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Mallet making & selling Company! (i wonder if players run it?) What do you think?
I found this today!
It is posted on http://urbanvelo.org/
Poloschlaeger
You knew it was bound to happen… First Ben’s Cycles started selling mallet supplies, now Poloschlaeger, a small company from Germany, is offering complete mallets. According to Philipp from Poloschlaeger, “The mallets prototypes are ready, but the production hasn’t begun yet. The Workers Welfare Federal Association is producing the mallets, and I have to help them with production techniques this time.”
A mallet retails for 27€, but shipping to the United States is an additional 34€. Visit www.poloschlaeger.de for more info.
Mein hund hat keine nase!
Thats what I said when I went to the site.
you know how many mallets I can make for 27E or 34E additional for that matter??? two yrs worth.
I like the fastening system but what do you do when the shaft breaks in half and you want to use the head again? Seems expensive and complicated.
Simple, sturdy, and something your not afriad to break.
These mallet looks great, light and strongs, we have a look on this at Karlsruhe. But i think that 27 euros is way way to expensive for a lot of people, like me. And mallet making is one of the best part of this game :
Fabrication de cannes de polo from Uolmo on Vimeo.
how many HOURS did it take to make that thing? sheesh. i know the european pace of life is slower but between a couple of smokes, making a mallet, and planting a plant, your entire afternoon was over.
x2 my reheading takes about 10-20 min
It was the first time we use this workshop, and a great sunny day... It take 2 hours if i remember well.
Arent we Swiss?`we like quality and safe mallets.
A suggestion:
Take a piece of card stock. Cut out a strip the width of the mallet head, but long enough to wrap around with overlap. Wrap around and tape. Remove mallet head from paper cylinder you've just created. Fold it three different times to create markers for your pilot holes (this needs photos). Place your mallet head back in the paper cylinder and drill your pilots.
Get rid of that ruler. It's a huge waste of time.
Dear lord. I got 6 poles, ABS, caps, and screws for less than half that.
we got three of these mallets to give away for the NAHBS tourney, really lightweight
I found a couple injection molding companies that can manufacture some mallet heads. I came up with about 4 different designs that need to be converted to their CAD system. Basically they make a prototype for the mold, and the mold just gets injected like a million times. They offer alot of different plastics. Been thinking about getting a run of a couple dozen made. But will run around $300.
I am suspicious of that price. The best deal I could find for whole mallet heads (as opposed to caps or inserts) in the Midwest was 6-8 thousand for the mold, 15-35 cents per part, depending on the type of plastic used. If I wanted to use Chinese manufacturers, a former co-worker in the prototype and toy industry offered me his hook-ups in Hong Kong. It would've been about 1 thousand USD for 1000 parts, but they would own the mold. Perhaps I didn't dig deep enough.
Anyway, there are a few people on this board who could help you with those drawings. A couple of them can even answer questions about various molding technologies. Let us know if you're pursuing it, what your design ideas are, and what your real costs are.
or maybe your cost are the cost that arnt real, jesus lucky, wait for the delivery or lack of before you start criticize.
follow in danny boys footsteps. dont believe in him, yet be supportive then when he cant come through with his shit, open up, let that little fucker have it. that way you never have to put yourself out there for comments like mine. also i was looking at your st cago website and was noticing you dont have any easter eggs on their. i think it would be a good idea if you got some, people really like them and it keeps poeple on your site for longer. also you can come up with all sorts of incentives for people to find them. hell you could even give away a free mallet head to the person who finds them first.
here are some examples of easter eggs on the web.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9976422-2.html
i found that in .23 seconds using the second most popular website on the internet
also, i think sometimes you use the word us instead of me.
none of us really care about the answers to your questions, we just want mallet heads. we dont want to start up a business using other peoples ideas eg schicago's brake lever device, you do.
wich i think is great, but if your gonna be a dick about grammer, why dont you read the chapter on pronouns
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ben, just for giving credit where it's due. schicago wasn't the first to fabricate that particular double brake lever mod :0 anywho. my2cents
yea, i understand, but lucky was chatting with schicago on this forum talking about how he had contemplated using bens design ( obviously he modified or ripped it off somewhere else). thats why i said that
Hannes did it first. Then Ricky in DC. Then a bunch of other people, then Ben and I did ours at the same time. In the same shop, even.
While discussing the design with Drizz from NO, I was asked how much it would cost to produce these for those folk who don't have the time/machine access/skills/interest in making their own. I said I would look into it.
Since then, a handful of players have sent me emails asking if St Cago was going to make a batch of 'em. I'm still trying to nail down some numbers, but if I can get everything together for less than the price of the problem solver (38 bucks from QBP) I probably will make a few. I never said it was my idea or my design. But I do have the time and access to machine tools.
By the way, all this info was pretty easy to look up here, instead of calling me out as some sort of unimaginative, opportunistic, vulture.
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maybe you will have a look at : www.3pmh.de nice heads, nice way of fixing them to the pole...
haha...just a bad try i guess...
uhhhhhh....
Wanna buy some polo stuff?
http://www.fixcraft.net/stcago