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The Iron Horse Playing Cards

Created by Jody Eklund

This hand-drawn deck captures the spirit of the dastardly dudes, daring damsels and the robbery that brought them all together. The Iron Horse premium playing cards has some of the most intricate details I've ever designed. This is a fully custom Illustrated deck of playing cards that has been painstakingly scrutinized on every level. One of the most notable features of this project is that this deck is inspired by a short story written by my good friend Ricky Cassford. His ability to creatively tell an epic story is truly awe-inspiring.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Hard Proofs
over 6 years ago – Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 10:09:29 PM

Hi everyone!

I hope your Friday is going well. My apologies that it's taken so long to send an update, but not much has really happened in the last couple of months. 

Now, I do have something to share. I received the hard proofs from Legends this week and everything looks good. I needed to make some changes to the tuck case files, since some of the foiling wasn't turning out right. I made those changes and hopefully production will start very soon.

I took some photos of the samples. I hope you all like what you see.

 

 

Note to my loyal Backers

I was hoping to be in production by this time, but that hasn't happened. 

Just so you all know, I have made a conscious choice to continue with the Taiwan factory that I have always used simply because I want to make sure the quality is what you all expect. Many of you have backed most, if not all, of my previous projects. You know what kind of quality they produce. I could have changed factories to save some time, but choose not to because I am not convinced anyone else (except USPCC) can reach the same quality as the Taiwan factory. 

That all to be said, the speed to completion is not my main concern, your happiness is.

Thank you all for your loyal support of this project.

Jody

Going Back to BACKERKIT
over 6 years ago – Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 06:25:21 PM

Hello everyone!

Thank you all for your quick response to the surveys I sent out in June. Many of you answered them beautifully. I realized, after looking at them, there were many of you who were confused about how the survey worked. So, instead of emailing each one of you individually to confirm, I am going back to using BackerKit. By using BackerKit, I can make sure that your order will be correct and ready to be shipped when it comes to be about that time.

Pre-Orders

There were many of you who have pre-ordered through my website. Do not worry, I will combine your Pre-order with your Kickstarter pledge.

Shipping Address

Unfortunately, BackerKit can not import the address you have already put in through the Kickstarter Survey, so you will have to re-input your address into BackerKit once I have sent it. I will be sending your BackerKits starting tomorrow August 15, 2017.

BackerKit Instructions:

It is important that when you receive the survey, you get it back to me as quickly as you can. My ability to make an order depends on receiving this information.

You do not need to make a login and password to fill out your survey, just fill it out and you’re all good to go! If you want to go back to review your info, just click on the link in your email again or input your email into our project page for another survey link.

You will have the opportunity to add ADDITIONAL PRODUCTS on to your current pledge and help me make the shipping process SEAMLESS! This will help out this project tremendously, and help me get your rewards out to you quicker!

If you used Facebook to login to your Kickstarter account, the BackerKit survey link will be sent to the email you used for your Facebook account. If you have another email you prefer it to be sent to, please message us. Again, thanks for all your support. I can’t wait to send all of you your rewards!

Sincerely,

Jody

Working Digital Proofs
almost 7 years ago – Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 11:08:33 AM

Hello everyone!

Just wanted to give you a quick update on our progress. I am currently working with Legends Playing Card Co. to finalize the digital proofs. I should have something in the next couple of weeks to approve. Once the digitals are approved, Legends will print out some hard copies to send for me to approve. 

SURVEYS

Today, I sent out a reminder email to about 67 of you who have yet to respond to your survey. Good news! About 20 of you have responded to that message and answered your survey. There are still about 48 of you who have not responded yet. The sooner you can respond the better. Emails get buried and unfortunately, I can not resend you your survey.

PRE-ORDER/ADD-ONS!

If you still want to add on to your pledge you can do so here, PRE-ORDER IRON HORSE

 

Your add-ons will be added to your current pledge on The Iron Horse. Please, to make it easier on me and to ensure no delivery problems, use the same information as you did on The Iron Horse survey. Thanks.

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 -Jody

Kickstarter Surveys Have been sent!
almost 7 years ago – Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 03:52:37 PM

Hi everyone!

It is has been 3 weeks since we completed The Iron Horse campaign. So far everything is going very smoothly. Kickstarter funds have been transferred to my business account and all artwork has been submitted to Legends Playing Card company. The fine people over at Legends are currently checking all of the artwork. Hopefully I will see some digital proofs by the end of July.

