Keith, thank you for the PM linking this thread. I rarely stray outside 'Shop Talk' and rarely anymore even visit it. Without you Keith I would not have eventually seen this. Thanks again Keith.
TO ALL: all knives paid for are in progress and have been and will be complete and delivered. I hold no other source of employment and making them quicker would be better for me too. Unfortunately making them quicker does not make them as well. Therefore, I am slow by purpose. I beat no one out of their money. I have never. I will not. I do not give refunds. I have had a couple pull outs because of impatience with me. I have not though had anyone YET complain about what they received, save one that did ask me to correct a small spot - which I did do and to his specification. To those wishing to email: you must please use the @netzero.net address. That is the only address I have been using for over a year. Second, I work very late. I keep Dracula hours. The phone is usually disconnected upon my retiring until late afternoon hours. Best time to call is evenings to very late night. Third, I always try to respond to email but I am slow at that sometimes too. In brief summery: I am a one man operation here. So far as payment goes it has evolved from a learning experience from at very first when I asked for balance when knife was complete and ready for shipment to now when I ask for balance just as knife making is to begin. The reason for that is my lack of backup income and the FACT that when the knife is finished lots of people just don't seem to have any money right now. I can understand that easily but the electric company does not care.
rlinger
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