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Premade blades
Is it still a custom knife if you use a premade blade? I love the woodworking aspect of it, but making my own blades is just no fun for me. Is it still a custom knife if I use a premade blade?
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Not really, in the sense that we usually mean that term. But, if someone were to pick out that blade and then select a particular handle and ask you to assemble it that way it would be 'custom' in that sense.
The important thing, as we see it and have discussed at length many times, is that you make it very clear to the purchaser that you assembled the knife but you didn't make the blade. Maybe the best term for that would be a 'customized' knife. You may get varying opinions on this as this thread gets answered by others but, again, the most important part is total disclosure so that your customer knows exactly what you're offering ... |
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that said there are many out there in the knife world that do exactly what your asking and call themselves 'knifemakers' ..........that's why this topic gets many 'actual' knifemakers fired up...........as Ray has said and many others in the past just be up front and do what you want and have fun doing it......... look forward to some pics |
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I Built knives for many years and would tell people the blade was bought and that I built knives. Now I call myself a knife maker as I make the hole knife except the for the heattreat I do it all.
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Assembling a knife from a finished blade makes you a cutler and is more traditional than making the blade and finishing the knife. I would go with custom finished but not custom made.
Doug __________________ If you're not making mistakes then you're not trying hard enough |
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I would just call it a kit knife
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in Scandinavia lots of people make knives that way have done for years and are called knifemakers they are making a knife out of a Blade and handle material
Blade smiths make blades its all perspective if its knife shaped/profiles but not ground its a blade Blank if its ground and sharp its a blade (not a blank) if its got a handle on it its a knife |
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Welcome to the world of knives, knifemakers, knife assemblers, blademakers, etc.!
Pigeon holing doesn't work anybetter here than it does anywhere else. Bottom line is honesty, you cannot go wrong there. __________________ Carl Rechsteiner, Bladesmith Georgia Custom Knifemakers Guild, Charter Member Knifemakers Guild, voting member Registered Master Artist - GA Council for the Arts C Rex Custom Knives Blade Show Table 6-H |
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