Kickstarter Surveys/Add-ons

Surveys

I need some information from all of you regarding your pledges. I just sent out your surveys, so please take a quick minute and fill them out so I know where to ship out your rewards in November.

The surveys are sent out to each specific tier, so I already know what you pledged for according to what’s included in your pledge.

Add-Ons

Now some of you might have pledged a few more dollars to get some of those nifty add-ons. Well, I need that information as well. The surveys will also be asking for your address and phone number (Used only for shipping purposes). This is really important. Kickstarter does not give me your address. In order to ship you your rewards I need you to give me your information.

Pre-orders!

So, as I mentioned in my last update I will not be using BackerKit. So, I needed to figure out how I would continue to take some additional orders.

My playing card website http://blackinkplayingcards.com will be able to take your additional orders. Many of you might want to add on a few more items to your Kickstarter pledge.

When it’s time to ship your rewards, I will take the Black Ink Playing Card Pre-order list and combine them with your surveys from the Iron Horse Kickstarter.

Pre-order Prices

The pre-order prices are the same as the Kickstarter campaign. Once I am ready to combine the two lists the prices will go to the regular retail prices.

$5 off on orders over $50

I little bonus! If you sign up for my newsletter, you will receive $5 off of your order if it is over $50. The link is at the top of the page. You will need to signup before you make any purchases in order to receive the $5 OFF. The Code will be good until the end of August.

Thank you all for your support. I am excited to get these decks made!

Jody

Thank You + Timeline + Next Steps + No BackerKit!
almost 7 years ago – Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 08:41:26 PM

Hello everyone!

If you haven't figured it out yet WE ARE FUNDED! Thank you so much for your support! 

Now on to the fun stuff, production. I've Included a timeline and next steps, so please take note of what is needed from you. Also, the timeline is a rough estimate, so there might be some adjustments along the way. My goal is to get your rewards to you by the end of November, if not sooner.

Timeline

June-July-August

  • Production files sent to printing factory in Taiwan
  • Transfer Kickstarter Money to business account
  • Surveys sent to backers
  • Receive digital proofs - proofed and approval 
  • Receive samples - proofed and approval

September-October

  • Production Starts and completes (takes approximately 20-30 days)
  • Shipped from Taiwan to fulfillment warehouse in US (takes approximately 20-30 days to ship on a freighter)

November

  • All rewards have been received by Warehouse for fulfillment
  • Backer surveys are finalized and sent to factory for fulfillment
  • Fulfillment of Kickstarter rewards start and completes with in 22 to 30 days from the first shipment that goes out.

Next Steps

In order to start production and to ship your Rewards, a few things need to happen.

Transfer Funds 

Kickstarter needs to transfer over the funds so I have the money to make the rewards (this will be about 14 days from the end of this Kickstarter campaign...ie it should be in the bank by the end of this week). 

Surveys

I know many of you were expecting me to use BackerKit as I have in the past. BackerKit recently raised their prices and it is now double the amount it once was. I had to weigh the cost and figure wether it was still worth it's convenience and I decided that it was no longer viable for me to continue using BackerKit. So, I am going to do this the old fashioned way, Kickstarter Surveys.

I will be sending your surveys out to collect your information (ie...your shipping name, addresses and add-on information) once the money has been collected, which should be at the beginning of next week. I will give you a heads up before I send the surveys so you can watch for it. 

Note: (It is important that when you receive the survey, you get it back to me as quickly as you can. My ability to ship your rewards depends on me receiving your information.

Dropped Pledges and Recovery, additional pledges and pre-orders

About 38 of you had your pledges dropped due to problems with your credit cards. Because I am not using BackerKit, pledge recovery, additional pledges and pre-orders will have to be done through another source. I more than likely will be using my website: https://blackinkplayingcards.com to recover and take pre-orders. I will send you all an update next week with instructions on how recovery of your additional Iron Horse pledges can happen.

As always, please message me through Kickstarter if you have any questions. 

Note: Please don't use commenting as a way to ask a question. It makes it difficult to answer your questions that way because I can not directly message you back and you will not be alerted once I answer your question.

Again, thanks for all your support. I can’t wait to send you all your rewards!

Sincerely,

Jody