This is another ad. Since the last time I mentioned this sort of thing it worked so well that you guys cleaned me out completely, let me see if that works again.

So you remember how I said I wasn’t going to let this gig turn into another web development project?

It turned into another web development project.

I just pushed out an update to my website. In light of the debacle last time, vis-a-vis more people buying knives than knives I’ve got, I finally decided it’s time to get off my duff and do the right thing. I mean, if I have to. I guess.

So now I’m a Real Boy. No more dinkum prefabricated credit card form. Inventory tracking, an actual shopping cart system, checkout, it’s got the works. I could rattle on about all the clever things I did to make it work because I’m a colossal nerd and also apparently some kind of special purpose purist who probably belongs in a padded cell rather than anywhere near, say, power tools. For instance, it uses absolutely no Javascript whatsoever. None. Could I? Yes, absolutely. I know Javascript. Did I feel like using it? No. I abused the shit out of the quirks and foibles of CSS instead. And so on, and so forth. I could go on all day about if you let me.

Now if you want to buy more than one thing, you can do that. And it won’t let you buy more than what’s available, to avoid embarrassment on my part and having to send apologetic emails to people with my sombrero gripped pensively in front of me by the brim and all. By the way, for the people in said camp: The steel for your knives arrived today, which was sooner than expected. I’ll be getting back into production in a little bit and then I can actually send you the stuff I owe you. You know, now that I’m done spending two days fighting with integrating with my credit card peoples’ system with their stupid janky incomplete documentation which is exactly the pain in the ass I predicted it would be which is why I didn’t want to do it in the first place.

Ahem.

Where was I?

Oh, yeah. I also have two fancy new colorways for the Adélie for you. Okay, they’re not that fancy, but I still think they look cool. A royal-ish purple and azure blue.

And. And, and, and.

You saw the headline image: I have boxes for them now. Just like everything else I do the boxes are completely bespoke and I make them myself.

Yes, I had a hoot designing these. Some folks who ordered recently have already received earlier revisions but I’ve been keeping mum about it up until now.

Here’s a quick off-the-cuff snap of one of the prototypes. I assemble them with the glue stick that came with my 3D printer. No, I’m serious. Up until now I’ve categorically failed to find a use for it, so I’m just chuffed to pieces about that as well. According to my calculations at the rate I’m using this thing up I predict that in three years I will have to buy a second glue stick. Maybe I’ll upgrade my printer before then and I’ll get another one for free. Hmm.

If we’re honest this is in no small part due to the tiny seedlings of regret that are starting to sprout from my decision to provide my Rockhoppers in bespoke 3D printed cases. These are neat as hell and I love them to bits but each one is a print job that’s just a shade under two hours and that’s really kind of the pits. The Rockhopper is an agonizingly complex multipart printing and assembly operation and I’m mostly bothering to crank them out at all because I love you guys (and for some reason they sell). New colorways for those are coming soon, also. I just… uh… have to print more boxes, which is my bottleneck. And do the photography.

This is turning into a second job.

I have two new real steel knife designs in the works also which will be along at some point. I promise I’ll have shiny new review content in the upcoming days, also. I may have spent some more money. You’ll see.

Dork, out.