The fing new catalina wine mixer (the gathering and outlaw cut!!!)

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Sadly I’m not going to make it. I’ve been sick all week trying to convince myself it’s just allergies, but then my wife came home sick last night. As much as I want to be there, this kind of sharing isn’t my style.

I hope CPK dominates the cut and the rest of you delinquents have a blast. I might get my .357 out later and wax poetic about what we could’ve done to a bottle cap.
 
Think this is a good spot to say this, I think.

Most of you probably don’t have any idea who I am (that’s on purpose - I really like to lay low), and I’m also thinking a lot of you probably don’t know I make knives now and again (sporadically enough to question whether or not I’m a knifemaker 🤣).

I spend a lot of time ribbing Nate, usually about goofy stuff like his pricing (it’s too low), or his myriad assortment of Ford trucks in various states of operability. What you don’t maybe know is that this little subforum is about the only place I choose to do any level of social interaction, and despite me jesting at Nate’s expense, it’s because of who Nate and his family and crew are.

They’re my friends. For a whole bunch of reasons, but one of the really big reasons is that they’re really good people. Actual, real, good, people.

We joke a lot, and often in a very off-color fashion, but that’s not the sort of good I’m talking about. They are ethical, caring people, and fool enough to embrace me as someone worth talking to. They make ethical business choices, shrewd choices, that I don’t see many other knifemakers have or (especially) knifemaking companies making. The weird thing is, I actually have a perspective on this, because despite being an almost unknown, I somehow seem to talk to a LOT of knifemakers and companies involved in the industry. The Carothers crew have a genuine interest in treating their customers well, and fairly, and it’s important to them that the work they do lives up to their claims, and that their customers are truly appreciated by them.

I CHOSE to drive eleven hours straight to visit. It was really important for me to be here, this weekend, because I want to support these people.

Because they’re my friends.









…and no, I didn’t write this because someone gave me candy last night.
 
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Matthew Gregory said:
Think this is a good spot to say this, I think.

Most of you probably don’t have any idea who I am (that’s on purpose - I really like to lay low), and I’m also thinking a lot of you probably don’t know I make knives now and again (sporadically enough to question whether or not I’m a knifemaker 🤣).

I spend a lot of time ribbing Nate, usually about goofy stuff like his pricing (it’s too low), or his myriad assortment of Ford trucks in various states of operability. What you don’t maybe know is that this little subforum is about the only place I choose to do any level of social interaction, and despite me jesting at Nate’s expense, it’s because of who Nate and his family and crew are.

They’re my friends. For a whole bunch of reasons, but one of the really big reasons is that they’re really good people. Actual, real, good, people.

We joke a lot, and often in a very off-color fashion, but that’s not the sort of good I’m talking about. They are ethical, caring people, and fool enough to embrace me as someone worth talking to. They make ethical business choices, shrewd choices, that I don’t see many other knifemakers have or (especially) knifemaking companies making. The weird thing is, I actually have a perspective on this, because despite being an almost unknown, I somehow seem to talk to a LOT of knifemakers and companies involved in the industry. The Carothers crew have a genuine interest in treating their customers well, and fairly, and it’s important to them that the work they do lives up to their claims, and that their customers are truly appreciated by them.

I CHOSE to drive eleven house straight to visit. It was really important for me to be here, this weekend, because I want to support these people.

Because they’re my friends.









…and no, I didn’t write this because someone gave me candy last night.
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So having the chance to meet Matthew Gregory Matthew Gregory this weekend...

He's a pretty awesome guy and he loves people sending him frustrating projects..... he loves them..... no really..... send this guy the most frustrating projects you can think of......


Like a fixed blade that's a folder... that turns into a drain cleaner.... then send him some new blade steel that really makes him frustrated to work with.....

No really...

He loves that stuff!

No really send it all to him!

Lolz
 
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