Hello - and questions for Dan/Patti

First off hi to everyone.

Another new forum and more knives from our favourite family of cutlers. What could be better?

Now a couple questions for Dan or Patti.

Would one of you be kind enough to give us a bit of an introduction as to what we can expect to see from Scrapyard and how we might expect to see whatever it is we will see?

Can you give us an indication of what other models you might have coming up and when - or even a pic or two??

How will Scrapyard work, in terms of stock on hand, orders in advance, etc
Will you normally have knives in stock or will you normally take orders in advance and fulfill the orders as the blades are produced?

Will you normally only be producing one line/model at a time?

And will there be a 9"+ chopper soon???
6" might be OK as a steak knife (for small steaks...) but I'm sure some of us are just hankering for something with a bit of heft and reach....
:-)

And one more question - I'm another from the land down under - will a purchase from the Busse Company Store qualify me for a purcahse from you guys?


I'd really like to know a bit more about how you guys will be doing business and my guess is a pile of other people would like to know too, so I think it would be fair to say we'd be very appreciative if you could give us a bit of a rundown on how it will all work.

Thanks and Regards
FireballXL5

PS I like your site - well done!

Welcome Fireball ! I hope you get the answers to your questions. Tom

Hi Fireball,

Orders for Scrap Yard Knives will all be placed at the Scrap Yard Company Store and only knives listed as In-Stock will be available for purchase. The orders will ship within 10 days of receipt of funds, so wait times will be minimal. At the moment, there is only the Scrapper 6 and Scrapper 6 LE. More knives will be added as they are available.

Lots of good things will be coming out of the Yard. For pics of some more Scrappy blades, check out this thread and keep checking these forums for announcements.

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Only 92 regular Scrappers and 25 LE left! Better order quickly!

How'd you know that?

well if you added like 400 of each knife to the shopping cart you could see how many were available, but they changed it now so you cant anymore.

Awww...now we won't know when they're runnin' low.

Are the knives being shipped via USPS ? I thought that I had read that somewhere, but can't remember.

I bet so. Since that's how SR ships them. I'm guessing it's the most affordable option.

The USPS should be pretty cheap. I have received knives such as the SOG Tigershark and Fallkniven Thor shipped USPS Priority for a decent cost. The Yard is charging plenty enough for fast and efficient shipping.

Too bad it's not UPS. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Holy smokes Andy ! We have a great UPS delivery person, but he sure doesn't look like that!!!

Dan or Patti - have you considered making the big Wannemacher gun and knife show in Tulsa, Oklahoma?

Or the Great Southern Gun and Knife show in NewOrleans this upcoming weekend....only a 6 hour drive and it would be a great PR oppertunity......hell, send me a box and I will rent the table and sell them for you.

Like I said in the other thread, I have all kinds of pics. It's just a matter of finding an applicable thread to post them in. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

[censored], all I have is a scrawny red headed fellow to delivery my knives!!!

Our rural delivery gal does a great job as well, but she sure doesn't look like that!

HAHHAHA my delivery driver made up for looks with thier package.....ooohhhh that sounds bad...but what a mighty package it was....you wanna see it?

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Sure GF - why not? You sound pretty happy, so it must be something good! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

If something like that came to the door delivering a knife for me, the little woman would use the knife on its new owner. Be careful what you wish for, you may get it (and more)!
RATical

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Good point RATical ! Fortunately for me, my wife is almost always at work when UPS delivers here. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Is it ok to post"other" company knives here?

GF - you sound kind of giddy! I'm curious now as to what would get you so excited, if your carrier doesn't look like Andy's posting that is. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Well, It's a double edged sword deal...I am so glad to have it, but will never use it, just take it out on occasion and say....look what I have!

Sure! It's not like you're gonna steal customers from here for another company, because no one makes anything better than the Busse family. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Then it shall be up later today...I have class in a few mintutes!

