What is the value of investment knives and why?
Short answer: Try to make one and you’ll see. Long answer: Fine custom knives by well known makers are some of the most valuable collector’s pieces. The custom maker makes everything by hand (assuming you’re not fooled by small production shops using a maker’s name). The individual knife maker may produce 10-100 knives a year, and his life is limited. There will never be thousands of a particular model, and some makers never even make two knives alike. The value is directly attached to the maker’s name, and the name is the most important thing. So what’s in a name? There are many knife makers in the world. Some say as much as 3000 in the US alone. Though that number seems large, let’s really look at it. That means that .0012% of people are Knifemakers. That’s one in 83,000 people. Of these, most are “garage makers”, that’s beginners, hobbyists, or retired tinkerers who’ve made a couple of knives, or made for a year or two, and nibbled around the edges of knife making. About 300 of thes
