Will put some new ones up tomorrow.
I'd like to mention that my colleague Jack Justis has put up a new signature on his posts which is obviously a well-deserved slam on us and our well known slowness:
"MADE IN THE USA, ONE AT A TIME, AND DELIVERED ON TIME EVERY TIME."
To which I say true, except for the Chinese made interiors. Jack's got his system down pat and I admire that. I highly recommend to anyone who wants the type of case that Jack builds and can confine themselves to the options that Jack offers, that they should definitely order a case from Jack.
We will likely never get to the point where we are able to take orders and deliver in four weeks as Jack offers. Two of the cases I show above have already had to be rebuilt before leaving the shop because of missing details and errors in construction.
We are simply not Jack Justis. Our stuff is so far away from the way he does things that the only real comparison is that they are both cue cases. I mean if we both did a step-by-step photo illustration of how our cases are built we would have more than twice as many maybe up to 3 or 4 times as many steps. Top that off with the fact that we offer almost unlimited choices even for basic $450 cases and you can see that we have a ton of things that can go wrong.
So if you're in a hurry and you want a nice case that does the job and you can live with one type of pockets, one type of zippers, handle on one side only, only two sizes to choose from, only one type of interior, only a few styles of personalization, and the same basic look as all the rest of Jack's customers have then that is your choice.
www.justiscases.net
Karen and I have talked about doing a line with limited choices and we might still do that. Jack's system is well suited to getting cases done quickly and we can see the wisdom in that. We have chosen so far to accept any type of custom order and that's hard on both sides. For now though we will stick it out and try our best to figure out a good system that may see us improving to the point that we can someday reach Jack's consistent level of on-time delivery while still keeping the full custom offering we are known for. We can only get better
Thanks again to all of our customers for the patience you have shown. We know it's trying but we hope that the cases continue to be worth the wait.
John and Karen