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Been working on this cargo fork on and off for a wee while.
Originally I'd planned to do a small batch but its looking increasingly unlikely that this will happen for a few reasons,
The design is too similar to the Crust fork I think. I know that shipping and import costs basically make it unfeasible to get a Crust fork over here so it's not that I'd be stealing any customers from them but Crust have done all the r+d and promo/hype stuff so I'd definitely feel like I wuld be piggybacking on that and that's not something I want to do.
They aren't that fun to make. The tubing is heavy walled and the joints are mostly boring 90deg ones. Boring but easy or interesting but hard would be fine but boring and hard work is a bit much.
There's a lot to them. A lot of miters to cut and file and a lot of joints to set up and braze. For me to make it worth my while making them I'd have to charge a ridiculous amount for them.
Anyway, that aside I gave them their first loaded test today with a ride up to a local reservoir for a wee burn up and some burnt sausages for lunch.
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