Hi guys.
Being a traditional woodworker, I make a lot of training weapons for myself, and in the process, I can't help but often wonder if:
1) Others would enjoy custom, hand made hardwood training weapons.
and,
2) If there is a large enough market to make it worthwhile.
As well as
3) How to reach that market, which I am clueless, beyond my own small training circles.
What sort of thing, if any, would interest you?
Points of balance closer to the tip or handle, distal tapers, custom lengths and styles, guards, accompanying sheathes, pointy or blunted tips for thrusting, etc. are all on the table.
I imagine I could feasibly turn out simple wooden swords for about $100/each--possibly a bit less for simpler designs, and more for more complex or intricate ones. Custom fitted wooden scabbards would be quite a bit more expensive and time consuming to make, and I doubt adds much value, but would be possible as well.
Is there anything that just doesn't exist, but you wish did?
I have a feeling that it's tough to compete with the price and utility of modern synthetics though...
Being a traditional woodworker, I make a lot of training weapons for myself, and in the process, I can't help but often wonder if:
1) Others would enjoy custom, hand made hardwood training weapons.
and,
2) If there is a large enough market to make it worthwhile.
As well as
3) How to reach that market, which I am clueless, beyond my own small training circles.
What sort of thing, if any, would interest you?
Points of balance closer to the tip or handle, distal tapers, custom lengths and styles, guards, accompanying sheathes, pointy or blunted tips for thrusting, etc. are all on the table.
I imagine I could feasibly turn out simple wooden swords for about $100/each--possibly a bit less for simpler designs, and more for more complex or intricate ones. Custom fitted wooden scabbards would be quite a bit more expensive and time consuming to make, and I doubt adds much value, but would be possible as well.
Is there anything that just doesn't exist, but you wish did?
I have a feeling that it's tough to compete with the price and utility of modern synthetics though...