All those old women that evacuate the area and their bowels when the Heavy Weather rolls around now gonna be throwing themselves in my path.
Old lady: âYoung man! What are those unorthodox yet ingenious concave appendages!?!â brown5tick: âDemâs Sabre Blades, baby.â Old lady: âGoodness! I see how they afford you improved control, not to mention respect. Here! Take my granddaughter to do with as you see fit.â
First impressions: Iâm really impressed with the professional packaging and presentation of this gear.
Challenge #1: where tf am I going to put that sticker to do it proper justice? Let me know if you have any suggestions.
On to the products themselves: build quality is solid. Feels light but reassuringly sturdy in the hand. There are a few small artifacts from the manufacturing process but everything thatâs exposed (i.e. not meant to be under griptape) looks especially tight.
The overhang offers you an extra 2.5 cm of footprint, so thatâs 5 cm in total across the width of the board. The contour that makes the concave is gentle but progressive and leads off to sharp edge on the inboard side with enough flex to adhere neatly to whatever curvature there is on the boardâs surface without leaving a prominent âstepâ or being brittle or fragile.
It took me a while to figure it out but I eventually found that the grooves that run along the length of the blades arenât just aesthetic. They actually serve as its âeaster eggâ feature! Once I managed to run the stylus of my record player along them at the right speed, I was treated to rich recordings of the enclosed Sabre Blades instruction manual, @Creavengerâs university thesis and a mysterious geo-caching reference that I think got cut off a bit at the end. Maybe I need the fifth Blade in the series if Iâm ever going to find out what happened to Admiral Crutzenâs legendary treasure trove.
Itâs probably gonna be a couple of weeks before I can get these mounted on the Heavy Weather. Iâll provide an update when I do, and of course if I make any progress on that geo-caching thing.
About the easter egg, congratz you are the first to notice! It is rumoured that skatanâs deepest secrets are stored on the fifth blade. I wouldnt dear to play it because @BillGordon is supposedly on there too⌠lord knows what he has been up to.
Developments have been slow due to the renovation, and moving but the end is in sight.
We got some custom Red and Black connectors through a cooperation with @PixelatedPolyeurthan, they look awesome and will be used for a new batch of sexy loopkeys. Will make some product photoâs next week so expect seperate coloured connectors up on the website soon!
Also got a lot of requests about the panel mount. Early next week we should finally get the grommets so after that there will be some stock again. Also made a simple enclosure cutout guide for the panel mount. Cutouts can be made with a drill and dremel. We will soon offer a gx12 sensor connector version too.
Sneak Peak for those you have not see yet
Hopefully if there is enough interest, we can start doing custom colours such an pink,blue,purple and green mr60/xt90s etcâŚ
Party pooper.
Yes itâs rit dye with a nice method I found to make exceptional results while keeping the price very competitive.
Iâve sent a loopkey over to @xsynatic for him to test out, but these shouldnât wear on over time, at least I hope not. The tests that we made have shown no wear