Daniel Dorn
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I have permission from Brian (aka bteel) to post this info, and I'm sure he'll have his input to this thread as well.
First a little history:
A few years ago, I met Brian in Branson Missouri. We worked at the same place, and he introduced me to the higher end knife market. We became pretty good friends and always showed off our new knives to each other.
After a while we lost touch, and thanks to this forum we found each other again. I found out that he had been having kidney problems, and was in need of a transplant. I half-jokingly said he could have one of mine, and I thought about it and decided that if we were indeed a match, it was something I really wanted to do. It took a little while, but mostall of the tests have been done, and it is just a matter of a few short weeks when the operation will take place.
Now for the request:
An annonymous person has offered to buy me a knife, with a $1000 limit, and I decided that I would much rather splitthe gift with Brian. We thought it would be a neat idea to have a set of custom knives made just for us, that would be sort of a symbol of what we were doing.
He has mentioned the Nemesis, and some of the other MT OTF knives which I like as well. We both thought about the DA OTF knives available, but those would be beyond our budget. I already own a LCC DA, and Brian seemed rather interested in one for himself. As I posted in another thread, the money can be divided any way we want, but if it is possible that MicroTech would customize a couple of knives for us(preferably OTF style), that would probably be ideal. I think that even after-market customizing would work.
If any one has any suggestions or possible contacts, let me or Brian know. I'm sure he'll be posting to this thread sometime soon to add what he would like to say.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
I've already posted this in the Automatic Forum.
Daniel Dorn
First a little history:
A few years ago, I met Brian in Branson Missouri. We worked at the same place, and he introduced me to the higher end knife market. We became pretty good friends and always showed off our new knives to each other.
After a while we lost touch, and thanks to this forum we found each other again. I found out that he had been having kidney problems, and was in need of a transplant. I half-jokingly said he could have one of mine, and I thought about it and decided that if we were indeed a match, it was something I really wanted to do. It took a little while, but mostall of the tests have been done, and it is just a matter of a few short weeks when the operation will take place.
Now for the request:
An annonymous person has offered to buy me a knife, with a $1000 limit, and I decided that I would much rather splitthe gift with Brian. We thought it would be a neat idea to have a set of custom knives made just for us, that would be sort of a symbol of what we were doing.
He has mentioned the Nemesis, and some of the other MT OTF knives which I like as well. We both thought about the DA OTF knives available, but those would be beyond our budget. I already own a LCC DA, and Brian seemed rather interested in one for himself. As I posted in another thread, the money can be divided any way we want, but if it is possible that MicroTech would customize a couple of knives for us(preferably OTF style), that would probably be ideal. I think that even after-market customizing would work.
If any one has any suggestions or possible contacts, let me or Brian know. I'm sure he'll be posting to this thread sometime soon to add what he would like to say.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
I've already posted this in the Automatic Forum.
Daniel Dorn
