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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 3, 2005 - 10:32pm PT
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Waiting for one last email...
Hopefully the next couple of days.
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Shack
Big Wall climber
So. Cal.
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*keeping fingers crossed*
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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Heard a rumor in Joshua Tree that Anker was selling the biz. Any word on this?
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2005 - 05:53pm PT
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Part of the biz to BD, a done deal...
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deuce4
Big Wall climber
the Southwest
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what part, I wonder?
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GOclimb
Trad climber
Boston, MA
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Didn't see the thread the first time around.
Put me down for one hammer. Thanks!
GO
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grover
climber
Castlegar, British Columbia
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Signed up to say........ Count me in for one.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 4, 2005 - 10:38pm PT
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Everything soft I believe...
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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At least that leaves the good stuff - iron.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 5, 2005 - 08:49pm PT
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Well, the planets managed to line up - so we appear to have ignition and a green light...!!!
We'll probably have to re-quote the heads and handles, then line up finishing, heat treatment, and assembly. To all the players I've spoken with in the past about the project, I'll be sending an email the next couple of days and, if you're still in, then we can figure out getting the ball rolling. Probably do some preliminary organizing work pre-holiday and start in earnest after the break.
I suspect we'll still do an order of 250 as we discussed earlier and will work up a price for them based on that quantity once we have all the costs in for the work. We'll be asking whatever that price is as well as asking you to kick in whatever you can beyond that for the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation in support of their fine work in Nepal. ( http://www.alexlowe.org/ )
We'll also probably see about doing a run of the old Beaks and/or Bryan Law's new and improved beak design. But, one thing at a time. So whoever ends up handling the financials will eventually let all you good folks know how much, how to order, and where to send the cold hard cash for a hammer (probably PayPal).
Again, thanks to all of you for your interest and patience...
 Joseph
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malaka
climber
gothenburg, sweden
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Fantastic news! Good work Joseph and anybody else involved in the project!
/erik
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Andy KP
climber
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count me in, and I know of at least 10 brits who'd want one.
Andy K
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DavisGunkie
Trad climber
Davis, CA
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hey, maybe once things get moving with regards to actually selling, we could start a new thread to keep from having to scroll through all these posts of people saying they want one
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 12, 2006 - 12:35am PT
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It's been slow on the old ST forum and a paucity of climbing threads (though the "deck of the year" was truely awesome)...
anyway I count 67 hammer requests... maybe Joseph (healyje) has got some requests offline. Any news?
2 healyje
1 nature
1 John F. Kerry
1 Knoxville
5 macgyver
2 Dingus Milktoast
1 Mort
2 sbwyliedog
2 yo
1 Mungeclimber (?)
2 JMC
1 dirtineye
1 bulgingpuke
1 T2
3 JuanDeFuca
1 crotch
1 phillip mike revis
1 T Moses
1 Irisharehere
1 mark miller
1 DavisGunkie
1 Mtnfreak
1 Zander
1 jack herer
1 foster
1 Moof
1 Manjusri
1 alasdair
3 OW
1 Festus
1 Brian in SLC
1 Rhodo-Router
1 steelmnkey
1 Ed Hartouni
2 thedus
1 squeaks
1 YetAnotherDave
1 dmitry
1 lazide
1 malaka
2 kev
4 rja
2 mynameismud
1 locker
1 GOclimb
1 grover
1 dave
1 Andy KP
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 12, 2006 - 01:26am PT
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Ed, wow, thanks for doing that, I do have a couple of email requests as well. I hope to get a launch going some time next week and the plan is still to do an initial run of 250 hammers with proceeds above our costs to go to the Alex Lowe Charitable Foundaion. Bryan, I, and others have also progressed some on the possibility of doing a run of either A5 beaks, a new design of Bryan's, or both. Starting sometime next week I'll setup a new thread for the project and try to post updates regularly.
Thanks for everyone's continued interest...!
Joseph
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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any word on this project?
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 7, 2006 - 11:56am PT
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Ed,
No, events have not allowed me to crank it up to-date, still hope to do so in the latter half of this month.
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yo
climber
NOT Fresno
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What's this Minerals beak all about? Pics?
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caughtinside
Social climber
Davis, CA
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Hell, sign me up for one of 'dem hammers!
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Minerals
Social climber
The Deli
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If I posted pictures, I’d be giving away my design ideas.
The design is an improvement on all beak-type pitons that have ever existed. I know that there is no money to be made; I just want to provide climbers with an improved beak design that works better. If we can deal with the legal/business logistics, then we can sell some to you and then you can go out and terrorize all of the thin seams that you can possibly find.
Who wants to climb clean when you can nail thin seams???
Got iron?
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