Forgecraft Prices now officially crazy

[brainsausage]

Nothing about these say Forgecraft to me. I don't understand why you couldn't just honor the artisans that produced these knives, and put their marks on it. Just feels like gimmicky marketing to me.

 

[daveb]

Can't seem to shut it from fon. I've called for reinforcements.

 

[spoiledbroth]

They didn't actually post a link to their site, that was a real forum member what did that... in before close I guess. Sad to see things turned out this way. I have looked at many a japanese made knife and thought that x or y could be changed for the North American market. I'm not so sure this is different.

http://www.forgecraft.co/about/ been waiting a year for these guys to pull their heads out of their asses.

 

[Cheeks1989]

Not my cup of tea but best of luck menzaremba.

 

[pleue]

On another forgecraft front, I sent hoss an unsharpened 8" and he has the 10" as well. he's planning at some point to get around to an homage to them, albeit without the logo I take it, though I think I like the devin logo better

 

[menzaremba]

On another forgecraft front, I sent hoss an unsharpened 8" and he has the 10" as well. he's planning at some point to get around to an homage to them, albeit without the logo I take it, though I think I like the devin logo better

I sent him the best (and earliest) 1950s Forgecraft that I have as well. You know that anything that Devin makes is going to be awesome.

 

[menzaremba]

Well, I severely underestimated how much attention this would get. I really just wanted people to know that we'd finally "got our head our of our a***". I'm always happy to talk about knives, and definitely have empathy with a lot of the opinions here (we do kind of like look instagram hipsters). I'm going to bow out of this thread.

 

[Lefty]

Is the plaid shirt itchy? Like, is it flannel, or dress shirt material? Oh, sorry. PM.

 

[alterwisser]

Is the plaid shirt itchy? Like, is it flannel, or dress shirt material? Oh, sorry. PM.

Isn't plaid the new black?!?

 

[Vertigo]

Only if you wear it with a metro beard.

 

[Bill13]

Moving the thread back to it's original intent

Here is one on the bay that got too expensive for me. http://www.ebay.com/itm/121798506509

 

[spoiledbroth]

I'm curious to know if vintage forgies are better than newer clones like R Murphy carbon or Ontario Knife old hickory (which even has the forgecraft brick pattern on the faces of the blade... spooky).

 

[Noodle Soup]

It is worth remembering that Ontario originated that faux "handforged" blade pattern and the majority of other cutlery companies copied it later in the 1920-1930 period. Then there are dozens of private label knives produced by Ontario knives. I personally think the Case XX versions were probably the best quality.

 

[IndoorOutdoorCook]

Wow $82?! I bought rehandled and gifted 3 of these in the summer. Most I paid was $30-40

 

[Bill13]

I've been on the look out for a few months and this was in the best shape, I thought it would go higher, so I didn't follow it closely enough to try a last minute bid.