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		<title>Thoughts on Handmade vs. Factory Made and Building a Brand vs. Building a Following</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a handmade company, we three actually make every single one of the products we sell. We also photograph them, post them on the website and our Etsy shop, write the descriptions and ship out the orders. We do the whole thing, soup to nuts. To us, handmade means more then just made by someone&#8217;s [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=raggededgegear.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5852190&#038;post=457&#038;subd=raggededgegear&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Fiber RFID Protection Wallets</title>
		<link>https://raggededgegear.wordpress.com/2013/09/03/carbon-fiber-rfid-protection-wallets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Sep 2013 20:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mudly]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[carbon fiber]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a number of existing customers and potential customers email us and ask about making RFID wallets. While RFID protection wasn&#8217;t something on our radar, enough emails came in that we decided to investigate. What we found in our research was that it was indeed a worthy feature to add to our lineup. We [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=raggededgegear.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5852190&#038;post=439&#038;subd=raggededgegear&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Fiber Wallets for Women</title>
		<link>https://raggededgegear.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/carbon-fiber-wallets-for-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carbon Fiber wallets aren&#8217;t just for the guys anymore&#8230; We now make a ladies version. Bragging rights on your next date? You betchya! You might be thinking&#8230; If this is really carbon fiber, how come this doesn&#8217;t look like the carbon fiber you&#8217;re probably familiar with? The call sign of carbon fiber is that tight [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=raggededgegear.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5852190&#038;post=435&#038;subd=raggededgegear&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Fiber Backpack PROTOTYPE</title>
		<link>https://raggededgegear.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/carbon-fiber-backpack-prototype/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mudly]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We make a lot of carbon fiber bags, and yet we&#8217;ve never had a carbon fiber backpack in our lineup. Well that is about to change. Below are the prototype pictures of our much anticipated backpack design: Tagged: backpack, design, prototype<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=raggededgegear.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5852190&#038;post=428&#038;subd=raggededgegear&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pre-Sneak Preview: Backpack Design</title>
		<link>https://raggededgegear.wordpress.com/2010/03/31/pre-sneak-preview-backpack-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mudly]]></dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[carbon fiber backpack]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At long last we have a serious backpack design nearly complete. Many a customer has asked us for either a sailcloth backpack or a carbon fiber backpack. It has taken us a long time to get it to the design table because backpacks have so many different uses,that we got stuck on wanting to design [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=raggededgegear.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5852190&#038;post=426&#038;subd=raggededgegear&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes downtime isn&#8217;t such a bad thing</title>
		<link>https://raggededgegear.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/sometimes-downtime-isnt-such-a-bad-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are just coming off of nearly a month of enforced downtime. Not something we ever would have done willingly, and not something we expected to bring about exciting new changes, but that seems to be the exact result. Rather then scrambling trying to make up for lost time, feeling behind, etc, we are actually [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=raggededgegear.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5852190&#038;post=407&#038;subd=raggededgegear&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Plans and Tiny Plans</title>
		<link>https://raggededgegear.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/big-plans-and-tiny-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:22:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mudly]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You must have a plan. From the time we were children they teach us to have plans for what we are going to be when we grow up. Plan for it, and it will happen, just exactly how you imagined it. The thing about plans is that they are too big and unwieldy to really [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=raggededgegear.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5852190&#038;post=405&#038;subd=raggededgegear&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is This Flexible Carbon Fiber Sailcloth Material?</title>
		<link>https://raggededgegear.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/what-is-this-flexible-carbon-fiber-sailcloth-material/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[mudly]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most things people make out of carbon fiber are hard as a finished product. Like fiberglass, the typical carbon fiber comes in cloth sheets that have to be laid up in a mold with resin and left to set. This limits applications to hard objects. So how do we make flexible carbon fiber bags and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=raggededgegear.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5852190&#038;post=400&#038;subd=raggededgegear&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Either Going to Like us or You&#8217;re Not</title>
		<link>https://raggededgegear.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/youre-either-going-to-like-us-or-youre-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is essentially a continuation of the last post where I talked about being tiny (300 unique visitors a month) but growing and happy. As I said, at least one person a week contacts us about the possibility of setting up a wholesale account, or perhaps becoming a distributor, or some other, potentially big, non [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=raggededgegear.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5852190&#038;post=398&#038;subd=raggededgegear&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Face of Opportunity</title>
		<link>https://raggededgegear.wordpress.com/2010/03/09/the-new-face-of-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the scheme of the web (and the world) our company barely qualifies as a blip. If you do a &#8220;Whois&#8221; domain search on us, it says that less then 300 different people visit our website every month. Until we saw that, we didn&#8217;t even know the number was that tiny! And yet, it didn&#8217;t [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=raggededgegear.wordpress.com&#038;blog=5852190&#038;post=394&#038;subd=raggededgegear&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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