Master of Swordsmith

	Hand Made	Machine work
Costs and material	The raw materials are important to handmade knives, and so the price of the materials will be a cost a lot more.	The machine work knife’s materials are no inferior to the handmade knives. Most of them are made with metal coated with stainless steel.
Production speed	Making a sword requires a more complex technique, and a sword maker can only build five to ten swords per day.	A machine work sword takes only minutes to finish a knife. All it need to do is pour melted metal into molds.
Price	Because it’s handmade, which means more costs on materials and human effort, and that’s what makes it more expensive	Machine work requires less human efforts and saves a lot more time so the price will be lower than handmade crafts.
Human effort	A knife requires a blacksmith and several apprentice to make it.	A machine only requires one or two operator to watch the machine.
Space occupied	A personal iron workshop is normally aside the store itself and requires less space.	A factory requires a lot more space than a workshop for its machines.
Quality	The handmade knives’ quality is way higher than machine work knives. Because it’s fully handmade, so all its technique are going by the passed down methods. Unless it’s at the highest quality, or else the blacksmith won’t sell it to the customer.	Normally , handmade knives are designated for mass production and cheap price, so normally the quality can’t be assured. And that’s why there are no warranty with machine made knives.
Service	A blacksmith knows his stuff, so they can deliver a better explanation to the customers. And customers can actually see and try the knives themselves. Normally , handmade knives comes with a warranty while machine works don’t.	Machine work knives are mostly sold at markets with many other different brands, and the sales can’t be as professional as a blacksmith himself.
Conclusion	Advantages: High quality, full knowledge of the product and after-sales service. Disadvantages: Higher costs, bigger human efforts and higher price.	Advantages: Mass production( faster and easier, an normal machine operator can make one) Disadvantages: Quality not guaranteed, and no after-sales service.

Conclusion:
Even though handmade knives takes more time, human effort and costs to make them, the collectors still prefer them. Each of them are precisely made by their maker, and usually it lasts longer than machine made knives, plus after-sales service. Once, Mr. Kuo cut his handmade sword with another regular factory produced sword, the machine made sword broke almost immediately when it touches the handmade one. Again, it proved the quality of a handmade sword.

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