BoB Zippo?

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Having one with the BoB emblem on it would be great.

EJinVA · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:46 am

Second that.

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LtMac · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Wed Jan 07, 2009 1:11 pm

I collect Zippo pipe lighters and I would like to have one.

LtMac

JJPHOTO · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Wed Jan 07, 2009 3:59 pm

I love zippos... would love to have one.

RonA3597 · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Wed Jan 07, 2009 5:01 pm

I would buy one!

Aaron · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Wed Jan 07, 2009 6:59 pm

one of those special pipe lighter zippos would be great!

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regor · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Thu Jan 08, 2009 4:41 am

I would like one as well!! I also would love to see a few tobaccos with at least one very good vaper. and or a sttraight va.

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jhuggett · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:37 am

I've thought about doing some merchandise things for BoB before. At first I wanted to see if it was going to stay around, that seems to be the case now. Then I turned over control of the board to DPG. We'll get together and talk about different possibilities.

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Justpipes · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Thu Jan 08, 2009 5:47 am

T-shirts or some type of apparel with a logo. I have a cousin near Atlanta that is an outstanding graphic artist that does t-shirts for our family reunion that always turn out real nice. I would be willing to talk to him about doing something for us.

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jhuggett · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:02 am

My original idea was to create a mascot for the board. "BoB" (we could make it a characteur of TJ Very Happy

) I've looked into professional designers and it seems it could be done for anywhere between 200 and 600 dollars. Then I was thinking about setting up one of those on demand store fronts to keep start up costs down. I looked around a bit on the zippos and it seems we could order a minimum of fifty for around 600. When I talk to DPG we'll figure out the best way to get started.

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I know that ASP does an annual Zippo and it always turns out real nice. Someone sent me a brand new one in brushed brass and it looks outstanding.

Danish_Pipe_Guy · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:06 am

Several years ago I contacted Zippo to make an SHPC club lighter. The problem with doing them was that we had to place a mimimum order of 20-30 lighters as I recall. I guess we'd have to see if we have 20-30 folks here that would buy them?

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EJinVA · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Thu Jan 08, 2009 11:30 am

Any idea what the cost could be? I guess that would make or break it for me, the most I could justify* would be 25-30 bucks.

*All momma would allow me to spend. Mad

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-attributed to the Great Manitu, the Great Spirit

jhuggett · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Thu Jan 08, 2009 12:24 pm

That would be about the price I'm guessing, maybe a few bucks less. Smallest order I could find was fifty though.

This one may take some time but I'm sure we can get something going sometime soon.

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Puff Daddy · Subject: Re: BoB Zippo? Thu Jan 08, 2009 1:35 pm

As for shirts and mugs and the like, I think if you can provide a hi-res jpeg you can get those web based merchandising outfits to set you up fairly inexpensively. Both Briar Blues and Pease have stores, maybe Greg could give you an idea of start up costs?

http://www.zazzle.com/glpease/mugs

http://www.cafepress.com/briarblues

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