Colin

So I got a lot of orders from the gun show.

Um, and that's kind of when I was like, I got, I got to do something differently.

And so that's when I switched over to vacuum forming, um, which is way faster and way more efficient.

If it's like a basic holster like this, I can do it in about six minutes.

I had my wife working for me in some capacity.

The problem with foam pressing is that it's –

it's so when I first started, like there was probably six months of 12 to 14 hour days of just learning how to even do it.

And I remember, uh, I remember going home or like going to the shop and coming home, having not gotten any progress done.

The only progress I made was, was making mistakes, which is progress, but not the kind of progress that you want.

Um,

And man, it was brutal.

But now what's great about that season is that I now have all this knowledge in my head about if I see a specific problem in the manufacturing process, I pretty much know exactly what's wrong and I know exactly how to fix it.

The problem with that is I'm limited to who, if anybody, that I can hire to make stuff because my QC now is so high.

that I can't, I don't have the six months to train somebody on how to make all this stuff.

Um, so it's definitely an interesting situation to be in.

The problem is that my wife is not very happy about this to this day, but...

We've worked through it.

My first son was born in November of 2022.

I did a sale in November called black November for the entire month of November.

Everything was 40% off.