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Another point from early on in the first reply I made - The charge for any custom shearing is additional, at least with Admiral, and can be shocking, enough to make it just worth it to use your regular widths in some manner for jobs that are lower volume like ours. Savings can be made but...

I've had custom cut sizes ordered in wide enough widths to be suitable from Admiral Steel. They do charge for any shearing of plate but it can save you money if you can nest additional blades. As for the jet cutting prices, I haven't ever priced out a single knife - I've always got a quote per...

The first run for the larger model will likely be stainless of some grade - the first batch of the Rimfires was in 1095 as I had it in stock, in quantity, and had used that particular batch of steel with great edge holding in the past. If I had ordered new material for them it would have likely...

Added S35VN as an option. Thanks, Laurence - I'd heard good things about this steel and was mistaken to not have it up in the original list.

I'm going to be doing another run of these, likely in greater quantity this time and would like some feedback on the steel, or steels, I'm going to offer. I'm leaning towards S30V for this batch myself. Here's the poll - Linking to my site here, it's on the front page near the top...

Oh man, this is just as nice as the other one. Wow!

Here's the update. To get an idea of my conversion ratio, throughout the show I counted foot traffic, looks, likes, cards given etc. and am really impressed with the overall weekend. I directly sold 2 knives off the table, had sufficient "Dang those are nice I'll be calling you!" conversations...

Excellent. Thank you for putting this up, Ed.

As for your abrasives, I don't know what brand you're using but the Harbor Freight or "cheap" ones are likely to have some trouble. I can cut around a lineal foot of 3/8" 304 stainless plate with a 4" Norton cutoff wheel that's $1.85. The Forney brand from ACE hardware is ridiculously bad in...

I'm likely late to this one, but I'm giving a big +1 to the top heavy nature of these.

One thing I'll throw in is some woods, like snakeskin sycamore, have got a hook to the grain. You'd want to make sure the flow is going the same direction side to side. Aside from that, in my case a lot of my knives are double bolstered, so you can't see the end grain anyhow, which is where...

From my experience, starting at the consignment galleries 25% is typical. For wholesale and retail it's at least that - I've been unable to work with some retailers I'd otherwise really like to because they want a 50% or higher rate. I'd bet your regular $79 CRKT or other "million of them"...

Eddie - The 3 3/8" blade knife takes me 2.5 hours as a target. I can meet it without any problem and usually do those in a batch of at least 5. I've bounced back and forth talking initially about the 4" skinner, then the 3 3/8" Rimfire, then back to the skinner. The 4" skinner with stag...

From what I see, the upset with this is coming from deceptive or misleading marketing instead of the use of kit knives or the finishing of pre-made blades. It is awfully slimy to take a pre-made blade, regardless of quality or the skill you put into final finish, and say you made that blade...

Right now I'm running just the single KMG grinder. I need another one to save on time spent changing the tooling on it out and to give room for greater production. Switching belts is fast but I'm thinking of putting a wheel brake on it to speed up the belt changes somewhat. I really try to...

My Kaspersky antivirus isn't letting me access the site in question or any of it's images. Watch out.

Oh yeah...nice and clean. I like that one and especially the contrast between the handle and the tooled sheath. Good looking knife!

Laurence - do you have a thread out on that trigger finger surgery? My right index finger which I mentioned before is not improving - although it's got 50 years left in it I bet. Just wanting to get a look at what's coming sooner or later. Josh - I have seen carbon steel knives at that price...

That's a solid history and you'll get along just fine here, Trevor - welcome onboard.

There is a big writeup on USA Knifemaker regarding this. Tracy nails it - I have followed a different discipline, so to speak, in the final finishing stages which may or may not work for you. I followed it to the letter when I started and it's worth the time to read -...