The BladeForums.com 2024 Traditional Knife is ready to order! See this thread for details:
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/bladeforums-2024-traditional-knife.2003187/
Price is $300 $250 ea (shipped within CONUS). If you live outside the US, I will contact you after your order for extra shipping charges.
Order here: https://www.bladeforums.com/help/2024-traditional/ - Order as many as you like, we have plenty.
Infact I can safely say that there is an underbelly running through this forum that I have felt and I know alot of others have felt also, some of them to be craftsmen who have taken themselves away from this site because it seems that wrong and right can be chosen to be what they are instead of just being what they are regardless of mans petty, politic intervention when it suits whomever has bought a ticket to the bullshit show.
So I will take myself away from your area of influence over what is right and wrong because personally I think that your full of shit and I aint going to have you telling me what is fair and what is not because you clearly choose what is and is not only when concerned with your own feelings and not those that could generally be considered universal ( such is the fundamental understanding of what is right and wrong, which either myself or YOU have nothing to do with apart from obeyeing the truth in its principle, which I do feel you either know absolutley nothing about or infact you do but only choose to when it suits )
I felt that the best thing about this site/forum was the users oppertunity to get good advice on who to purchase goods from and who not to purchase goods from, seems though as I feel that this is not the case and those that moderate this site openly, and without looking at solid facts, allow scumbags to operate within its realms/ sub-forums, just because it seems they have a few freinds here and there and can allways be given the benefit of the doubt I shall not bother staying around.
I must admit that alot of what I have witnessed on this Bladeforums over the last year has left me with a sour taste regarding certain aspects of the knife world and the people involved within it. What a petty hypocrytical bunch some of you are!!:thumbdn:
Question for Mr. Ralph:
Did you personally make these knives? As a true custom, I would expect all facets of the knife to have been personally made by you, and not by a shop apprentice or other knifemaker in your crew. That's the only reason I would pay $1200 for a "custom" knife.
Follow-up questions:
If yes, you personally made it--why did you send a knife out of your shop with such serious flaws as a bent blade, horrendous grind lines, and poor attention to detail? You have been a maker for a long time and these flaws would be blatantly obvious to you.
If no, you did not personally make it--who did? How much experience do they have in building $1200 customs? If I were to place an order for a DR Custom would I be advised that you, the maker, would not actually be building my knife?
Regarding your indignation towards name-calling and the OP's alleged unsavory language--does this apply to yourself as well? I recall a certain thread in which you referred to a BF member as a less-than-tactful, unsavory, and very offensive epithet which I shall not repeat here.
I look forward to your reply.
My thoughts on this were that DR Should be banned and nobody regardless of whatever should defend him, please dont make me out to be someone who is picking on Karda or just Mods in general, I aint a fool, maybe you should read my posts and then tell me if I am just someone havin a go for no reason?
I appreciate fairness, no ifs nor buts, this and that, it is what it is regardless of how you feel towards another or any situation.................It was obvious that DR is in the wrong, I find it really patronising when someone tells me to look at things from the obvious wrong doers point of view........ Ralph should be banned no ifs nor buts, this is not the first time he has done this. If you can google someones name and on the very first page then find associated with his name wrongdoing then why is he doing buisness as a Moderator on this Forum ( a forum with heaps of cool and good people may I add but with some that aint ) regardless of wether a Moderator is only assigned to there own forum he is a Moderator that is in a way affiliated with this Forum ( it is just plain obvious and very silly to say he is not ) and please I have not waverd from the subject atall what Ralp has done and whomever wants to say " look at it from his point of view man " should expect to get picked out from people who get really really really annoyed at seeing scumbags rip people off. Also I cannot describe the annoyance I felt at seeing that they had contacted the OP asking him not to speak to anyone about his experience, this is BLACKMAIL, downright skull duggery, I expect crap like this in a government office, not on a forum that is full of folks who generally consider these kind of politics filthy and not what they want to be around.........I am not saying that the Mods are corrupt in general, I am saying that some people even if they are Moderator need to take a stand against the crap like Ralph has done.........Please dont give me this bullcrap about " we need to be bystanders, we need to not take sides, thats plain old simple rubbish and if you want to buy that then go confuse yourself, but dont start crying when you get ripped. As for the 40 points, yes Karda gave me 40 points, but as far a stirring things go Ken thats stirring, I dont know you and I would never pass judgement on you regardless of who you have disagreed with unless I felt that you were a danger to anyone in doing so....Karda is a big boy Im sure he dont need you to hold his hand!!!........But all the same Ken, its nice to virtually interact with you, I wish we could have under different circumstances.
Regards
Matt
Let me first start off by apologizing to everyone, I really mean it, I am so sorry. The actions I took and members of my company took were not appropriate and for that I am very sorry. I am sending Vininull, today, $600 and a brand new knife which I have personally checked and double checked. I know that we have handled this poorly and we have taken the necessary actions to insure this doesn't happen again.
Thank you all for the very valuable feedback, I really appreciate many of you contacting me personally about this situation and giving me your opinion on the matter. I know this doesn't make everything that has happened go away nor do I expect it to but I do hope that all of you, at the very least, give me the opportunity to improve not only my quality control but my customer service skills.
Thank you.