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If you ask me there are 4 categories of knife making. Traditional, Handmade, Custom Made, and Production.
Traditional would be the old fashioned no power tools everyithng done with good old elbow grease way of making them.
Handmade is when you use tools like a bandsaw, grinder, drill press, milling machine(not CNC)high tech heattreat ovens and the likes, but it is still all done by hand. You have to guide the tools, and lay things out on your own.
Custom made is where the laser cutting and CNC fall into place. Its custom designed, and put together by a maker, but the more time consuming parts and some of the areas where there is more chance of error like cutouts and drilling holes are done by machine.
And you know what I mean by production. Things are mass produced and mostly done by machines.
I think each method is as good as the next and has its place to be used. If it weren't for production knives a whole lot of people wouldn't be carrying a knife right now. And what I call the custom category allows you to get a knife made to your design or a makers design that is of higher quality than a production knife,with alot of precision put into it but still not overly pricy. Handmade gives the makers a chance to show off their skill at making knives and using tools, and allows customers to get something completely one of a kind. Its also alot of fun for us amatures. And traditional is another style or way for a maker to make something completely unique. And makes the knife mean more to some people because they appreciate the extra time and work put into the knife. I don't see a problem with people selling knives that were made with any of the 4 methods as long as their up front about it which I'm sure everyone here is.
Personaly I like making knives in the handmade category because I enjoy spending the time to make each peice making each new knife different.But I don't like to do everything completely by hand because that ends up to be very frustrating sometimes.
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Traditional would be the old fashioned no power tools everyithng done with good old elbow grease way of making them.
Handmade is when you use tools like a bandsaw, grinder, drill press, milling machine(not CNC)high tech heattreat ovens and the likes, but it is still all done by hand. You have to guide the tools, and lay things out on your own.
Custom made is where the laser cutting and CNC fall into place. Its custom designed, and put together by a maker, but the more time consuming parts and some of the areas where there is more chance of error like cutouts and drilling holes are done by machine.
And you know what I mean by production. Things are mass produced and mostly done by machines.
I think each method is as good as the next and has its place to be used. If it weren't for production knives a whole lot of people wouldn't be carrying a knife right now. And what I call the custom category allows you to get a knife made to your design or a makers design that is of higher quality than a production knife,with alot of precision put into it but still not overly pricy. Handmade gives the makers a chance to show off their skill at making knives and using tools, and allows customers to get something completely one of a kind. Its also alot of fun for us amatures. And traditional is another style or way for a maker to make something completely unique. And makes the knife mean more to some people because they appreciate the extra time and work put into the knife. I don't see a problem with people selling knives that were made with any of the 4 methods as long as their up front about it which I'm sure everyone here is.
Personaly I like making knives in the handmade category because I enjoy spending the time to make each peice making each new knife different.But I don't like to do everything completely by hand because that ends up to be very frustrating sometimes.
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