Allan Blade

Completly off topic... Joe in California we are not allowed to say Chinese new year. The pc crowd, i.e. schools and local gov't, now require us to call it Lunar New Year. I just heard that today.
 
You are kidding, right?

The PC crowd should be used to repopulate an island, with one canteen and a bowie knife amongst them.
 
Man, what a thread! Parker no I'm not kidding. And...don't get me started on Political Correctnes. At least not here where Joe is trying to conduct business.
 
2dogs said:
... in California we are not allowed to say Chinese new year. The pc crowd,... now require us to call it Lunar New Year.
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Jewish and Muslim calendars are also lunar but they don't don't start at the same time or divide their months the same as each other or as the Chinese.
 
Esav I typed a response but deleted it. Lets just say the PC crowd has a narrow view, in my opinion. Did you know the American Indians are now called the First Settlers? None of my Indian friends had even heard that term until I showed it to them in the local fish wrapper.
 
First Settlers. Neat. Also another possible misnomer, since not all of them came in one wave. Maybe, for example, we could call the Inuit, The Last of the First. :)

I guess that's what happens when someone tries to "frame" the debate, instead of just debating the issues themselves.
 
Keith Montgomery said:
Nothing yet on British Blades about anybody getting one of the knives that were shipped out a couple of weeks ago.
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Yep. I also enjoyed akraven's post over there innocently asking to see pictures of some of those knives he sent out. That request was oddly ignored (maybe because it was still a bit too soon).

I think those knives have had time to get to England by now though... :D
 
TorzJohnson said:
I think those knives have had time to get to England by now though... :D
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Yeah, but Allan's house got hit by a hurricane, which broke his foot and bent his dog's tail, and since Allan went temporarily blind and the dog can't lead him to the Post Office without the special custom Bushcraft cane that Allan designed, but several other knifemakers ripped-off the design, he hasn't been able to get to the Post Office due to the earthquake.
 
I heard the winds from the Hurricane blew the camera up his butt. He tried to pry it out and broke blade after blade until every knife for the suckers, oops, I mean guys at BB was broken.

The camera caused an infection which has now caused Pnuemonia. Allan was last seen leaving the pharmacy in his 2006 BMW 545I...................
 
What I understand. . . . .it was a mud slide.

Dear Peepoll That I Owe Knifes Two,

It is my misduty to enform ewe that eye have had the mostest terribleist misfortoon of enjurying myself. Butt do nut worry. Rest uh sure this little bout will only sit me back 1 day or 2. OK, may bee a weak or 6 munths.

I was finishin up the very lastest knive that I owe you peepolls ova da ocean, when all of a sudden, the biggest dang mud slide slid write on top of the werk shop. I was sooo lucky that I am quic on my feet, even though I;m still fightin that lass case of Newmoanya. Boy, that mud sure does slide fast. But ya see, I herd the rumblin', so's I jumped to my feet, thinkin' that it was them haters, Keef, Woof, and Giggy, from that BFC place. I quickly peeped outta the winder and it was not them. Butt I could see a large mound of mud and lotts of trees in there two.

As I wus runnin out the door I hit part of the werk bench and fell really hard. I dew believe that caused me to misplace my hip and caused me to hurt my growin' part. I only thought that sports peepoll could hurt that area. And that ain't the wurst of it. The joilt was so bad, I began ministrating, at least thats what my wife's third cousin said. He should know, he was in the emergensy room once. During my fall, I also think that had two teeth taken out of my face.

I wood like to chat wif my buddies more butt I have to go over and tri to dig my shop out of the mud before he sits up and gets all hard. Even as enjured as I am.

Pleaz do not send money unless you feel the need to help me out of my situashun witch will also help me get those knifes to you sooner.

Hang in there buddies. We are almost there.

Love

AB
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:D
 
Keith Montgomery said:
Still nada over on British Blades.
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You probably saw the post where one of their admins asked if "anyone had their knives?" yet. I dare somebody to go over there and post something like (crickets) or (a pin drops).

(Don't anybody actually do it, I don't want to encourage any cross-forum animosity!)
 
I have to admit I was curious. In actually, what I was feeling was left out. After reading all of these posts, I just had to see the beast for myself, so to speak, and so around the end of summer I contacted Allan and asked him to put me down for a bowie.

I had no intention, from the start, of sending any money until I had received a series of pictures showing the finished knife, the box with my name on it, the finished knife going INTO the box with my name on it, etc. I also had, from the start, no realistic expectations of ever getting said knife, but just had to know if, with the existence and continuing life of this thread, he would be so blatant as to try and include yet another person into his tales of woe. It was not three weeks after placing my order (which was to be filled, "at most", in nine weeks) that I received an email telling me of an operation his daughter needed, and how he would very much appreciate early payment for the order so as to be able to afford this urgent medical care. I was assured that I would receive "something extra" in exchange for this, but also that I was by no means expected to do so. He knew it was a lot to ask, and said that if it was not convenient for me he would totally understand and that it would not affect the timeliness of the order completion.

I nearly shed a tear of mirth reading this letter---until I finally had an epiphany: Allan does not sell knives. He sells exciting fiction--stories of woe and catastrophe that keep people riveted to their seats. In ancient times, he would have been known as a bard, and people would have come from miles around to hear the latest adventures that had been conjured up, speaking of faraway lands where danger flourished and only the strong (and mercifully well-funded) survived. So think not, dear people, of lost knife orders---those were but a hook; kind of like the barkers outside a show---something to draw you in so you could partake of the magic. Think instead of attention you have received from a master storyteller in his prime. :)

Of course, perhaps I'll be shown a liar, and an Allan Blade Bowie of my very own is being forged as we speak. After all, we're on the 27th week--a direct multiple of nine! ;)
 
t1mpani said:
Of course, perhaps I'll be shown a liar, and an Allan Blade Bowie of my very own is being forged as we speak. After all, we're on the 27th week--a direct multiple of nine! ;)
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After this post it is very unlikely that you will be getting a knife from Allan. He does keep up on the going ons here.

By the way, if you do get the knife I hope you aren't expecting it to be forged.
 
On Allan's second last post on British Blades, made on the 14th of January, he stated that he would be getting out some knives the next week and that he would have another list of people who's knives would be going out the week after. So far no second list and it has been almost 4 weeks.
 
Keith Montgomery said:
By the way, if you do get the knife I hope you aren't expecting it to be forged.
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Oh, is he a stock remover? I have long believed, for some reason or another, that he forged his blades, but I've no idea why.

As far as not receiving my knife from him, I'll make do. I have had pieces by him before, bought through the secondary market, and I believe that he has a great deal of talent and knows his craft very well. But, there are several other great knifemakers out there, and I will just have to content myself pursuing their wares. :)
 
Yep, all the blades of his that I have read reviews of have been made by the stock removal method. I'm not saying that he hasn't done some forging, but I haven't heard of him making any that way.
 
Hahahahahhah!!!! a whole thread on BB wishing Mr Blade a happy birthday, finishes with the comment that the thread is a month old and he hasn't responded!!!!!
 
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