speyco wrote:
Free Demo reels? No more laying around to give away these days. Most reels are sold out faster than I can make them.
Wait, those days existed? I've got to learn to leverage this blog nonsense to profitable ends. Sweet Jebus.
Given the choice between made in Alnwick, or made in Wisco, the fact that you're one man doing exactly what you are doing, giving us classically styled and constructed reels, in a one man deal is the sort of thing I like. I don't expect you to know that, this isn't WAFlyfish.com.
Except, you know, that speyco naming thing. Although, I can over look....
tomitrout wrote:
G, I do get where you're coming from, but how can you make this statement about them fleecing the customer with overpriced product?
I believe the concept of brand and legacy were already well covered by others in this thread.
And I'll make the statement that Abel is lobbing overpriced product, too. They just have the long term ability to back it up.
I'm glad those Cheeky lads are making their crap in America, but that's still no reason to inflate the prices to stupidity level. SpeyCo has provided a tremendous counterpoint to this thread... Here's one man who came up with something in what was probably his spare time, then sat down and produces it beginning to end, including marketing. He's a brand that doesn't need an artificial BS mystique about it, its going to just form raw from the damned ether. A timeless design, produced in our time, by one man beginning to end. That's the sort of legacy, design, branding or anything else you don't get by crapping out Powerpoints, leveraging synergies, and forming paradigms. That's fishing. That's what those idiots want so despertly to crap out, but because they can't do it, they'll buy it.
It doesn't take much to push paper and have someone else produce for you. Nor does that impress me. Show me something interesting YOU can do.
Tim from speyco did it. He didn't monkey around coming up with BS and glitz, he sweated hard and produced a downright awesome toy (how about friends-and-family pricing, natural finish 3" model, please!).
Guys like McFarland, Steffan Brothers and other cats who literally roll their own glass blanks, they did it. Not satisified with what was out there, they created their own tapers and produce their own blanks in house.
Guys like Justin from Allen and Co or the dude from TJ's Bear's Den can do it by leveraging the power of Asian manufacutring for me.
Cheeky? They labricated an image then attempted to pass it off to me. They represent the acid washed jeans of fly fishing.
