A knife's steel might cost eight dollars; the belts you burn grinding it cost more. Fuel, abrasives, and hours are the real economics of forge work, and they're exactly what a price-by-materials habit misses. MadeKeeper counts the consumables per piece so your quench, your heat treat, and your hammer time all end up on the price tag.
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Say you forge a 1084 hunter:
Sell it at $240 with nine hours in it and your forge time paid $22.58 an hour. That's the number that should set the next knife's price — not what the steel cost.
For blades, MadeKeeper keeps clean records of what you made, when, and where it sold — useful paperwork to have on hand, since knife rules vary by state; the rules themselves stay your call to check.
Materials and true cost per piece, products (in bulk or one-of-a-kind), sales that drain stock, the was-this-fair-worth-it event math, mileage, expenses, and the year-end tax packet — all in the app today. Etsy and Square sync, your own storefront, a booth card reader, and shipping labels are building, shaped with founding makers. Nothing above describes a feature that doesn't exist without saying so. See the full live-vs-building list →
Yes — belts, fuel, and abrasives log as materials and get pulled into each piece's recipe. For most bladesmiths that's the difference between a flattering margin and a real one.
Each piece carries its own cost basis and hours, and every sale reports profit per hour. Watch that number across a season and your pricing floor sets itself from evidence.
Yes. An event logs its fees, travel, and hours; your load-out and count-back give it the sales. The verdict tells you whether that weekend show out-earned a weekend at the forge.
The app is live and free during the pilot. Lock the $19/mo founding rate for as long as you stay.