For me as a full time maker it is never easy to make knives for free, like the most of us : there is often very less time....but family and friends get it for free!This is one of my skills to get the free knife done, fast and clean! I am not talking about damascus, folders and the upper stuff, just a flattang without bolsters, thats a job of 6-8 hours without a sheath.
conditions are made: when, what material, what for a knife is not for discussion, thats my concern, but family and friends do not have to pay!....and my family is not that big and real friends are not too plenty, and besides I have been helped by family and friends a countless times, it is important to me that without help from people I have would not come this far in my profession, in my life.....so speak about friends, ....How many "friends"do we have that deserve a knife for free....?
get it done fast and clean(practicing and exercising thats what it is all about) and then You can afford to make, for those who deserve, a free knife.