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Dang these are sweet!

You have fewer products for sale than I was expecting.

I live in NE Los Angeles, which has the Verdugo and San Gabriel mtns, plus Mt Washington and other modest peaks - I think it would look great in this style. Especially because all the development would be excluded.

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The upfront costs are pretty expensive.

For every new location you do the process looks like: 1. Get the data and prep it for print (fixed) 2. 3D print it (fixed) 3. Rubber Mold (fixed) 4. Wax Model (variable) 5. Bronze (variable)

Steps 1-3 are 40-60% of the costs. So I haven't put the money out of pocket yet to put up new locations. I've let customer's ask first and then do them.

Surprisingly, most of our orders have been custom

Here's my info packet on the custom process https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IkiHG_Z5JS03mWYHv-KNAhi8...

+1 to this, I can think of a few places id order for but i couldnt figure out how. Did i miss the link? Looks like it refers to "custom orders" but i wasnt sure how that works.

Here's the process on custom orders. I'll put the link right on the site to try and avoid confusion.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IkiHG_Z5JS03mWYHv-KNAhi8...

edit: whoops added link

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