Q. Can I buy several Limited Edition Knives. and choose the number?
A. We are limiting the Limited Edition Knives to one per person, and it is on a first come first served basis.
Q. How long will it take before I get my knife.
A. Knives will ship starting at the lowest number on up, the first knives should ship between 4-6 weeks and I hope to have all the knives done in 90-120 days… however this being my first large batch of knives this is just an estimate. But I will be working long hours until all orders are filled.
Q. how soon can I sell my stakeholder Knife on your site?
A. I will not be posting any knives until I have completed all 100 LE Knives.
Q: The post says, “Look for a PayPal button on the Limited Edition Stakeholder page.”
A. The Paypal button will be on the “Purchase Limited Edition Knife” page and is password protected for now. It will be unlocked Saturday at 9am central time.
Q. How often do you intend to produce subsequent ‘limited edition runs’ of new knives? i.e. once per year is… kinda slim pickins… once a month is gonna be absolutely NUTS for you to manage, though, I’d figure.
A. I am not going to have any set schedule however, I plan on doing between 1-3 Limited Edition Knives a year… that being said I have already started on the second batch of LE Knives that should be released late this year or early spring.
Q. What kind of pricing are you looking at? I’m looking at this from several perspectives – one, I’m looking forward to having ‘first call’ on some really nice blades, and wondering how badly my wallet’s gonna take a hit, each time, for the “wholesale” price that stakeholders pay… I’m also curious, though, what sort of cost you anticipate selling knives for, retail, and what sort of numbers would be at play for a “profit” (and assuming that that means retail sale price minus the wholesale price that we’d pay, otherwise) that is returned to stakeholders.
A. Prices are going to vary greatly depending on material labor and so on…. I hope to get some production knives in the 100 rage but the Limited Edition Knives will probably range from low 200 on up.
Q. Selling stakeholder knives.. will you be selling in order, i.e. #1, then #2, etc etc… or just selling at random, or selling in order of notification of who will NOT be purchasing the knives themselves?
A. They will be selling based on order from lowest to highest
Q. Photos.. you have “knife school photos” listed twice, when the second entry might better be called just, “Knife gallery”.. And of the photos in the gallery of your work, a lot of the knives look like they’re all neck-sized knives. Do you have any intent to (or do you already) do larger blades? Also, they look like they tend to be more “pretty” than “functional” – not saying they’re not functional, but certainly very pretty, rather than being really JUST about a functional blade, period.. The best example I can come up with is, the “Blackwater Ursa” that I purchased last year.. purchased purely as a working blade, not purchased for being a pretty shelf queen.. and mine’s been used for any and everything you’d expect of a working blade – cutting all kinds of material, wood/rope/firewood/cloth/plastic banding/etc… I’m hoping your plan is to look at producing blades like that, too, although it sure wouldn’t be a showstopper for me if you weren’t.
A. I want the nicest looking knives around, however all my knives are made for functionality! I try to use the best steels and heat treating processes to give a superiour cutting edge. I hope that they are used and used hard, in my video Neck Knife test you can see how I expect an edge to hold up. That being said some knives are made for battoning and others for slicing. I have done some larger knives and plan on doing more in the future, but I find the knives I use the most is my neck knife. I rarely use a larger knife except in the kitchen.
Q. Involvement.. how involved do you anticipate including stakeholders in new knife designs? I presume you’ll want us all to make the input a “voluntary” thing, i.e. you don’t want a stakeholder screwing you over for “owning” the idea that you then produce.. if you aren’t, I strongly suggest you do. For whatever it’s worth, unless I’m paying you to make a custom blade out of the blue with a design I come up with (and in which case, heck yeah, it’s my design) then please consider this my notice to you that I formally and fully give you, without any reservation or withholding, the ideas that I provide as a part of my stakeholder membership, without any expectation of return or remuneration.
A. I will listen to any Stakeholders input and plan on asking for input like
” should I use ironwood/G10/bone/__________/ on the next LE Knife?”
“should I go with a 4in warnclif blade or 5in”
“As a Stakeholder what style of blade do you think I should do Next?”
Then I make a decision based on the feedback and what I feel will best serve everyone, but I will still reserve the finial decision.
Q. Sheaths. What about other options? not just for the stakeholder program, but in general.. seems like you could abuse some Kydex sheets like no-one’s business, especially when you’re dealing with a number of similarly-shaped blades.
A. I have done some leather sheaths, and of course the kydex. It all depends on what someone wants.
In the event we are unfortunate enough to miss out on being one of the first one hundred, Will there be a waiting list we can subscribe to to buy stakes as they become available?
Subscribe and stay on our existing mailing list. We will notify people if any stakeholder positions open up via our existing mailing lists AND thru the website. Thanks for asking!