George I understand you are a seller and no I have no idea what one olive branch is from another and do not care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My point is I used the word olive blank and if that is not the right word than my bad. The point of my statement was for Tony to look at the ad that guy recently posted on the site and by the way you are not the only blank seller here. I have no idea if what he says is true or what you say is true I never bought yours or his OLIVE blanks. I was trying to help Tony. Again where these or your blanks or anyone elses blanks come from I have no knowledge of. My last statement on this silly thing.
Yeah, you're right, the more I read the OP the more I realised that I may have miss-read the whole thing, which sometimes gets me into "hot water"
Was never my intention to upset anyone but when I read you saying "the guy selling the best of the best olive blanks here" I completely forgot what Tony was asking and I've thought to myself, he may sell the best Bow blanks here or on eBay but he couldn't possibly sell the best of the best Olive blanks in here or anywhere, after all, many discussions have happened about the difference between BOW and "regular" Olive wood grown in non-holy land such as Australia, the major difference is not in the wood itself but in where it grows, this is what I always believed BOW is or should be, growing up in a very Catholic environment, has gave me a great respect for peoples beliefs particularly Catholic even though I have absolutely no association in any way shape or form with ANY religion.
My reaction to your comment in that post was not malicious in any way, I believe most of my higher grade Olive blanks are as good if not better than what I see on sale elsewhere and it happens that I'm selling some of my best grade Olive blanks at the moment here on IAP after a very long time not doing so and like yourself that like the call it as you see it, I have the same inclination reason why we both reacted but from very different reasons, no problem as I see it.
I felt that I need to offer some explanation to my reaction with apologies to Tony and John, there is no reason to request the thread to be closed Tony, we are all grown-ups in here (or at least we should be) therefore, we are perfectly capable to deal/diffuse these situations, after all, is Christmas so who wants to be "arguing" at this time of the year..?
Merry Christmas everybody...!
Cheers
George