I also bought and paid for a knife from that thread and haven't received it.
Paid on 6/13
Sent e-mails after 2 weeks, and then after 3 weeks, heard from wdtorque that he hadn't heard anything either.
Opened paypal dispute on 7/14.
Heard from Ian, he explained his situation, said it was just the sheath holding things up, asked me if I wanted the knife or a refund. I did (do) want the knife, so I told him if he thought he could get it done I'd be OK with more wait.
Ian contacted me on 7/24, asked for my address, and I immediately sent it to him, assuming it would be shipped soon.
8/3, I let the paypal dispute expire without escalating (hope that doesn't come back to bite me).
8/8, still hopeful, would love to hear something.
Ian, if the sheath's not done I'll take the knife without a sheath and take care of that myself.
Hi Dave,
You won't regret letting the dispute expire. I will not let anyone walk away without being made whole on their transaction, whatever that may require.
In fact, I had intended to handle most of the rest of this today, and drop off packages before 3PM (one of my post offices has extended Saturday hours).
Unfortunately I fell down the stairs this morning. I wasn't kidding when I said I was having trouble with the stairs (I'm smiling because I thought it was funny that it looked like a Nike logo, not because I don't take this seriously):
Somehow I managed not to hurt my back any worse, I ended up with a couple abrasions and I thought 2 broken toes, but only one is swelling up so I think I only broke the one toe.
I originally hurt my back in March as I said earlier in the thread. I hadn't finished any knives for a couple months, and I hadn't listed any here on BF in a while. I had about 2-3weeks where I felt I was on the mend, and I felt good enough to risk a small batch, which was the listing you all are posting about.
That was the only new batch of knives I've completed since late March, besides a single knife in April.. I think not even a week after the listing, my back went to hell again.
Your sheaths are finished, it is more a matter that I am working through my backlog in shipping. I've been averaging about a half a dozen blades per shop day, which works out to about 10 blades a week at my current rate. I've shipped about 50 blades from my backlog, and I have about a dozen left including the ones listed in the sale ad.
I'm going to be setting up the folding table in a few moments, My process is that I print all of the labels, write the customer info on the tear-off side, and then place all of the knives and sheaths with their labels. I go through one by one and clean, hone, and prep for shipment. After all are ready and have had final inspection, I seal the packages up and call that a "shipping batch".
I'll be printing all of the labels from that thread after I finish typing this, so I will make sure to check back here and let everyone know that the tracking has gone out. I'll check back to this thread this evening and post pictures of all of the blades and their sheaths along with their labels and boxes.