I wonder if it is a Cold Steel double-edged katana?!?

why? is it made of solid gold or marble or something?? now i'm extremely curious -- this is gonna be good...

Wow, been there all day and you haven't seen it!

Come on GF - fess' up. What is it ? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> Inquiring minds want to know! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

It's one of ten.....and in the pic forum...don't you people look around <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

der, whaddyou mean?

ok, normally i get all up in people's grills for not using a blade... i just don't know what would be worthy of using that flying nuke thing on.... maybe if you got cornered by a pack of hungry lions...

Yeah, home defense..is about all I would use it as. Instead of the .45 I am grabbing that....I think I would have to take photos before the police got there to show Jerry!

Personally, I would just grab the 12 gauge next to the bed. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

But could you imagine the fear you could instill in someone by coming at them with a hunk of steel like that!

Scary thought for sure! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> However, I think the sound of a shell being chucked into a chamber will stop just about anybody in their tracks and at a safer distance. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />

Come now Vulcan......stop confussing my primative terrestrial brain with reason and logic!

I guess I just believe in stacking all the odds in my favor when possible! I'm sure Spock would agree!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I don't know -- i have some experience with the use of big blades in tactical scenarios -- i would bet that i could get across a room or down a hall with a big chopper as fast as i could effectively draw and aim a pistol; compared to the shottie, the blade could be a little slower, but no danger of overpenetration (well, maybe with GF's new flying Nuke, there would be), and level of force can be pecisely modulated through use of different target zones -- i would be comfortable clearing a structure with a big blade in about any position but point (which is ironic- inside joke). I think edged weapos are about the most underrated threat in modern CQC... oops typing too much -- i must not have enough drinks in my hands, yeah, yeah that's it...

No, that was getting good! I just heard about some CQC in a California school this evening....sound like they are training them young out there!

You sure don't want to be the training dummy! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

I believe them all to be the dummies...

Point well made!

Train and train is all they do...I don't know who would be better in combat...fellows from the hills trained in long distance shooting or the urban "solja" who sprays and prays!

Personally, I would opt for the hills fellows, and keep the combat at long distance whenever possible. Wolverines! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

The angry face... I didn't know you still had it in you!...I sported the angry face today at the VA clinic! Fools won't listen to a word I tell them, and it is making this process last longer than it should! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

GF - That fire still burns brightly in me! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Sorry to hear that the VA is jacking you around. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Oh. today they call me for an appointment in New Orleans for an MRI....I was just at the Radiologist yesterday in Baton Rouge....do these people know how much gas cost?....Anyhow, Dan or Patti or TrashCan...WHAT IS COMING OUT NEXT?

Where are you in relation to New Orleans and Baton Rouge ? And where is the nearest VA hospital ? If you are at least 50% disabled within the VA Health System you should be able to get milage pay from the VA, I believe.

Cat got your tongue GF ?!?

No cats here, but my pup bit my nose!....If you look at a map of Louisiana I am right where I-55 meets I-12. Hammond. I am still waiting for a VA rating..

I hope the VA gets to you quickly, as I am sure they are busy with guys returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

I am sure it's just run by a bunch of lazy folks who couldn't care less.....New Orleans is full of them. I don't want to get political in here!

Sounds like another good reason to move !

Just think GF - wouldn't it be nice to not have to worry about hurricanes ?!?

It's not the Hurricanes, it's the whinny lazy folks who blame our Government I can't stand!

They are everywhere, just not as thick in some areas.

They are plenty thick here!....can't wave a dead cat around without hitting a few upside the head!

GF - that's a great line - "can't wave a dead cat", etc. I don't think I have heard that line since I played Tom Sawyer in the sixth grade! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

You should here some of my other ones...not appropriate for family forums!

Well, I can be pretty creative myself! Especially when a wrench slips and I smack my hand while working on a piece of equipment. I have amazed my wife with my verbal creativity, but she does her best not to laugh while I am in pain - just immediately afterward!

