Re: Gaps in the product line?
At the risk of going off the rails..
which is why I suggested it be standard product line and not custom shop. If you don't forecast good sales, then so be it, but at that point any idea that might come up in the thread will be relegated to the custom shop and it's inevitable price point.
I'm sorry if I wasn't clear with my other post.
What I meant was that, because inventory costs money, the benefit to maintaining half a dozen SKUs for nothing but mag swaps on any single given pickup design is probably cost-prohibitive at a standard production level. 99% of people buying them (who don't swap mags or post on SDUGF) will still buy the standard A5 version anyway.
Buuuuut I don't think that my saying this
(and the real decision would be made above my pay grade anyway) precludes in any way the benefit of getting a little feedback from our most familiar community. There's evidence of this in the BroBucker (CS wind) and the 59/Custom Hybrid which is offered as a standard production model.
Maybe there's just certain kinds of businesses where your customers don't precisely know what they want until you give them some options, like the menu at a restaurant for example. They'll ask the customer how their food tasted, how well the wait staff treated you. rate your experience on a scale of 1 to 5... but you never see them ask customers for new menu ideas, and if they asked a room full of customers to design a new menu item by committee, an outcome like the Forum Pickup process might very well happen.
I think you make a pretty good point here. I especially like the restaurant comparison - that's apt. I think the SDUGF is maybe a little more informed than your average restaurant diner, though. Maybe more like major foodies who dabble at home and know the difference between swiss chard and arctic char.
I certainly didn't start this thread to get new ideas for the next SD production pickup. That's not my call at all. I'm asking purely out of my own curiosity and my desire to see a good discussion - mission accomplished, there!
Would be cool to me if they'd bring out a special edition Custom with the most popular mags included. Or, perhaps even cooler, Duncan mag swap kits. Or maybe even include hex screws and whatnot. Sort of a Duncan Pimp Your Pup Kit
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This is actually a really cool idea.
I could see something like that in my head. Maybe a single SKU with a nice selection of magnets and pole pieces, a little extra wire, and some pickup tape (in case you mess something up a bit).
Of course, those things are already easily and cheaply sourced from other places. Going back to DreX's restaurant analogy, it would be like selling you a dish and then giving you the option to purchase re-branded raw ingredients in case you want to do a little cooking of your own before you eat it.
That said, I still think it's a cool idea.
