Buttermilk What Scotty said, we've made it to 3 GTG so far, went to Backwoods Savage place twice, where we met Kevin, picked up our 029 from him, liked it so much, left the ms362 with him. The folks and food are great. We went to Scotty place this year. He and his family are 1st class all the way around. You won't be disappointed.
I asked him about porting our MS362, before I knew of Kevin. He had a list of questions to answer, about like the FBI...... Then said he didn't want to do a used saw. Charge $100 to look it over and it not meet his standards... I'm glad I made the right choice, got the best and send our saws north to MI...Got 4 with XS in them now.
Before I knew about saw forums and Kevin I contacted him. It was $700 to do his "insane o" port job on my 2511. That's his basic port job I believe. This was 2018 or early 2019. It also took 3 months of back and forth to get the price. Refuses to talk to you on the phone and only one email reply a day. And don't get me started on his ridiculous interview process....
That'd be the day. I've seen antique axes from local smith's dating back to the 1700s in my area that I'd rather own and they're not even that expensive.....lol
If he can get people to pay it, who are we to call him crazy!? I got lucky having a then legend(DozerDan) to personally hand my saw to for port work. Then I rode my motorcycle to his place to pick it up. To this day it hasn’t been wrenched on and I’ve run it a LOT. In fact I bet I’ve retuned that saw less than half a dozen times since getting it back (July 2015). Probably due for a fresh ring.
I wasn't calling him crazy. Insane O is his name for one of his port job performance levels. Psycho is another higher level supposedly. The whole interview process to find out if you are worthy to pay him to do a port job is ridiculous no matter how good his stuff may run. He could have saved us both a lot of dicken around by telling me the price in our first conversation.
Poet and didn’t know it. Insane-O is his name-o. Lol. Dan charged me $200 cash. Those days.. long gone. He took care of his locals. Especially if he didn’t have to ship the saw.
