[fitzo]

The term "custom" is obviously used interchangeably with "custom made" in the current "knifemakers' glossary".

If you are attempting here to create an updated terminology that lends itself to more specificity and less ambiguity then I would have to agree that the two terms can be separated and "custom" be confined to meaning an item ordered specifically to a customer's specifications.

I would have no problem calling what I do "custom made". In fact, I see taking an opportunity to differentiate the two approaches as welcome. They are, after all, two different scenarios and while I do one, I don't do the other.

The purpose of language, after all, is to disambiguate communication.