The Leverguns Calendar is Done! (photos)

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 8:42 pm

Ladies and Gents, I've finally finished working on my 2013 calendar and it is ready! Here is a photo of the cover .....

If you want to get a copy or two, go to http://www.cafepress.com/KirkD and put in your order. BE SURE TO CHOOSE JANUARY 2013 AS YOUR STARTING MONTH, or your calendar will start on the month you order it (don't ask me how I found this out

). This is a quality calendar that uses a steel coil binding and the pages are heavy card stock. Those Cafe Press people do everything .... they print it as soon as you order it and they send it out. You should receive your calendar within a week of ordering it. They ship it by courier.

Cost: $18.99 plus shipping and tax (for some states). The people at Cafe Press get $14.99 of that and I get $4. You can cut the shipping costs down if you order two or more. I don't make much money on this (I made about $160 the last time I did it), but it does help with the acquisition of a bullet mould or two .... or maybe even an original tang sight.

If you tell other people about this, be sure to give them this link http://www.cafepress.com/KirkD otherwise, if they find it on their own, the Cafe Press people take $16.99 and I only get $2.

Here's an overview of the photos for each month. Under each photo is a short caption telling a bit about that lever gun, including factory information if available. Each month features a different rifle, although this year is a little Winchester Model 1873-heavy, with three different '73s. As for Marlins, there are four of them, an original Model 94 SRC in 38-40, two original Model 1893/93's (one a deluxe) and an original Model 1889. ...

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:15 pm

Cool!

Tycer · Post by **Tycer** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:26 pm

Beautiful!

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:41 pm

After just hearing the debate, everything seems 'political' - so it must be a Republican Calendar... ten aimed to the right, one to the left, and one left-leaning libertarian...

Gotta buy me a couple. CafePress is pretty cool that we can do stuff like that...!

Tycer · Post by **Tycer** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:43 pm

AJMD429 wrote:After just hearing the debate, everything seems 'political' - so it must be a Republican Calendar... ten aimed to the right, one to the left, and one left-leaning libertarian...

earlmck · Post by **earlmck** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:04 pm

Very nice, Kirk! Got mine ordered.

Thanks for your fine work!

yooper2 · Post by **yooper2** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:40 am

It looks great! I'm going to get a couple as gifts and one for myself.

Eric

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:18 am

Awesome, can`t wait to get one or two.

veeman · Post by **veeman** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:33 am

Looks great, ordered one last night.

bdhold · Post by **bdhold** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:14 am

Kirk, your photos are striking, as always.
And your collection is one to drool over.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:49 am

Thank you for all the nice comments. Just to be clear, not all those guns are mine. I only have a very modest collection of seven old Winchesters. Well, maybe only six of them are 'old' ...... one of them is 'Old Savage', my 30-30 carbine that was made the year I was born (1954) so, of course, that one isn't really 'old'.

JohndeFresno · Post by **JohndeFresno** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 1:28 pm

Yay!!

You're back in the saddle, again. Thanks, Kirk! Ordering 3 right now!

madman4570 · Post by **madman4570** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 2:06 pm

Awesome!---------------will be picking up several for sure!

Very well done Sir!

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 8:51 pm

Very nice!!

Oly

rjohns94 · Post by **rjohns94** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 7:47 pm

Beautiful job. Love that knover on the cover. Ordering mine on payday

86er · Post by **86er** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 8:05 pm

Very nice!

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Wed Oct 24, 2012 9:41 pm

KirkD wrote:...one of them is 'Old Savage', my 30-30 carbine that was made the year I was born (1954) so, of course, that one isn't really 'old'.

That's cool you named a favorite gun after one of our forum members...

Guys BEWARE when you order that "You can choose your own start date and month" - almost got ones for Christmas gifts that defaulted to October 2012 as the start and would have only gone to October 2013.

'Course I'm thinkin these are mostly "lookin-at" calendars for the pictures, not something to scribble all over like a monthly planner...

Canuck Bob · Post by **Canuck Bob** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 4:38 pm

Wonderful, you just solved my Christmas sales territory gift for the season. I even get Mine free as it is going on my expense account!!!!!

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Thu Oct 25, 2012 5:20 pm

Canuck Bob wrote:Wonderful, you just solved my Christmas sales territory gift for the season. I even get Mine free as it is going on my expense account!!!!!

By gum, Bob, I see you are in Calgary. I just had coffee a couple weeks ago with another levergunner in the Calgary airport .... Samb. Maybe next time the three of us can grab a coffee.

