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.
There is certainly a crystal structure to PM steels it’s still steel just manufactured to have an even distribution of elements.
11 years. That is how long Guy has been selling knives to customers and promising lead times that he knows he will not meet. That is also how long Guy has been telling customers that ask for updates that their order will be filled "soon' while knowing that is not going to happen. For many years, Guy and Ellie have been ignoring most emails and calls from customers that have given them money. They have also refused to process almost every refund. Nothing that he does (that includes making a few nice knives) excuses this. His business appears to be a house of cards, and MANY customers from 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and this year are waiting for knives that were supposed to be done "in a few months."You can call me a shill for trying to be balanced on this issue and I will not take offense because: 1. You don't know me. 2. Even if you did, I am at the point in my life where I'm past worrying about what ankle biters think of me. So there's that.
I own four Survive knives that were produced in the past year. I purchased one from Survive and the rest were purchased from a click-and-mortar store. I did have an order for a GSO 5.1 in Magnacut but cancelled it and received a refund. From the advice of others who posted here, I went through my credit card company to get the refund.
I can say the quality of his work is outstanding, it just is. When I compare his work against some highly respected knife makers here on BF, or from other larger makers in my collection, I am very impressed. But none of that matters because of the extensive backlog he has allowed to build. And his lack of concern with getting his oldest orders completed is arrogance to the nth degree. He reminds me of these characters you see in movies who are gifted but lack any empathy for others. He justifies this because "they will see the value in the end." I've listened to him talk about the GSO 10 and 12 blades. The reason it is taking so long to get them done is because they are difficult to make and he doesn't want to spend the time to get them done. He has mentioned that he charged too little for them and continued work on them just means more money lost. That's his problem and he should not be making his customers wait because he doesn't want to eat the cost.
As far as the latest issue about the voids and inclusions in the knife, I think NSM could be making the steel in a way that introduces the problems. I've worked in other industries where everyone is pushed to get some product delivered. People will start taking shortcuts to get there, especially if there is a huge financial incentive. Maybe that has happened here. And the fact that other knifemakers haven't said anything doesn't disprove his arguments. These manufacturers who have to work with NSM because they are not big enough to work directly with CPM may be getting batches of steel that are kind of dodgy too. Because most of their steel comes from CPM/NSM, they can't afford to get on their bad side. But Guy could be lying about this too. His credibility is about as good as the sh!t in my septic tank right now.
You can call me a shill for trying to be balanced on this issue and I will not take offense because: 1. You don't know me. 2. Even if you did, I am at the point in my life where I'm past worrying about what ankle biters think of me. So there's that.
I own four Survive knives that were produced in the past year. I purchased one from Survive and the rest were purchased from a click-and-mortar store. I did have an order for a GSO 5.1 in Magnacut but cancelled it and received a refund. From the advice of others who posted here, I went through my credit card company to get the refund.
I can say the quality of his work is outstanding, it just is. When I compare his work against some highly respected knife makers here on BF, or from other larger makers in my collection, I am very impressed. But none of that matters because of the extensive backlog he has allowed to build. And his lack of concern with getting his oldest orders completed is arrogance to the nth degree. He reminds me of these characters you see in movies who are gifted but lack any empathy for others. He justifies this because "they will see the value in the end." I've listened to him talk about the GSO 10 and 12 blades. The reason it is taking so long to get them done is because they are difficult to make and he doesn't want to spend the time to get them done. He has mentioned that he charged too little for them and continued work on them just means more money lost. That's his problem and he should not be making his customers wait because he doesn't want to eat the cost.
As far as the latest issue about the voids and inclusions in the knife, I think NSM could be making the steel in a way that introduces the problems. I've worked in other industries where everyone is pushed to get some product delivered. People will start taking shortcuts to get there, especially if there is a huge financial incentive. Maybe that has happened here. And the fact that other knifemakers haven't said anything doesn't disprove his arguments. These manufacturers who have to work with NSM because they are not big enough to work directly with CPM may be getting batches of steel that are kind of dodgy too. Because most of their steel comes from CPM/NSM, they can't afford to get on their bad side. But Guy could be lying about this too. His credibility is about as good as the sh!t in my septic tank right now.
You have been saying this over and over, and honestly, ruined your rep here in doing so. I'll just point out again that just because you had one experience, does not change the fact that most others have had a very different experience, and in fact, that your continued knowing support of a con-artists is the reason other people are getting their money stolen.
If so, and you aren't just acting a troll....
Then go review the history on Survive. Should take you a while and there is lots of good drama. Like the time 7 or so years ago an anonymous benefactor came on here to defend survive and claimed to loan them a significant amount of money since at the time paypal froze all their funds because of so many refund requests after years of not delivering. That was some mind blowing drama here on our little forum!
BarkRiver has more than their own share of issues. Business practices are shit. Mislabeled steel. Horrible quality control. I'd put no weight in anything done with their product, as evidence for or against any source material they might use.
Great ideal..I’ll go do this now. Maybe something similar can be done with fb
....... like he visited that gunshop when he was younger ?
