6/16: A little fine tuning to Shipping cost structure One of the most critical components of knife sales these days is shipping.  Nobody wants their knife to show up in a rolled up bubble envelope.  Nobody wants to pay as much for shipping as they do the knife.  And, to be brutally honest, free shipping

For some reason there is a recent phenomenon in the knife market of mad rushes on speculative knife purchases; or as one customer called them – “lolly scrambles”. It is most obvious in my corner of the world on the TC Barlows.  Since each of 9+/- dealers share in a standard SFO run (500 knives),