Your thoughts when someone modifies your knife and then it looks like crap! Happened

Ed Fowler said:
As a farmer - rancher myself I just have to speak up for some.

In my experience farmers who have been at it for a while - use knives for many tasks on a daily basis. Agriculture has been the major testing ground for knives since time began.

It does not take much of a knife to dress out an animal, cutting a field of grain is another story and puts knives to much more sever tasks. Agriculture has been a challenge for knives from the time grain was cut by hand and still is today, especially when equipment breaks down.

When a farmer or task suggests a knife design, I listen and have learned a lot, both from personal experience and that of friends.
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Hey Ed. No offense meant towards farmers or ranchers. I live and work around many a farmer and rancher/cowboy. It's funny, some farm to cowboy and some cowboy to farm. I'll just say that they all seem to have some interesting ideas about things.
 
Thank you Chris: your thoughts and the quote from Cris Kristofferson go hand in hand. We need to ask and understand what others mean by their suggestions, someties they are not very articulate, but when we seek to understand and ask questions until we understand, we just may learn how to make a better knife.

By the way what song or album is that from?
 
It's the customers's knife. They bought a knife from you not an advertisement piece. Charge him to fix it, and either charge him more next time or do not sell to him. It is up to you to represent your work, not your customers.
 
Never really had anyone modify one of my knives, maybe a forced patina which I didn't mind all that much. I have seen one of my knives on the secondary market, beat all to hell, that sold for more than my original asking price when the knife was new. Damn!
 
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