Jerry can lanyards!

KChurch86

Banned
Founding Member
Today I found a guy on Instagram who has a small machine shop, he shared a pic of an awesome little Jerry can he made, asking if it would be worth it to make more. It struck me as an awesome little piece that could have a bunch of uses...keychain, zipper pull, rearview mirror dangler...hell, wear it around your neck, whatever.

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I started a conversation with him and explained what we're all about here at XN and he said he'd be willing to do a small run of 10 pieces for now. I would add a small weave of 550 paracord to each. All proceeds would go to him. His asking price is $30 each, I won't add cost for the paracord and I imagine shipping would be just a couple bucks.

Who's interested?
 

KChurch86

Banned
Founding Member
So, I started typing this up way before he gave me his price, which is...high. My excitement faded fast but I figured I'd give it a shot anyway.

Anybody? Feel free to say eff off, $30 is steep, I know.
 

Tay-Lo

I'm the king of junk food!
Location
Upstate SC
Eff off. That is stupid.....i would be willing to do 5...MAYBE 10....30 is right out

sent from my pocket computer
 

KChurch86

Banned
Founding Member
This can be forgotten.

I spoke with the guy, I didn't get into how $30 was just way too much money, I just said that there was no interest and left it at that. He was cool with it, and decided to send me a freebie anyway.

After handling it first-hand, I can see that the quality isn't what one would expect for a CNC machined item, be it a keychain, a winch fairlead, a lightbar bracket or a shift knob. There were sharp edges left on some areas, and obvious miscuts in the details. Maybe I only noticed these things because I'm a machinist myself, but even if he only wanted $5 each I don't think it would have been fair. They're also only one-sided! The back is just a flat pane of aluminum.

He included about 3 1/2 feet of black paracord which was a nice touch, but after seeing the product myself I'm really glad the price was so high, because it kept all you guys from getting in on this - therefore keeping you all from getting a subpar product and feeling sh*tty about it.

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At least my cobra weave turned out real nice, heh

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