What keeps you from participating in a KITH?

[BryFry]

What is KITH?

What he said ^

I give up.... What is it?

 

[tryppyr]

KITH means "Knife In The Hat". A blind exchange between knifemakers. You commit to making a knife by a certain date, someone randomly draws names for all participants. When you receive the name of the person receiving your knife you send it. Someone else gets your name and sends you the knife they made.

 

[Sterlinghaney25]

It's like a key party with less disease. 

 

[BryFry]

KITH means "Knife In The Hat". A blind exchange between knifemakers. You commit to making a knife by a certain date, someone randomly draws names for all participants. When you receive the name of the person receiving your knife you send it. Someone else gets your name and sends you the knife they made.

Huh, strange idea.
Well in that case, I would change my answear to: " I'm new at knife making, and wouldn't feel right about the chance of sending off a $100'ish knife, and either getting a $400 or more'ish one back, (I'd feel guilty) or possibly getting back a turd (no offense to anyone)."

Pluss, I've never been much of a gambler, so there's that. Also, I make knives that I like, for myself, and I'm not too keen on the idea of sending away something I put a lot of work into with the chance I may get something I don't really want in return. .....if that makes sense.

 

[bushcraftbasics]

i jsut simply dont feel that i could produce the kind of quality piece that alot of you "real" smithies can...i dunno, call me shy?

-dilla

 

[mgysgthath]

I think eventually if you want to be a "maker" and sell, you have to bite the bullet and put yourself out there. And really the sooner the better (within reason) because the feedback will be invaluable to improving your methods. In a case like the KITH, it's more of a gift exchange as I see it, so I would personally not want to impose or burden someone with "beta testing" basically. I love the idea of it though, and the cost is really meaningless to me, I would have no compunctions about throwing out $100 worth of materials, because lets face it we'll waste a LOT more than that before we get proficient, just learning. I hope this continues to go well, and the more people in it the better. I will enter next year I believe.

 

[Bo T]

I committed to the newbie KITH but a ruling came down that no pre-made blades (by other than the maker, I assume, were allowed). My project uses a Helle blade. So, I'll see how my transition to stock removal and heat treat goes, and keep my eyes on next year.

Bo Thomas

 

[NStricker]

Lack of time. I start a knife, and maybe in about 6-9 months I eventually finish it if other things don't get in the way. . .

 

[Hengelo_77]

I was in the 2009KITH and enjoyed it.
Then I decided to set up shop for real and it took so much longer then expected.
I recently finished a workplace and started to re-collect alle materials and works-in-progress I have laying around.
I'd rather wait an other year then rush something and not deliver to the standard that I feel comfortable with.