Reinventing The Wheel

Friends - WE SIGNED THE CONTRACT. This means that injection molding has finally begun, and we couldn’t be happier with our new manufacturing partners! They came to our office a few weeks back, and it was clear early on that they believed in our vision and understood our needs. Like everyone who believes in us, they got to take some Fortified gear home. The last few weeks has been spent working out the minutia of the contract: delivery lead times, quality control, payment schedules, supplier assessment protocol, etc. On the product development side of things, we’ve been meticulously testing beam shape based on your feedback from our winter survey. Brian, our director of engineering, has been spending his cold, dark nights perfecting the beam distribution and spread at various distances. At close distances (<5M) the beam is focused and bright, with a secondary halo for peripheral visibility. At far distances (>10M) the beam gives consistent illumination of all surroundings. Next Steps - When tooling is complete next month, we will be traveling back to Shenzhen to oversee the initial sample run of Aviators and Afterburners. With this hasn’t been confirmed yet, a few of our lucky customers may get to play around with the first samples prior to mass fulfillment. If you’re interested in testing, please email us. Until then, the factory will be hard at work ordering parts and setting up the lines for the production run. Love, Slava + Team Fortified