Colin

And I, it got to the point where, um, I remember there was one week, I believe it was in November of 2022.

So the year that I started, um,

I got 300 orders in one week, and they were all foam press.

So, yeah, they take a while.

So I did the math because every holster took roughly, from start to finish, depending on the style of holster it was, the average time that it took for me to make it was about an hour and a half.

So you multiply that by 300.

When I've got a full-time job I'm running, I've got a wife and kids to give time to.

The math came out to roughly five and a half months to fulfill that entire goal.

list of orders.

Right.

That was, that was not even including orders that I got through Christmas, the orders that I had prior to that week.

Um, I had, I think I had just done a gun show.

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.