I just got off the phone with a video production company, and we are meeting tomorrow morning, so the video is on its way!

As to your question about the hooks puncturing the material. We advertise as a good ‘first line of defense’ for you dogs or kids if they happen to step on the crank canvas. You’ll get pricked by the hooks if you stand on it, I am close to 200 lbs. and I have walked all over it in my stocking feet at trade shows, but I’ve never once had a treble hook in my foot. I stopped doing it, because I started breaking lures. The display on our table at trade shows I pat down the vinyl with my bare hand with a pretty heavy hand, and again have never had injury.

So it will puncture, but the vinyl has shown that unlike a woven fabric, when punctured all the way through, the hole doesn’t close in around the barb, making it easy to slide the hook right back through. We didn’t want to try prototyping with a perforated vinyl because even though it would help with drying, it would also be nothing but holes for the hooks to snag, however when the vinyl gets punctured, like our original, I tell people it’s like a seasoned pizza pan, the more you use it, the better it gets.

Yeah Buddy! Thanks for that last post! I actually will be self employed as of this coming Friday, so my last day working the daily grind is Thursday which also happens to be my B-Day. Almost like I planned it that way.

We are going to be attending the Game Fair expo in Ramsey, MN starting Aug. 9th. Hope to see you there!

The process to manufacture the Crank Canvas was not easy, Mom broke four needles trying to sow it and ended up taking it to a local seamstress to finish sewing them. Mom only made four of them because they were such a pain to make. That’s why Mom and Dad didn’t think to make them for a living, but we have 20 yrs of R&D into this product, it is not a gimmick, it is an investment. It’s a guys GUCCI! If a person can buy a $500 purse to use for one night on the town, it’s amazing that some won’t spend $75 to protect their equipment for decades.

It’s my job to let peoples comments roll off my back, I’m still young and a little ‘bull-headed’ so it’s not easy.I am just realizing that there will always be cheap nay-sayers who will take time out of their own lives to try to discredit someone.

Holds up perfectly fine in the sun from my experience. I cannot not say that I’ve left them in the sun for more than a couple of hrs, but for the most part the vinyl is nice and malleable, making it easier to use them on the hotter days. I wouldn’t leave anything out in the sun for too long if its over 90 degrees with direct sunlight though. But all of the materials have UV inhibitors, we made sure of that!

I don’t mean to give my whole pitch but in our defense we have been fishing with one for personal use for 20 years as previously mentioned, and it has less rust in the pockets than I see in most fishing boxes. You can see pictures of the original on our website http://www.CrankCanvas.com.By the time you take a lure off your line and replace it with a new one and get it back out in the water, the lure is typically dry enough to put away, but we usually through them up on the dash, and sort it out later when we are back at camp drinking beer!

The vinyl has held up through all of these years as well. We fish early spring in well below freezing temps, we actually just put one in the freezer last week, and took it out and were still able to use the pockets with no cracking, though they were plenty stiff. The Cordura canvas is the same material we use on our soldiers duffle bags.

It protects your investment. Full, with 54 crankbaits it has $400-500 worth of lures in it. They are separated in individual pockets so you no longer have any paint scratching off while they are rattling around in some plastic box. Also, at $5-15 dollars you’ll need four times as many of them and you will end up replacing the plastic boxes every 2-5 years to the fact that the plastic gets brittle, the hinges and clasps break, or you step on it and it cracks. Then when you go to get a new one, half the time there is some different box with some different shape and size. Ours can last a life time.

To each their own, I know guys that have 5-gallon buckets filled with them, and they have the time to waist. I like to fish a lot of tournaments, and I have yet to find anything that works as well. I even keep jigs and swivels in the pockets with my fishing license, so when I jump from boat to boat that’s all I have to grab. We have 3 models available right now, and are weeks away from producing the ‘Slugger’ which holds 12 Muskie Baits. If you haven’t seen Muskie baits before check them out, they are as wide as a pop can and up to 16″ long!

We have had people suggest making the product from cheaper materials, so we can bring the price down… sorry, but we want to sell the same experience we have had for the last 20+ years, not sell some junk that people have to keep replacing, that’s part of the problem we are trying to fix!

Yeah, we are working on getting a video done towards the end of July. The original Crank Canvas has 8.5″ pockets, 6.5″ pockets, and 4.5″ pockets. I know you can fit up to a #13 floater in the 6.5″. We are starting to get on shelves in the Scheels sporting good stores in the Mid-West(ND, MN, SD, MT) We are all over online, and gaining new retailers daily! It’s only been a couple of months since I posted this, and we are gaining some serious ground. Anyone who buys one, comes back for more when they see for themselves how well it works! You can throw it around shake it upside down, and you get no tangles , plus you can see all of your lures without having to dig through ‘pill bottles’ that’s exactly the crazy efforts I see people going through that should be avoided. Dogs and kids can walk on it with some protection to avoid injury. And it floats! I’ll post a video as soon as I can.