Our Pricing
Price for a custom knife made by Schmiedeglut
What is the price for a knife and how do we calculate our prices?
- Steel for the blade / damascus steel
- Material for grip handle, inlays, mosaicpins, rivets, ...
- Abrasives
- Tools, machines
- Rent, electricity, water, gas, heating
- 45, - € / hour. for normal work and materials
- 60, - € / hour. for very difficult work or with very expensive materials
- 75, - € / hour. for very difficult work and very expensive materials
- 90, - € / hour. for working on knives of the Luxury Edition or particularly unusual projects
Example-1: Masterpiece Edition
hunting knife made of carbon steel with ebony handle (hardwood) and leather sheath
- Blade shape, blade grinding, blade hardening, tempering (about 2 hours each 60, -. €)
- Blade finish (approx 0.5 hrs of 45, -. €)
- Prepare handle material, blade mount, form grinding, handle finish (about 2 hours each 60, -. €)
- Sharpen the knife, quality control, reworking smaller errors (about 0.5 hours to each 45, -. €)
- Sew leather sheath, adjust color (about 2 hours of 45, -. €)
The knife costs by:
Example-2: Masterpiece Edition
kitchen knife handforged-Damascus steel with 300 layers and handle made of hardwood
- Build Damascus package, repeatedly folding and forge welding, 300 layers produced (about 3 hours each 60, - €)
- Reforge to size, normalize, soft glow, etc. (about 2.5 hours to each 45, -. €)
- Blade shape, blades grinding, blade hardening, tempering (3 hours each 60, -. €)
- Blade Finish by hand, etching treatment (approximately 2.5 hours of 45, -. €)
- Prepare handle material, blade mount, Form grinding, handle finish (about 2 hours each 60, -. €)
- Sharpen the knife, quality control, reworking smaller errors (about 0.5 hours to each 60, -. €)
Example 3: Luxury Edition
diameter special order
Handforged Spiderweb-Damascus/ Mammoth Ivory XC / mosaic pins / Liners
- Design together with the customer (about 1 hour to each 60, -. €)
- Forging and creating Spiderweb Damascus (about 8 hours per 90, - €)
- Reforge to size, normalize, soft glow, etc. (about 1.5 hours to each 60, -. €)
- Blade shapes, blades grinding, blade hardening, tempering (about 2 hours each 90, -. €)
- Blade finish, etching treatment (about 1 hour to each 60, -. €)
- Prepare handle material, blade mount, form grinding, handle finish (about 2 hours each 90, -. €)
- Sharpen the knife, quality control, reworking smaller errors (about 0.5 hours to each 60, -. €)
The "SG-series"
Handmade knife with mechanical assistance
- All work that is relevant to the quality of the knives, are 100% handmade by ourselves (eg hardening, heat treatment, finishing, sharpening, assembly, quality control, etc.)
- The remaining work where it's all about simple diligence tasks, we set with mechanical assistance (cut material to work out rough shape and serrated, drill holes, etc.)
By the above procedure we save about 30-50% working time in the production and give these savings on to our customers . You will see a difference only on price, since the quality of the SG-knives is the same as completely handmade custom knives (if the materials also are the same)
There is indeed the possibility to individualize the knife, but we cannot realize any fundamental changes.



