Kramer auction

is there no limit to prices ? watched the auction last night and a kramer damascus with a snakewood handle went for over 31k. is that ridiculous or what? sure buys a lot of Burkes with that money

 

I'm with you on this one, but for the person who spent 31k, it's likely not even a drop in the bucket.

But like you said, I'd rather get a dozen or more custom knives for that price. The thing is his regular knives don't go for that much if you're chosen from his list. It's just supply and demand that pushes the bidding that high.

Still, it's always fun for me to watch how much they go for op

- Steve

 

I've never heard of the Kramer Auction.
Of course why would I...31k on a knife?

 

i drive a 6K$ truck
i am glad a maker can get income like that. i dont think it will last forever tho its jsut the way things seem to work

 

better be urushi handled with an elaborate maki-e artwork on it for that money

 

There's just a lot of people with money out there, and some people are willing to pay that auction price to own a Kramer. But it's not like this is a weekly thing either, so people tend to jump on them when they become available. I'm sure there's also a few who get caught up in the bidding frenzy that drive the price up too.

At least on the plus side, Kramer does give 10% of the profits from the auctions to charity. Not something he has to do, but something he chooses to do.

- Steve

 

That is freaking great for Kramer. I have never met him, but seems like a standup guy. I will have to settle for the Zwilling version for a bit.

 

this was the knife

 

That's a good looking knife indeed. But what makes them tens of thousands of dollars? Exclusivity? Solid gold accents?
Or do you think this was just a case of two people that REALLY wanted the knife?

 

It's a luxury status symbol to some. Like I said, supply and demand. There aren't many available so people pay extreme prices during the auctions for them if they want them. Value is perceived and subjective, right? A man in China just spent $2 million on a Tibetan Mastiff because he could.

Someone might even view the knife as a work of art rather than just a tool, so they could also justify it that way. Some paint, some sculpt, Kramer creates knives. He's also clearly great at branding, to have the ability to sell a knife at that price.

- Steve

 

Supply and demand.

 

EEeeesssscccchhh. I know you used to spend a years pay on a sword but on a knife? No thank you. That one doesn't trip my trigger either.

 

Amazing knife maker and a pretty cool guy. For that kind of money, it would never see anything but the display case on the wall. (For the record, I would never spend that kind of money on a knife, even if I had it.)

 

What I could do with 30k and someone just wasted it on a knife.

 

You may say wasted, but I bet that guy who paid out on it will say quite the opposite. 32k? Heck yeah that's a lot of cheddar. I could pay our car loans of with that, and/or my school loan. But that's where I'm at. Person who ponied up that kind of dough is obviously not where I'm at. And that's totally fine. Plus,I bet the new owner of this stellar blade gets to write this off as charity. So did it really cost him/her 32k? I dun knooooooow

 

Really nice looking knife. I am sure the person who bought it feels like a king when he stumbles across these threads.

 

I love his work but at that price I think I'd need to win the lottery first and even then it would be a pretty tough sell.

 

I reiterate, What I could do with 30k and someone just wasted it on a knife.

 

I bet the guy was bidding while thinking "there's a guy in a knife forum who could use this money. Nah, waste it on the Kramer -insert evil laugh-"