I have 10m gold. But at one point I had more for the Trophy than what was saved. So I'm wondering is this collected gold from OWF? Or is there something else that triggers the Trophy?
Do you as knife makers think this could be a good part time side hustle? I have many contacts for ethically harvested rare hardwoods from the Peruvian Amazon. Working with NGOs that reforest and can harvest fallen branches and recovered scraps from very rare and interesting hardwoods.
I've tried doing market research, but custom knives are a hard business to research. There are some modified scales on the market, but I wonder if this is something that is so niche it wouldn't be easy to set up. So I have the following questions for this community:
Would you as a knife maker be interested in rare wood for crafting knives?
What equipment would be needed? Does it need to be stabilized wood to be a viable business? Or would the market bear raw unstabilized wood as a product?
How difficult would it be to just make finished scales for sale, and would that be worth the trouble? Could I start by supplying unstabilized wood to select knifemakers and scale up the business equipment to producing finished scales for production knives, and continue to scale up to finished custom knives? I would like to eventually get up to large knives, machetes, parangs, and bushcraft knives.
Any examples of businesses that already do this that you would like to share?
I'm not looking to get rich off of this, ideally it would be enough income to support my journey in knifemaking. Any feedback, positive or negative, is appreciated.