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Review - Polar Bear Forge (Marshal Gauge)
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:58 pm
by Gregoire de Lyon
Summary: Good product, great service
Communication: Jamie was very good with communication and answering my questions. It was a fairly basic transaction, but I felt confident throughout the process that I was going to get what I paid for in a timely manner.
Price: $6 for a SS marshal gauge. Can you beat that?
Quality: I ordered 6 gauges - 4 or 5 had a small burr on one outside corner. Nothing to worry about, nothing to complain about. Easily removed with a file or sandpaper.
Turnaround Time: Fast. Less than a week I think. All six came wrapped up inside of a USPS flat rate envelope so shipping was cheap.
Overall: 5.0 - If I ever need another gauge I wouldn't hesitate to do business with Jamie again.
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:19 am
by Halberds
I love it when our people get good reviews.
Got pics?
Hal
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 5:05 am
by freiman the minstrel
Gregoire,
Thanks. I have made up the card like this
Price - 5 (Ex)
Quality - 4 (Gd)
Customer service (communications) - 5 (Ex)
On time shipping - 5 (Ex)
is that correct?
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Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 8:26 am
by Gregoire de Lyon
Halberds wrote:Got pics?
No, but I could probably get one. It looks like a marshal's gauge, made from 10 ga. SS.
Freiman wrote:Price - 5 (Ex)
Quality - 4 (Gd)
Customer service (communications) - 5 (Ex)
On time shipping - 5 (Ex)
If you give fractional scores I would bump the quality to 4.5. There was really nothing to complain about, but it wasn't perfect.
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:09 pm
by polarbearforge
Thanks for the review Gregoire!
Hal, here's a quick pic of the guage,
<img src="http://www.polarbearforge.com/temp/marshalls_guage.jpg">
You can actually see the small tab at the bottom right hand corner near the hole that he's talking about.
Jamie
btw, the stainless are $8 apiece.
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:31 pm
by Halberds
Nice gauge. Did you use a milling machine?
We call that a small burr, no big deal.
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:50 am
by polarbearforge
Nope, no milling machine. I laser cut them.
Jamie
Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:36 am
by Sean Powell
Hello,
I ordered a series of these for the local community a few months ago as well. I love them as do most of the other marshals. I keep 1 in the shop, one in my armor bad with a copy of the marshals handbook and the necessary waivers just in case, plus I keep a spare in my gauntlet bag. At that price, why not.
I would rate as follows:
Price - 5 (Ex)
Quality - 5 (4.9) (Ex)
Customer service (communications) - 5 (Ex)
On time shipping - 5 (Ex)
Besides the aforementioned burr at a non essential corner, the edges are rough which is consistent with the laser cutting process. That is acceptable as changing it would increase cost.
Because I'm an anal engineering type I had our QA department double-check my caliper measurements. Gage sizes run .002" to .004" undersized at 70deg F. That means technically they will fail a helm or sword that is barely within sheet of papers thickness of being legal. It's important that a gage be more restrictive then the standard. For REALLY picky people I keep a class Z 1.25+0/-.0001" gage pin handy.
The 0.1 off of quality is I think he could tweak his laser cutting pattern a thousandth of an inch to compensate.
(I have milled gages by other people that are a lot less accurate. I'm sticking with these)
So other then his customer being picky, the gages are awesome!
Sean