It is amazing how poetic profanity can proliferate with the onset of pain.

Good one GF - I never thought of profanity as poetic.

On when it flows freely from a feverishly frightful fiend.

Good grief GF - I think you need some rest! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> We need to get you hooked up to the rest of the alphabet. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

Have you ever seen "V for Vendetta" ...the main character does a 2 minute rant of nothing but "V" woords...it made me feel ignorant, because I didn't know quite a bit of them.

No, and I think I'm GLAD I didn't see it!

Yeah, I thought that was a good movie. You know they pulled out a dictionary to look up all the V words though. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> I don't think anyone would know that many off the top of their head.

Oh, come on Andy - don't be modest! With all the information you carry around in your head, you could probably do it too!

No doubt, Big A is one smart cookie! Me not so smart, but me have other things me good at, like, um... me forgot!
It's true, itn't it: profanity is often poetic, and poetry is often profane -- Like Joyce's Ulysses was actually banned for being obscene! Unthinkable by today's standards. If you follow that logic, then what is considered profane or obscene now will later be perfectly acceptable -- that's simple evolution -- censorship is primitive, and the more we evolve, the less we consider offensive. So we just have to have compassion for those who are offended by us, they are simply less evolved, that's all. In a couple hundred years, they'll come around...

I'm not so sure that censorship is primitive and we are evolving away from it, or that as a society we are exposed to 'more' and thus lose our sensitivity to things that previously would have shocked... Compassion to our peers is a fine sentiment though!!

Paul, I don't want to hear anything about your views on censorship....frontal nudity is acceptable over there! And I am missing every minute of it!

But most of the best 'adult art' comes from America! It's good to live in a slightly free society...

Keeley Hazel is right around the corner from you, and you are talking about Americas art!.....my word, what is this world coming to?

She is the Mona Lisa of ART! Van Gough, Picasso, Monet, whoever the bloody hell you like!

GF - Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I strongly doubt that Sir Elton John would find Keeley as beautiful as we do - to him, his boyfriend is probably prettier! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />
As far as adult themed "art", I thought Denmark was leading the pack ?! Anyway, it's not worth arguing over.

Keeley posing with a nice new SR77 BOWIE - now THAT is Art! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Hehe, I wonder if Dan would let that one go??

I hope so...YOU Paul.....are our biggest hope in making it happen!

I kinda doubt that... but we can always lobby him (ie gang up..)

Lets just push for the Bowie...then get our top model!

Our top model is the bowie... 10.5" of fine curves!

I have to agree...then how about our top Model display support system?

GF - You and Paul are both right - 10.5" of beautiful curved steel resting on Keeley's beautiful "model support system"!

Works for me and now Dan is making the knife... So he must like the idea too!

My master plan is coming together nicely.....next the WORLD!!!!!!

That should be interesting! Go get 'em GF!

GF -- i'm assuming somewhere in the near future in the master plan lies the MOJO, silently waiting to be ushered into existence by the Don of the Yard... right? we can't forget about the MOJO... maybe he can come after the bowie, the mudder edc and the 5/16" thick SR-77 Howling Dog...

of course GF's model will be "sans dog catcher"... Wait, that's it, the mojo can be called the Dog Catcher, because of the little catcher thingy that GF is going to have mercilessly filed off of his....

No mercy for the catch! It is coming off like a drunk girls prom dress!

Ok...ready? (Big Breath) Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin van-guarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose.

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Outstanding!...Now I have to watch the movie!...........again

Andy, you need to get out more, Brother! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Do they let him out on his own? How on earth did he persuade the staff to let him have knives???!

I tell 'em they're letter openers. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

That Andy --- he's a smoooth one!

Yep, Andy you could be destined for a career in politics, with your smooth moves!

Can you imagine the political cartoons he would come up with ?!!? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

That would brighten politics up no end! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

At least the campaign commercials would be a LOT more interesting! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbup.gif" alt="" />