Group Buy on a Nessmuk Axe?

[Stew]

Personally, I think Cegga should make them as and when he's happy too and sell them at a price he think is deserved for the effort and skill.

I bet if he made one and put it up for £150 it would sell. When he can't shift one, he should stop making for a while.

Just my personal opinion. I love to get a bargain but it's unfair to undervalue a price.

I wonder how many people would have said £100 without having seen the previous replies? If it had started with people saying £125 is reasonable, would everyone else have agreed? I'm not trying to be derogatory, I just know that it's easy to say, "Yes, that sounds good". I do it myself.

Out of interest, how much is a Lee Reeves double? What's the waiting time?

 

[British Red]

I'm not saying its not yet Duncan. 10 interested already implies it might be. I wasn't having a go, its just that an acknowledged comlex design, in small numbers at a bargain price is kind of tricky

Red

 

[Stew]

Oh, and I meant to say, I would be interested and prepared to pay £125 if the timing was right.

 

[FGYT]

I'm not saying its not yet Duncan. 10 interested already implies it might be. I wasn't having a go, its just that an acknowledged comlex design, in small numbers at a bargain price is kind of tricky

Red

never thought you were

your fault any way never owned an axe till yesterday now i seem to need more

atb
Duncan

 

[British Red]

My Lee Reeves double was about a 13 month wait. It started out around $200. But international shipping, a spare helve, import duty, buying a money order (he doesn't take credit cards etc.) made it about £190 when it was all done. Lovely axe and well worth the money

Red

 

[Gailainne]

To perhaps put it into context both I and TMKTK were prepared to pay £100 for a Cegga Red, agreed it was an auction for Karens run but still, and I dont remember what you got for your prototype Red ?

I would be interested in a double headed cegga, cost, shrug £100 to 125 seems reasonable, but at the end of the day its Ceggas call, if he decides to sell them at 150, 175 even more, I would imagine they would still sell, perhaps in not so many numbers, but sell they will, his work is too good not to.

Stephen

 

[British Red]

Thanks Stephen - I tend to agree. I'm walking a bit of a tightrope here - I'd like to get nice gear to as many people as possible and still make sure Cegga gets a fair shake. Its a fine line!

I'm sure it'll come good though - I just feel this axe will work .

Red

 

[barry]

hi would love one of these as i missede out on both the single bit buys would be willing to pay between £100-£150 with a bvit of notice going by the reviews on ceggas work still belive this would be a good deal indeed

 

[FGYT]

1 please up to £100 ish sounds a bargain if the Hunter i got today is any thing to go by

ATB

Duncan

as the first Post on here and the £100 marker
you will note i said it was a bargain price
which i based on Red original post hinting at double the work etc of the £40 Hunter plus a bit (pun )

Not what im willing to pay

could be im up for £1000 but im not gonna say that
you dont walk into a shop and go up to the till and the guy say right what are you willing to pay for that lot . If you offer high you lose if you offer low he dosnt sell so you lose.

any way £100 is a bargain £200 is probably a bit steep but not by much
bearing in mind the Price of a custom Bushcraft knife then again i wont pay that for one of them.

ATB

Duncan

 

[Brian]

Red,

As I said before mate, I am interested. As for price, If you can get one made (and I can hide it from SWMBO) I''l buy it mate I'll just put a little aside from my redundancy money

Brian

 

[British Red]

Okay guys,

As Duncan says, its difficult to know - I also appreciate I'm asking how much for an axe you haven't seen yet.

I don't mind ploughing a bit of work in on a design so we;ll see how it goes from there...

I think I have an idea of a price at which it flies and a price beyond which it dies!

It'll take a good while to work something up, so leave it with me for a while!

Red

 

[Eric_Methven]

Okay guys,

As Duncan says, its difficult to know - I also appreciate I'm asking how much for an axe you haven't seen yet.

I don't mind ploughing a bit of work in on a design so we;ll see how it goes from there...

I think I have an idea of a price at which it flies and a price beyond which it dies!

It'll take a good while to work something up, so leave it with me for a while!

Red

Cheers Red, I appreciate all the hard graft you put into these things.

Eric

 

[Chris-N]

I absolutely WILL protect both the maker and the buyer. If that means saying "not viable" then I will say it. I will not have yet another bankrupt craftsmen or out of pocket customer on my consicence.

You sir are a king among men!

I'm not interested (No, thats not true, I can't afford any of these items as I'm a uni student in Australia living of welfare) but I think I may have a solution to getting a true price that is regarded as fair to both maker and buyer.

Run a poll with different price intervals of what people think is fair/maximum cost they would be WILLING to pay. Pick a common interval and have those voters "own up" and put there name to it so that actual interest is recorded.

Chris

 

[Shinken]

Come on you lot!

if it where 150 it'd be worth it.

I appreciate different people's financial situation but there are places in the world that will buy your organs you know

 

[Stew]

bearing in mind the Price of a custom Bushcraft knife

Absolutely!

Run a poll with different price intervals of what people think is fair/maximum cost they would be WILLING to pay. Pick a common interval and have those voters "own up" and put there name to it so that actual interest is recorded.

Naah, no point. Cegga would end up losing.

If I said to you that I had something for sale for £100 but was willing to accept £75, what would you expect to pay? OK, so you could say that you would do the decent thing and pay £100 becase you really want it and wantto give a fair price but would everybody?

With a poll, I would imagine that everyone is more likely to er on the lower side of the scale.

I know I sound like the cynic but I'm trying to save work from being undervalued.

The best test would be to put some up for sale.

 

[British Red]

Thanks for the input eand support everyone - it'll certainly get to a design stage based on the feedback and we may well make a prototype and work some costs out. Then we can check interest at a specific price which I think is the sensible way to go

Red

 

[EdS]

I'll echo what folks have said.

 

[Butchd]

I'd be interested too, not at all sure that I could afford it mind, but considering that I just paid £135 for something that was hand made and a bit more for something else that is being made for me, the prices discussed don't seem overboard.

Thanks again for this Red. I appreciate that you enjoy it too, but for someone like me that has little expertise in this, your assistance to date has been invaluable, and I can't think of many places like this where people are as generous as they are here.

 

[themac]

If it matched the cutting power of an SFA for circa the same size but a bit more weight then I'd be interested. The extra use/flexibility and dare I say sheer coolness of a Ness axe would enable me to part with £100 happily. If someone told me that it would shave the hairs off my arm I'd pay up to £150, I'm a sucker like that

 

[JimH]

Blimey!

I get out from under work and log in for the first time in aeons and someone's doing a group buy on my fantasy tool...

I'll gladly cough up for one.

Not seen Cegga's work in the flesh, but from piccies and comments I'd say 100 was a bargain. I'd willingly go 150.

I could use the splitting edge to open all the tins of Aldi beans I'll be eating:yikes:

Jim.