Okay, now that I have a little breathing room again and things sorted out with other messes, time to bump this back up to the top and see if we can't get rolling. Now that I have enough time to actually pay attention to it.
Surprisingly (at least to me) a
lot of people are super-interested in PBT Wyse's. Well! The only problem herein is that I honestly don't have the free cash (due to a number of issues) to get the color chips from SP - an $80 expense, since both are needed. So if anyone's willing to loan me their chips, that would be awesome. Happy to pay shipping to-from.
However, we're still waiting on SP to perfect their double-shot PBT techniques. Which possibly means giving up the yellow arrows. I'll need to talk with them - there's the possibility with enough sets we can get double-shot PBT arrows and dye-sub everything else. To maximize compatibility, the secondary Fn labelling and extra windowing has gotta go, too. No point having the 'Play' legend where it's not, and there's a lot of interest from non-QFRs. The biggest problem here is that some have the LED at the top and some have the LED at the bottom for the windows.
So at this point I think what we're going to end up with is this: it's going to stay the "Wyse87" set - for the year - but going to be a full 105 set. So we can clog up the classifieds with beautiful number pad sets for Leopolds.
With all the responses, around half of you wanted 104/105, so it makes the most sense to go 104/105 and hey extra shinies.
Since there's very strong demand for it, it'll be PBT or possibly PBT + POM arrows. I'll need to talk to SP to see what can be done there - I would love to get PBT double-shot arrows, and SP seems comfortable making them. I also need to get those darn color chips, so
nothing in stone yet.Profile is going to be DSA, same as the original, also to maximize compatibility. Also to make it easier for SP. Not that they don't love challenges, but I think this one's enough of a challenge as-is.
As far as colors, we're going to need to discuss that a bit - especially with regards to the arrow keys. We also need someone to loan me those chips so we can do some matching. (Thank gods my color vision is still great.)
Windows are another discussion we'll have to have. Some mount LED top, some mount LED bottom. Window at the bottom doesn't work with the LED on top. Because these are dark colors, the LED won't show through well underneath. We have the option of deleting the window (which lowers cost slightly) but I'd really prefer to keep it in some form.
So far, we were at 32 folks -
not bad! - but to get pricing down to where everyone wants we need at least 50. I'm trying to figure out a better way for folks to sign up and organize things that doesn't involve setting up a mailing list, so if anyone's got suggestions, I am all ears. (And I do have my own webservers and domain if needed.) Thanks!
