Did you make your goal? Is the machine paid for?

If not, I'd bet a short sword / dagger sale would go over well.

Thanks again for doing this, Gus. I hope this sale benefitted you as much as your customers.

Angus,
Congratulations on having a new major asset towards your dream! I hope you do find a gradual sustainable path forward that permits you to deliver more of your products and appreciated skills to "average budget consumers."

I am wondering if you intend or aspire to develop more in house capabilities; heat treat (possibly self made salt baths, etc), casting, etc ? As I move closer towards attempting that first knife, I can appreciate all of this stuff that you need to finish!

Congratulations, Gus! This sounds very promising!

Sounds good: When you are on a treadmill of trying to catch up to old orders, making up time lost due to setbacks and have to put the swordwork aside to do contract work to pay the bills it is difficult to just stop and " REBOOT " , you are just too much trying to catch up to even think about what isn't or rather wasn't optimum about the process. ;)

Now, that you have some breathing room you can take a pause and start over avoiding a lot of the things that cause customer service glitches.

So there is:

1) Good and effective communication.
2) Managing expectations by being careful about what you promise as to delivery times or it not even being an issue if you only deal with selling what you have in stock.
3) If a problem occurs always be pro-active informing the client and not leaving him/her in the dark.


Glad to hear that the equipment is paid for. :D :cool:

Congrats on paying off the machine! It sounds like that, and the "reboot" are both really well needed.

Not to rush or anything, but just to make sure I haven't missed a communication, when are the 1506s expected to be going out?

Folks,
Please conduct your personal business privately. The forums are for public communication, not for private business dealings.

Long past time for an update........

Taken where I talked about this before, the four 1557s are on the floor waiting for the coming week so they can go to heat treat. The four 1404s are in the current "machining cycle", and so are the 2104s.

I bought 720 inches of wood, handle material. This coming week, I'm going to saw and rout 30 9 inch cores, mixed 1/4 inch depth, and .36 inch depth.

I also have guard material, and handle material........

I've also found out {as if I didn't know}, that staying away from the computer, and actually either keeping the machines running, and/ or grinding blades, get much more work done. Consequently, I haven't been around as much, nor will I be. Strange to say after 10 years of being a very common internet presence, I'm not going to be quite the same presence. Maybe once a week?, maybe twice? Nothing like the past.........