Ichthys knife's

[Snipe]

It's been 3 years since I started forging, finally starting to put out some knifes I'm ok with

 

[dancer4life]

Nice!!!

 

[Snattlerake]

Good looking knife. All you have to do now is charge a ridiculous price for it and you are in business.

 

[Snipe]

Good looking knife. All you have to do now is charge a ridiculous price for it and you are in business.

That's where I struggle. Most people don't know how much time and materials goes into something like this. When you can buy a cheap stamped out knife from Walmart for $10 it's hard to compete

 

[bigred1]

Dayum...that is nice.

 

[Snipe]

Pretty much the same knife but with whitetail antler and local black walnut scales

 

[SoonerP226]

That's where I struggle. Most people don't know how much time and materials goes into something like this. When you can buy a cheap stamped out knife from Walmart for $10 it's hard to compete

You can’t chase the value crowd unless you’re going to mass produce. There are a bunch of people out there who appreciate and will pay for custom knives. As an example, Montana Knife Company did a collaboration with Fieldcraft Survival last week; those knives were $325, dropped at 8:00pm, and were sold out by the time I looked at 8:11pm.

There are a few custom knife makers on here; I bet they’d be happy to tell you how they got started.

 

[Snipe]

You can’t chase the value crowd unless you’re going to mass produce. There are a bunch of people out there who appreciate and will pay for custom knives. As an example, Montana Knife Company did a collaboration with Fieldcraft Survival last week; those knives were $325, dropped at 8:00pm, and were sold out by the time I looked at 8:11pm.

There are a few custom knife makers on here; I bet they’d be happy to tell you how they got started.

Hopefully some chime in. It's a hobby right now but would love to try it more full time/semi retire. And I'm always open to advice

 

[geezer77]

Replaced the tines on my old TroyBilt tiller, needed to do something with the old ones:

 

[Snipe]

Will make some nice steak knife sets