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I am wondering if this is a new trend, or maybe I just haven't noticed before this year.
Knife collectors providing their own handle materials for knives they are having made.
I am curious if this is a fairly new trend or if this is something normal.
I would also be curious to hear your thoughts from a collectors point of view as well as the knife maker.
I sell stabilized wood handle materials and here is what I have been seeing with my customers.
When I do a knife show, the majority of what is purchased is by knife makers at the show.
Only about 25% will be purchased by the collector who will be having a knife made. They are usually looking for a piece for a specific knife they are having made by one of the knife makers at the show.
Other than at the shows my material sales are from my website.
In the past years the proportions had been about the same. 75% to the knife maker and 25% to the collector.
This year things are a lot different.
Year to date it has been about 40% to the knife makers and 60% to the collector.
In the kitchen knives niche it is more like 25% to the maker and 75% to the end customer.
Hopefully some of the collectors and the makers will voice their opinions.
Not just with wood, but stag, ivory and other natural handle materials.
Thank you in advance for your input.
Mods, if this post is in the wrong place please feel free to move this and accept my apologies.
This was the only place I could think of where it would be seen by both the makers and the collectors.
Knife collectors providing their own handle materials for knives they are having made.
I am curious if this is a fairly new trend or if this is something normal.
I would also be curious to hear your thoughts from a collectors point of view as well as the knife maker.
I sell stabilized wood handle materials and here is what I have been seeing with my customers.
When I do a knife show, the majority of what is purchased is by knife makers at the show.
Only about 25% will be purchased by the collector who will be having a knife made. They are usually looking for a piece for a specific knife they are having made by one of the knife makers at the show.
Other than at the shows my material sales are from my website.
In the past years the proportions had been about the same. 75% to the knife maker and 25% to the collector.
This year things are a lot different.
Year to date it has been about 40% to the knife makers and 60% to the collector.
In the kitchen knives niche it is more like 25% to the maker and 75% to the end customer.
Hopefully some of the collectors and the makers will voice their opinions.
Not just with wood, but stag, ivory and other natural handle materials.
Thank you in advance for your input.
Mods, if this post is in the wrong place please feel free to move this and accept my apologies.
This was the only place I could think of where it would be seen by both the makers and the collectors.