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.
I don't have a dog in this race .. But you know what . I am a member of this community and I am also a knifemaker . So when I see fellow bladeforum members getting the shaft I am going speak my mind . I have been around a long time and I have seen this con before . Go back and look at every time a knifemaker screws forum members and see how it all starts and ends ... As a consumer we all should have each other's back.. Just because Ian has posted up that he is going to make good we should take his word... Please .. As a knife maker he is an embarrassment to the guys who do the right thing and don't get in over are heads. We pay are dues and don't sucker people for free equipment and other tools
Ian, for full disclosure this has been going on for more than a year and a half. Same lack of communication, same statements of the knife being done when it wasn't.
I really hope you get better quickly and Lord willing when that happens you start cranking out great knives again. But please don't make it sound like it's just been this year. If/when you start making knives again you need to stick to your deadlines or no matter how great your knives are people will find you less than dependable. You don't want that, your peers don't want that, and your customers don't want that. I understand your medical issues have only fairly recently started but you missing deadlines that you yourself set and telling people things that aren't really true is not.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1202072-Hall-Handmade?highlight=Ian+hall
Like I said in the email I sent to you a couple of weeks back, regardless of the knife making business, whatever happens, I hope you get better and congrats on the good news of your wife's pregnancy. It's a hard time. You'll pull through. Good luck, sir.
I am left handed also which is the primary factor in my refusal to give up the very bothersome business of a custom sheath for every knife.
I have gone to great personal expense to do this over the past couple years. It costs more time, more money, and more drama to give customers pretty much free rein on their sheath decision. I've had some real curveballs thrown at me, and almost never charge extra.
It would be MUCH easier for me to just say "you don't like the sheath? Well eff you then."
My health has caused an ethics breach and I have willfully and gladly apologized for such. That doesn't make it okay to take something I do at great expense specifically for the benefit of my customers, and then try to twist it around into "selling unfinished knives".
I'm sorry but I have to say it is willful ignorance for the purpose of recreational indignation. Nothing more.
I definitely could have done better on communication and this likely would not have happened at all. Unfortunately it did.
It was a lesson learned, but not the lesson everyone would assume. There will be changes to how I do things if I come back to this.
For now I'm going to try and utilize the several months of leave I've set up, to the best of my ability.
C'mon man, if you wanna throw a log onto the fire, then at least make sure it's made of wood....
He didn't make your knife because you wanted something he just didn't feel right doing.
We've seen that happen in this forum before.
This is a very different matter all together, and adding the two together is just not adding up to me.
Seems to me that as I follow this thread, Mr. Hall is making good of either refunding his customers or getting them their knives....why don't we let that process just finish?
I gotta agree with this.
Here's a quote from bodog's thread:
He asked no deposit and I lost nothing in the deal other than time and opportunity
Dragging this up just makes you look petty, bodog.
C'mon man, if you wanna throw a log onto the fire, then at least make sure it's made of wood....
He didn't make your knife because you wanted something he just didn't feel right doing.
We've seen that happen in this forum before.
This is a very different matter all together, and adding the two together is just not adding up to me.
Seems to me that as I follow this thread, Mr. Hall is making good of either refunding his customers or getting them their knives....why don't we let that process just finish?
All knives are shipped as of today. One customer requested a refund and it has been sent.
Edit: I wrote a few paragraphs but realized I was just buying into the hate and drama again. People will think what they will think. You can look at my work and history, and make your own judgement. If knocking me down to build yourself up is how you get your rocks off... then have at it. I won't be staying here to watch though.
If I need to be contacted to respond to the thread, my email is ian at hallhandmade dot com and cell number can be found on my website. Notifications are not working on BF as far as I'm aware.
I may edit in a final follow up to confirm all orders have been recieved or otherwise closed. We still have several days of transit before I can truly take my leave of this situation. Otherwise I am done here.
Me and a few others have been waiting for knife materials going on 6 weeks now.
Would like to hear something from you Ian. Good to see others have got there knives.
They have not all been shipped. I have not received the Knife I paid for in July. I opened a dispute in ebay this evening. Before we all fall all over ourselves about someone having a hard time but coming through in the end, lets make sure the claims that everything has been shipped is true.
If I need to be contacted to respond to the thread, my email is ian at hallhandmade dot com and cell number can be found on my website. Notifications are not working on BF as far as I'm aware.