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Hello all,
I just had a lengthy telephone conversation with Brad.
To be fair, many of you already now that I am a dealer of his knives- I hope you will all accept my comments in the spirit of this thread as I have no ulterior motive for myself to defend Brad. I do very well with his knives and we have had a great business and personal relationship over the years.
I like to consider myself as a reasonable intelligent businessperson, and I double that I would have been doing business with Brad for so many years, if his knives were crap and if he was not a reliable and responsible business partner. Both Larry Connelly and Julie Hyman are doing business with him. They are sharp operators also.
Brads knives are not junk and in the rare case that a knife of his needed attention, he has always stepped up to the plate and made them right- quickly, no cost and in a professional way. I cannot say this about some of the other over 100 customer Knifemakers whom I represent.
I wonder if some of the people who are trashing his knives on this thread and on other threads have even handled one of his knives .
Brad has been going through some serious life-changing personal issues over the last few months- these began shortly after the New York Show last November..
These are all private family related matters and although he would have told me what was going on, I chose to not ask- it is not my business.
He is very well aware of the knives that he has promised and told me that he will deliver what he has taken money for.
Many of the knives in his shop are partly built and/or nearing completion.
He has no intention of getting out of the knife business- he loves his work and has worked hard to build up a tremendous private clientele (besides for a dealer network) and he is not quitting. He is merely talking some time off to get his personal life sorted out and then get back to Knife making when he is mentally ready. I hope that in the next month or so he will be back in full swing or at worst part time until he gets himself back together..
However, when a man is suffering through one personal crisis after another, it becomes hard to face some of the realities of life.
Subsequently, he, like others, made wrong decisions on how to handle his affairs during this time of crisis.
As short reply to ROBB--- you claimed that Brad has been looking in here and possibly knew whats going on and never addressed any of this? Where did you get this stealth info? According to Brad, and I do believe him, he has not been on the internet in general for 3 months and has not been on BF for over a year- possibly 2 years.
See how things can get out of control?
I hope all you people can get yourselves straightened out with Brad. He may have neglected his work for a while but is was not out of malice shit happens and people get stuck in a wheel of misery. Fortunately, I believe that Brad will pull himself out.
Please accept this post as an attempt to mediate this situation and to get you people sorted out.
I know Brad very well and I expect him to start making amends shortly and to the best of his ability. He never wanted any of this to happen.
Finally, when it rains it pours- as I was speaking to him this morning, he has just found his beloved cat, dead in from of his house, after being run over by a car.
Take care all, Neil
I just had a lengthy telephone conversation with Brad.
To be fair, many of you already now that I am a dealer of his knives- I hope you will all accept my comments in the spirit of this thread as I have no ulterior motive for myself to defend Brad. I do very well with his knives and we have had a great business and personal relationship over the years.
I like to consider myself as a reasonable intelligent businessperson, and I double that I would have been doing business with Brad for so many years, if his knives were crap and if he was not a reliable and responsible business partner. Both Larry Connelly and Julie Hyman are doing business with him. They are sharp operators also.
Brads knives are not junk and in the rare case that a knife of his needed attention, he has always stepped up to the plate and made them right- quickly, no cost and in a professional way. I cannot say this about some of the other over 100 customer Knifemakers whom I represent.
I wonder if some of the people who are trashing his knives on this thread and on other threads have even handled one of his knives .
Brad has been going through some serious life-changing personal issues over the last few months- these began shortly after the New York Show last November..
These are all private family related matters and although he would have told me what was going on, I chose to not ask- it is not my business.
He is very well aware of the knives that he has promised and told me that he will deliver what he has taken money for.
Many of the knives in his shop are partly built and/or nearing completion.
He has no intention of getting out of the knife business- he loves his work and has worked hard to build up a tremendous private clientele (besides for a dealer network) and he is not quitting. He is merely talking some time off to get his personal life sorted out and then get back to Knife making when he is mentally ready. I hope that in the next month or so he will be back in full swing or at worst part time until he gets himself back together..
However, when a man is suffering through one personal crisis after another, it becomes hard to face some of the realities of life.
Subsequently, he, like others, made wrong decisions on how to handle his affairs during this time of crisis.
As short reply to ROBB--- you claimed that Brad has been looking in here and possibly knew whats going on and never addressed any of this? Where did you get this stealth info? According to Brad, and I do believe him, he has not been on the internet in general for 3 months and has not been on BF for over a year- possibly 2 years.
See how things can get out of control?
I hope all you people can get yourselves straightened out with Brad. He may have neglected his work for a while but is was not out of malice shit happens and people get stuck in a wheel of misery. Fortunately, I believe that Brad will pull himself out.
Please accept this post as an attempt to mediate this situation and to get you people sorted out.
I know Brad very well and I expect him to start making amends shortly and to the best of his ability. He never wanted any of this to happen.
Finally, when it rains it pours- as I was speaking to him this morning, he has just found his beloved cat, dead in from of his house, after being run over by a car.
Take care all, Neil
