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Try this sometime. Actually pretty comfortable.

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Bravo 1.5 Survival Sheath in Foliage Green, on the site, ready to ship. #barkriverknives #bravo15 #kydex

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ESEE Junglas Survival Sheath in Olive Drab, on the site, ready to ship. #eseeknives #junglas #kydex

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Becker BK-7 Survival Sheath in Olive Drab, on the site, ready to ship. #beckerknives #kydex

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Ok then. I'm taking orders again. I learned some lessons from letting success kick my ass a little bit. I'm trying something a little different, but I think it'll be a LOT easier to manage, at least for now. I won't be taking payment for anything that's not ready to ship. I have a new section on my site that lists out what is currently available. I'll update every few days, as I crank out new sheaths. So, everything will ship next business day. I'll certainly take custom orders, just don't expect to pay until the work is done. :) God bless!

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#Busse #TeamGemini #awesomeness

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Here's a slick-rick sheath I made for a brother's beautiful #Busse #TeamGemini

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We have been so blessed with business this last year. In 2014, we quadrupled the number of sales we had in 2013. In 2015, we tripled those numbers again, and the numbers keep going up. That is a great problem to have, if you’re a small business. Crap, if you’re a big business, that’s pretty awesome (hi Jeff Bezos :) The crappy side of that for us has been that we’ve been drowning in the success, and haven’t been able to speed things up around here. For example, we have the same number of people making sheaths, shipping them out, and doing customer service and marketing as we did at the beginning of the year, even though the number of orders keeps going up. The really crappy thing is that goes back onto the ones who have helped us grow this business; YOU. You, if you’re reading this, may have been adversely affected by how we have, at times, mishandled our success. I HATE bad customer service; there’s no good reason for it, it just sucks. I am ashamed to admit that we have provided bad service at times. That ends now. I am temporarily shutting the doors on Apocalypse Gear. We’ve got a ton of orders to work through, and we are sending them out every day. I don’t want us to take in more until we restructure a bit. If you are waiting for an order, please reach out, and I will be happy to tell you where it is, and what’s going on with it, and when you’re gonna get it. WE ARE NOT QUITTING. Just taking a breath. This is not goodbye. Jonathan Apocalypse Gear: Get It While You Still Can gear@apocalypse-gear.com www.apocalypse-gear.com

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This is not goodbye :)

We have been so blessed with business this last year. In 2014, we quadrupled the number of sales we had in 2013. In 2015, we tripled those numbers again, and the numbers keep going up. That is a great problem to have, if you’re a small business. Crap, if you’re a big business, that’s pretty awesome (hi Jeff Bezos :)

The crappy side of that for us has been that we’ve been drowning in the success, and haven’t been able to speed things up around here. For example, we have the same number of people making sheaths, shipping them out, and doing customer service and marketing as we did at the beginning of the year, even though the number of orders keeps going up. 

The really crappy thing is that goes back onto the ones who have helped us grow this business; YOU. You, if you’re reading this, may have been adversely affected by how we have, at times, mishandled our success. 

I HATE bad customer service; there’s no good reason for it, it just sucks. I am ashamed to admit that we have provided bad service at times. That ends now. I am temporarily shutting the doors on Apocalypse Gear. We’ve got a ton of orders to work through, and we are sending them out every day. I don’t want us to take in more until we restructure a bit. 

If you are waiting for an order, please reach out, and I will be happy to tell you where it is, and what’s going on with it, and when you’re gonna get it. WE ARE NOT QUITTING. Just taking a breath.

This is not goodbye.

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And now it's black. #blackness #skull #awesomesauce

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Yep, it's a pine box. #skull #pinebox

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Another Leatherman prototype, this time it's the original. Looks pretty good in Black and Blood Red. #kydex #leatherman #awesomesauce

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We've been working on this one for quite a while now. The Scout Survival Kit is a "pancake-style" sheath, meaning that it's made by forming two pieces of Kydex around the knife/handle - one on the bottom, one on the top - instead of the usual "taco-style" sheaths we make around here. We liked doing this for a few reasons. First, this gives a lot more surface area for the rivets, or grommets, to be placed, which give us more room to attach stuff to the sheath. This equals fun :) Second, this gives us the ability to use more than one color of Kydex. This is also fun, and appeals to the ex-art student in at least one of us. Third, for reasons that are top-secret, these are a little easier to make. This means that we can make them faster without skimping on the level of quality and attention to detail we love to lavish on everything we make. These will be available for many of the knives in our shop, and will have a much shorter lead time than our other "custom" sheaths. Check 'em out here: http://bit.ly/apocalypse-ssk

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Prototype Sheath for a Leatherman Wave going to a friend in KY for some hardcore testing. #letsseewhathappens #leatherman #kydex #prototype

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This has been a looong time coming. We are so thankful for all of you out there giving the #instalove; you have been a huge part of the reason behind the success we have had over the last coupla years. This will be the first in a series of #gaw sets we've prepared for y'all. Check the next post for the rules :) #survivalkit #getitwhileyoustillcan

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Gotta sweet Mora in a Kryptek Kydex Sheath coming up for a #gaw. Stay tuned y'all. #kydex #sheath #awesomesauce