Upcoming Shop Closures & Order Notes – Please Read Carefully

First, if you think we’ve ignored an email that you sent, please check your spam or junk file because we diligently respond to all customer emails (many emails have gone astray recently). Thanks! Head’s up…Yes, we’re moving. Golden Witch will be closed June 12th through July 7th. If we get the move accomplished faster, we’ll re-open sooner. During the moving closure time the GW Webstore will be available to view, but purchasing will be turned off and we will not be responding to emails. If you need ferrules, agates, bamboo, and all the rest, now is the time to order. Stock up for your late spring & early summer rodmaking so that our moving closure doesn’t slow you down. The last day to order agate guides or other custom items for shipment prior to the move is June 1st. We’ve recently posted Moving Sale prices on the Peak Bamboo inventory – stock up, have fun! We have not yet secured warehouse space for the bamboo, so the bamboo sale prices will hold until we get the stuff moved, however long that takes…but we will not be packing/shipping bamboo orders during the moving closure or any other shop closures. Since this was a somewhat unexpected move in terms of timing, we have a summer closure we’re already committed to: our summer vacation. The GW shop will be closed from July 22nd through August 5th, inclusive. Please order custom products – agate guides, anything that must be blued, that sort of thing – at least three weeks prior to the start of a shop closure if you want the order shipped with certainty before the closure; custom orders with shorter lead times may be completed, and often are, but no promises. Orders with only non-custom items usually ship the business day after you place the order, even in the run-up towards a shop closure; we hustle to get your orders out the door and in your hands. I tend to work non-stop when the shop is open, so I sincerely appreciate your understanding during those times when I shut down to spend time with family, especially now that the boys are out of the house and, frequently, far from home. You may notice a trend here, a new work rhythm that I’m experimenting with so I don’t burn out. Rather than pretending to take weekends off, which rarely happens, I bundle my down time and skip town so I can’t work. Despite appearances, this means the shop is only sealed up about 86 days per year vs. 124+ days per year if I actually didn’t work on weekends and took four weeks of vacation, plus Federal holidays, to match my wife’s vacation time. I offer the math because a few folks have noted that “it seems like GW is always on vacation.” Generally speaking, the shop will be open for 5-7 weeks, then closed for a week with a ramp-down Friday and ramp-up Monday on both ends of the closed week although that sort of neatly planned closure doesn’t always pan out. We’re closed on most major U.S. holidays: New Years, Ground Hog’s Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving, & Christmas. Everyone involved here – Matt, Nikki, Drake, & I - appreciates your business and your patience with custom orders. Golden Witch & Peak Bamboo couldn’t do what we do without you.

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