This:
… is apparently going to be showing up on some episode of NCIS
The lovely and talented Mrs. Dragon put her Executive Assistant skills to use for me about 12 weeks ago, trying to contact prop masters at various TV studios, and some actors/actresses directly. She got through to the prop master for NCIS, and about three weeks ago I sent them a FlatJack for a female actress who was complaining that all the holsters made the butt of the gun stick out or dig into her ribs.
Long story short, the FlatJack was a hit, the actress could wear a blazer-type jacket and not print…all was right with the world.
I got a call from the prop master on Thursday with a special order request. It was built Sunday and shipped Monday morning. If any of you know the show, there is a goth girl character on it (Abby Sciuto, played by Pauly Perrette)…and this is called for in the script for said character….a goth-themed lunchbox.
Well if that does not demonstrate breadth of skill, I will be buggered if I know what does.
I like this growing trend of small, private holster fabricators getting their wares on the boob-toob… Dennis’ business will undoubtedly increase, and, if nothing else, interest about what he makes will increase, which can only help the concealed / open carry communities as a whole – normalization is a powerful tool, and one too many people overlook. And this situation dovetails nicely into a post I will be writing later – the world opens up when you simply ask.
Its a good show, and Abby is awesome.
Some of the gun stuff is Hollywood nonsense…tho frankly the wife and I have more fun picking apart the lab safety violations (People wearing gloves in clean spaces, no gloves in lab spaces. Eating, sleeping, and excessive carrying on in lab spaces. There are a few scenes with people eating and drinking in the Morgue! That’s just NASTY!)
Very cool, and very impressive work. It’s really next to see what all these small and custom shops can do now-a-days.
Now now Weerd, I used to eat all the time in the lab.
Course… that was a Turbulence Lab. So the hazards were more hot components, screwing up alignment of rigs, and of course laser safety.
Sure the Nd:YAG looks real cool with the bright green beam but the visible aspect isn’t what you have to look out for.
Ordered a couple of holsters from them yesterday (one for the HK 45C and one for the new XD 45ACP). Won’t be ready until the end of May. Something to look forward to.
@ Weer’d Beard: Meh. I am somewhat inundated with the whole CSI/NCIS/Law and Order type shows… too many too fast. I only watch Castle because of Fillion.
@ Jack: I wonder if propmasters and the like will realize that small shops like Dennis’ will be better suited to things like this, if only for their flexbility and turnaround time capabilities…
@ MAJ Mike: He is more than a little swamped at the moment, but if he says he is going to get it to you by X date, he does, if not before then.
Hell, when he gets in a “gotta do it now” mood, I cannot even break him away for shooty goodness…
And that small shops specialize in one-off orders. In my experience, custom service and specs on your order is a main selling point of the small shops.
Especially as the larger shops focus more on volume which has time to spool up and tends to have more capital investment in a single model type. Though CNC et al is changing that.
Where a smaller shop has a higher ratio of tool-room relative to production-room as it were. Well technically, it’s more that “tool-rooms” have gotten smaller as the capability of tooling and mfg has increased.
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