BullfrogKen
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Thanks to all for taking the opportunity and contributing to my endeavor in the questionaire thread I posted earlier in the week. The response was more than I anticipated. I received a very good idea from one respondant, and thank you to the several entrepreneurs who extended me kind thoughts.
I collected the answers and deleted everyone's particular responses. So if you asked me a question and are still waiting on an answer, I must have missed it. I'm not ignoring you. I didn't put anyone down for any orders, either, so if you thought you might have placed a reservation for a garment. Well . . . you need to e-mail me again, because I took none.
I was able to work out an arrangement with the factory to accept my design and make production runs in reasonable order quantities at an acceptable fee. I discussed the project with my wife, and she supports it.
If you expressed interest; I can start taking requests now against the first run. Either e-mail me or PM me here. I'll respond with my phone number and we'll discuss the particulars that way. His current schedule puts me out about 6-8 weeks lead time from the time I deliver my material before anything can be ready for me to pick up. No one should expect a deliverable before June.
Next weekend my wife and I are going to Philadelphia for the day. While we're there we are making a trip to the garment district to get my material. I'm doing the first run in one or two colors only based on what my local customers already want, and what I know sells from my experience. Assuming I can get enough quantity next Saturday, one choice for certain is khaki. If I can get the large bolts of gold, navy or light green than have sold successfully for me in the past I'll eventually make those options available, too.
Once we get back, I'll have my photographer take photos of the material and send those out along with e-mails of the vest design. I'm seeing him Sunday to take some studio quality pictures from my own stock of vests and will post a couple here. Within a couple weeks I'll have a brochure describing material and color options in particular.
Light weight menswear wool and a cotton/poly lining are the fabric cloth options. The lining is the same stuff you find in your sportscoats. I chose a lining perhaps more robust than what you've got spec'd in your suitcoat, but its the same consistency and doesn't adhere to our weapons or clothing, allowing for an unhindered draw. It also allows the garment to move independently from the clothes underneath it, minimizing the tendancy for a light outer garment to bunch up around or over a grip and expose it to view.
Expect a more professional entrance into the market later this summer. But I wanted to announce that I make the decision here after I starting talking it up with the earlier interest thread. My immediate goal is to satisfy my current local orders, and have a supply available for sale at this year's National Tactical Invitational (NTI)in June.
Thanks again gentlemen. I'm not going anywhere. I was here on the site for a year before I decided to make this announcement, and I'll be here after. Hell, I'll have more time with a factory filling most of my demand.
Ken O'Donnell
I collected the answers and deleted everyone's particular responses. So if you asked me a question and are still waiting on an answer, I must have missed it. I'm not ignoring you. I didn't put anyone down for any orders, either, so if you thought you might have placed a reservation for a garment. Well . . . you need to e-mail me again, because I took none.
I was able to work out an arrangement with the factory to accept my design and make production runs in reasonable order quantities at an acceptable fee. I discussed the project with my wife, and she supports it.
If you expressed interest; I can start taking requests now against the first run. Either e-mail me or PM me here. I'll respond with my phone number and we'll discuss the particulars that way. His current schedule puts me out about 6-8 weeks lead time from the time I deliver my material before anything can be ready for me to pick up. No one should expect a deliverable before June.
Next weekend my wife and I are going to Philadelphia for the day. While we're there we are making a trip to the garment district to get my material. I'm doing the first run in one or two colors only based on what my local customers already want, and what I know sells from my experience. Assuming I can get enough quantity next Saturday, one choice for certain is khaki. If I can get the large bolts of gold, navy or light green than have sold successfully for me in the past I'll eventually make those options available, too.
Once we get back, I'll have my photographer take photos of the material and send those out along with e-mails of the vest design. I'm seeing him Sunday to take some studio quality pictures from my own stock of vests and will post a couple here. Within a couple weeks I'll have a brochure describing material and color options in particular.
Light weight menswear wool and a cotton/poly lining are the fabric cloth options. The lining is the same stuff you find in your sportscoats. I chose a lining perhaps more robust than what you've got spec'd in your suitcoat, but its the same consistency and doesn't adhere to our weapons or clothing, allowing for an unhindered draw. It also allows the garment to move independently from the clothes underneath it, minimizing the tendancy for a light outer garment to bunch up around or over a grip and expose it to view.
Expect a more professional entrance into the market later this summer. But I wanted to announce that I make the decision here after I starting talking it up with the earlier interest thread. My immediate goal is to satisfy my current local orders, and have a supply available for sale at this year's National Tactical Invitational (NTI)in June.
Thanks again gentlemen. I'm not going anywhere. I was here on the site for a year before I decided to make this announcement, and I'll be here after. Hell, I'll have more time with a factory filling most of my demand.
Ken O'Donnell
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