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"That said, colloquial contractions of phrases are common in language and it would thus appear that the frequently perceived meaning behind the word "custom" is actually "custom made". It would also seem to fit with broader definitons proposed here.
It then becomes a matter of concensus whether the word is allowed to imply the phrase. "
I think you hit it on the nose Mike! You have a gift for reducing a discussion to it's simpliest form. This is what I think the whole argument hinges, on right here.
It seems very clear that the term 'custom made' shares a great deal of ground with the term 'hand made' in so far as it applies to knives.
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