Desert Scrapper?

I have waited to order a Scrapper untill the Street Scrapper4 came out.

I like the look of the Scrapper 6 LE but it's missing something...

A Desert colored Resiprene-C handle.

I know Swamp Rat did it (SBR), will Scrap Yard ever make it happen?

Well, I certainly hope so!

What time zone is this web site on? I just looked at the time on my last post and it says 11:01 PM. Well here in South Carolina that post was created at 10:01 PM.

I guess that this web server must be on an island out in the Atlantic somewhere.

Check your time offset under preferences. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> First click "my home" at the top, then click where it says edit "Display preferences, number of shown topics, languages, colors..." then the 3rd option down that says "Current server time is: Sun Dec 24 2006 10:05 PM Choose your time offset in hours (..,-2,-1,0,1,2,..)" and adjust accordingly. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

As to the website particulars, a WHOIS search says:

Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: SCRAPYARDKNIVES.COM
Created on: 17-Mar-06
Expires on: 18-Mar-11
Last Updated on: 18-Jul-06

Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration SCRAPYARDKNIVES.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599

Technical Contact:
Private, Registration SCRAPYARDKNIVES.COM@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599

Domain servers in listed order:
NS3.SECURESERVER.NET
NS4.SECURESERVER.NET

Current Registrar: GO DADDY SOFTWARE, INC.
IP Address: 68.178.232.100 (ARIN & RIPE IP search)
IP Location: US(UNITED STATES)-ARIZONA-SCOTTSDALE
Record Type: Domain Name
Server Type: IIS 6
Lock Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Web Site Status: Parked
DMOZ no listings
Y! Directory: see listings
Web Site Title: www.scrapyardknives.com Coming Soon!
Secure: No
E-commerce: No
Traffic Ranking: 4
Data as of: 14-Jun-2005

So...according to that, their IP location is in Scottsdale, AZ.

Arizona is a Desert, it's a natural!

How about one in OD green?

OD sounds nice but as far as I know, black and desert are the only colors of Resiprene-C that Busse and Swamp Rat have made.

I hope not. I just want to see rugged, functional knives, and lots of them, at a good price. Time and effort spent on different colored handles and blade coatings is a waste IMO. If they go down that path, prety soon they'll be doing micarta and such, and Busse will have to spawn off a fourth company to make basic affordable knives.

Thanks Andy, that was the problem and I wish a very merry Christmas to you and your family.

Rich

Different colored handles are simply a matter of putting different colored Resiprene-C in their moulding machine.

The handles have to be the fastest part of the production process. I'm sure that different colored handles would create only a minimal delay if any at all.

Swamp Rat did black on black, desert on desert, black and tan, Micarta on black, desert on satin, micarta on satin and the master series. That's a lot of combinations.

Adding Desert Resiprene-C would be a very minor expansion of their offerings.

It would also look great.

I want to see it.

All I know is that Scrap Yard will keep bringing awesome knives! If they decide to do a Desert Scrapper, it will RULE!!

All I know is that I would sure like to see the Bowie now - after all, Dan said it was to be the next release! I am happy to have gotten in on the Mudder, but I am really anxious for the Bowie!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />

I would like to see the Desert version of scrappers and some limited time blade coatings like jungle, desert, arctic & urban camo. Jungle camo would be the first on my list. Also, I wouldn't mind seeing the ResC handle in toxic green. Too cool.

I second greens idea.
Ron Athay

Greens: I would love to see green Res.C and a green blade!!

I think green would be cool but Busse hasn't done it, Swamp Rat hasn't done it, who knows if green is even possible.

I was asking for something that I know is doable because Swamp Rat did it.

I say start small, lets get Desert Scrappers before we pester them for green.

so guys, what's Toxic Green look like? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Just to wet your whistles...
A favorite of mine, the INFI-Coot from SwampRatKnifeWorks (very limited knife, much like the INFI-Scrapper4). The pure awesomeness of this blade and its 'total package' is what brought me to the Infi-Scrapper4 (and the Game Wardens for that matter). Though some blades may come and go.. some will be kept till the bitter end,.. thats how i feel about my INFI-Coot, and I am sure many of you soon to be INFI-Scrapper4 owners will know what im talking about...

