It wasn't that I really wanted it all that much, it's kind of like... well it's like, I just wanted to see what would happen after a while. I've read of so may people getting screwed out of their money, especially stuff like KickStarter things. All the people that lost their life savings in GM stock, stuff like that. I wanted to see if I would actually, ever get it. If I didn't, oh well $230 is like two tanks of gas these days, right? And to my utter amazement, here it is. That poor guy endured every hateful criticism that anyone with a keyboard could ever think of thrown at him, he persevered, shrugged it all off, and made it happen anyway. But all that hate thrown his way had to hurt. He did more that 99% of us would, or even could do. Heck, I don't think I would have gone all the way through with it, and I consider myself a pretty damn good person. I think I would have found a way to just reason out: that good people screw up in business all the time, and that's why there are bankruptcy laws, and taken the easy way out. He didn't take the easy way out. He rode the hard path and made it happen. I'm impressed. I'm as impressed with that guy, as with anyone who ever made any company, great or small, successful. Henry Ford, or the guy with the corner convenience store.
People's standards have fallen so low haha.. how pathetic.
Basically: "I can't believe he actually made the product I paid for! I'm so grateful you did the bare minimum expected! "
Who celebrates bad service?? You don't pat the fast food worker who forgot your fries on the back do you? The bitchy cashier maybe?
I got off that list a long time ago. I'm not a dipshit. So I refused to wait another year for fuck all to end up in my mailbox.. but please... go on more about how great SURVIVE! is.. your love for them is hurting my sides.
Do you collect Benchmade too? I'm still trying to pawn off my last knife from those two faced cunts. I'm almost ready to give the fucker away for shipping costs.. tbh it's probably nicer than that SURVIVE! is though, and it cost half the SK
Still confused how you took waiting 6 years as a sign that he's a good guy lol.
Why?
If he was a good guy he would've refunded everyone the minute he figured out he wouldn't be able to produce the numbers he promised within the next decade.. he did the opposite.. that's a good way to get a rep like Mick Striders fake ass does.. or Gerber, SOG, or Schrade when they went chinesium (sue me).
If you hired me to remodel your bathroom and for the next 6 years I kept leading you on about a timeframe for finished product because... reasons.. you'd be pissed; and probably sue; so how is this different?
Very few would've had a problem with this wait if he did his due diligence and figured out about how long (an estimate is close enough) it would take. He had people in the dark.. while he spent their money.. for years.
Randall has an absurd wait list too that's also years long for a knife.. but people know up front about it and no one is mad.
How many of the people on his waiting list died before he even started their knife and no information at all on a time frame? It's just shady.. and he shouldn't get love for barely providing the service he promised.
He would've been better off working for a good knifemaker for a while to see how this shit is done before jumping head first into something he clearly wasn't ready for.. I mean if Half Face is where they are doing small batch shit you can't even get hands on because of bots then he has no excuse. Hell the fans he still has seem to be equally rabid.. so why is he a failure?
He should be able to do the same.. don't promise 12,000 knives (or whatever) in 6 months if you only have the ability to make like 50. It's dumb and he deserves the hate imo. All I'm saying is you shouldn't write checks you can't cash.
Anyway.. I have a 5.1 GSO on the way as I type this through a trade I thought twice about. So we'll see if their blade is so much better they can justify the wait.
It can't be much nicer (probably much much worse quality actually) than my Busse's, Randall Made, RMJ, Dawson, Bark River, Tactical Pterodactyl, Half Face, Bastinelli, Microtech, or even Esee and TOPS though based on visuals alone. I'm gonna start collecting Carothers stuff soon but I GUARANTEE they dont come remotely close to them either.
I'll probably end up selling it. We'll see.. the future holds many mysteries. I doubt very very much that they are "ridiculously high quality" though.. I am going to go out on a limb and say they are aight.. good but nothing special.. type stuff. Probably like a step up from TOPS, but a step down from BRK
Peter's Heat Treat are really the only "special" attribute about their knives from what I can see.. and that's not even their product.
