What would your ideal B&M store carry?

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Ok guys, what types of goodies do you want to see your idea of a perfect brick and mortor store carry? What kinds of knives? Which productions? Whose customs? What sharpeners, accessories, etc? What other "fun" things?

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Pam


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Mine would include actual customs. It wouldn't include the cheap asian knockoffs. It would have an actual selection of knives from companies like REKAT, Benchmade, MOD, Case, Boker, etc, etc. It wouldn't be a knife AND trinket store. Basically, it wouldn't be a Chesapeke Knife and Tool.

Chris
 
Hmm. Great question. For a truly exceptional cutlery store I'd like to see production knives like Microtech, Benchmade, William Henry, Spyderco, CRKT, SOG, Camillus, Buck etc.. as well as sharpeners from Spyderco, Lansky, Gatco, etc.. I'd like to see accesories like sheaths, knife cases, lubricants like White Lightning, Tuf-Glide, BreakFree. I'd like to see custom pieces by Lightfoot, Emerson, Terzuola, Elishewitz.
Knife related t-shirts, baseball caps and the like would be great too.

Basically, any store that carried these would be a shrine of knifedom. The type where a visit to the store would be like going on a pilgrimage.
 
How about a few customs from a few local makers? I'm not talking about a huge display. Just a few. You'd take 'em on consignment. If the knife doesn't sell in a month, you give it back to the maker and give that space over to another piece from the same maker or from another. This way you can promote some local makers, get to meet the local makers, generate a huge amount of good will with the local makers, get a nice rotating stock of unique knives for your store, introduce your customers to the concept of custom knives, and maybe even sell a few for a tidy commission. Each maker would provide you with some pictures of other knives they've made, a biography, etc., so that if a customer says, "That's nice. Has he made anything else?", you can say, "I happen to have his portfolio right here." The makers in question would also agree that they'll pay you a modest referal fee for any orders they receive as a result of being exhibited in your store. This is much like what art galleries do with local artists.


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Chuck
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[This message has been edited by Gollnick (edited 05-25-2001).]
 
Just add Kit Carson and Darrel Ralph to el cids custom list and it would be great!
David

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The usual brands we find in the UK plus far more Spyderco, a shop that also sells CRK's at FAIR prices, Microtech,MOD, Tuf Cloth and Militech-1.

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Tough question. What I'd LIKE (but really wouldn't be good for a store) is as wide a selection of good quality knives as possible so that I could compare many brands and styles, then pick the one I wanted. So a store would have to carry 10 different knives for every one I'd want!

Sharpeners, I'd be happy with Spyderco (Sharpmaker and stones), Lansky, and some diamond bench and smaller stones. Also, someplace that actually has STROPS would be nice...

For a 'fun' thing, I'd like a testing zone to try out slicing, chopping, and other potential uses (nothing to actually destroy a knife, but ways to test in a more real world setting).

cj
 
Funny...when I saw the subject of your post, I thought it said "B&N"...Barnes and Noble...Thought you might want to discuss what type of knife to carry while drinking a $5.00 cup of coffee...lol

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