Steve Corkum ---> No contact & no knives

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Back around the first of October we were contacted by Steve to see if we would like to carry his custom knives. Danny and I discussed it and decided to order a few knives to make sure the transactions went smoothly. On October 9th I sent the first of two payments. On October 14th I sent the second payment which covered the full purchase and shipping. Steve assured me it would only be a few weeks before they shipped. A few days after they should have arrived I called Steve and found his phone disconnected. I emailed him and got a responce a day or two later. He explained he simply changed carriers. Up until two weeks ago he available by phone and has had valid excuses for not having shipped my knives. The last two weeks I have sent 3 or 4 emails, and tried to call him at least twice a day and have had no response. I am going to report the Paypal payments as fraudulent if this post doesn't somehow find a way to his ear. I believe Steve to be honest but he does have $288 dollars of our money and we don't have any knives. He doesn't answer emails, and doesn't even have an answering machine to leave a message. If anyone here has his new cell number please give him a call and have him contact me. I'll post results as soon as he contacts us to resolve this.

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DC Williams
 
Hmm. Steve's been calling me almost every day, I'll ask him to call you next time I hear from him
 
Ask the bugger to call me too please.
870 289 3240.
I will give it one more shot with him and then begin to post.
 
if you check "The Other" forum you will see MANY have had trouble
with steve. Just my .02
Loandr.

Check with the guys at TAD Gear as well.
 
Thanks for the replies folks.

I'm glad I just started with a few hundred dollars. I talked with someone else on Friday from another site who lost thousands.

Steve if you read this, I'm going to collect all the information about your bad dealings that I'm hearing about and then I'm going to forward it to your custom knifemaker contact at Columbia River Knife and Tool. I'm going to ask them why a company with such a good reputation is dealing with someone with such a bad one, and see if we can't get in your pockets a bit. I may not get my money back but I'll feel much better.

OR YOUR COULD START RIGHTING ALL THE WRONGS and take the first steps to becoming the person you claimed to be.

Sincerely disgusted,

DC Williams

PS... Anyone with pertinent info please forward it in an email to dc@888knivesrus.com
 
A good friend of mine paid Steve up front (read way over a $1000) for a sword several years ago only to end up having to drive from South Florida to Steve's home up north (Pennsylvania?), confront him at his house, after being fed buckets full of BS for months on why it wasn't finished like he said it was on numerous occasions, take a room at a motel, and wait for a week while he worked on what turned out to be a total POS and embarrassment. It resides to this day in the closet, except for a trip to the Guild Show this year to get a laugh from real makers.

What a flake and rip-off.........A.G.Russell had the same problem when he took on some of Steve's knives for the now defunct 'Cutting Edge'.

Good luck Danny and Jerry, somehow I think you'll need it with this lowlife.
 
The ABS has some strong opinions about the ethics of its mastersmiths...isn't Steve rated as one?

Perhaps somebody couls contact the appropriate people.
 
No, I don't believe he is a mastersmith. Not sure if he's even a journeyman, or whether he even forges his blades. ???
 
Well, Steve called me this morning.

Apparently he has been down with pneumonia for a while.

He said my knives were shipped but lost by UPS and that his wife had the tracking number.

He informed me he would re-ship my knives this week and gave me his new cell number.

So things sound fine so far but I'll post when I actually receive my shipment.

DC Williams
 
Originally posted by Danbo
No, I don't believe he is a mastersmith. Not sure if he's even a journeyman, or whether he even forges his blades. ???
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I was looking for mastersmith knives under 600$ in the search option of bladegallery.com and steve corkum was there.
 
Well, according to the American Bladesmith Society website, he is not on the Mastersmith list.
 
thanks because I'm a moron and am wrong while your right:) I tried it again, this time not allowing fixed blade as an option and thats all she wrote:D
 
So this time Steve is sick. Same old story, first time he didn't ship my knives he was sick. Second time his wife was sick. Sorry guys, Steve is a liar and a thief. The only reason I got my 550.00 back was becouse I bought on a CC and disputed the charge on the 88th day. Funny thing was he sure called me quick when my bank removed the funds back out of his account! This was for a knife that was "done and just needed handle wrapping" before it shipped in 2 days. Steves lies have been well documented to anyone who does a search. DO NOT BUY HAWK KNIVES!!! There are to many GOOD Japanese style knifemakers out there.
 
Well, what I was concerned about went through ok. However it appears buyer beware with Steve.
He does not hold any rank in the ABS nor is he a member.
jf
 
Well talked to Steve again last Thursday and was assured that the knives would go out on Friday or Saturday. Its Wednesday and they still aren't here. If he sent them ground they wouldn't arrive until Thursday anyway, but he did say they would go out via Air. Hmmm.

DC Williams
 
Originally posted by 888KNIVESRUS
Well talked to Steve again last Thursday and was assured that the knives would go out on Friday or Saturday...........DC Williams
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You can take that assurance and several bucks, go to the local diner and get some coffee! Steve is so full of sh!t that his breath stinks.........if he made as many knives as he does excuses, he'd be another Howard Huges!

Good luck....:barf:
 
I was contacted by Steve with the same crap. He even had the nerve to call me at 2:00 am trying to sell knives.:barf: :barf:
 
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