Yar... I'm concerned for Josh too.
He's a great guy and mainly doing this to help out. I certainly am not privy to his biz details but I suspect this is a fairly small portion of his work. I'm not sure if there are much more than a few dozen HF members who've made the leap.
And many of them are fairly light folks at that. So these aren't really much past prototype stage overall as far as I know. Certainly not enough volume for him to truly commit any resources or testing to the product. He primarily does trekking poles, tent poles, etc. He doesn't deal in load bearing applications in any of his other products. I greatly value his expertise with CF materials, but this is uncharted territory for him as well. He's been around for quite sometime and isn't depending on a few outlier bridge users to put food on the table.
Altruistically- Nobody wants to see anyone hurt.
Cynically- All it takes is one jerk (lawsuit) and the party is over.
There is a reason they aren't listed on the website or promoted and really only available via referral from folks at HF...
Josh is being nice enough to take on producing these at our request.
The kindest thing we can do is not abuse his kindness and use these responsibly.
I'd love to see more business go his way, but only if it's good business for him long term.
Generally- folks here are pretty good at accepting those terms of use and that's all I'm advocating.
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