D5 Open Source Hammer Project - It's Hammer Time!!!

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msiddens

Trad climber

Mountain View

Jan 21, 2011 - 02:28pm PT

wow, looked away for a few days and came back to this. Bummer GO missed the hammer and hope it works out. FWIW I love the hammer and again, much appreciate the efforts that went into it.

Disaster Master

Social climber

Born in So-Cal, left my soul in far Nor-Cal.

Jan 21, 2011 - 02:37pm PT

Earlier today I noticed what looks to be a D5 stamped on the head, underside...

Is it on ALL of them???...

How long have you had your hammer? I have 2. One is a litte longer than the other. One has a hole started in the bottom. One is cracked.

This Photo says it all...

Bob D'A

Trad climber

Taos, NM

Jan 21, 2011 - 02:41pm PT

I gladly paid the hundred bucks...great item and they are more than likely in the negative than positive.

BrendenR

Trad climber

Alberta, Canada

Jan 21, 2011 - 02:56pm PT

081 is here!!!!!!!!!!! WWWWWWWWWWWWHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it's here!

080 must be so close... Joseph do you have a tracking number from that one?

utahman912

Social climber

SLC, UT

Jan 21, 2011 - 03:00pm PT

can someone please help Minerals find his meds?

nature

climber

Tuscon Again! India! India! Hawaii! LA?!?!

Jan 21, 2011 - 03:08pm PT

^^^^ no kidding

utahman912

Social climber

SLC, UT

Jan 21, 2011 - 03:11pm PT

go to your happy place...

jeff_m

climber

somewhere fairly insignificant

Jan 21, 2011 - 03:44pm PT

Profit?! You think Theron & Co. made a profit?! That's fu¢king hilarious!

(Hey, but maybe that's why he's not posting---he's too busy adjusting to his new life among the Forbes 100...)

BrendenR

Trad climber

Alberta, Canada

Jan 21, 2011 - 03:45pm PT

Cheers to all involved through the whole process!

And for the record, my D5 was in my possession for less than 5 mins and I had already driven a pin into a crack in the basement foundation.

HighTraverse

Trad climber

Bay Area

Jan 21, 2011 - 04:22pm PT

And for the record, my D5 was in my possession for less than 5 mins and I had already driven a pin into a crack in the basement foundation.

That's gotta be a record. So where are the pics?

healyje

Trad climber

Portland, Oregon

Topic Author's Reply - Jan 21, 2011 - 04:28pm PT

When it was said and done from the first post until the last hammer shipped, my three hammers ended up costing me about $425 a piece so you'll have to excuse me if my time in the complaint booth is brief. But I do have a replacement.

BrendenR

Trad climber

Alberta, Canada

Jan 21, 2011 - 04:43pm PT

That's gotta be a record. So where are the pics?

And that 5 mins included the signing for the parcel and the mailman meeting the dog:

Stock photo of my dog, and yes he does weigh more than most sport climbers.

couchmaster

climber

pdx

Jan 21, 2011 - 04:53pm PT

That $1275 bucks you note ($425 x 3 hammers) is airfare and living expenses while you helped pound these parts together working for for an hourly wage of zero$. You are forgetting the A5 hammer you purchased *cough* forwaytoomuch* cough* off ebay in a bidding war for the sole purpose of tearing it apart to learn the details over 3*5 some odd whatever years ago? Or your billable time you forgo'd so as to work for free on this project.

Damn.

So it really is true as noted above, no good deed does go unpunished.

Hey Minerals, $100 is too much for a hammer that was 50% higher than the nearest competitor back in the day to be reborn? Really? Don't buy one, or if you did and regret it, then sell it to GO who's hurting here. Lets see you do 1 good deed. ONE! How much time and effort (I'm not including time bitching) did you commit to this endeavor? For myself, not a moment. But I'm appreciative and thankful, unlike you. Take the exit or turn left and sell it to GO.

As far as the "Tax" and socialism goes, you think that these guys owned the die? They didn't, Conrad does. So as far as donating some scratch to his charity so that, you can get hammer for about the cost you'd pay to get a competitors hammer, while you are living a life these folks can only dream of to complain and bitch so that some of the poorest people in the world can get a little extra help....it's stunning.

The lack of respect shown to those who committed so much, and at every step of the way showed more transparency than any real business is amazing to me. They told you what it was cost and where that was going to go, and if they missed it by a few bucks cause they had to buy a different mill or take time to mill a new jig, it is just astoundingly gauche to me.

couchmaster

climber

pdx

Jan 21, 2011 - 04:55pm PT

BrendenR, heads up buddy, your wife thinks the basement goes clean:-)

JBC

Trad climber

Tacoma, WA

Jan 21, 2011 - 05:59pm PT

Profit?! You think Theron & Co. made a profit?! That's fu¢king hilarious!

If you are referring to my post Jeff - there is a reason the word profit was in quotes!

Jim

JBC

Trad climber

Tacoma, WA

Jan 21, 2011 - 06:11pm PT

Just to put the price into perspective:

I think I paid $80.00 including shipping for my A5 hammer, purchased in the early to mid 80s - The D5 cost me $100 with shipping. A 20 dollar difference. About 80 cents a year inflation, not bad!

Jim

k-man

Gym climber

SCruz

Jan 21, 2011 - 06:25pm PT

This might be a stupid question, but are the hammers gone?

steelmnkey

climber

Vision man...ya gotta have vision...

Jan 21, 2011 - 06:27pm PT

Ya know... maybe it's time to take a deep breath on this and not turn a good thing into yet another horrendous net battle where everyone ends up pissed off and slinging nasty shots at each other. This should be a celebration for the achievement by Theron & Co. taking an idea and actually following through on it instead of just talking about it. They get massive points for that in my book. Hopefully, a spare hammer will show up for GO and it will be a happy ending for him/her as well.

Just sayin'...