“Jump off the cliff and learn how to make wings on the way down.” – Ray Bradbury
#COURGcrew —
Thank you, thank you, ad infinitum. I thank each of you for rallying around when we jumped off the Kickstarter cliff of building something new. Your enthusiasm, passion, and patience were the essence that became the nuts, bolts, gears and drive that made COURG possible. I apologize for the lengthy radio silence. Let’s debrief, crew.
I understand it’s likely that it feels like not much is going on, but it’s been one of the busiest stretches thus far for us. It’s been roughly 15 days since the last update, and there’s much to report. Thanks to so many of you who have waited patiently, cheered us on, and updated one another on arrivals. Continue reading →
Welcome to 2016, hope you all enjoyed some solid R&R. We’ll get right to debrief, there’s lots to cover. (Image above, fellow backer, J. Chiew.)
TL;DR
The COURG has landed — first field reports from 12 backers.
500 COURG units deployed.
+Wave 1: Titanium grade 2 Type-A stock kits, with no leather strap add-ons. Quantity = 200.
+Wave 2: The second wave included multiple titanium grade 2 variants and added some Horween strap orders. Quantity = 300.
Production Update
+Wave 3: Scheduled for 10Jan, and planned to include remainder of titanium grade 2
+Titanium grade 5 COURG scheduled to arrive 10-20Jan
+Mil-straps scheduled to begin arriving in two days.
ATTENTION: Inspect the Mission Log when the COURG arrives.
+Review the Operator’s Manual section RE: functions and best practices.
+Date change is counterclockwise rotation.
Working to have everything shipped before Lunar new year festivities that shut everything down in Asia for 3-4 weeks.
As promised, I’ve debriefed with the special ops crew over the last 10 days as soon as I published a new post about the tour of duty to visit our ground operations. Actually, some crew members caught the posts even before I had time to notify everyone via email. On point.
Here, I’m summarizing the Meet Your Makers post series for all the entire crew in case you’d like to catch up and binge on production details. I’ll start from the beginning in case any of you missed day 1 over the Thanksgiving festivities. Continue reading →
Welcome to assembly. This is the last station before deployment to the crew.
For those of you who’ve been following along, you’ll notice this facility is “slightly” different from the case manufacturer in RECON day 3. I dig the contrast between the gritty monster machines and then the ultra-detail work of a dust-free environment with workers armed with miniature tools and delicate instruments.
Thrilled to report we’ve made steady progress in the last few weeks. This got a bit long as usual, and I hope you enjoy this dispatch from the ground crew hard at work here in the hangar.
DANGER
If you haven’t already, FILL OUT YOUR SURVEY NOW so we can include your order in the first production wave … we’ll wait right here for you … until this MONDAY.
SITREP TL;DR
Mission on schedule
Survey lock and load: 19OCT (MONDAY)
Production underway for Ti grade 2, pressure tested to 17ATM
Ti grade 5 prototype near completion, pressure tested to 20ATM
