Becker Field Bag Picture Thread

Murphnuge said:
I don't remember the material, but Walkingfootgear.com
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Hmmm I went to this site but it's nothing but a picture? There is a contact button which allows you to email them. I sent them and email about purchasing one.
 
Hey everybody.....

Walkingfoot is trying to get their website up...... Email with phone number is best........ Karen's shop is her and one or two others at the moment and the bags are being cut out by hand at the mo...... Clicker dies will have to wait for a while..... These are great bags but at the moment they are almost custom........ Patience is a great virtue, I am told, and if you want one you will have to be....... BTW I suffer instant gratification syndrome so I AM sympathetic....... I am just trying to be realistic.....

Ethan
 
Awesome! Thank you for the update Uncle E. If it's alright with you, I'll post this on BuschcraftUSA. The natives are getting restless:D.
 
Ethan Becker said:
Hey everybody.....

Walkingfoot is trying to get their website up...... Email with phone number is best........ Karen's shop is her and one or two others at the moment and the bags are being cut out by hand at the mo...... Clicker dies will have to wait for a while..... These are great bags but at the moment they are almost custom........ Patience is a great virtue, I am told, and if you want one you will have to be....... BTW I suffer instant gratification syndrome so I AM sympathetic....... I am just trying to be realistic.....

Ethan
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Thanks! Do we know the price?
 
Some of the natives on the other site are thinking it might be advisable to hold back on the ticklers till product can actually be delivered.

Walking Foot isn't responding to emails.
There's no reliable "where & when".
Nobody seems to know.

I was hoping for more info here, but looks like there isn't any.
Denis
 
First set has been delivered. Boss has the particulars. I don't remember the number he quoted, but he has a price in mind.
 
Cham,
Thanks for trying, but no help whatever.
Delivered where? Who is "the boss"?
Nice that whoever he is he has a price in mind, but that tells me nothing.

Been talk about this for months, but nobody can provide anything but photos of a bag from an event most of us can't go to.
Denis
 
OK, helps with "the boss", but advances nothing else. He apparently can't give any useful info either?
I'm not trying to knock anybody, but the teasers are not helping to introduce a new product.
Denis
 
DPris said:
OK, helps with "the boss", but advances nothing else. He apparently can't give any useful info either?
I'm not trying to knock anybody, but the teasers are not helping to introduce a new product.
Denis
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Hey man, we get it. A lot of us (I mean a whole stinking lot) have been waiting a really long time for these too. Unfortunately, there are very limited options when it comes to getting something like this made, from scratch, with a US company that will do it to the high quality Ethan wants. Walkingfootgear is who is making it, but as far as I know it isn't to the "production" stage yet as she is still (I believe) doing them by hand. Price, well, I *think* I heard $180 but that could be completely wrong, and either way, we aren't there yet. I posted up pics everywhere I could because up until now there were very few, and this is supposedly the final iteration, or exactly what the production should look like, and I think people like seeing that stuff. I know we all kinda have this instant gratification thing going on these days (thanks internet and on demand televison) but sadly this just ain't one of those things. Ethan wants these things out the door just as bad. But like I said, it's really hard to make happen with an already busy production place with a new product to the high level Ethan expects. Wish I could give you more info, but I don't have anymore to give. The production should be picking up, hopefully soon, but today, right now, this is where we are. Hang around, keep your eyes open, and I am sure Ethan will post up more info as he can. Or someone else here.
 
At this point, it's still cottage industry, as he said, it's practically custom production, handmade, slow for now but once the assembly line goes into action, we'll buy them all up and the world will be none the wiser! :D

Stick around, when they're ready, you'll know.
 
My point is not a fixation on instant gratification, but a long-running chatter on at least two Internet forums building up interest in a new product, with nobody involved in the project being able to provide anything more than ticklers & a reference to a "manufacturer" that only has a face page & a CONTACT button that gets no response to emails.

It appears (I said appears) to be a disorganized process where nobody knows anything, and I'm merely trying to say that timing can be an important factor in how it's introduced.

Build up too much attention too early, drag it on for months with ticklers, and give no one any useful info on where or when availability begins, and you can alienate potential buyers who'll have moved on to something else by the time it finally does come out in volume.

Ruger used to take so much flak over introducing new models that'd take most of a year to appear (losing customers who would have bought while interest was high but spent their money elsewhere when they got tired of waiting) that they changed policy to not even allow employees to talk publicly about a new model until it was already in the distributor pipeline.
No announcements until the product was available.

For those more interested in a quality bag than whose name's on it, wait too long & those people buy elsewhere.
Just suggesting maybe holding off on further photos & teasers until there's actually product available?
Or not.
Denis
 
DPris said:
My point is not a fixation on instant gratification, but a long-running chatter on at least two Internet forums building up interest in a new product, with nobody involved in the project being able to provide anything more than ticklers & a reference to a "manufacturer" that only has a face page & a CONTACT button that gets no response to emails.

It appears (I said appears) to be a disorganized process where nobody knows anything, and I'm merely trying to say that timing can be an important factor in how it's introduced.

Build up too much attention too early, drag it on for months with ticklers, and give no one any useful info on where or when availability begins, and you can alienate potential buyers who'll have moved on to something else by the time it finally does come out in volume.

Ruger used to take so much flak over introducing new models that'd take most of a year to appear (losing customers who would have bought while interest was high but spent their money elsewhere when they got tired of waiting) that they changed policy to not even allow employees to talk publicly about a new model until it was already in the distributor pipeline.
No announcements until the product was available.

For those more interested in a quality bag than whose name's on it, wait too long & those people buy elsewhere.
Just suggesting maybe holding off on further photos & teasers until there's actually product available?
Or not.
Denis
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Fair enough. Hopefully production will ramp up and we can all get one and plaster the internet with pics of them though. It's a really great bag.
 
While this thread is hot I must put in my $0.02 for the decision makers of this product. For $180 I will most likely pass. It does look to be a well thought out design though.
 
Shaw Blades said:
While this thread is hot I must put in my $0.02 for the decision makers of this product. For $180 I will most likely pass. It does look to be a well thought out design though.
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Like I said, I *think* that was what I heard, but given how many people were having several different conversations at once, there is a very real chance I could have been wrong. I want to make that abundantly clear to all, I could most definitely be wrong.
 
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