Not offended at all, gents, and I didn't mean my tone to be nasty at all - obviously it's difficult to perceive the intention of these things in real life when you're reading words on a screen.

I'm all for talking about knives from any manufacturer - heck, in my recent chopoff, two of the best performers were non-scrapyard knives, and I was all too happy to point that out.



But posting a thread to specifically ask "hey, tell me any knives OTHER THAN SCRAP YARD that are good" just seems to be pushing it IMHO. I read the RAT Cutlery board on Bladeforums, and I participate there once in a while, but I don't go on there talking about Busse or Scrap Yard knives all the time - I certainly wouldn't go there and say "hey guys, I don't really want a RAT Cutlery blade, so who wants to tell me what else to buy?"

There's a time and place to ask those kinds of questions, and IMHO it's a "general knife discussions" board on a place like knifeforums or bladeforums, not a manufacturer-specific board, whose upkeep, maintenance, and hosting fees are paid for by that manufacturer.

And it's also a completely different story when an established member says something like "I have a couple scrap yards already, and want to compare their performance against other knives, so who else out there has a good value?"