The "Ask Nathan a Question" Thread

[yoko]

42. It looks like some people have retracted their spots and it's a little ambiguous if the post was for 25 BFK's AND 25 EDC's or a mix of 25 total.

I wish you good luck

You never know!

 

[Cap’n Smudge]

42. It looks like some people have retracted their spots and it's a little ambiguous if the post was for 25 BFK's AND 25 EDC's or a mix of 25 total.

There were 25 knives total for sale.

 

[Synov]

Will they be made by Mashed Fat Bastard Cat Sheaths?

They will be made of 0.25'' thick kydex, tested to be stab-proof and bulletproof by a Chinese man wearing a diving helmet on TikTok.

 

[Blues]

I'm sorry, you must say an Asian man to get past the censors. Your post has been reported to the appropriate authorities.

(You didn't hear this from me.)

Oh, hang on just a second, I hear some loud knocking at my door....be right

 

[SpyderPhreak]

Nathan the Machinist I am legitimately confused, where did the FBFK pre-order close?

Sorry for the drunk post in the thread. I admit, I just chuckled at it tho.

 

[Cap’n Smudge]

Nathan the Machinist I am legitimately confused, where did the FBFK pre-order close?

Sorry for the drunk post in the thread. I admit, I just chuckled at it tho.

The first post in the preorder was last edited by Nathan the Machinist at 8:49 pm. Presumably this was when he added the “This pre-order is now closed. Thank you.”
So the last viable order was post #75 by @fleck.

 

[Fixall]

Crucible warns it could close in months, eliminating 158 jobs

The specialty steel maker says it is struggling financially.

www.syracuse.com

Crucible Industries warns it could close Geddes plant by spring

Its closure would eliminate the facility’s 158 jobs.

spectrumlocalnews.com

It looks like Crucible is shutting down. Does CPK have a backup plan if CPM steels take a hiatus while a buyer for the company is found?

 

[carnifex knifeworks]

Crucible warns it could close in months, eliminating 158 jobs

The specialty steel maker says it is struggling financially.

www.syracuse.com

Crucible Industries warns it could close Geddes plant by spring

Its closure would eliminate the facility’s 158 jobs.

spectrumlocalnews.com

It looks like Crucible is shutting down. Does CPK have a backup plan if CPM steels take a hiatus while a buyer for the company is found?

I'd still buy Nathan's knives, even if they weren't CPM.

 

[bluemax_1]

I'd still buy Nathan's knives, even if they weren't CPM.

I wonder how it’s possible that one of the few, well-renowned specialty steel manufacturers, wound up in that position?

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Crucible warns it could close in months, eliminating 158 jobs

The specialty steel maker says it is struggling financially.

www.syracuse.com

Crucible Industries warns it could close Geddes plant by spring

Its closure would eliminate the facility’s 158 jobs.

spectrumlocalnews.com

It looks like Crucible is shutting down. Does CPK have a backup plan if CPM steels take a hiatus while a buyer for the company is found?

There are no patent issues having the materials that I use made anywhere.

It looks like, if Crucible isn't able to continue their production operations, Carpenter can make the materials that I need.

I have thousands of pounds of material that has been rolled that is here on site that we are processing.

I also have thousands of pounds of material that I own, sitting on the floor at Niagara waiting for me to have them roll it to the dimensions and condition that I order. I'm very unusual in the industry because, even though this has not been converted into sheet, I already own the steel. Not steel futures, but there is actually specific steel on the floor with my literal name on it. We like to have control over every aspect of the steel that we use, and this is the only way.

I'm not a normal 3V user and I have tons of it in different places and stages. We're going to be fine while this issue shakes out.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

I wonder how it’s possible that one of the few, well-renowned specialty steel manufacturers, wound up in that position?

The financial greed behind the credit default swaps and the implosion of the banking industry in 2008 had wide reaching ramifications and even though it's not something you and I see on a daily basis, the scars are still there and are permanent.

Washington Mutual and Wachovia and other banks are gone now. Countrywide is gone. So some of the banking industry paid a penalty, but some of the worst offenders are still here today and thriving

Crucible had nothing to do with any of that. But they paid the risk part of it without any of the reward upside.

Do you remember when General Motors went bankrupt? They were using a lot of Crucible steel, for things like valve stems etc. That was a big hit.

Crucible was largely destroyed by forces outside of their control. This has not been an easy century to be a manufacturer in the United States. And Crucible has not been a whole and intact steel manufacturer for 15 years because of this.

I'm hoping they can pull out of it, but I suspect the best thing for everyone involved would be breaking up the last of the company and its technologies and distributing it across other healthier steel manufacturers.

And another piece of America's great industrial manufacturing legacy is lost.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

I should attend the auction

 

[Casinostocks]

^ Is this Nathan the machinist who got in the knife making business by noticing first hand how others were going it the wrong way?

Is Nathan a knife maker who is getting in the steel business?

Is Nathan an aspiring steel magnate (no pun) who also has plans to get in the global steel trade?

Is Nathan the masked singer?

 

[Blues]

We're gonna need a bigger boat.

 

[Synov]

I should attend the auction

Last time they went bankrupt, they were bought for $8 mil. Should be even cheaper this time. Just change the name to Carothers Industries and Carothers Particle Metallurgy.

 

[MarbReds]

I wonder how it’s possible that one of the few, well-renowned specialty steel manufacturers, wound up in that position?

I don’t think being in a state that is so business unfriendly helped either.

 

[dtmbinb]

Some private equity firm will probably buy them. I'd imagine they will get them for a steel. Pun intended.

 

[Blues]

I don’t think being in a state that is so business unfriendly helped either.

Somebody on another forum I visit regularly asked yesterday, in regard to the UHC shooter...

"What's the most severe penalty that someone can get in NY?" or words to that effect.

I replied: "Having to live the rest of your life in NY"


(It was a joke, but as a former NY'er, born and raised, I ain't moving back.)

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

I don’t think being in a state that is so business unfriendly helped either.

I'm going to go out on the limb here and speculate they pretty much don't have a heating bill and if they were down here in the south their air conditioning bill would be ruinous...

 

[yoko]

Nathan the Machinist have you heard anything from bleacher report for a release date?