Carter on Reddit.

[eshua]

http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1xuh02/im_a_bladesmith_heres_a_knife_i_just_completed/

Murray Carter is on the front page of reddit. Probably nothing new for regular knife nuts, but the rest of the makers/vendors should consider the marketing potential. Almost 7k votes on the post. Has to be ten times that many views. Not bad for a couple hours community interaction.

 

[quantumcloud509]

That was a fun read. Get ready for a new wave of new guys.

 

[gavination]

Haha that's awesome! The one he posted is pretty gorgeous in person. Jason up front at the store was handing all the new neck knives to me yesterday while he was taking pictures for the website. I almost bought one as well. The kurouchi has hammered detailing in it. It's a really nice touch.

 

[Hbeernink]

agreed- coming from an industry that's well behind the standard of new marketing, I applaud murray for this

 

[JohnnyChance]

Don was popular on reddit not too long ago. Maybe the student taught the master something on his recent visit to Murray's.

 

[gavination]

I think as far as kitchen knives go, Murray doesn't need much help in that department. We keep him pretty much empty all the time. :lol:

For hunting knives, the big makers definitely engage in social media marketing. Glad Murray's getting in on this. He even asked me if I was going to post the photos I took of him finishing my nakiri on Facebook. I said I would on KKF and that I hadn't thought about it on Facebook, but that I would. His reply was "Good." Haha! I'll do whatever I can to support them. Great group of guys.

 

[Noodle Soup]

Interesting Murray calls himself the only Japanese trained Gaijin knifemaker in the world. He is tending to over look Arnon Kartmazov's 12 years of training in Japan. And Arnon is also in the Portland area.

 

[Don Nguyen]

Interesting Murray calls himself the only Japanese trained Gaijin knifemaker in the world. He is tending to over look Arnon Kartmazov's 12 years of training in Japan. And Arnon is also in the Portland area.

When I was asking Murray about single bevel knives, he said that Arnon is one of the very few people over here who have actual experience with making single-beveled knives in Japan.

 

[kungpao]

Any kitchen knife content on reddit is welcomed with open arms. Don's posting on reddit got me here a year or so ago.

 

[Salty dog]

One of my videos found it's way on reddit and got almost a million views.

I was like what the F is reddit?

 

[mhpr262]

I don't get the attraction of reddit either, terrible layout and looks and very confusing and hard to use.

What kind of videos do you make? Link?

 

[Salty dog]

Naked knife videos.

 

[cheflarge]

Salty....... YOU RULE!!! :doublethumbsup: :biggrin: :goodpost:

 

[Don Nguyen]

Naked knife videos.

I remember the tomato suji one got a ton of videos too!