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Title: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Hoseyb on August 05, 2011, 05:57:34 pm: Due 16/17th September Folks*

http://www.groundupclimbing.com/newsitem.asp?nsid=256 (http://www.groundupclimbing.com/newsitem.asp?nsid=256)

(http://ukbouldering.com/board/Smileys/ukbCustom/thumbsup2.gif)

(http://ukbouldering.com/board/Smileys/ukbCustom/whistle.gif) sorry for the wait...(http://ukbouldering.com/board/Smileys/ukbCustom/slap.gif)

*I intend to carry this written down somewhere as a handy FAQ swatter
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: markmcgowan01 on August 05, 2011, 07:13:46 pm: :great:
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Will Hunt on August 05, 2011, 07:50:36 pm: (http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_golKRcgZK20/Sz4_UYLvxlI/AAAAAAAAA7M/s8o5MNighQk/s400/beatlemania02.jpg)
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: andy_e on August 05, 2011, 08:42:38 pm: Never realised schoolgirls were so keen for slate routes.
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: petejh on August 05, 2011, 08:47:19 pm: Quote from: andi_e on August 05, 2011, 08:42:38 pm
Never realised schoolgirls were so keen for slate routes.

They must be German.
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Doylo on August 05, 2011, 09:28:00 pm: Another Pete Robins cover shot. What a guy!
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: al on September 03, 2011, 09:37:21 am: few lo-res grabs from the guide somewhere on me blog http://50folds.tumblr.com (http://50folds.tumblr.com) - as with VG's PB guide, its down to china to print, then the suez canal to deliver...
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: remus on September 03, 2011, 09:46:24 am: Thats a thing of beauty.
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Grubes on September 03, 2011, 01:34:59 pm: Pre ordered a copy can't wait
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Pantontino on September 16, 2011, 11:28:26 am: It pains me to have to say:

http://news.v12outdoor.com/2011/09/16/llanberis-slate-guide-delivery-delayed-until-28th-september/ (http://news.v12outdoor.com/2011/09/16/llanberis-slate-guide-delivery-delayed-until-28th-september/)

My apologies to anybody waiting for a pre-ordered copy.
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Paul B on September 16, 2011, 03:21:55 pm: darn, that means it'll arrive whilst I'm away. Do you think it'd be possible to hold back posting mine as it'll just end up sitting in a delivery office and being returned I'd think?
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Pantontino on September 16, 2011, 06:00:44 pm: Yeah, sure, I'll let the shop know.

How long are you away for?
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Paul B on September 16, 2011, 06:14:50 pm: 3 weeks, back on around the 14th. Past the limit that a sorting office holds things I think?
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Pantontino on September 27, 2011, 12:45:34 pm: There's no easy way of breaking this to you, but I've just been informed of another delay:

http://news.v12outdoor.com/2011/09/27/more-delays-in-advance-delivery-of-llanberis-slate-guide/ (http://news.v12outdoor.com/2011/09/27/more-delays-in-advance-delivery-of-llanberis-slate-guide/)
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: north_country_boy on September 27, 2011, 02:08:36 pm: Quote from: Pantontino on September 27, 2011, 12:45:34 pm
There's no easy way of breaking this to you, but I've just been informed of another delay:

http://news.v12outdoor.com/2011/09/27/more-delays-in-advance-delivery-of-llanberis-slate-guide/ (http://news.v12outdoor.com/2011/09/27/more-delays-in-advance-delivery-of-llanberis-slate-guide/)

Just out of interest, and without stirring up the whole environmental/ethical debate of printing and shipping books from China, what is the saving per unit (as a percentage), on say an order of 1000 books?
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Pantontino on September 27, 2011, 03:30:19 pm: There is a big difference between european prices and what you can get in China. Not sure about such a small print run but for anything around 3000 to 6000 you could be paying less than half.

Of course you do have to factor in the long delivery schedules and, as I am finding out, 'communication' issues.
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: north_country_boy on September 27, 2011, 04:08:18 pm: Quote from: Pantontino on September 27, 2011, 03:30:19 pm
There is a big difference between european prices and what you can get in China. Not sure about such a small print run but for anything around 3000 to 6000 you could be paying less than half.

Of course you do have to factor in the long delivery schedules and, as I am finding out, 'communication' issues.

Cheers, was just intrigued more than anything else.

Lets hope they don't come shipped in Mandarin
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: cheque on September 27, 2011, 05:59:04 pm: Can the title of this thread be changed to 'Slateheads don't get their guide' or something? ;)
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Hoseyb on September 27, 2011, 09:12:19 pm: Slatehead's almost get their guide..

:oops: :'(
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Pantontino on October 04, 2011, 04:47:41 pm: It's here...

:dance1: :great: :dance1: :bounce: :dance1:

(from now on I'll be communicating in mime only)
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: remus on October 05, 2011, 04:05:53 pm: mine arrived in the post today. :lets_do_it_wild:
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: cheque on October 05, 2011, 08:07:35 pm: Got mine, too. :bounce: It's stunning.

Seriously wishing that the quarries were less than 175 miles from my house...
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: metal arms on October 10, 2011, 02:55:24 pm: The guide is :dance1: :2thumbsup: :w00t: :jaw: etc..

Cheers for all the work guys.

When's Gogarth South out?
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: al on October 10, 2011, 03:35:12 pm: glad you like it - it's the first book we've done which I've enjoyed looking at without stressing over errors/print worries etc. (which I'm sure there will be somewhere) - its a definite high point for us and makes all the hard work worth it :)
on a slight tangent, but keeping it slate, johnny's book is at the printers at the moment and is looking good for a few weeks time...
Title: Re: Slateheads get their guide
Post by: Pantontino on October 10, 2011, 03:39:54 pm: Quote from: metal arms on October 10, 2011, 02:55:24 pm

When's Gogarth South out?

That depends on whether we go to China again for the printing - haven't decided yet. We're well on with it though; the script and topos are about 90% completed and Al has just started laying out final pages.

I've been doing a lot of ledge shuffling research over the last 3 months, as have the rest of the feedback group. Chris Parkin has sorted a new set of stakes for The Range - hopefully these will go in soon (some of the old ones are very suspect - I kicked the stake at the top of Dichotomous and it snapped in half!)

Speaking of The Range - cool new route from Big George:

http://news.v12outdoor.com/2011/09/27/big-sardine-e5-6a-the-range/ (http://news.v12outdoor.com/2011/09/27/big-sardine-e5-6a-the-range/)

This could be DWSed and there are a couple of other obvious lines left and right.