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Fellow members, I need your help!

I would like to give Mr. Corkum the opportunity to fill my order of eight months ago.

Based on the contents of other threads, Mr. Corkum does fulfill some orders and that's all I want - Mr. Corkum, please fulfill my order of June 23, 2003.

Again, fellow members, I need your help.

Maybe one of you has some influence over Mr. Corkum, or has a good working relationship with him, and can help me get my knife. Or alternately, you could confirm that I will never see the knife and I will put a $325.00 charitable donation to Mr. Corkum as an itemized deduction on my 2003 tax return.

My letter to Mr. Corkum dated June 23, 2003 read as follows:

"Dear Steve,

Thanks for talking with me on Saturday morning and again today to confirm your address! I was glad to reach you and really look forward to receiving the Kogarusu! (4" blade, 4 1/2" handle contoured for a large hand with white ray skin).

Here is an official check in the amount of $325.00 drawn on Wachovia Bank. The funds are guaranteed and available immediately subject to local clearing (the new name for First Union is Wachovia).

Please send the knife to me at my home address.

Thanks again!

Philip Fandek"
 
do a search on Corkum, bro....there's been problems just like yours...a few even bigger...:(
 
Geez it sucks to see that someone else is having trouble with Steve Corkum.

I sent Mr. Corkum an email directing him to this thread. I don't know if it will do any good, but it never hurts to try.
 
I ordered 4 knives from Steve about 6 weeks ago and they came in today. It took a bit longer than he told me because the knives were already made and just needed handles but I guess 6 weeks isn't too bad.
 
Dawkind said:
You're a brave man...........
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Or tremendously stupid!!! With all the wonderful Makers who are honest and reputable why would you waste time with Crookum?
 
It has been over two years now, and I am still waiting for over $2,000 of knives from Steve Corkum. He doesn't return phone calls, he doesn't return e mails, and he shut down his web site, and according to the ABS, he cancelled his membership last year.

Contact the Eastern Pennsylvania Better Business Bureau at http://www.easternpa.bbb.org/pn.html to file a complaint. If that does not work, then you can contact the PA. Bureau of Consumer Affairs at (717) 787-7109

Here is Steve Corkum's contact information:
Steve Corkum - Hawk Knives
34 Basehoar School Road
Littlestown, PA 17340
Phone: (717) 269-5934
Cell Phone: (717) 359-9563
 
I just got off the phone with Steve.........as many of you know, I am good friends with Patrick Ma and Josh, and their order is long overdue......a fairly large sum of money.


Steve told me his side of the story, and although he is not innocent of being very very late on a lot of stuff, it is not without cause and he promised that everyone who ordered a knife from him will get it.

He has had very serious health problems for the last two years and is doing his best to pay the bills, keep eating, and slowly fill the orders that he has been paid for.............he sends his regrets. Tom
 
Folks, thanks for this thread....and the links Pendative posted to previous threads. Very illuminating and will likely come into play in my (and Steve Corkum's) life today.
Remember, the only real thing people remember about you when you are gone is your reputation.
Regards, Mike
 
It appears alot of people have been having alot of trouble with Corkum. I know of several dealers that never recieved orders from him. Myself, I' ve been waiting close to 2 years now. :mad: Sob story after sob story. He only shipped half my order and that was only because my neighbor who also ordered from him got on the phone with him and we both chewed him out. To add salt on the wound i had to call him every day just to get that half done and he was still making excuses on not having them done yet. Still waiting for the other half of my order. Has anyone talked to him and got stories about how his wife never shipped the order and he didnt know why or anything about accidents in his shop.
 
A few years back I had a cordial (telephone based) relationship with Corkum and owned a couple of his Japanese style knives which I enjoyed.

However, after many unfulfilled promises and having way more than my share of smoke blown up my nether end I decided to sever all ties with him, get back any monies due (which took some doing but got done) and sell the knives I did have so I wouldn't have to be reminded of the whole experience.

I feel for any of you who have to jump through hoops just to get what's rightfully yours. I can't begin to tell you the number of excuses I heard.
 
We got a call a month or two ago, looking for us to be a dealer, I almost jumped on the idea and then I asked around, seem like taking a chance with hearing all sotrs of stories, so we did not. makes you wonder? Paul
 
I' ve been having problems with Corkum as well. Been waiting over 2 years for my order only got half the order the day before I got sent to Afghanistan. That half was only shipped because my roomamte was also having problems with him and we called him at the same time. Still waiting for the other half. He called several times and said he was shipping it but he always comes up with some excuse or sob story. Been tryign to call him but he' s never there and never returns calls. I emailed one of the guys that wrote about him in Tactical Knives and he' s having problems with him too.

:mad: :mad:
 
How many negative reports have to be posted before a guy stops doing business with a particular maker, the stories of him screwing everyone and there mothers are nedless, to many quality craftsman out there to wasit time on the low lifes of the knife industry. i had a few corkums and sold them just NOT to have to see his name within my collection. nough said.
Loandr.

Bend em over....and "corkrum" ....forgot were I read that, but guess it still holds true :-(
 
What really amazes me is the fact that this dirtbag has somehow got CRKT to colaborate and produce a production version of one of his knives. Then outfits like A.G.Russell, who had to quit taking orders/selling any of his knives in 'Cutting Edge' several years ago after he couldn't/wouldn't produce them for orders taken and caused them a lot of grief, now market and sell the CRKT version......!?! :barf:

Why continue to promote someone/something that has already been the root of nothing but trouble for years! I don't feel it speaks very highly of CRKT or A.G.............., IMHO. :confused:

I guess anything to make money...... :rolleyes:
 
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