After Sale Lounge

Nathan the Machinist said:
If Matt ever offers you some of his pork loin. Don't eat it. Half the time it's long pig.
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After reading all the comments from the person with an issue on the pre order, which I didn’t get in on as I already have a edc2 I use everyday and love it, I had no issues dropping the coin for the K20.1 preorder and can’t wait to pay the other half when mine is ready. First pre order I’ve done as I’m pretty new to CPK. I had no issues putting the money up front as I saw all the previous pre orders done and read through a lot of threads about all the happy pre order buyers.

The only idea I had about the pre orders pertains to the limit on the orders. A lot of the pre orders seem to be around 300 knives from what I can remember which is a good amount of knives. I also believe that most times the limit per person is 3 knives. So theoretically 100 people could buy all the knives and with how over 113 people got in the first minute of this edc preorder that could have happened.

Now my idea, and not sure if it would complicate things, but if the first day (or first hour) of the preorder the limit is one per person. That would allow more people to get an order in before the 300 number is reached. Then after that the people that want 2 or 3 can do so if there are any left over.

Just an idea I had so if any of you CPK addicts that buy 3 every preorder have a problem with my idea, suck it 🤣 I’m just drinking and thinking here
 
Blues said:
Why is it called a long pig?


Human flesh tastes like pork, hence the term 'long pig' for human meat cuts, the 'long' denoting the difference between the limb lengths of pig and human. Although there are few 'first hand' accounts of the flavor of human flesh, its similarity in texture and taste to that of pork seems generally agreed upon.
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I’ll have to dig through the collection to find it but in one of my Africa hunting books the white hunter was speaking with a local cannibal. The latter was explaining the vibrance and life in human meat - in his view it surpassed all else.
 
Nathan the Machinist said:
This is a machine shop that started making knives. We don't do well with a lot of additional complexity.

I don't particularly want to do pre-orders. I can sell every knife I make, I could simply just make and sell knives, a pre-order does not benefit me in any way. I offer this as a courtesy for folks who have requested it as an option to get what they want, any way they want it, with low stress.

I am not set up to take deposits and go trying to find people to get the remaining balance. We have done that, and sometimes we still do that, but it's not necessary or practical for this little knife. When I was a small maker and doing 10 knives at a time, it was workable, but it's too much for me to manage now.

To reiterate, I absolutely do not need or want to do pre-orders, this is something that I do as a courtesy to accommodate the folks who want it. I am not one of those folks.

In order for this to work, I need to keep it as simple as possible. You tell me what you want, you give me your money, we make it and send it to you. Period. Doesn't get much more simple than that.

Is this unethical? I honestly don't know. I thought I was doing okay until you said something about it. But this is a way that I'm able to accommodate what folks want without making it needlessly complicated for a dunn machinist to keep up with.

We are actually a pretty lean operation. There are tons of people who say "we don't cut any corners, we spare no expense, everything is top of the line blah blah blah". The reality is we're having the steel made to our specifications, rolled to our specifications, our heat treat is far more complex and expensive than most, everything we're doing is expensive. Our work is expensive because there is no effort to make it cheaply, we're trying to do our best work. There is not a ton of fluff here, you're buying directly from the manufacturer, not a dealer with a markup. There's not room in the overhead to accommodate a complex system. Poor Jo is scrambling and stressed out dealing with our current size by herself the way it is. I need to keep things simple.

We kept this pre-order simple, omitting some of the more complex options, for this reason.

We are not a large sophisticated outfit. I'm trying to offer people good bang for the buck. I think, perhaps your biggest gripe with me boils down to the fact that we are not a large corporation with sophisticated bookkeeping and administrative people to keep up with the model that you think we should have. But that's just not who we are man. We're small group of dedicated machinists and knife makers producing the best knives of their kind anywhere. And a way for me to accommodate the folks who want to be put on a list is the way that I'm doing it. What would you have me do differently?
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adluginb said:
Has it been posted if any Magnacut edc knives will be available in the Friday sales or just D3V?
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They were going to be available on Friday sales but people are ordering them in the pre-order and I don't know how many are going to be left

The material is already here

This was not a normal pre-order where we have the pre-order, and then acquire all the materials to produce it. We actually already had all the material here. People were clamoring and if we were going to do it we needed to go ahead and do it before it got too close to the end of the year because the tax man gets weird when you do a pre-order in December.

Long story short, there's not going to be that many in Magna cut. I don't know what the availability is going to be yet.
 
Cwilliams563 said:
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-Buffed VIP Micarta on the Basic 5 CW
-Buffed Crusty Vintage International Paper Micarta on the FK3 from the Pre-order
-Buffed Burlap on the Reaper (I have a feeling it’s extra buffed if that’s a thing, since it’s pretty shiny and the burlap’s pretty detailed)
-Un Buffed Burlap on the DEF 2. I did polish it some with Johnsons paste wax and oiled them. The color and details came out much better after

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That crusty almost looks like canvas. The fibers look to be way more beefier than the fine, almost microscopic fibers of the regular vip.
 
Did not know that. I assumed the VIP was actual paper, or something else due to how fine the fibers are. At least on my BFK with standard issue VIP, it looks nothing like canvas, its a nice almond butter color with just a whisper of fibers shining through. Looks nearly identical to the top knife in the cwilliams picture.
 
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