Nunatak Alpinist down

Aaron, I think this is normal. My ghost arrived just as you described…down clinging to the outside. I write this off to the choatic environment of hand filling a down bag. The quality of my ghost is supreme. I'm guessing your alpinist is equal.

Jamie

As with Jamie's Nunatak Ghost my own also came with an considerable amount of fill residue clinging to the exterior surfaces. This was easily removed using a lint roller. I have never seen this on a WM quality bag and will admit to being slightly disappointed.

Nunatak workmanship is excellent and I'm very pleased overall but I feel this is an area that Tom (Nunatak) can improve. With the price paid I expect very high quality, including the quilt being prestine (clean) on arrivial.

My Specialist came through in the usual mailing envelope, with no other protection, and had only a small amount of down on the exterior fabric. What bothered me, both then and now, was the amount of down coming through the fabric. Since I had ordered the 0.8oz Pertex I thought perhaps this fabric wasn't the best for retaining down. I wrote Tom and asked about this, but never received any reply.

Thanks for the insight, gentlemen.

I'm looking forward to actually using the quilt.

Aaron

I've ordered 3 Nunataks, the first 2 where clean, and free of any down, buy my last quilt had down all over it, inside and out. I thought the same thing, that there must be a hole, but this wasn't the case.

The only thing I find strange with Nunatak, is how they ship their quilts, which is inside a Mylar shipping envlope?

You'd think something this expensive, and time consuming to make, would be better protected, shipped in a box.
They've probably never had any issues, shipping this way, and figure why change?

With regards to down coming through the fabric? My Arc Alpinist seems fine, but hasn't seen a lot of use.
Where as my Specalist seemed to be shedding slightly more down, than what I'm accustomed to seeing, compared to my(2)WM bags, which hardly shed, at all.

Both of these quilts are 1.0 Pertex Quantum, and my new quilt is an Epic Specailist size M/l(19oz) I'll be using this quilt on a 5 day trip, starting tomorrow, so we'll see how the Epic performs?