Catshooter · Post by **Catshooter** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 5:27 pm

Kirk,

How long will these beauties be for sale?

Cat

rangerider7 · Post by **rangerider7** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:08 pm

Fantastic job!!!!! RR7

earlmck · Post by **earlmck** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:51 pm

Mine came today, Kirk. Beautiful job! But being semi-senile (maybe it's gone past the semi at this point) I had managed to forget your warning on the start date. Ooops!

But Cafe Press is sending me a couple more with the January start date. Nice folks there -- now if they'd just start their calendars on the right month automatically!

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 8:03 pm

Catshooter wrote:Kirk,

How long will these beauties be for sale?

For the remainder of this year and into January or later.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Thu Nov 01, 2012 8:11 pm

earlmck wrote:Mine came today, Kirk. Beautiful job! But being semi-senile (maybe it's gone past the semi at this point) I had managed to forget your warning on the start date. Ooops!

But Cafe Press is sending me a couple more with the January start date. Nice folks there -- now if they'd just start their calendars on the right month automatically!

Don't feel bad, I got caught too! If anyone else does that, call them and ask for a proper start date. I don't know if they will send you a free calendar, but hopefully they do. The toll free number is 1-877-809-1659 . In fact, I'm going to call them tomorrow and see if there is some way to remove that choice of start month and just have them automatically start on January 2013.

JohndeFresno · Post by **JohndeFresno** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 12:48 pm

As expected - an excellent work of collectible Americana!

And I like the fact that the start date was offered. Distributing the other two to some grateful recipients. Thank you, Kirk.

pshort · Post by **pshort** » Fri Nov 02, 2012 1:57 pm

Ordered two, a couple of days ago.............

Thanks Kirk.......

Paul

pokey · Post by **pokey** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 9:26 pm

KirkD wrote:I got caught too! If anyone else does that, call them and ask for a proper start date. I don't know if they will send you a free calendar, but hopefully they do. The toll free number is 1-877-809-1659 . In fact, I'm going to call them tomorrow and see if there is some way to remove that choice of start month and just have them automatically start on January 2013.

i received a beautiful calendar today. despite having checked the start it in January
button, it showed up starting in november.

i guess i'll call them in the morning

.

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 10:33 pm

pokey wrote:
KirkD wrote:I got caught too! If anyone else does that, call them and ask for a proper start date. I don't know if they will send you a free calendar, but hopefully they do. The toll free number is 1-877-809-1659 . In fact, I'm going to call them tomorrow and see if there is some way to remove that choice of start month and just have them automatically start on January 2013.
i received a beautiful calendar today. despite having checked the start it in January
button, it showed up starting in november.
i guess i'll call them in the morning .

They need to send you a new calendar. I'm going to call them as well in the morning. If you PM me and give me your name and address, I will call on your behalf and make sure you get a properly dated calendar.

pokey · Post by **pokey** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 11:54 pm

KirkD wrote:
pokey wrote:
KirkD wrote:I got caught too! If anyone else does that, call them and ask for a proper start date. I don't know if they will send you a free calendar, but hopefully they do. The toll free number is 1-877-809-1659 . In fact, I'm going to call them tomorrow and see if there is some way to remove that choice of start month and just have them automatically start on January 2013.
i received a beautiful calendar today. despite having checked the start it in January
button, it showed up starting in november.
i guess i'll call them in the morning .
They need to send you a new calendar. I'm going to call them as well in the morning. If you PM me and give me your name and address, I will call on your behalf and make sure you get a properly dated calendar.

done

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 10:33 am

I called the Cafe Press people this morning and told them about this. They apologized for their error and are sending out a replacement calendar that starts in January. In the meantime, I'm going to see if there is anyway they can remove their 'start date' option.

Update: I talked to them about eliminating the choice of start date but they said they can't do that as it is built into their software. Nevertheless, I'll see if I can persuade an IT fellow to give the calendar designer a choice of start date. In the meantime, if anyone gets a calendar with the wrong start date, just call them at 1-877-809-1659 with your order number and ask for a replacement with the proper start date. They should send you one at no charge.

JohndeFresno · Post by **JohndeFresno** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:12 pm

KirkD wrote:I called the Cafe Press people this morning and told them about this. They apologized for their error and are sending out a replacement calendar that starts in January. In the meantime, I'm going to see if there is anyway they can remove their 'start date' option.

Update: I talked to them about eliminating the choice of start date but they said they can't do that as it is built into their software. Nevertheless, I'll see if I can persuade an IT fellow to give the calendar designer a choice of start date. In the meantime, if anyone gets a calendar with the wrong start date, just call them at 1-877-809-1659 with your order number and ask for a replacement with the proper start date. They should send you one at no charge.

