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 no doubt in my mind they did work together. They have both read this thread and neither has stepped forward to deny it. One of them if not both would have if it were totally false,to clear their name and if for no other reason to make us look ridiculous.
This doesn't pass the smell test.
This is why transactions should always be done on the forums. This is why you don't do Paypal gift. This is why you take photos. The seller shouldn't have given a refund, he should have requested the knife back. The buyer(s) were shady all the way around.
I'm tempted to ban both cvuivich and ja2072, but the problem is there's no proof that cvuivich was involved other than 2nd hand information. ja2072 has apparently disappeared now. I've changed the thread title, and would like to see more information.
That pic in my point of view looks like a chalk mark and there is what appears as skin flakes in the gymping. I just use a jewlers brush and all the "loving fondling" mess is gone.
Consider wear marks that cross boundaries between scale and back spacer, bolster and scale, liner and scale , blade tang and inside back spring (double print), then look and question "how can the white wear mark damage both the high AND inside edges of the DEEP gymping?
That IMOP is proof of seeking a refund with no genuine reason. And shows a plan to deceive.
Criteria a cop would say crosses into fraud.