Crusader Forge Metro Tactical Folder

Here's my take, and I mean no offense.

We all have to make decisions when we order a knife. For me, once you commit, you shouldn't agonize every second you have to wait. You've been stressing yourself and the maker out with your over-persistence. Emails every month from the order date? It strikes me as burdensome and unnecessary. Makers give you an estimate on wait time to help manage your expectations and build in some wiggle room and you've basically ignored the estimate and its intent to your own detriment. You're only now coming up on your "deadline" and you've already exhausted yourself with second guessing and self-recriminations. I also think it's a little unseemly to be making public your conversations with the maker without any wrongdoing on their part. Their actions to date don't qualify as bad customer service, to me. Quite the contrary.

You've waited this long. You've already paid in full, so if you don't need the money, why worry? You'll get your knife. You can either keep it and enjoy it or flip it at a huge profit. Would it be nice if you could get a hard deadline? Sure, but you knew that wasn't how this was going to work going into it.

Breathe, cut something, and ride it out :)

Seth
 
I see your point, and all that aside, all I'm really concerned about is getting a firm delivery date after a year, since I was told I would have a knife in a year. I knew what I was doing when I ordered, and most, if not all the comments from owners was "stay on top of them" monthly, I simply followed that advice.
 
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mildot326 said:
I see your point, and all that aside, all I'm really concerned about is getting a firm delivery date after a year, since I was told I would have a knife in a year. I knew what I was doing when I ordered, and most, if not all the comments from owners was "stay on top of them" monthly, I simply followed that advice.
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Sounds like you've been very understanding and level headed in this, and I wouldn't consider that stressing the maker out, or bothering them/etc whatsoever. But, I don't understand why custom makers would take on so many pre-orders? People make it sound like several years is common for several custom makers, but why? Why don't they just take as many orders as they can handle for a batch or 2, and then open up the orders again? Or a combination of accepting a few orders, and selling any additional products on a forum/their site? etc.
 
So 5 days after sending an email, and having no response I'm fearing the worst. At least for the past year I've got a reply telling me to check back next month. If nothing changes I'll be forced to use other methods to solve this issue. Buyer Beware.
 
cha.
I know the feeling. Dozier is now about 6 months behind on my order but that was 4 months ago. ;)
 
Well mine showed up a couple of days ago, the fit & finish was excellent, it was coated in oil though. Now the "bad" news, I had to send it back, the "lock up" was not as solid as I like. The blade didn't feel "locked" in place and there was no noticeable "click" when the blade was extended. The blade kinda "doubled" on me and gave me a nice cut on my index finger. It was smooth opening though. I'm thinking that maybe the lock bar needs more contact with the blade? My "knife terminology" is weak so forgive me if that's the wrong description.
 
i kinda got the same feeling mildot, but im pretty sure it will break in to a very solid lock up. these are made to be super tuff and with all higher end knives they will need a few weeks of use before the start to shine... it took sooooo long to get to me there is no way i would send it back to them
 
Yea well I'm hoping that it's a fast and easy adjustment and they get it back to me. I went the CF route because you can use it as a "fixed" blade, but in order to do that I wanted a solid lock up. I didn't want to take a chance on losing a finger. Anyway it's been so long that I won't notice the delay.
 
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