Kirk,
For future reference. A better solution would be for the website to mark - much more clearly, perhaps in large, bold letters - that the start date option means that the first month will be the start date selected. I believe that there are others out there, like me, who want to start using the calendar immediately. Changing the typeset on the order form has no effect on the software.

I gave two calendars to relatives who are using your fine calendars right now, enjoying them before the Christmas rush. And I love my calendar. BTW, it is a saver - something that I will keep long after 2013.

John

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 2:38 pm

That is a good idea, John. Thanks for the suggestion. I will see if they will do that.

Catshooter · Post by **Catshooter** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 3:15 pm

Kirk,

I received my calendar order today. It is a beautiful work of art, thanks very much.

Despite being warned by you in this thread to get the start date you want, I of course was in a hurry when I ordered and so failed to notice the clearly marked start date menu.

So I got November as the start month. *sigh* Just shows you nothing is idiot proof, not to the right idiot!

I emailed Cafe clearly taking responsibility for my error and not asking for anything from them. I just made the suggestion that instead of making the current month the default start month, to make the default Jan. Then if someone wants a different month the can select it. I mean who starts a calendar with Nov? Well, in this age of computers one can and I can see it's value.

At any rate, Cafe emailed back and said they are sending me a replacement at no charge. I've gone from an unhappy customer to quite happy now. I mean how can you ask for more? Pretty generous of them to fix my screw up for free.

Thanks again for the calendar and thanks for picking an excellent company to make it!

Cat

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 4:56 pm

Very glad to hear that, Catshooter. I'm impressed that they replaced the calendar even after you took responsibility for it.

pokey · Post by **pokey** » Wed Nov 14, 2012 11:54 pm

KirkD wrote:Very glad to hear that, Catshooter. I'm impressed that they replaced the calendar even after you took responsibility for it.

looks like you picked a good publishing company to work with.

Catshooter · Post by **Catshooter** » Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:27 pm

I was very surprised too Kirk. Pleasantly. I was quite prepared to live with the calendar I have, after all. But I won't forget how they treated me. If I have the occaision I will be sure to push business their way.

I guess real customer service isn't quite dead in America after all!

Cat

Newtmaker · Post by **Newtmaker** » Thu Nov 15, 2012 4:22 pm

Mine came yesterday but they got the months wrong. I asked for Jan ~ Dec as per your early post and it came Nov ~ Oct

It's OK, however, as they are shippimg me another

Great looking job!

Thanks.....

Walt

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 8:29 am

Mine arrived a few days ago.

It's too pretty to hang in my hovel. Now I'm gonna have to build a new Man Cave just to hang it up...

Lastmohecken · Post by **Lastmohecken** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 8:37 pm

I ordered mine tonight, looking forward to getting it.

mudgunner49 · Post by **mudgunner49** » Wed Nov 21, 2012 12:26 am

Another beautiful job Kirk - I think I just found Dad's Christmas gift!!!!

blake

Indianagirl · Post by **Indianagirl** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:51 pm

Absolutely beautiful!! and perfect for Christmas gifts!

Now when someone asks if I have begun Christmas shopping yet, I can grin and say ..........You betcha!!

KirkD · Post by **KirkD** » Mon Nov 26, 2012 7:46 pm

Glad you like it!

Dave B · Post by **Dave B** » Tue Nov 27, 2012 2:18 am

I ordered three today. I will be giving two as gifts. I followed your instructions and selected January 2013 as the start date. After reading tonight of some of the issues others have had with receiving the wrong start date, I checked my email confirmation just now.
The email states a start date of "01/01/0001". I hope I get the right year!

But seriously, nice work Kirk!

Thanks,
Dave B

pokey · Post by **pokey** » Thu Nov 29, 2012 11:19 pm

got the replacement today.

right months, wah-hoo.
beautiful, again.

Pitchy · Post by **Pitchy** » Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:28 am

Indianagirl wrote:Absolutely beautiful!! and perfect for Christmas gifts!

Now when someone asks if I have begun Christmas shopping yet, I can grin and say ..........You betcha!!

Hi Indianagirl

Got my calender too, it`s really special, thanks Kirk.

Post by **Ysabel Kid** » Tue Dec 11, 2012 11:41 pm

Stunning...

pdentrem · Post by **pdentrem** » Fri Nov 01, 2013 2:37 pm

I just went back to the order site. I did not find new photos just the ones for 2013. Hope Kirk is good, would like a new one for '14.
Pierre