Spinner parts in the house. Let the build begin...
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2025
- It's time for a quick Ferrum Forge update. Since its under 30 minutes, we're calling it a "quick" update. Sit back, relax and enjoy some Ferrum Forge rambling and our eternal struggle to stay on target in a video.
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Awesome design guys, very excited!
Drool - you guys need to make these more often. I miss these...
I'm looking forward to receiving mine! Looking great!
good stuff men
Those master blasters. Didn't have the money but if I did I'd buy one
stay on target ..stay on target...
Stinger XL huh?
I would love to have any knife you have made, but I can't afford it. however I love your work and continue to lust over a FF knife
Why the free spinning pivot with such a small lockside screw? It's hard to secure in place from what I saw in the full Nick Shabaz.
I arrived at the current pivot we use after years of trying out other available pivots. Mr. Shabaz, like so many youtube knife reviewers imagines that we are rolling in profits and can just have specialty small part made for us. He is of course wrong, sort of. We have parts that are made to my specs, but they are parts that are already being manufactured so adding my tweaks doesn't require a full re-tooling and we don't get charged for a completely custom part generation. Having pivots made is very expensive, literally ten times their current cost. I would love to have custom pivots... ones that slot into the scale like Nick mentioned. Problem is making the pivot and machining the lock scale to accept and lock the pivot in adds cost in the manufacturing process and since we operate without profit on our knives the way they are, I'm can't add any more costs to our manufacturing. Making knives of meaningful quality is expensive, don't believe me... do what I did and try and do it yourself, it gets very pricey.
We make and repair our knives everyday and have no issues tightening and untightening our pivots... even the ones people crossthread. Part of the reason we use the pivot we do is so it doesn't require two tools. Do I hope to be able to afford custom pivots in the future? Heck yeah, but I have to work within our means for the time being. We are a tiny company, it's just Chris and I and while we have found ways to make a substantial amount of knives per year for two guys, we don't have the kind of purchasing power that larger companies have.
We try and stay positive and upbeat in our vids and social media presence, but doing what we do, in the quantities we are able to do it in, in the USA, is not easy. Chris and I both made more money working crappy hourly wage jobs than we are able to pay ourselves now. We keep going and keep striving with the hope that Ferrum Forge continues to grow and that we can continue to make meaningful improvements to our products. We get compared to Hinderer, CRK, and Strider a lot since we are in their price ranges... all of those companies have yearly outputs that are a minimum of ten times our yearly output. I mean last time i talked to Rick Hinderer they had 24 employees, that's twelve times the manpower we have.
I'm not making excuses or complaining, I love what we do, I'm just bringing a little perspective on the realities we face.
Thanks for replying. I hope your business will continue to grow.
It's good to hear that you have no issues tightening and untightening your pivots.
I'd love for you to show us on a future video. I'm sure many viewers who might be concerned would also like to know your technique.
Thanks for the detailed response, and for taking a break from swimming around in your Scrooge McDuck style swimming pool of knife profit cash :)
I hear you, and I sympathize, but at the same time, on a knife that's otherwise beautifully done, I'd pay an extra $5-10 for the pivot to be done in a way that I can trust over the long term and over years of disassembly. Part of what's confusing is that many other small makers are able to find off-the-shelf pivots which are at least tooled on both sides, but you know your business and suppliers better than I do. Although that pivot issue is going to be a recurring theme in my reviews (sorry!), the quality of your knives in other respects, particularly the action, is absolutely enough to overwhelm a few design compromises. In future review videos (beyond those already filmed), I'll mention your explanation for the pivot, if that's OK?
Also, I'm really hoping that you can grow and make these sorts of long-term improvements, too! Thanks for your passion!
FerrumForge so let me get this straight. You guys are making 200 knives a month at a minimum of $500 each. That's 1.2 mil right there. Plus you have mass drop royalties, one off custom auctions etc. With 2 employees crushing 1.3 mill easily I don't see how you guys are living paycheck to paycheck like you are saying. Steel and rent can only cost so much.