First of all, we are sorry to hear about your unemployment situation, Skip. We wish you well. Anyone who can create a Krupp unwrapping video with as much humility and good humor, has to be a pleasant and talented individual. We see success in your future.
Is it getting interesting to us? You be the judge when we tell you that Mike is having visions of vacations to exotic places and Tracy is dreaming about having a ½ scale, 15th Century, Great Turkish Bombard, the ‘Dardanelles Gun’ cast in bronze and bored by a shop with really big equipment. The original shot stone balls of 25.2” dia. Fort Pallet look out!
Seriously though, the sales price of Soot’s or Nematoad’s Krupp will have very little to do with our eventual pricing of the next cannon in the small seacoast gun series. Don’t worry, the auction prices on these guns will have about as much to do with the planned Rodman Gun price as the amount of slowing of the earth’s rotation due to an Infantryman’s running in an easterly direction after having thrown a ‘willie peter’ grenade in a westerly direction! If you ever have occasion to do this, complete overhead cover will prevent you from being “hoisted by your own petard”.
Future pricing will have a lot more to do with the level of income we are trying to attain. Will we try to make an hourly wage equal to a ditch digger in Guatemala like last time or will we shoot for a wage closer to what an entry level ‘Lot Associate’ at Home Depot makes in Colorado, about $9.00 per hr.?
Time will tell.
Tracy and Mike
