Hey folks, we’re sending this month’s newsletter out a little bit early. Normally, we try to send it on the 15th of each month. But, there’s a bit of news we wanted to get out to all of you. As many of you know, Bark River maintains several different groups on Facebook. The primary one is simply called Bark River Knives. That group was hacked yesterday and the offending party has demoted all admins and moderators, effectively seizing total control of the group.
Near as we can piece together, what happened was the hacker snuck into the group by using a fake account and pretending to be another admin. Then, they brought in their “real” profile and promoted it to Admin status. Once that was established, they demoted everyone else.
Mike and the crew are working feverishly behind the scenes to get this rectified. However, please know that the Bark River website is perfectly safe, as are all other Bark River affiliated Facebook groups at this time.
For the time being, just sit tight while they sort things out. If a new group is created to replace the old one, we’ll be sure to send the link to everyone. Please do not create any new groups on your own in an attempt to replace this one.
Production Updates
The Wa Santoku and Kwaiken have both mostly been delivered to the distributors. There are a few stragglers still coming through the line. Check out these Wa Santokus with stag handles!
Currently, the bulk of the work going on is on the Bravo Squad Leader IIs, with the Bravo Tope-Recon in 3V coming next, along with a run of fire steels.
Employee Spotlight
Meet Angela (Angel) DuBois. Angel started in the assembly department at Bark River in 2011. After some time she was moved to the quality control department. Since 2020, Angel has been the room lead for the quality control department. Angel is one of the sweetest people you will meet and has a wonderful sense of humor.
Angel grew up in the Escanaba area with a passion for the outdoors and animals, especially horses. She now enjoys reading, crocheting, and spending time with her husband and their bird Lola. Angel says “I love the job I’m at, the people here, and my bosses are awesome.” Angel has recently returned to work after having a couple of months off for personal reasons. We are all very happy to have her back.
Pre-Orders
Some people have noticed that the list of available pre-orders has been dwindling. Mike, Jacqui, and the distributors have been taking a hard look at how pre-orders are being done and how the system can be improved. When you add in all the different handle materials, modifications, and other options, there are thousands of different possible combinations for any given model, so anything that they can to do streamline the process is beneficial.
Here are the currently available pre-orders.
Tengu 3V - DLT Trading
Aurora III - DLT Trading, KnivesShipFree
Quote of the Month
“Sometimes all you need is a positive attitude and a knife.” – Unknown
Once again, great article and thank you for the updates. I'd like to say I have loved the Pre-orders options in the past. Several of my Bark River knives are Pre-Orders. There is something really cool about ordering a knife special and one of a kind that's for YOU. I truly hope you all will continue the options of pre-orders for your knives. Hope ya'll can figure this out soon cause I see on your production schedule there on Facebook that the Wilderness 5 is up on that list now. I've been waiting for a long time to pre-order another one of these beauties up. Thanks again Bark River for all your hard work making awesome knives!