Save $100 during our launch of High Efficiency Laser Sintered Bodies TODAY
Get our latest innovation as a Body upgrade without having to buy a complete mouthpiece.
Upgrade your current 5MM/SpectraTone Mouthpiece with improved efficiency and reduced weight in seconds. Our Laser Sintered Lattice Topology bodies are designed to take your playing to the next level.
This YouTube video will show how quickly you can upgrade any 5MM/SpectraTone mouthpiece...
Utilizing the latest Aerospace/Medical Topology software and made with multi-million dollar metal printing technology, you will realize the advantages of cutting edge design and manufacturing. Our LSLT bodies are much more than a conversation piece as your range, endurance, and tone quality tell the story.
It's been a long journey, and we appreciate your patience along the way. What began in December is now nearly complete, thanks to your support. Our original goal was to deliver all SpectraTone Red mouthpieces by the first week in April. We've now delivered 96% of all orders from backers who completed their surveys. Eight people have not returned a survey, which means we will choose your body variation and set it aside for you, but we cannot ship without your address and rim selection.
That leaves another few backers waiting on rim sizes that are currently at plating. To our surprise, we had an unusually high number of orders for 660 and 614 diameter rims, which had been made in December, but not all were plated. Those should be back in our shop in approximately 10 days or less. If you are waiting on an order for a 614H rim and would like to switch to a different 614 variation to get quicker shipping, please contact us at 303.657.2747.
Save $250 on Titanium and $175 on Stainless Steel SpectraTone Red, Yellow, or Blue mouthpieces
I have two Titanium mouthpiece bodies remaining, which I will offer to our backers in the form of a complete SpectraTone Red, Yellow, or Blue mouthpiece for $350. If you want one in Stainless Steel, the price is $325. Email me by Wednesday (or order with link below) before they are gone forever. Oh yeah, did I mention all SS and Ti body styles will be retired once inventory is sold out. This is due to the complex production process that is too costly in smaller batches. I made approximately 15% more bodies in SS and Ti than were originally ordered through Backerkit. You can see remaining inventory here.
Laser Sintered ALUMINUM Body
And finally, I want to announce the debut of standalone LSLT (Laser Sintered Lattice Topology) Mouthpiece Bodies in ALUMINUM. I will be offering these to all SpectraTone/5MM mouthpiece owners for HALF PRICE next week. Again, once these are sold out, they will not be offered again. Your next opportunity for a LSLT solution will come with SpectraTone Green in Autumn.
Thanks again for your amazing support, feedback, and musicianship! Jason, Jen, Christine
Jen has been working hard to enter every single order into our system for the past two weeks. The process has been slower than expected as approximately 35% of our backers have requested some kind of change to their order after we closed the surveys, which has delayed all shipments. For this reason, we will no longer consider any future requests for order changes or additions. We really want to ship your mouthpieces!
Here's what you can expect for the remaining SpectraTone Red shipping schedule.
March 12th - remaining Brass variations with no upgrades March 26th - all SS variations with no upgrades April 2nd - all Ti variations with no upgrades April 9th - all orders with upgrades
We will be offering one final option to purchase a new SpectraTone Red and related accessories at a very nice discount. We're doing this to give your friends, colleagues, and students a chance to get in on the fun.
First, the shipping news... Breadberry Starter Shipping
I've just returned from a quick jaunt to my local post office, dropping off dozens of Breadberry starters. For those of you who added the Breadberry add-on, your dehydrated starter is now en-route, secured in the hands of USPS.
For our international backers, we're now in "send and pray" mode for your Breadberry shipments. I've attached international stamps to your regular envelopes, hoping they make it through the labyrinth of global mail systems. Unfortunately it's all a bit of a dice roll, as customs rules differ from country to country. Who knew, for instance, that Spain has a no-go policy on playing cards? And shipping pulverized coca beans to Germany? Nein, danke! You can find more of these peculiar restrictions here: https://pe.usps.com/text/Imm/immctry.htm. Let me know if you find anything about dehydrated sourdough starters in there (e.g., I would argue it is definitely not a live animal).
Special thanks go to Noah, my trusty Breadwinner sidekick as he stuffed many of the envelopes you'll be receiving and has been a huge support during our journey.
If you're a non-US backer waiting for your actual Breadwinner, don't fret - it looks as if the majority of them have made it out of the country and many of them have already cleared customs in their destination country.
How’s it going?
So, for those who have successfully sprung their units from their boxes and are feeding the data beast, how are things kneading out? Some of you have already recorded a dozen feedings, which is fantastic! We're seeing new devices rise online daily, but do feel free to drop me a line if you encounter any glitches or need assistance with your setup – [email protected].
Suggest Features?
