Scrapyard is a growing small business and like all growing small businesses is going through a period of growing pains. I won't defend the position of new knives versus fulfilling pending orders because it's hard to justify. However, I can understand how a shift of priorities at the Wauseon factory could cause something like this to occur. This is something Dan will have to manage with his brother. Being co-located at the Wauseon factory has to be a better environment for managing production priorities than trying to do so remotely from Houston. Dan's a bright guy and I'm optimistic that this situation will fix itself in due course.

On the positive side, Dan has been listening the Yard's pleas for some smaller knives and has responded with some nice new products for us. Though the timing of the new releases is somewhat awkward, good things are indeed happening.

At the end of the day each of us has to take measure of our own patience. There are many, many knives and knifemakers that we can spend our money with if we truly want/need to purchase a knife right away.