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Found this in A.G. Russell's glossary:
"Custom Knife
The following paragraph is the correct meaning of Custom Knife, however in today?s knife world it means a knife not made in a factory, it can be handmade or assembled from mass produced parts.. Today the term is totally without meaning.
A Custom Knife is one in which the customer has either designed all or part of the knife OR a knife in which the customer has specified the materials in a makers own design. Selecting one of the listed handle materials in a makers catalog to be put on a blade of the makers design does not make a custom knife."
Note from my previous post, that even A.G. Russell does not use the word "custom" appropriately in reference to the knives sold on his website.
Are we trying to define a term that has already been defined, and the definition disgarded by "today's knife world?" If so, do we need to define it in modern terms?
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