Robert Voth

21 hours ago, ThomasPowers said:

Have you looked into attending any ABS school sessions?  Do you have the capital to get the tools needed to make a decent living from it?  Do you already attend the various local and regional knife shows?  Have you taken any of the small business courses available?  Remember as a bladesmith you are running a business and being able to do that efficient can make or break you!

Being in Canada you luck out in the medical insurance department compared to the USA where one of my standard suggestions is to marry someone with good workplace benefits.

Generally I advise people to have a "real job" and make knives on the side until they find that they are making almost enough from the blades as from the job and then convert to full time.

Awesome thanks!

Thanks everyone for all the advice and tips! it really helps, now i'm thinking I should probably just do it as a hobby instead.

I'm mostly interested in bladesmithing, and i'm from Canada

I'm interested in blacksmithing for a career and I need someone to do an email interview about how you got started, costs, difficulty, etc. there will be about 25 question. I would really appreciate it if someone could do this for me. Thanks!