A little bit of history before you stick your foot so far down your mouth you won't be able to breath.
The original poster of the thread(Dave H) is deceased and was a well known and liked member. So, in honor of his memory, everyone limits comments and posts pics only. That's why some comments have been removed and unnecessary commits are frowned upon.
It's everyone's thread to contribute to if they so choose, if you keep alienating yourself with your snarky remarks, people will be less willing to help out and what fun is there in that.
I've got 4 wood inlays, two of which I use and two for collection pieces. The two for use gets a fair shake and I don't hold back on using them. So far, there's been no issues. Can't say I use the wood inlays in a wet environment because I plan on keeping them for a while. IMO, for normal daily use, the wood inlays will hold up as well as any other CRK.
Before you jump down my throat I said yak yak because the rules of that thread stated to only post pics and comments should be in another thread. And when people don't pay attention to the rules B Hyde would step in and say no yak yak, pics only. Never did he mention the symbolism of the thread you are talking about.
This is the thread I referred too where I was viewing many CRK pics to get ideas for my next purchase.
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads...rt-other-threads-for-comments.463786/page-170
If I'm such a dick, read my feedback . . . here is a comment from Lyall from my last purchase:
Great guy, very nice to deal with. Awesome communication and very quick payment. . . . Looks like you are on the wrong side trying to tear me down.
And its too bad when I see comments on other knife forums regarding bladeforums.com some avoid this place as its way too aggressive to new members and others. But after two months I can see its only attempting to be controlled by a handful of high posters. Great moderation here, but I'm sure B Hyde did not sign up to be a Kindergarten teacher.
He's suggested to me to avoid getting into conflicts.
I was waiting for someone from the old guard here to step in and try and start trouble when we were all having a nice pleasant and and very informative conversation about the woods CRK uses. Your snarky reference comment only puts you on that much closer to my ignore list button which has really cleaned up this place for me. The only reason you are not on it already is from time to time you "almost" seem like a decent contributor and I've appreciated "some" of your input. Please don't be just another one of your buddies whose main goal it is to get my threads closed or have them sent to whine and cheese forum. I'm here to learn, not spar with people.
I appreciated your last comment, just not your first part. Hang in there though, be nice, contribute, have an opposite opinion, I like to hear all sides of an issue or just move on and skip over my threads. I'll survive
Ajack on another note or another responder . . . since youv'e been around here so long see if you can help me on another issue I have. I bought a lrg seb 21 with beechwood inlays here (I luv this knife) just wish it had a DT raindrop blade.
It came with a light scratch but not enough to feel with your fingernail. CRK said they could try and polish it out, but there will be a charge plus my shipping to them and another $17.50 to ship it back. I don't want to lose my favorite EDC for 4-6 weeks. I figured I'd try and polish it out myself since I can always send it back to CRK. And on another forum the poster suggested to me they can't polish knives with wood inlays. They only way that it can be done is removing the inlay.
So I figured I'd try it myself. I tried a soft buffing wheel on my dremel with a little .50 and .25 diamond spray. That just served to put very fine scratches on it over the scratch. Rubbing with brasso didn't help, so I didn't want to rub too much.
These scratches are very fine which by the first pic can't be seen by the naked eye very easily. But the next pic I increased the magnification and at certain angles you can see the fine scratches. "I" know their there and if it is to stay in my collection, it has to be corrected.
So short of sending it back to CRK what product can order or might have on hand that I can use or what method can I use to polish the scales to remove whats showing in the 2nd pic.
