• 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.

  • Today marks the 24th anniversary of 9/11. I pray that this nation does not forget the loss of lives from this horrible event. Yesterday conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was murdered, and I worry about what is to come. Please love one another and your family in these trying times - Spark

Random Thought Thread

beeinak said:
Executing him yesterday would not be soon enough imho.
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Call me old fashioned...

To be hanged, drawn and quartered the convicted was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disemboweled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces). His remains would then often be displayed in prominent places across the country, such as London Bridge, to serve as a warning.
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Ah, the good old days...
 
I’m not a Chevy guy but I’d drive it
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Who knew . . . .

that Aaron Judge grew up in Linden, CA (east of Stockton)? I shoot my long guns at the Linden Gun Range.

Who knew . . .

that the SF Giants are apparently "all in" on acquiring Judge in free-agency?

See: The Giants Won't Be Outbid

It's ok if the Giants don't get him, just as long as the DODGERS don't get him too. Chris "Mad Dog" Russo expresses my feelings about that.

See: Mad Dog Incensed by Dodgers' Interest in Judge

Gotta love, Mad Dog Russo. LOL! 🤣
 
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fonedork said:
If you would like to request or offer a proxy for an upcoming sale, you are welcome to do it through this thread and holler below.

No offering or soliciting payment for proxies in this thread.


Edit by Nate:
This is an "unsanctioned" thread and service. I have stayed out of this up until now but I would like to clarify a few things.

There really is no such thing as a sales proxy. If you come onto a sale and order a knife, you have ordered a knife.

Some people can't make the sales when they open and some of our sales sell out before a fellow can get home and place his order so he might ask a buddy to get a knife for him. And it makes sense for us to take payment from and ship directly to that fellow (reduces risk and waste in shipping). It adds a little bit of additional complexity for Jo but we're happy to accommodate. We love our customers, and we want you to be happy.

So far people have been doing a good job of keeping things reasonably streamlined so I'm not going to discourage this practice, but in an ideal world a person would simply place his own order on a sale thread.

Lets set some ground rules:

1. One person per sale. You, or your one single proxy.
2. No proxy for a pre-order. If a person wants on a pre-order list he needs to get onto it himself.
3. Do not make things complicated for Jo. No one wants that.
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Grenock said:
I saw you offer earlier and it got me thinking about this subject again, but I hope you don’t think I was singling you out as I have had these questions in my mind for some time. If I did make you feel like you had to defend it, I apologize. Your post is just the most recent that made me feel we should have this dialogue.

I don’t believe this is an admin issue at all. Dare I say, Nathan doesn’t want to weigh in on stuff like this, and should he have to, I suspect the answer could very well be that we just won’t allow proxies anymore alt all. I think that would be a huge loss to the CPK community.

I personally don’t really care if anyone wants to offer $10 or $1000 for a proxy, donate to charity or push their money in a pile and burn it, that is their business.

My concern is that it will take the proxy “system” as it was conceived, which was for fans of CPKs to help other fans of CPKs when they could, and it will destroy it.

I feel like it will just be a thing where the only people who get proxies will be those willing to pay the most for them. That isn’t why the proxy system started.

I also feel like there could be people that show up with little to no interest in CPK at all, but have the skills to score consistently and profit of the members here. Again, that would not be why the proxy system started.

Also, what does it say to Nathan that someone would make possibly hundreds of dollars just for making a post on one of his sales and they don’t even want a knife? Getting paid like a distributor without any of the commitment is what it sounds like to me.

My own position on this is that paying for or charging for proxies is not a positive and it is against the spirit of why it was started. I think if it continues down this road and draws the attention of Nathan or worse, requires the attention of Nathan, we will see him end the process all together. This is not an admin issue, this is our issue, that is why I wanted us to think about it, talk about it and come to some sort of understanding as a whole. We have already likely killed the possibility of pre-orders, I would be just as disappointed to see proxies go the same way.
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Gentlemen. What are my options if I don’t want to pay for a proxy, but rather have a proxy pay ME for the privilege of being my proxy?
Just askin’
 
Got the memory bump on the Mitsubishi Mori today.


Almost $3,000 for 2 mb. I was glad they actually had to physically install something.




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^ wait... That says 8 mb.

How come I only get 2 mb?

Because F U. That's why

Ugh
 
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