The Amazing Virginian
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The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
OK one more observation I want to make: We now live in the age of reality TV, social media, and the selfie stick. Its a world in which Katie Perry is considered a musician and Bruce Jenner is named Woman of the Year. Style over substance.
And amidst all this superficiality we encounter hordes of consumers who will buy things only because of their looks, or due to the status they think it confers. In the knife world they will fall all over themselves to buy new-school tacticals with wild-looking compound grinds even if that coolness comes at the expense of actual cutting performance!
These folks will judge a knifemaker not by the quality of his work, but how cool it looks on the screen, and how many Instagram followers he has. Its the same mindset that justifies actually paying up for a pair of distressed pre-ripped jeans or a knockoff Prada handbag.
No market is immune to fleeting trends and fashions especially in discretionary or luxury goods but it seems even more pronounced today than I ever remember seeing it in my lifetime. Its the selfie-stick culture, and its all around us. Even here.
You are saying the 25-34 year olds are the most active and influential in the custom knife market?The hipster crowd is as much a part of this culture as the teenagers. The largest demographic of instagram and facebook users is 25-34, and this same demographic is also among the most active and influential in the custom knife market.
You are saying the 25-34 year olds are the most active and influential in the custom knife market?
I must be working in a different custom knife market?
Maybe this is what Joe is talkin about?
You are saying the 25-34 year olds are the most active and influential in the custom knife market?
I must be working in a different custom knife market?
Now a days it is harder to pin down trends, society is much less mainstream.
I sold 30 knives through AZCK in the last 14 months....if anyone wants real world information, would be happy to share what I sold and why.
Best Regards,
STeven Garsson