- Inventory checked up. In the morning will chase up the UKFur lanyards order. #
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May 31st, 2010- Testing http://www.starborneworks.com/ Twitter digest function. #
- X-posting settings corrected. Recursion hopefully avoided. #
- Customised goggles and prototype clear-cast styrene "eyes" delivered at MCM Expo yesterday. Good times all round! #
- Selling through friends stall, "I HATE NARUTO" headbands declared very cool idea, but not a good seller. Unlikely to restock. #
- Choc brown main pads cast up nicely, same for choc claws, but finger-pads under-filled. Will be re-casting. #
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Twitter Integration
May 30th, 2010I’ve now integrated Twitter Tools into the blog, so there are more options for following updates, and order progress. Daily Digests should take place at 1am, since I often work past midnight! 😛
The twitter feed is at http://twitter.com/StarborneWorks
Three things
April 9th, 2010Once again, things have been busy here! I’m currently processing orders, albeit with a small delay (manifold broke off the degassing chamber and I’m waiting for the glue to set).
There have been two major developments however.
UKFur
I’ve now purchased the UKFur merchandise shop from previous owner Tigerfire, who’s no longer as involved in the Furry scene as he once was.
In the next couple of days I should receive the first batch of new stock, to get a small number of the most in-demand shirts and sizes.
The three designs of shirt
It’s out of stock of the lanyards, but I’m looking around for a supplier that will provide them in minimum orders of less than £200.
However still have large numbers of vinyl stickers and silicone wristbands.
Confuzzled is just a month away now, so have no fear, you will be able to get your UKFur merch!
In the meantime though, wristbands are £1.50, stickers are 50p each.
B&W shirts are £10 in Small to XL sizes, and £11 in XXL and XXXL.
Blue shirts are £12 in Small to XL sizes, and £13 in XXL and XXXL.
£2 for postage, and I still take paypal.
If I’m out of stock, let me know the size you’re after so I can get more in and I’ll let you know when I do.
Chest sizes: S – 35/37″ M – 38/40″ L – 41/43″ XL – 44/46″ XXL – 47/49″ 3XL – 50/52″
Reprap
Shortly after buying the UKFur shop I also acquired a lot of 2000 surplus stepper motors.
All boxes full of motors (ignore the SEM bits)
I strongly believe the future is in 3D printers, but there’s a big supply issue. Even the home-made machines tend to require you to already have a 3D printer to make parts for it.
The way around this is to make a bootstrapping machine to make the initial parts. A rep-strap.
The motors I have are smaller than those advised in the Reprap project, but I have my own take on it. I’m developing a small, semi-portable 3D printer, that should be fairly cheap and easy to modify. I’m looking at a sale price in the £200 range, and a quantity of around 500 machines.
Because of the small size of these printers, I’m dubbing it the Bonsai Repstrap.
It’s an ambitious project I know! But if you want to follow how things are going with it, take a look at..
The Creative Blog
I’ve set up a journal over at Dreamwidth as a stand-alone creative blog. While this won’t be strictly business related, it will include and business creations and day-to-day activities as well as my personal works.
Dreamwidth incorporates RSS feeds into the blogs, so you don’t have to sign up to follow it. It also accepts OpenID logins, so you can comment if you like.
Not dead
March 5th, 2010Will have an interesting big update for you all in the next few days. Stay tuned!
Muahahaha!
Jan 9th LondonFur meet..
January 6th, 2010..not gonna be there. I’m behind on orders, and I want to get them done and shipped. In addition the last of my PU-elastomer’s gone bad, so I’ll be short on cash from ordering a new batch. It’s the most expensive of all the resins I use, and also the most temperamental in that it’s near impossible to degas.
The way I’m thinking right now is that if people want custom-coloured paw pads, they’ll have to wait until I open a fresh tin of the elastomer to do a big batch of the standard colour rubber items.
Which means I’m going to need to make more moulds. A lot more moulds.
More news as it comes. Suffice to say, February is going to be a busy month for re-tooling and re-planning.
Whew, dusty..
December 9th, 2009The new heated cabinet is mostly assembled now, and gained half a cubic meter or so of storage space. I’ll have to pick up some aluminium angle to make a shelf support frame and shelf runners, the cut up some of the steel mesh I have sitting around. But until then I’ll be able to find something to sit inside it I’m sure.
All those years of gathering up odds and ends have really been coming right this past few months.
Oh, I think I’ve figured out the new gallery scheme to work with here, though it’ll mean re-tagging everything. Remember kids, save time in the long run; just do it right first time!
Site edits
December 9th, 2009You may notice the various image galleries are a bit all over the place for the next few days. I’m messing around with some NextGEN Gallery options and image categories.
I’m also editing the category tags and static pages to make the site a bit easier to navigate.
Still aiming to have everything 100% for newyears.
LondonFurs Xmas Party and beyond
December 9th, 2009Had a great time at the party over the weekend, and sold quite a few glowsticks to those more neon partygoers. Shame I couldn’t hang around for long into the dance, but had another event to get off to!
More works
Xmas is rushing up, and I’m pushing to complete changes for newyears. This week I’m all stocked up on melamine chipboard, and rebuilding the heated cabinet. As some of you know the cold weather is my biggest bottleneck right now, with the temperature in the workshop low enough that the resins won’t set properly. Not an issue if I’m in there with the heater on, but a problem for those resins that need to be left overnight or longer.
I already store the raw chemicals in a heated cabinet to prevent them from decay, but it’s not large enough to fit setting materials in as well. In the next couple of days that should change!
Pre-Xmas catchup
December 2nd, 2009Well Christmas is only three weeks away now, and I’m a busy little elf.
Most of the time since my last update has unfortunately been spent ill, so very little has gotten done. This past week and a half though I’ve finally been feeling better, so orders have started to roll out again! I’m really very sorry for the delay. Please check the Order Status page to see if I’ve gotten to yours yet. If not, it shouldn’t be long now!
During my downtime I had a few extra suggestions from those holding at safe distance, so the new year will see some changes in pricing and stock that should get orders out in much better time from here on.
I will be creating a stock of claws in the base colours (Black, white, red, green, orange, red, yellow and unpigmented) in standard packs of ten. These will follow the same basic pricing scheme as ever, based in per-claw by size (£10, £11 and £12). However I will be implementing an as-yet-undecided surcharge for non-standard quantities, and the prices for customisations will be going up a little.
In short, I won’t be treating every order like a custom job. The result will be the actual custom orders will get the extra attention they need and the standard orders will be shipped right away from a held stock.
And this will of course make implementing the site shop at long last a lot easier.
You may also notice I’ve added a couple of extra links to the “buy at” menu.
Spreadshirt is a print-on-demand clothing company. And if laying feverishly in bed is good for one thing, it’s crazy scrawlings to go on Tshirts. Expect some fun designs to show up there soon.
Etsy is a shopping forum for selling hand-made and custom items. I on occasion produce a bit of jewelery or something aesthetically pleasing, and will from here on be listing them through there.
And Lulu is probably one of the best known print-on-demand publishers, and while I do have some longer-term ideas about writing, they also allow you to produce other items like calenders and compilation CDs.
For each of the above they’ll be notifications through this site, so please subscribe to the RSS feed for those and other more esoteric updates.
