Beautiful Pendray knife as well as the price!!

Tim Simmons · 3rd May 2007, 09:55 PM

Talking about the market is a tricky thing. Demand can be governed by a taste or perception rather than enquiry and investigation, largely depending on how intellegent the money is

Gt Obach · 4th May 2007, 12:06 AM

i remain somewhere in the middle ...liking both old and new blades.... ... after making a few myself.. i've a healthy respect for the smiths who do this for a living... i do think that there are some people doing very nicely in the biz of knives... but probably not a good as some of the antique dealers.. (maybe)

i've seen some 50lbs lil giant hammer go for 2000.... but the 30 ton hydraulic press seems to be more fashionable now a days..

all that being said... i do find pendray's blades abit pricey, but apparently he's got the name to sell it

i do like this kard he made... ( except the mokume pommel

)
http://customknifegallery.com/pendray1f.html

G

A. G. Maisey · 4th May 2007, 09:44 PM

Yeah, spot on, Tim.

It pretty much depends on what drives a person to purchase the knife.

Like a car:- do you buy the Ferrari to cruise the beaches, or the Corolla to get you from point A to point B cheaply and reliably?

Or maybe you've got one of each in the garage.

Personally, I see modern custom knives as collectables, just as are jambiyas, keris, pesh kabz and so on.

I prefer the ethnic stuff; others prefer the work of modern custom makers.

Where it can get a bit unstable is where you buy a custom maker's knife to do the job of a tool; if that maker has produced what he sees as a collectable, it gets a bit hard to justify big dollars for what the buyer sees as a tool.

And yes, that is a seriously nice kard.

tsubame1 · 5th May 2007, 01:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gt Obach

( except the mokume pommel

)

You know... Mokume is trendy. Even engagement and marriage rings made
that way. My wife would have trow such rings out of the window...

But they are quiet well suited for Habaki IMHO.

@ Ariel. The link provided shows an evidently chep work, but the quality of
the mounting that started this thread is evidently much better too.
I can't say if enough to justify thousand of dollars, but if the stones are ruby
(obviously not the pidgeon-blood burmese ones...) the price increase.
To put an 8K U$ mounting on a 800 U$ blade is what, in my way to appreciate
weapons, the real nonsense...

3rd May 2007, 09:55 PM	#1
Tim Simmons Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: What is still UK Posts: 5,875	Talking about the market is a tricky thing. Demand can be governed by a taste or perception rather than enquiry and investigation, largely depending on how intellegent the money is

4th May 2007, 12:06 AM	#2
Gt Obach Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 116	i remain somewhere in the middle ...liking both old and new blades.... ... after making a few myself.. i've a healthy respect for the smiths who do this for a living... i do think that there are some people doing very nicely in the biz of knives... but probably not a good as some of the antique dealers.. (maybe) i've seen some 50lbs lil giant hammer go for 2000.... but the 30 ton hydraulic press seems to be more fashionable now a days.. all that being said... i do find pendray's blades abit pricey, but apparently he's got the name to sell it i do like this kard he made... ( except the mokume pommel ) http://customknifegallery.com/pendray1f.html G

4th May 2007, 09:44 PM	#3
A. G. Maisey Member Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 7,048	Yeah, spot on, Tim. It pretty much depends on what drives a person to purchase the knife. Like a car:- do you buy the Ferrari to cruise the beaches, or the Corolla to get you from point A to point B cheaply and reliably? Or maybe you've got one of each in the garage. Personally, I see modern custom knives as collectables, just as are jambiyas, keris, pesh kabz and so on. I prefer the ethnic stuff; others prefer the work of modern custom makers. Where it can get a bit unstable is where you buy a custom maker's knife to do the job of a tool; if that maker has produced what he sees as a collectable, it gets a bit hard to justify big dollars for what the buyer sees as a tool. And yes, that is a seriously nice kard.