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What would you charge to make another such knife??
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A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
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What would you charge to make another such knife??
Thanks for the kind words. I made this one for a colleague who is giving it to her husband for a birthday present. I'm charging her $75.00 for it.
The blade started life as a Cold Steel Master Carbon V hunter blank. I bought it (along with three others) from a jobber who bought out a bunch of steel from Camillus when they sold off after going out of business. It came to me already heat treated and rough flat ground but with some rust.
I reground it, and re profiled it. I did a different profile on each of the four blanks just playing with design. I'll probably keep one of the four blades for myself and sell or give away the others as I complete them.
Here is a top view of the handle to show the contours:
"Stand it like a man, and give some back." Al Swearengen
What about reworking old files, like Anza Knives does? That might be cheaper in the long run.
POLITICIANS & DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON
A person properly schooled in right and wrong is safe with any weapon. A person with no idea of good and evil is unsafe with a knitting needle, or the cap from a ballpoint pen.
I remain pessimistic given the way BATF and the anti gun crowd have become tape worms in the guts of the Republic. - toad