Lottery for Six RingThings

Hi folks! Got six more RingThings done this morning and I thought I'd put them up for your consideration. I have already done two or three regular releases of these little tool knives in the past few weeks. I figure this is a good way to let some other folks who did not get a chance to get in on those earlier sales to have a shot at getting one. I'll have another dozen or so RingThings coming up in a few weeks too, once I get more sheaths done.

These run $145 each plus $8 shipping via Priority Mail for US customers and $26 shipping via Global Express Mail for international customers.




RingThing Lottery ended at 9PM EDT Monday October 6th. Winners will be announced shortly, thank you EVERYONE who entered, I appreciate it. :)

List of Lottery Entrants: List

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Atwrench Winners Are:

Alright, no duplicates this time, 138 entries, wow. You guys must like my stuff is all I can say. :D

BTW, I reviewed the post and went back to my site to check on the price. I had it wrong, the Atwrenches with the tiki grinds and glow dots with no v notch are listed at $70 plus shipping on my site and that's what we'll go with here.

Lucky numbers are:

4
14
17
78
88
138

Thanks very much guys! :) I'll send emails out in a little bit.

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How About an Atwrench Lottery?

Alright, the titanium Prybaby Lottery was fun but there was only one of them available and thus one winner. How about we juice this up a little and try a multiple item approach? :)

I have six S30v steel Atwrenches with stonewashed finish. These are the ones with the tiki grinds but no V notches. All six have glow dots. Now, two of them have glow dots as shown in the picture and on the other four the glow dots are on the tips and the name stamp is in the middle, in other words, reversed from what is in the picture. I could have posted these separately but I figured they are close enough to the same that I could batch them together and hopefully no one complains.



The Atwrenches will be $75 plus $6 shipping in the US or $12 shipping international...also please add 5% sales tax if there any Massachusetts winners.

Lottery is closed!

Lottery will run until 9PM EDT tonight, Saturday, October 4th.

Lottery Entry List

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Winner Is....

I think in the future drawings I will email the winner first before posting results. That way if I don't hear back from them within the 24 hours I can pick the next winning number. But in this case since everyone is dying to know I will post it now.

Also, want everyone to know, there were two duplicates, one guy double tapped to fix his misspelled email address and one other guy entered twice despite being told not to. I discarded each duplicate entry. Will have to think about whether those who intentionally appear to be gaming the system will be removed completely or not...

Anyway, the winner, drawn at random is: #50, barrettorama! An email has been sent...

This has been a lot of fun. Thank you folks for participating and I will be putting up another round for a different item later today.

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Feeling Lucky? Lottery Test...

I got a few emails and comments about the latest releases and as usual I am not able to make everyone happy. Many of you understand that it is impossible to keep everyone happy and I do try hard to get things into as many different people's hands as I can. But there sometimes are lingering questions of fairness and I'm always looking for ways to even the playing field.

OK, I had been thinking of this for about a year but wasn't sure how to go about it. Jenny kindly helped me think it through and wrote some software to do it and I am immensely grateful for her help. Folks, we had literally hours of heated arguments over this and how to best do it. I'm not claiming it is perfect but I think it's worth a try for one of a kind or very short run items.

Here's how it would work:

I would post an item with description, picture and the price on the blog for your consideration. If you are interested, you can sign up and enter your name into the drawing for the chance to purchase the item. It could be one thing at a time or it could be several of the same items at once.

You'd be able to see your number and a screen name displayed publicly but your real name, address and email address would remain invisible and would never be shared.

The winner or winners would be picked via an online random number generator service (randomizer.org) and I can post the winners on the blog. Winners would then be sent an email with link to a special purchase page on my site. Winners would have 24 hours to respond to my email and if I don't hear back before then, I would draw a new number.

Only one entry per person and duplicates will be discarded. Shipping address on lottery entry MUST match the actual shipping address if a purchase is made.

Here's the first time test item. An old school titanium Prybaby. This is a full sized Prybaby that has been cut down to make a shorty out of it. It's bead blasted, has a subtle pattern on it and is anodized in the UV color. Price is $75 plus shipping. Shipping runs $6 for US and $12 worldwide.



Lottery is now closed. Will post the winner very soon...still waiting for Jenny to wake up. ;)

This will be closed to entries at 9AM EDT Saturday October 4th. Winner will be notified shortly after that.

List of entries so far: Lottery List

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Full Size SOPThings

All gone guys, thank you!

Stonewashed finish, a couple with black cord, rest with steel blue cord.
Not enough available to make a sales page.

I'm sorry to say that Mini Son of PryThings will not be available next week after all. Upon further inspection in better light this morning I decided to redo them all yet again and add them to the growing batch to be sent for DLC. Pissed me off as I had already cord wrapped some of them but these remaining ones just didn't look good enough to me to release.

The problem with the MSOPTHings and the Boogers is that they are so small and light that when they are in the tumblers, they tend to "float" to the top rather than sink lower in the bowl of ceramic media. As a result they may not get the necessary crushing force of tons of stone on top of them which is what gives you the wearing, deburring and "stonewashed" effect. So many of them looked a little underdone compared to pieces with more mass such as a Prybaby.

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Boogers, SOPThings, etc.

I'm getting a lot of email inquiries and wanted to give an update.

I wasn't happy with the finish on a lot of the plain Boogers even after retumbling so they have had additional handwork done to them and rather than retumbling yet again I decided to send them all out for DLC.

So, all the plain Boogers that remain have been redone and blasted and are waiting to go to the DLC plater with the next batch. There are only about 20 of them in all guys...I do not know just when I'll send them out as I am still gathering pieces so that I have a reasonable number of parts to make a full load.

The first batch of DLC'd parts may be coming back as early as next week. A lot of the batch is knives so they will be released in a trickle rather than a torrent.

SOPTHings are very close, probably have them done tomorrow. Plain MSOPTHings will probably be released early next week. There aren't a lot of each.

I'm going to be doing a bunch of grinding next week and getting some batches started. I have the new mini CC knives to do, the G3 Prybabies with screwdriver tips in both American and Metric versions and also the new fixed blade knives. Will take several days and I suspect I'll divide them up into 2-3 batches. Once the batches are ground they will be sent out for heat treat and tumbling which takes about 2 weeks to get done. So we are looking at late October for those items.

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