The Frugal Corner?

[Kilted-Marine]

Mark, I'm glad you chimmed in.

I'm curious about your solid black kilts. Do they have the shadow tartan in them or are they just solid black? Also, are your kilts available in wool or are they all acrylic?

Best of luck and welcome to the neighborhood


Semper Fi and HooAh

I also did the corps and the ANG, Air Traffic Control and Cavalry Scout respectively.

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Right now we are not doing wool kilts. Not sure about the shadow?? we can get the solid black
Semper Fi

Mark

[Kilted-Marine]

Just a general note about the bagpipes we sell. Earlier a gentlemen made the comment he would not waste his money on buying a bagpipe from us. I agree with him, He is a piper and most likely has a wonderful pipe made from a wonderful wood like african black wood or another wood of that nature and most likely paid $700-$4000 for his pipe.

We are not competing in this market. Although we can buy some wonderful african blackwood pipes they are just too much money to stock.

Bagpipes are like any other musical instrument, your first one most likely will not be a top of the line $5000 hand made model. I play guitar -my first guitar was a used Yamaha, years later I purchased an ibanez performance model. The bagpipes we sell are excellent for the beginner or the person that wants to give playing the pipes a try. The most expensive pipes we have are around $135...so for the person that is interested in learning, these are a great buy and at a price that would make any Scot smile...

Mark W
The Frugal Corner

[Kid Cossack]

Mark:

Welcome aboard! It's ALWAYS nice to see more vendors coming in. I know that Jerry's (SWK's) kilts were a big step for me in "upgrading" towards a more traditional style of kilting, and I've no complaints with the quality of the products he sells. If your kilts are from the same source, I think they'd be great.

Semper fi, TeufulHunden!

[MrAcheson]

Question about your kilts: How are they pleated? Your site doesn't mention it, only the fabric weight.

[Kilted-Marine]

Question about your kilts: How are they pleated? Your site doesn't mention it, only the fabric weight.

No sure how to answer this since it is a pretty open question. We can have the kilts custom made so they can be pleated to the sett or stripe. They are not box pleated, They could be I guess if you wanted them that way.

Does this help
Mark

[Kilted-Marine]

Greetings Again from the Frugal Corner, Although we received about 150 kilts last week the Keith are still inbound..I think they are sitting in customs in New York. I was asking the weavers to make a Minnesota State Tartan for us for some kilts since we are going to the Highland Games and have a booth there. Of course as will happen, while I was preparing the order sombody emailed me about Clarke tartan. I ended up looking it up and sending a picture of the Clarke/Clergy tartan to the weaver and not the Minnesota state tartan. When teh order came in we look at it and said WHAT IS THIS? Emailed the weaver, he said,,thats what you told me to make..So we now have a bunch of Clarke Kilts..and it took me 2 days to figure out what the heck the tartan was.. thank God for a site that lets you search by in-putting colors.
We just got a great order from a production company out west that is putting on the play BRIGADOON. Its not exactly broadway but hey we are getting on stage.
Stop by the booth if you live close and have a drink and chat with us

Mark

[escherblacksmith]

I may just have to do that . . .

[Riverkilt]

How'd I miss this thread??!!

Welcome Mark,

If I EVER can get my chanter to work, I might just try some beginning bagpipes....

Have you ever considered marketing the beginners bagpipes just for us kilties to carry around so we don't get THAT question??

Maybe turn the bag into some type of sporran...

And, suppose its probably as useless to ask you as Jerry...but there's a market out there for your kilts at lengths other than 24"....and no thank you, I don't care to pay someone to rehem them...just a thought.

Gonna go poke around your website now.

Ron

[beloitpiper]

Just a general note about the bagpipes we sell. Earlier a gentlemen made the comment he would not waste his money on buying a bagpipe from us. I agree with him, He is a piper and most likely has a wonderful pipe made from a wonderful wood like african black wood or another wood of that nature and most likely paid $700-$4000 for his pipe.

We are not competing in this market. Although we can buy some wonderful african blackwood pipes they are just too much money to stock.

Bagpipes are like any other musical instrument, your first one most likely will not be a top of the line $5000 hand made model. I play guitar -my first guitar was a used Yamaha, years later I purchased an ibanez performance model. The bagpipes we sell are excellent for the beginner or the person that wants to give playing the pipes a try. The most expensive pipes we have are around $135...so for the person that is interested in learning, these are a great buy and at a price that would make any Scot smile...

Mark W
The Frugal Corner

A note to anybody interested in learning pipes: I would NOT recommend learning pipes like this. It takes A LOT of time on the practice chanter to get the fingerings down, then after a ot of hard work and dedication, you buy a quaity set of pipes that will last you your entire career. Of course, you may buy nicer looking pipes eventually, but bagpipes for $135 at the most?!?! Seems really iffy to me.

If it was me, I'd buy these pipes for wall decoration and that's it. Anybody who plays bagpipes knows it takes FAR too much work and dedication to play a cheap set of pipes.

[mddock58]

Well maybe this is a challenge for Mark to have his "beginner pipes" evaluated and critiqued by one or two of the pipers we have on board here!