."
 
The thing is, $50k would just about do it... until I found something else I just had to have! :thumbup:
 
$50,000 would be a decent start. Cause if I get anymore tools the first thing I have to do is put up a building and that eats your budget awful damn quick :eek:
 
jhiggins said:
The thing is, $50k would just about do it... until I found something else I just had to have! :thumbup:
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Jeff, I'm probably about there with everything in my shop, but I still bought a Reid 6x18 surface grinder and a new (to me) Royal Oak tool & cutter grinder at an auction last week. :rolleyes:

Now I need to sell my 6x12 Boyar Shultz surface grinder since I can only run one at a time. :)
 
That would just about cover the basic tools I think I need. Until then I will just have to keep using my file and sandpaper. :D

The book may sell a few copies but if You write Romance novels You would sell more.
 
I think your efforts would be much better put into a how you make knives book Nick!!!!
I'll take a copy of that one if you ever write it!
 
Well shoot, with such a positive response already, I think I better get this thing to print next week!

For the record, I was kidding. However, it would be pretty darn easy to get to that $$$ level. Whether you're a stock-removal guy, or forger (or both). I'd say it's easier as a smith, since many have "all" the stock removal toys
as well as the forging tools.

I wasn't counting a shop itself. You could take a HUGE chunk out of the 50k for that (maybe all of it depending on where you live and what type of building you go about putting up).

I think even the part time guys who don't have "a ton" of equipment, would be pretty shocked if they went out and added up everything from their grinder to handle pin stock (and everything in-between).

:)

-Nick-
 
NickWheeler said:
I think even the part time guys who don't have "a ton" of equipment, would be pretty shocked if they went out and added up everything from their grinder to handle pin stock (and everything in-between).

:)

-Nick-
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That is absolutely the truth, and one of the things that chaps my keester when some nimwit thinks custom knives cost too much. One guy said once that he'd never pay more than $30 for a knife; I told him I had more than that in sandpaper making one! :D
 
ddavelarsen said:
That is absolutely the truth, and one of the things that chaps my keester when some nimwit thinks custom knives cost too much. One guy said once that he'd never pay more than $30 for a knife; I told him I had more than that in sandpaper making one! :D
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You got that right! I showed a guy at work a folder I made once and he asked what one would cost. I said in the neighborhood of $200 once I was ready to sell them. He went off the hook and pulled out a tiny little slip joint and informed me he'd bought it for $7. Started rolling his eyes and said "let me guess, you couldnt' even make it for that?"
I told him that was right and maybe he ought to think a little bit about why that was. Took him from :rolleyes: to :grumpy: pretty damn quick :D
 
You could reduce the cost down to $50 if you had a junkpile in your back yard like soneone with the initials WG
Take care
TJ
ops somebody already did that. sorry
 
yeah nick, as long as your gettin rid of tools to hit the $50k mark, how bout send some my way... :D
alex
 
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