I have to vent

**geomick** · 18th July 25, 04:49 PM

who did you send it to? I tried checking the places I knew of that offered heat treating and one stopped offering the service in January and the other one closed due to owner retirement and is now owned by Jantz supply (but I don't know if Jantz is going to offer heat treat services).

**stickman** · 18th July 25, 05:53 PM

I sent my blades to Texas Knife Supply. That’s the one that the owner retired, the business was bought out by Jantz, they are not going to do any heat treat. They are going to use a man called Cowboy, I have talked to him on the phone. When I get the two blades I started yesterday finished I will give him a try. He sounded like he knew his stuff. Only thing is he is way more expensive than Texas Knife was.

**geomick** · 18th July 25, 06:15 PM

it is a shame that TKS is gone, but I can understand owners wanting to retire. So Jantz has now acquired Koval (years ago) and TKS. I had dealt with all 3 of those companies and even visited TKS once when I had a work trip that had me flying thru Houston. Lots of fun packing the blades and such to stash in my checked luggage.

**Jock Scot** · 19th July 25, 07:59 AM

Blimey! That's enough to make a saint swear!

**stickman** · 19th July 25, 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

Blimey! That's enough to make a saint swear!

Hello Jock, I have to admit I did turn the air a little blue.

After all I’m not (quite) a saint. I’m just getting too old for the aggravation, I’ll 87 on 11-11.

**stickman** · 19th July 25, 08:03 PM

Originally Posted by geomick

it is a shame that TKS is gone, but I can understand owners wanting to retire. So Jantz has now acquired Koval (years ago) and TKS. I had dealt with all 3 of those companies and even visited TKS once when I had a work trip that had me flying thru Houston. Lots of fun packing the blades and such to stash in my checked luggage.

When I lived in Houston I visited TKS several times. That was 25 years ago and I did business with them for years. That’s why I did’t call them before I sent my blades, never dawned on me that they would be closed.

**grizzbass** · 24th July 25, 08:40 AM

during the first trump administration Dejoy, a man with huge business conflicts of interest, was appointed post master general in order to disrupt and get rid of the USPS in order to privatize it. He has done a remarkable job of making it ineffective and incompetent. Until then I have never had a package disappear or get stuck somewhere in the delivery. Now it seems almost ever package takes muck longer and I have had 5 that the sender has had to replace. One package went from about 2 hours from my home eventually to anchorage alaska (I received an out for delivery notice on the tracking despite living in California). That took about a week and then another week to finally return to california and get to me.

**stickman** · 24th July 25, 11:05 AM

I know what you mean, I recently sent a small package to Canada. It went from Raleigh to Greenville to two places in Florida to Michigan and finally to a place in Ontario where it was sent out for delivery. Why it went to Greenville and Florida is mind boggling to me.