To help me better organize and prioritize future development on Breadwinner, I’ve baked up a new feedback system over here:
This is my first time using Canny, but I'm hopeful it will aid in keeping things well-organized and allow you to stay updated when fresh features are baked and ready.
Until next time, keep those ovens warm and the feedback coming!
Once I discovered how it much Breadberry grew when being fed rye, I knew I couldn't go back. That said, I've tried mixing in spelt, regular whole wheat, and baker's flour. But I've always come back to rye. I'm also about 1:1 (i.e., 100% hydration) of flour to water, but have definitely varied that a lot. I notice that the stiffer my starter is, the more jagged it's graph is on my Breadwinner dashboard.
But that's just me, and everyone's starter is different. So what do you feed yours and why?
In May, the 3rd edition, almost 3 years to the day, will go live on crowdfunding! (We launched and funded June 2022!) This will be the final edition of the dice set and guidebook. If future campaigns bring extra dice, they will come with either pages to add to our new trapper/guidebook, or a small booklet to explain them, there won't be an updated guidebook or core-set ever.
This doesn't mean it will be the last manufacturing/printing, just that this 3rd ed is the definitive edition and will be carried on in reprints as-is.
I am planning:
A Standard Set!
The standard set will include the 22-dice set in bag, both reading cloths, and a small guidebook with color coding, generally like the 2nd edition guidebook but smaller and cleaned up a little. This will come in a box to store the core items (book included), lined with felt so you can roll small readings in the box itself.
A Deluxe Set!
The deluxe set will include the above listed items minus the box, instead being in the Chest. The chest will have a flip open top that holds the dice sets in its compartment, either in foam that is inset, or if the foam is taken out, will fit your wooden boxes for the dice sets. In addition, it will have drawers to store the reading cloths, journals, tarot decks, etc! And at the bottom, a large slot that will fit our new Binder Guidebook. At the moment this is planned to be a heavy durable coated/wrapped cardstock kind of box, but we will see what works best. Maybe it will be plastic...? I would love to do wood but the weight would be brutal, and a recent forray into a big fancy wood box didn't go as well with our manufacturer, so we'll see!
The Chest is a huge part of the final version of things. It will have space for you to fit all the Oracle Dice items and is future proofed with room for extra dice and items, in case I add things (who, me?)
New Items:
The Chest, of course!
The trapper/binder Guidebook, made to be easy to use, reorganize, and with tabs and easy to find tools to make it more usable than ever for learning! It will also come with Reference Cards, like the ones that came with the 3 dice in the Alleyway Oracles project, giving you tarot-sized cards with shorthand meanings for each dice symbol, colormatched to the dice color and its ink.
Second two-sided reading cloth, with two new grids for reading with.
Hot Housewives and Misery Tarot dice sets. These are 5 dice in each set as glow in the dark dice with one uniform color+theme. The individual dice bring new themes to the Oracle Dice set and can be used singularly as the oracle dice are, or they can be used as an Overlay Grid, being a set of five dice that work together to create additional zones in the reading.
Expansion Oracle Die Face Oracle cards, giving you all the new dice's die faces as oracle cards.
New Lords! There will be a lord for each the Misery Tarot and Hot Housewives Tarot dice sets, and there's another in the works. Or two!
New wood box that is rectangular to flank the round one in the chest for holding expansion dice.
At the moment one idea is to expand the 3 dice from the Alleyway Oracles set to 5 for a Lord of Games to bring to the set. There will be more Lord Oracle Cards of course for these new ones, and it has been requested of me to consider offering the 1st edition here, or at least the neoprene mat for readings. So we'll see what other goodies might be on offer!
I want to know what you all think of all this. I listened to your feedback from the previous update in my plans, and hope to hear that you're all interested in the changes/new pieces! Let me know if there are needs you have for your current sets and their usage that you feel isn't being met here! I want to make sure this is the definitive, best version of things.
Thanks all!
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you can join the revived patreon for $1 to see WIP Wednesdays posts which shares what I'm working on, and it'll be where you'll be able to see updates to the oracle dice as I work on it the easiest, I think! Not to mention, becoming a paying patron will get you day 0 access to all future backerkits to grab those earlybird tiers sooner!
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Our Panels
At Escapade, attendees submit (and vote on) the panels that will be featured at the con. Ms Boba has managed to sneak in 3 of them:
Friday 1/31 @ 4PM — What's up with BlueSky (and decentralized social networks)?
Saturday 2/1 @ 9AM — The Fujoshi Guide to Web Development - Building a Fandom from Scratch
I paid my pledge two years ago with nothing received yet. There is always going to be un upgrade. I've purchased two smart watches in the past two years because if technology improvements. Please just finalize and produce our product. I pledged so I could have the product to use with my mountain bike. At the rate your going I'll be too old to ride by the time you ship anything. Is there an alternative to the original pledge?
