Hawaii! MIKRADLES NOW IN EVERY STATE OF THE US!!!!
Mike, thank you for your generous offer! I just placed an order for a black MIKRADLE on eBay. I'd also like black as my complimentary MIKRADLE color choice as well.
The second photo looks like the Iao Needle (mountain peak) on the island of Kauai. The third photo is harder to place. Your brother in law was very lucky to snap that photo of the humpback breaching out of the water like that... I've never seen anything like that personally even though I've been on several whale watching cruises.
WOW! I AM STOKED!!! Thanks to today's purchase from xliderider, my product,
MIKRADLE has now been sold in
EVERY STATE IN THE UNITED STATES! I can't begin to say how proud I am of this statistic, I came up with this idea back in Nov, '09 - and moved to put it on the market within a few weeks of conception. To have it distributed to such a wide and thorough area as every single state for me is staggering, considering the exposure came primarily from the droidforums.net!!! A couple of posts before this, I showed which International sales I've made to date. Is it possible to cover all of Europe next with
MIKRADLE sales? Yikes! What a goal!
I started by making the very first one totally with hand tools (I own a medium sized 5 man shop building high end custom cabinetry (entertainment centers, libraries, custom furniture, bars, kitchens as well as millwork - both residential and commercial). After fooling around with a couple of prototypes - I began selling these a few dozen at a time. But as the name became more popular and orders came in faster than I could produce, I began setting up specialized machinery and jigs to facilitate production runs of the
MIKRADLE, to the extent I can now produce about 4 dozen per day, with the capacity to easily double that should it be required. The assembly as well as the catalyzed finish is still rubbed by hand between coats, but all the milling and cutting is done with heavy machinery that I already owned in my shop. I can say that this venture has brought me a ton of pleasure - mostly because I took it from inception to the point of a moderate production sales point that it now enjoys!
Anyway - I want to profusely thank xliderider for this purchase, and will be shipping out his complimentary
Black MIKRADLE to accompany the one he purchased on Monday. Of the five dozen+ I've sold over this weekend so far - this particular sale just
"made my day"!
Sorry for the overly robust enthusiasm, but this is certainly a milestone for me, considering I've only been selling
MIKRADLE since Dec '09. Deep breath mikey... Exhale slowly mikey... Okay. Goal completed!
Here's a screenshot of his transaction (private info blacked out, of course):
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xliderider: Besides knowing a quality accessory for your Droid - you also know your State well! That photo is indeed IAO! And my brother in law does have some luck with his camera, but most of it is instinct for being at the right place at the right time - proved by two more shots of that same whale posted below! He is an excellent photographer and does commercial work on the side (by trade he is an Engineer sub-contracting to Verizon). A couple more shots you might recognize also attached. Okay - Thanks again!
Mikey
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I'll have to check - but I believe California might have the most (87 sales there as of March 1 - several more since). I had intended on posting a map showing stars for each state as orders came in, but just never got around to it. But I've kept track of all addresses, and have been hoping for an Hawaiian sale to complete all of the US. 
