Hello everyone I just wanted to give everyone an update. We are doing great, some of you might know we’re expecting our first child here in another 13 weeks. So to plan for that I’ve added a little bit of time to my lead time. As you can imagine I’m going to be busy at the hospital and whatnot for a little while so we’ll try and get everyone’s holsters out before that and after. Either way things are going well with us and I hope everyone else’s spring is going well too!
Take care!
Luke
Hey everyone Happy Thanksgiving, I hope you guys all enjoy your holiday and food. Things are going well here at Adams Holsters, we’ve been busy finishing up insulating the shop and getting our firewood finished but we’re looking forward to getting all our holiday orders built and out to all of you;)
Take care!
Luke
I just finished up my work on a new hunting holster. Those of you who know the area where I’m at in the UP of Michigan there is allot of hunting that goes on. I set out looking for a way to carry a large heavy gun in a chest type of holster and made some changes but the end result works just great. You can sit in a blind, walk, sit in a car and still draw the gun without much issue(depending on barrel length). It’s designed to protect the muzzle all the way to insure walking through rough terrain isn’t going to mar your gun, no rentension straps to have to fiddle with, just boned modern holster like my other rigs. It’s got enough flex that as you move it doesn’t bind when you bend and work, while it’s still very accessible. Just a note this should be obvious from the pictures but this is not a concealment holster, with a gun this large in the location/orientation that it sits your not really going to conceal it, but it wasn’t designed for that.
Now also I should mention the name of this design is going to be the “Burnsie” after a good friend of mine that passed away a few years back named Mike Burns, though we all knew him as Burnsie. He was an avid outdoorsman, Eagle Scout and just a one of a kind person, he was killed tragically by a drunken boater and I’ve been meaning to dedicate a design to his memory. So since he liked large Thompson contenders and revolvers I figured this would be a fitting design to name after him. Overall he’ll certainly be missed but I think this type of holster fits with who he was and makes sense;) So that’s why it’s called the Burnsie;)
Hey guys and gals we just adjusted our lead time to reflect the progress we’ve been making on orders. With the two of us working hard to get those holsters out to everyone I’m proud to announce that we’ve got the lead back down to 8-10 weeks. Thanks to everyone for the support and orders as always it’s appreciated;) Take care!
Well I was updating the site, until I realized they removed some core functionality in the new release. So I went back to the old software and will update on the next revision so that I can edit orders. So the site should be back running for everyone, if you notice something weird just shoot me an email and I’ll fix it right up:) Take care!
Luke
Just a note I’m updating the website to the newest version of the software this evening. I’m hoping to have it back up and running shortly but it may be unavailable for the next couple hours.
Thanks for your patience!
Luke
Alright guys as strange as it is sitting in the end of summer because our lead is running 12-14 weeks we’re taking orders now that are going to be built out for Mid-November. So anyone planning orders for the Christmas season should get your orders in soon to insure you’ll get them in time. I don’t have a hard cut off date since it’s going to depend on how fast the orders come in. As always I’ll try to get as many rigs done as I can before the holidays so chances are I’ll get more out than I expect but I like to give everyone a heads up ahead of time.
Also as normal, I don’t take the payment till I build the rig so if your still counting your dollars that’s not a problem;) Get that order in soon or at least email me so I know what to plan for;)
Take Care! And apparently happy early holidays!
Luke
I’ve been meaning to change my policy on 10% discounts for MIL/LEO’s. Currently it’s setup where if your active duty you are entitled to the discount, however I think that isn’t enough. The reason I do the discount is that I really appreciate the sacrifice of our military and law enforcement. So it makes more sense to me to extend that same discount to retired MIL/LEO as well as active duty, that way your still rewarded for your service even if it has been a little while since you put on a badge or uniform, time hasn’t changed what you’ve done for your country nor community.
So in light of that I’m going to extend the discount to any active or retired military or law enforcement. So if you qualify for the discount as always just hit me up and I’ll add it to your account, so it will apply automatically.
Take care!
Luke
Well folks we just got back from our family reunion and we’ve been working like crazy to get holsters out the door to those of you who have been patiently waiting. The good news is that we just ran through our lead time estimate and we’re further ahead than we thought! So today I’m dropping the lead time down to 12-14 weeks, those of you who are waiting likely will get your stuff quicker but I don’t have exact amounts it all depends on when you ordered. Either way your order will be taken care of before new ones even if you were quoted a longer lead, we’ll just work through them in the order they came in.
Sarah(my wife) has been handling allot more of my billing and email work to help me out, she also has been learning some of the steps in the process and helping out more since we’re back in Channing. We’re enjoying getting more time together and stitching some holsters. So all is well on the Adams Holsters front, thanks again to everyone for your kind words and continued support of our small business. Also a little early but Happy Independence day to you all!
Luke
Customer service is something that I believe is very important in any business, though it seems that allot of business’ forget their customers the moment they walk out of the door when it comes to support after the sale. I’m not pointing any specific fingers and I’m certainly not talking even about holsters but I think most would agree with that statement. So when I’m treated really well by a business I feel like I should make a note about it and let it known how good of a job they did. We all know that statistic that says that an upset person will tell 10 people, where a happy person may tell 1. Well I’m hoping to offset that with this post;)
Recently we moved the shop back home to Channing, MI from our mobile shop in our motorhome and we’ve been tackling all the challenges of moving the equipment and things over as well as trying to keep up with emails and phone calls. One problem is that we’re way back in the woods and cellular reception is pretty poor, add that our shop is in a metal pole barn and it means we get zero signal in the shop. So I started looking for solutions that would work and settled on a cellular repeater to keep Sarah and I connected to the outside world as well as our shop phone number. I started looking around and noticed the pricing had come down a ways since the last time I had looked, and was surprised to find quite a few options. Several were import companies but I also noticed that Wilson Electronics had a few offerings in my price range. I’ve never owned anything from Wilson, though over the years I’ve heard nothing but good reports on their products and even more about their service. So based on those experiences from others I decided that I would pick up a Wilson repeater.
Several days later the box came in the mail, I hooked things up and got it working. My phone is a Motorola and gets a little better signal than my wife’s HTC, and she was having trouble connecting and getting calls around 20 ft. from the repeater which wasn’t correct according to the specs. Mine was working but I noticed the signal wasn’t as high as I felt it should be, so I decided to give Wilson a call and see if I could get some help fixing the situation.
I spoke to the rep for a few minutes and he had me do some simple testing after which we realized that I had bought the wrong model for my purpose, actually picked up the model for “desktop” use which is only designed to provide signal in a very small area. My mistake and I’ll admit I was looking at the price tag and apparently not the correct model numbers. However the gentleman mentioned that he had an antenna that would correct the problem increasing the gain by 3 fold. I heard this thinking he was “upselling” me, but considering I needed it to work better I asked the question, “How much will that cost me?”. To which he replied, “not a dime, we just want to get your repeater up and working”. Now at this point I was grinning ear to ear because it’s just not common these days to see a company support their customers in that way. They didn’t charge me shipping, didn’t make me recite a serial number to find out when I bought the device, where I got it from, they were just interested in solving the problem for their customer. I’m not sure what the antenna’s that they shipped me would cost, but let’s say $100. They instead have a customer who when I need any type of cellular antenna product or friends and family do, they will be getting a Wilson if they take my opinion.
So folks if your looking for anything cellular antenna related take a good hard look at Wilson Electronics, they really went above and beyond for me and I’m going to be supporting them any chance I can.