/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1035315
Another design which has a thick spine dates back to the middle ages and is now very uncommon is the "T" profile that was used in Rondel daggers. It also allows for extremely pointy tips designed to punch through heavy armours and quite a sharp edge for day to day cutting, with that thick spine along the top giving it tremendous strength.

>>1035376
Its one of those hobbies where you end up part-
>materials engineer
>blacksmith
>welder
>jeweller
>engraver
>knife sharpener
>designer
>carpenter

I always find it frustrating to see some fat baby boomer on youtube flogging off their 'custom' knives, which often have decent-ish blades, but a fucking rubbish, undecorated handle with no ergonomics, very little innovation in overall design and they're doing you a favour by 'only' charging $3-400US for it. Which for a 4-5" blade is kind of criminal really. It may cover their costs so to speak, but for that kind of money its not exactly very special, there's definitely a place for simplicity but it should command simple money as well- otherwise the customer may as well buy something off the shelf from the big companies which will do just fine.

Customers should be delighted with their hand made product, anything less of just being happy or 'its ok' isn't enough to cut the proverbial mustard. You can always make a dollar tomorrow, but a name you only get once.
>end rant on customer service!