Originally Posted by
Tom_Jones
FWIW, CAD drawings didn’t even exist until early 2011. The first half dozen functional prototypes (machined from aluminum and anodized — half of them in black, the other half in orange) weren’t made until April 2011. No one besides Todd and I ever saw one in person until the first weekend of May 2011 at a small PF meetup/mini-class in Culpeper. The first 100 pre-production testing units (made from carbon steel and parkerized) that were sent out to testers weren’t produced until October 2012 (almost all of those didn’t get distributed until the second half of 2013 and 2014). All of this is after PF was started on 2011-02-25.
If you had a bad experience with a “gadget” in 2009 or 2010, it was with a different product.