Frank Niro
KNIFE MAKER
I attend one local knife show a year and perhaps have only five or six walk in customers in a year. Anything else in sales comes by way of the internet, goes out to a dealer, or my son who loves to honor me by selling my folders. Within the last four days I've had two people phone and come to the house. The fellow who came on Saturday immediately bought a new styled small folder I started to make a month or so ago but just finished up two of. Boy did this excite me. That night I had an email from another gentleman saying he was in the market for one of my larger folders to be used as a hunter, I immediately got on one I had started and managed to get it finished last night. The gentleman arrived today at the time we arranged and within a few seconds of him coming through the door we were talking knives. He was carrying a bunched up plastic bag with what I figured was going to be a couple of knives in there for me to sharpen . We sat down in front of my computer which I thought would be the right place to show pictures of my work and on line materials. Well he pulled two in cases out of that bag. One was a straight knife hunter in the last styling I had come up with ; the other was a large hunter styled folder which was probably the first one I made. Both were in mint condition, never used and both over 15 years old. My heart just about jumped out onto the desk. He asked me a couple of questions about each and added "I thought you might like to see these again that I bought from your son". It was now time to show him the two folders I had on the desk in cases. In about one minute, he asked me some pertinent questions and the price for both, opened his wallet and had the money out. I was some pleased and of course I had to be smiling from ear to ear. "Well" he said "there goes the deposit money I had for the two I knew I wanted to order". Xmas had come early for this little fat guy ! And yes he did order two more with stainless Damascus blades, bolsters and mammoth ivory scales. Well, I am on the old side but heaven or that other place is going to have to wait until I can complete his order. After all he must be an a walking angel. Well I sure think so don't you?
For those of you who have read all of this I believe you have felt the same over the top excitement for yourselves. I hope I did again give you a recall. Frank
For those of you who have read all of this I believe you have felt the same over the top excitement for yourselves. I hope I did again give you a recall. Frank
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