TIM MARSHALL NEEDS YOUR HELP

Tim,

Those are awesome! I really like the extra 6 inches and draw string idea.

Doug,

Your kids are adorable, man! And, I agree with Jolly Green. Good on you for starting them out early.

I have just one suggestion. You might want to cut that Torsolite and closed-cell pad down to their torso size… I'm just sayin'! LOL

Thanks everyone! This was Lily's first backpacking trip at 2 months, and Henry's 9th at 3 years. He can now identify consistently over 10 plants and just LOVES the outdoors. It's so much fun to make this a part of their lives! Thanks to Tim for solving the bag problem that no one else has!

Tim- yeah, he'll be growing into the poncho, and that's a good thing! Of course you can use any images or any quotes from me on your site- anything I can do to help!

Kendall- YES! Torso length infant sleeping pads!!!! BRILLIANT!!!!

Just wanted to announce that i finally got around to launching the new site http://www.enlightenedequipment.com

I don't have a complete selection of big three items as of yet (i do plan to offer a SUL big3, just give it time) but you can check out my quilts. I added a climashield/cuben quilt and a taffeta/climashield quilt to get the price down as close to $100 as possible.

-Tim

Congratulations!

Nice work; I hope this go well for you!

Tim,

Your new site http://www.enlightenedequipment.com is apparently not working. Have a look.

I'm pretty interested in the quilt with Climashield.

Comes up fine for me.

And for me – Firefox 3.0.15

Download 3.5.5 @ getfirefox.com

The site appears to be working normally for me as well.

It was down at some point last night. I was trying to get some info off it and couldn't get on. The site that does my hosting was also down. Everything looks to be working now.

-Tim

Tim –

A little off topic, but did you get my message regarding the pack cover?

yes, i was away getting my teeth cleaned.

-Tim

How about posting the new name as an edit to the OP on page one of this thread? I only read all five pages 'cause I already knew how good tim's work is.

Tim–I think you can actually get tags pretty cheaply, and without requiring a huge order. My mother-in-law bought a pack of 50 or so with my wife's name on them to put on knitted projects my wife completes, and I think they were fairly cheap.

I wouldn't get too wrapped up in branding, marketing, website design, etc., at this point. The quality of your work speaks for itself (and speaks loudly, in these forums!), so at this point the best marketing strategy is probably to continue doing good work. Your name is out there, people see what you're doing, and it sounds like you have about as many orders as you can keep up with, unless you decide to go to the next level and make this your full-time job.

I am currently looking into some simple tags (well my mother in law is).

I have more orders now that i can handle in a reasonable time. This is great, but means that i am going to have to cut back my custom services as making the shelters is more time consuming and people who want a quilt that will only take me 1/2 day to make are having to wait 4 weeks before i can start it. I am thinking now that as of Dec 1 i will discontinue custom work so i can try and get caught up.

I am also making steps to move toward doing this more than just a few days a week. It will be awhile before anything changes here though.

-Tim

"Build a better mouse trap and the world will beat a path to your door""

Tim,
I am glad to hear you are getting so many orders. You will find people will wait for what they really want.

You have become a victim of your own success.

Looking forward to playing with my quilt-Thanks for all you hard work.

Mike

Just wanted to let everyone know that I have updated the site to reflect a change in material supplier and a price drop of $30 for the Prodigy quilt in .9oz fabric. This has resulted in my removing the 1.1 fabric since the prices are very similar and I have also removed the Provident as it wasn't causing much interest.

Just wanted to let everyone know about the big price drop!

-Tim

Tim,

The site looks great and I'm interested. However, there aren't any weights listed on the quilts. I know that they can only be approximations since each quilt is MTO, but do you have any approximates?

Marc

Tim,

The site looks great and I'm interested. However, there aren't any weights listed on the quilts. I know that they can only be approximations since each quilt is MTO, but do you have any approximates?

Marc

you can use the quiltcalc spreadsheet on the site (should be a link on every quilt page) It will get your real close. FYI 5ozXP quilts are turning out heavy by 3-4oz. Everything else is right on, within .25-.5oz so i think the 5oz XP must be running heavy (warmer) just so you know.

If you can't get quiltcalc to work, just e-mail me what you're looking at and size and i'll plug the nums in on my end.

-Tim

Boy, that Tim Marshall is turning into a regular Bill Gates!

–B.G.–

I'm not 100% sure how to take that Bob :)

-Tim

What did Tim get a pie in the face?

Keep up the great work Tim. I cant wait to see my top bag creation!

Just got all the down in and need to sew up the fill spots. Looking good!

-Tim

AS OF MARCH 1 I WILL NOT BE TAKING NEW ORDERS TO ALLOW MYSELF TO GET CAUGHT UP AND WORK ON SOME THINGS FOR UPCOMING TEST TRIPS. IF YOU WERE PLANNING TO ORDER SOMETHING I WILL TAKE E-MAIL ORDERS FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK (THROUGH MARCH 7 2010)

-Tim