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GOOD WEAR LEATHER NOW TAKING ORDERS!
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Anonymous
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time to get a jacket for your Valentine
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B-Man2
Will be ready within February hopefully.
Will be ready within February hopefully.
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Anonymous
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if you re #179 and a jacket takes 3 days to be completed then you should wait 537 days
if he works weekends too.
Do we know which # jacket is being made right now?
if he works weekends too.
Do we know which # jacket is being made right now?
Persimmon
Well-Known Member
PLATON said:
This comes back to my point from before....is John the only person making his jackets.
How many jackets can be made in a week.
One, two, three at the top and that is pushing it with such fine quality.
Perhaps we could say a fair average would be two a week.
Add in weekends, holidays, illnesses etc and logistics suggest either its a soon a year and a half wait plus or like Santa, Mr Chapman needs/has some elves.
And will the quality be as strong with other hands doing some work ?
I know, I know, all the comments the last time were that only he is making them, etc etc but has the process speeded up through better machinery etc to make faster results ?
Persimmon said:
I was just looking at a new Good Wear jacket made in the last two weeks, and I can assure you that the quality is all there. No evidence of work by elves with weaker stitching, or of fast machinery.
Any speeding up of the process, I think you can put down to the order taking hiatus, the new staff member in charge of administration, and perhaps an improved skill level of the solo sewer, which comes about with practice.
buzzthetower
Administrator
If someone else is making my jackets, I would definitely like to meet this person...they'll be hired on the spot. As it stands, I've only seen my own hands doing this work.
The numbering system definitely comes from an automated web form, started two years ago. I had taken many orders without using the web form (cracking down on this now), so the numbers mean nothing in regards to delivery dates.
The reasoning behind a 5-month estimation and 8-10 months is a recent potential group order of jackets that may or may not happen. Nothing is confirmed yet, but it wouldn't be fair to give delivery dates sooner than the group could be made if it goes through.
Vickie, my new sales director, has done wonders in helping organize business operations. I'm a bit of a fool when it comes to running a business, and should be the madman behind the curtain sewing pieces of leather together. She has a much better big-picture view of what happens, and people are far happier with her in place.
3-4 jackets a week is typical, provided we don't have a week of snow with everyone stuck at home (ala January).
All the best,
John
The numbering system definitely comes from an automated web form, started two years ago. I had taken many orders without using the web form (cracking down on this now), so the numbers mean nothing in regards to delivery dates.
The reasoning behind a 5-month estimation and 8-10 months is a recent potential group order of jackets that may or may not happen. Nothing is confirmed yet, but it wouldn't be fair to give delivery dates sooner than the group could be made if it goes through.
Vickie, my new sales director, has done wonders in helping organize business operations. I'm a bit of a fool when it comes to running a business, and should be the madman behind the curtain sewing pieces of leather together. She has a much better big-picture view of what happens, and people are far happier with her in place.
3-4 jackets a week is typical, provided we don't have a week of snow with everyone stuck at home (ala January).
All the best,
John
John Lever
Moderator
Just take your time John, when God made time he made plenty of it.
