Jeff,

Are you sure you're a Gator? You seem like you're not such a bad guy after all, OH!, that's right, you revealed the skeletons in your closet!

Anyhoo, You're right about the lack of craftsman that are able to step in, you see, at RMK we make the knives like Bo taught us to do and down the line. We haven't sacrificed quality for quantity and have no plans to! We can take anyone with eye/hand co-ordination and train them to be a knife-maker, but a true cutler takes YEARS to train to where if they miss time away from the shop that their absence means the rest have to step it up to pick up the slack.

We have a few "newbies" that are currently in "training" and do show promise. In fact, one of our new posters on this forum Gatorhunter (gotta' love that name) is one of them. So, with a little patience and a whole lot of training, the shop will be just fine, in time.

---DW---