Question: Terminology

MountainMan · Aug 22, 2014

I am new to this skill and am trying to turn it into a small business venture eventually. If I buy a tomahawk handle and head kit, but then engrave them. Is it still classified as handmade? Any assistance would be welcomed.

Boris · Aug 22, 2014

Only if you forged the head and made the handle yourself. I dabble in Antiques a lot, and "Hand Made" is not normally a term used to describe an assembled product from pre-made production parts.

That's what applies in our World, of old and vintage pieces, and includes old weapons.

monk · Aug 22, 2014

if you engrave the item by hand, you can call the art on the piece, "hand engraving". as for the hawk kit, i'd simply label it as hand engraving on a store-bought hawk. honesty never gets one in trouble. the same cant be said of misleading a potential buyer of your efforts.

DKanger · Aug 23, 2014

One made by a blacksmith would be hand made. Yours would be hand assembled and hand engraved. Advertising is the art of deceiving the public into assuming something is true when it isn't.

monk · Aug 23, 2014

hey, kanger: you're a bit off the mark. you got to deceive them into thinking they want it .

KCSteve · Aug 23, 2014

Oh it's not deceiving, it's just helping them realize.

DanM · Aug 23, 2014

Depending on who you get the head kit from,they are a wide variety of metals used.Most are cast and include 1030 mild steel to hardened D2 tool steel.If you are just beginning engraving you should know the materials first.

DakotaDocMartin · Aug 23, 2014

DKanger said:
One made by a blacksmith would be hand made. Yours would be hand assembled and hand engraved. Advertising is the art of deceiving the public into assuming something is true when it isn't.

I think that's where the term Hand Crafted comes in.

DKanger · Aug 23, 2014

hey, kanger: you're a bit off the mark. you got to deceive them into thinking they want it .

That's why they use Australians or fat guys wearing chef's hats to sell stuff. Seems they're more believable. :shock:

FWIW, my youngest brother was a pitch man and ran a crew of 40 "associates" selling such stuff at county fairs and major chain stores.
http://www.syndicate-sales.com/Stove-Top_Grill_Info.php
Notice the "chef" recipes. He's a vegetarian and his wife, Chef Rhonda Orto, can't even boil water. :clapping:

Roger B · Aug 23, 2014

That's why they use Australians or fat guys wearing chef's hats to sell stuff. Seems they're more believable.

A little off topic but since we lost the minimum requirements that television advertisements be Australian produced our screens have been full of Americans trying to sell us things that we don't need.

DakotaDocMartin · Aug 23, 2014

DKanger said:
FWIW, my youngest brother was a pitch man and ran a crew of 40 "associates" selling such stuff at county fairs and major chain stores.

"Never give a sucker an even break."

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