Ligatures Ultimate Ligature Hyperion or marketing master class?

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I have to admit I enjoy the carny barker promotion thing from my days as a youngster attending the CNE.
Bought a pen that wrote underwater and upside down as a kid. The Ex

Always looking for something to be sold on, I enjoy a good spiel, but sounds like this lig may be the real deal!

I hope it does well in the marketplace. I am a big supporter of start ups.

Cheers
 
Pete Thomas said:
And I’m not the only one who gets the irony in the name. After spending money on designers, it’s crazy to not pay for a branding consultant who would have noticed immediately you don’t put the word Hype into a name and marketing campaign.
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Hyperion is the largest moon of Saturn.
PPT is Powerpoint? We have a branding expert, she's awesome. You're awfully snarky for a guy in a big glass house?
 
WallyWallace said:
Ha, I will absolutely use that ad in our next launch! Our video was a tongue-in-cheek take on Wes Anderson. My business partner, Andrew Simpson, owns Vert Design studios Vert Design Studio - the 15 hipsters are his full time employees. Only 2 worked on and off on the project. The engineering (yes, we have engineers) were done by Chain Ray who manufactures for the Taiwanese Space program. (a perk of working with Vert). Completely agree that "time will tell," and that was one of the perks working with industrial designers. Andrew was insistent that we make a tooled prototype and I try to break it. Seriously. We waited for three years because:

1. we were not in a hurry. Andrew and I have become good friends and have several products in development.
2. I wanted to test the ligature at length on a variety of mouthpieces.

Over 2.5 years, you can see my youtube videos with the "golden sample" prototype cranked down on a variety of mouthpieces. The lugs, by design have a bit of flex. But, they're designed to have a huge surface area brazed to the band (one drawback to traditional 2-screw). We could absolutely get more clamping force, but that was not our our goal. My friends who reface warped tables know the dangers of torque first designs.

We, unapologetically, put aesthetics as a high priority. Every time I put on the cap it puts a smile on my face. We made the thing we wanted to see in the world. I'm over the moon. It's not for everyone, we're cool with that 🙂
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Since you are here and SOTW, I'll give you the dimensions of the 10MFan Showboat metal you requested from the other site.
The large end of the body near the shank is approx. 28.6mm (1.1259") diameter, 89.8495mm (3.5371") circumference.
The smaller tapered end is approx. 25.4mm (1") diameter, 79.7964mm (3.14159") circumference. Pi is your friend. 😛

Thanks Dr. W
 
Nervous_Fingers said:
Since you are here and SOTW, I'll give you the dimensions of the 10MFan Showboat metal you requested from the other site.
The large end of the body near the shank is approx. 28.6mm (1.1259") diameter, 89.8495mm (3.5371") circumference.
The smaller tapered end is approx. 25.4mm (1") diameter, 79.7964mm (3.14159") circumference. Pi is your friend. 😛

Thanks Dr. W
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Luckily I have calipers!!! I don't know how to use them, but I have them Mark!
 
WallyWallace said:
Hyperion is the largest moon of Saturn.
PPT is Powerpoint? We have a branding expert, she's awesome. You're awfully snarky for a guy in a big glass house?
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I don’t think anyone has confused PPT mouthpieces with PowerPoint! I never meant any snarkiness, just following on from other peoples’ posts previous to mine that had pointed out hype and its inclusion in the brand name. I hadn’t realised it before, but even the thread title seems to imply the hype connection. I've learned you have to be thick-skinned in this business and not get offended or read too much into what people say online unless it really is defamatory.

As a non-profit we could not afford any kind of branding consultant, the initials PPT were chosen to reflect the name of the maker (Pillinger) and the co-designer, myself (PT). I freely admit in hindsight we could have found a better name for a brand. We were well aware of the fact that (among other things) it’s the same as the .ppt file extension but deemed the connection too remote to be confusing or of any consequence.

Had my name been Doris Fish it would have been PDF mouthpieces (and only available to download🙂)
 
This moon thing gets more complicated the more I look. It seems Hyperion was one of the sons of Uranus and Gaia and as such was a Titan, so that’s one thing. Whereas Titan is the largest moon of Saturn but Hyperion is the largest non-spherical moon of Saturn, apparently it’s ovalish and sponge like in appearance. I hope everything is clear now.
 
Jimmymack said:
This moon thing gets more complicated the more I look. It seems Hyperion was one of the sons of Uranus and Gaia and as such was a Titan, so that’s one thing. Whereas Titan is the largest moon of Saturn but Hyperion is the largest non-spherical moon of Saturn, apparently it’s ovalish and sponge like in appearance. I hope everything is clear now.
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Married his sister Theia and had three children, the sun, the moon and the dawn.
 
Tonehole said:
...carny...
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They scare me. Small hands. Smell like cabbage.

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