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Chop Shop Store/Studio
1 day ago
What A Proof Looks Like
Here is a proof for the Saturn pin. What is wrong with this? Do you see it? Yeah. The rings are missing. So this is what it looks like corrected. Every pin has every ...
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Chop Shop Store/Studio
8 days ago
So many delays
Just an update on progress. After a long delay from the Chinese New Year, it took a bit to get proofs.  However, the real delay is going to be shipping. Thanks to several b...
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Chop Shop Store/Studio
about 2 months ago
We Did It… Planet Cats is Now a Thing ;)
It’s closed! 259 backers. $10K+ raised. That’s extraordinary. Thank you for being into space and cats. All pins and stretch goals AND my daughter’s Planet X are officially go...
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Chop Shop Store/Studio
about 2 months ago
Climbing in Cat-Tastic
Under 30 hours left.  We have been tracking our climb under the Cat-Tastic banner and its been a ride. There are 14 projects and after the first 24 hours we were at #11. ...
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Chop Shop Store/Studio
about 2 months ago
Art for the Pluto/Eris Stretch Goal
Glad to have them all done days before the campaign ends! This is the last pin to be designed. To some, Pluto is still a planet… but then what about Eris? We couldn’t lea...
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Chop Shop Store/Studio
about 2 months ago
Art for the Neptune Stretch Goal
Banging them out! Neptune is done and I’m really hapy with it. The two I was most worried about might be my favorites. Uranus came out great and although Neptune has the s...
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Project Update: What A Proof Looks Like

Here is a proof for the Saturn pin. What is wrong with this? Do you see it?



Yeah. The rings are missing.



So this is what it looks like corrected. Every pin has every color selected via Pantone Coated colors. From videos I have seen with pins, it looks like a person actually has an ink injector and fills every channel of every pin with the correct color. Nuts. These things should cost $50 each for that kind of tedious handwork. 

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8 days ago

Project Update: So many delays

Just an update on progress.

After a long delay from the Chinese New Year, it took a bit to get proofs. 

However, the real delay is going to be shipping. Thanks to several brilliant decisions by our president, shipping from there to here has increased 4x. This thanks to tariffs, retaliative fees, and on top of all that — fuel in the region has exploded in cost.

Now the only option that allows us to match the budget that was planned for is the slow boat one. This means once all the proofs are approved — it will take at least a month for them to arrive. Contrast to what used to be 5 days transit.

Sorry for the blackout on info. We will post some of the pdf proofs to show how they plan to arrange the plating.
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Not to be a downer and actually the opposite. Last week we had the terrible time of laying to rest a cat so I am grateful to have been able to add on the comet pin right now because I think that is fitting for her. However long ago it was when Carl Sagan explained how we are all star dust... that really changed my relationship with everything and everyone. I won't wax poetic longer and just say thank you ;)

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about 2 months ago

Project Update: We Did It… Planet Cats is Now a Thing ;)

It’s closed!

259 backers.
$10K+ raised.
That’s extraordinary.

Thank you for being into space and cats.

All pins and stretch goals AND my daughter’s Planet X are officially going into production. I’ll be posting updates as we get manufacturing proofs and move toward fulfillment.

For now — truly — thank you.

Thomas Romer
aka Chop Shop Studio
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Project Update: Art for the Pluto/Eris Stretch Goal

Glad to have them all done days before the campaign ends! This is the last pin to be designed.



To some, Pluto is still a planet… but then what about Eris? We couldn’t leave Pluto out of the run and I would never include Pluto in a series without giving Eris equal measure. It is just as large, may have more than one moon… it is just more recently discovered. 

So we decided to put them together on one pin to represent the Kuiper Belt and dwarf planets everywhere!
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