Now, if the infi scrapper was in tan, I would have bought 5.

ironballs,
that is one sweet looking blade.

thanks for the Show Ironballs! that's one sweet knife....Til the Bitter End... Yeah! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

VERY sweet blade Ironballs!!!

LOVE the pic!!

I have some desert tan Kydex coming...hmm desert tan kydex AND Tan Res-c scrapyard...

WOOHOOOO!!!!!!!!!

<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

All very good points. Don't forget the concept of scrapyard...its all about what I can find laying around. Whith your input I will keep my eyes open for colors in the handle material.

Dan

Do I get a free Black and Tan BYOB?

Thanks for listening.

Here's a couple more ideas, how about a Scrap Trap or a Scratchet?

The Busse family has no folder and ~3/8" SR-77 would make a nice little hatchet for everyone that missed the Crash Rat.

Dumpster Dan, I can't wait to see what you find next!!

Andy,

FYI and with due respect, you can't infer the location of a site from the whois info of the domainname or of the IP.

The whois only shows the location of the office of the company who has registered an object (IP, domainname, whatever)- which is not necessarily the location of the server that hosts the object.

In this case Scottsdale is the location of the office of the company that Scrapyard registered their domain with (i.e. the registrars).

The domain is different to and for this purpose independant of the IP.

To find out about the IP you need to identify the IP that www.scrapyard.com is mapped to eg use nslookup and then do a whois on the IP.
You can access nslookup from the dos prompt in windows or the comamnd line in OSX or linux/unix), dig (OSX/linux/unix) or similar to identify the relevant IP (there are also web gateways for nslookup this google for "nslookup gateway".

e.g.:
glock:~ jtan$ nslookup www.scrapyard.com
Note: nslookup is deprecated and may be removed from future releases.
Consider using the `dig' or `host' programs instead. Run nslookup with
the `-sil[ent]' option to prevent this message from appearing.
Server: 10.0.1.1
Address: 10.0.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: www.scrapyard.com
Address: 208.56.237.98

glock:~ jtan$ whois 208.56.237.98

OrgName: Alabanza, Inc.
OrgID: ALAB
Address: 10 East Baltimore St., 10th floor
City: Baltimore
StateProv: MD
PostalCode: 21202
Country: US

NetRange: 208.56.0.0 - 208.56.255.255
CIDR: 208.56.0.0/16
NetName: ALABANZA-BALT-3
NetHandle: NET-208-56-0-0-1
Parent: NET-208-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS.ALABANZA.COM
NameServer: NS2.ALABANZA.COM
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 1999-08-27
Updated: 2000-05-15
<snip>

This tells us the company (Alabanza) that "owns" the IP network that the Scrapyard site is hosted on appears have their offices (or at least a postal drop) in Baltimore.
However it is quite possible that some or all of their servers are elsewhere. It's even possible that yet anotheer company effectively "rents" the IP from Alabanza I(and who's servers maybe located soemwhere different again), but that's another story.

Some companies such as these guys: http://www.ip2location.com have databases that to map IPs to geographical locations using various means with various degrees of accuracy. They are generally pretty accurate but are not necesarily 100% accurate all the time.
Ip2location have a demo service where you can punch in an IP and see where they think it is physically located. In the case of 208.56.237.98 i.e the IP that www.scrapyard.com resolves to) ip2location thinks it is located in Las Vegas.

Sorry to be so pedantic Andy,but this stuff is my job.

OH YEAH, bring on the Scratchet! The Ratchet is a fabulous little tool and I am sure that a Scratchet would be even better.
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Hokey Smokes Fireballxl5 !!! I do good just to type an e-mail! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/doh.gif" alt="" />

I think a tan handle option is a great idea cosmetically and makes sense with current deployments..

Ah, ok. Sorry, I got that a bit confused. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" /> Always good to learn something new. I used to be into hacking/phreaking when I was younger, and learned a bit about stuff by reading as I went along. Over time a lot of stuff has been forgotten or confused though. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Ironballs: That is a sweet knife!! I DO know what you mean, now that I have my SS4!!