Checking in. Hopefully a new PIF thread will resurface in a few weeks. That thread did more good then bad with more good people then bad people. I was a semi-lurker who didn't read all the posts so I'm not sure what happened (and it's too late now).
Things are going. Plans to maybe create some structure.
@JupiterPaladin @sabre cat I do believe that the thread needs in essence a credo.
Like:
1 The thread is for putting in an unused knife and to take out an knife of equal or greater value to try out for fun
1.a Knives that are taken from the pool are meant to be kept or placed back in the pool but ultimately if its in the pool whomever is in possession of the knife can do as they please with it. No questions. This is a caveat to the person placing a knife of value into the pool, to not expect an act of kindness to be returned. This will prevent situations where several members grabbed a semi-high value knife and put back multiple items in the pot that no one wanted.
2 The owners of the knives ultimately dictate the terms and if the original owner wants to send out that knife to an individual
3 Acts of kindness like no return knife placed into the pool of knives to try have to be dictated
4 Offers of lesser value can be refused. Period.
5. Items that sit for more than a month should be purged and the person putting those items in the pool have the option to replace those items or return the knife that was being tried out into the pool as opposed to keeping it.
6. Should be open to paid forum members only in order to keep out the riff raff
So lots of good came of it though, I feel at least. Off the PIF thread I sent
@Deinos a G5 metamorph, no strings attached to try out,
@Markisbear was sent a kitchen knife and
@Sharp & Fiery in Canada was sent a set of Rough Rider knives and
@Neko2 still has a laptop coming to him whenever it can get reconfigured.
Lots of great forum members were met and lots of old friends like
Monofletch
remain vested so it's all good. I for one can't remember the stuff I pif but it includes multiple watches, Timex and Gshock mostly (I think 4 at least), a Landi EDC nib, endura, delica, the list goes on, I tried a bunch of knives that I put back into the pool and a few of my favorite edcs are a result of the thread including a sak pruner, metamorph 2, baby jess horn
@Velitrius, and a Ripple 2 in Acuto which I need to edc more.
