what is a reasonable wait time for a custom build

SBuzek said:
Did you get your knife?
If not you should just get a refund as you're probably never going to like it simply for the aggravation it has caused.
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I’m still waiting for it, he said he was working on it and would ship it last week. I haven’t asked for a refund.
 
Cancel if you can. Go sort the Feedback section by post count, dozens of threads about well known makers who went AWOL and ended up scamming folk for money or blades or even a rolex in one case.
 
elmoto475 said:
I’m still waiting for it, he said he was working on it and would ship it last week. I haven’t asked for a refund.
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If someone paid for a knife months ago and is still waiting—after being told it would ship last week—that is already a clear signal that something is wrong with the way the maker is managing commitments. At that point, the issue is no longer patience. It is reliability.

In my experience, when a maker accepts payment and then misses delivery dates without proactive communication, that reflects a problem with discipline, professional responsibility, and maturity. A person’s word about schedule matters. If they cannot meet the commitment they made, they should say so before the deadline passes—not after.

I would strongly encourage you to be cautious going forward. Internet reputation and forum enthusiasm are often inflated. There is a great deal of hype around certain makers and services, and it does not always match the reality of how they handle customer obligations once money has changed hands. Furthermore, people hesitate to post critical feedback about a maker for fear of being accused of unfairly harming a person's reputation, which is bizarre.

Pay attention to what people actually deliver and when they deliver it. That tells you far more than what internet fanboys say about them.
 
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DrRollinstein said:
Cancel if you can. Go sort the Feedback section by post count, dozens of threads about well known makers who went AWOL and ended up scamming folk for money or blades or even a rolex in one case.
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he is not AWOL , still building knives for PVK and has an Instagram page , I am even a return customer !
 
elmoto475 said:
he is not AWOL , still building knives for PVK and has an Instagram page , I am even a return customer !
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That is consistent with all those threads I mentioned. Still active, especially on instagram and reddit, just not with customers that have already paid.
 
elmoto475 said:
should I expose him ? do I have any recourse ?
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You opened the thread March 19th after waiting almost a year for a pre-paid knife that was promised to you in April of '25.

Then a few days later you reported that he was going to deliver it in a week or so.

Now it's a month later and he is still ghosting you.

If you take it public there are a number of scenarios that could play out. Some resulting in you either getting a knife or a refund, some resulting in nothing. However as you have nothing now and you are out the original price I would say things can't really get worse. He already made four commitments to deliver the knife and lied about each one.

He has essentially conned you and stolen your money and is now lying to you about delivery. It's up to you but without going public you probably have a very low possibility of being made whole.

Remember that you are certainly not the only one he has done this too. Others are in the same boat and he is perpetrating the scam on even more people as we speak.
 
Steven65 said:
You opened the thread March 19th after waiting almost a year for a pre-paid knife that was promised to you in April of '25.

Then a few days later you reported that he was going to deliver it in a week or so.

Now it's a month later and he is still ghosting you.

If you take it public there are a number of scenarios that could play out. Some resulting in you either getting a knife or a refund, some resulting in nothing. However as you have nothing now and you are out the original price I would say things can't really get worse. He already made four commitments to deliver the knife and lied about each one.

He has essentially conned you and stolen your money and is now lying to you about delivery. It's up to you but without going public you probably have a very low possibility of being made whole.

Remember that you are certainly not the only one he has done this too. Others are in the same boat and he is perpetrating the scam on even more pe
Steven65 said:
You opened the thread March 19th after waiting almost a year for a pre-paid knife that was promised to you in April of '25.

Then a few days later you reported that he was going to deliver it in a week or so.

Now it's a month later and he is still ghosting you.

If you take it public there are a number of scenarios that could play out. Some resulting in you either getting a knife or a refund, some resulting in nothing. However as you have nothing now and you are out the original price I would say things can't really get worse. He already made four commitments to deliver the knife and lied about each one.

He has essentially conned you and stolen your money and is now lying to you about delivery. It's up to you but without going public you probably have a very low possibility of being made whole.

Remember that you are certainly not the only one he has done this too. Others are in the same boat and he is perpetrating the scam on even more people as we speak.
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I appreciate your aggressive stance ,I am holding off as long as I can before I do that there are no negative reviews on this maker anywhere .
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You could comment on his feeds that you did, in fact, pay for a knife over a year ago, and you are still waiting for it - kind of in a non-aggressive way - but I agree with Steven65 Steven65 , your money is gone, and there is very little chance of you getting a knife.

After that, I would casually contact everyone whose work this guy is doing, one by one, and politely let them know about your experience. Who knows, maybe one of them will rattle his cage, and he will at least refund your money.

At this stage, I would not accept a knife, because the chip on his shoulder, which he surely has, will result in you getting rushed, inferior work.
 
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This sort of thing gives knifemakers in general a bad name. Knifemakers need to be honest, and have integrity. If we take someone's money and promise them a knife within a certain time, then we need to get them the knife within that timeframe. If something , accident, sickness, etc. happens, we need to contact the customer and explain, and offer to re-fund their money.
It's just that simple.
 
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