RatPadzOG

Relaunch of a Legend. RatPadz by HardOCP. Kickstarter incoming, stay tuned.

[RatPadzOG @RatPadzOG]

@JoshDWalrath @hwinkler4real State of Bliss.

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@4l3x_Red Already been down that road.

[RatPadzOG @RatPadzOG]

Was talking to some long-time brothers sisters in the HardForum tonight and spoke to why it has taken me a bit longer to get closer to production with RatPadz OG and thought I would share that reply here.

""My plan was to be at this point in October. Finding the right surface has happened several times already. Finding a company in USA that could provide consistency in surface texture has been a chore. I flew out to one plant, and the sheet they rolled one day, looked nothing like the sheet they rolled next week. The fact is what we are using the material for a purpose that simply no one else is. I have to be extremely picky about the surface texture. I got lucky and the surface we are using for the OG was my favorite.

"For the RatPadz XT, that polymer was produced in a plant in Georgia. I had a deal with them on consistency. The sheets that I bought from that company came off one single pair of rollers, so it was the same every time. Big issue here is being a very small fish in a huge pond.

"You can DIY your own hard gaming mousepad. Start buying cutting boards till you find one that has the texture you want. Then get out sandpaper and profile the edge how you want. So you are $10 in on the cutting board, and hours down on sanding. If you have a router, bingo. That said, you will not find a surface texture better for gaming and content creation than the one I have picked out by hand since last summer.

"My point is however, I found the exact surface I wanted, and I found a company that tells me they can sell me 10s of thousands of sheets that will be exactly the same. It is a big ask. No one else that buys this material gives a damn about consistency. Then to qualify all the manufacturing product as "made in the USA," is something that no one else cares about. Polymers are made from crude oil. Your RatPadz OG most likely came out of the ground in West Texas. Was cracked either in Houston or southern Louisiana, rolled in Georgia or Alabama, and will be shaped and footed in North Texas. And shipped by USPS. All our money is going directly back into the US economy on the production side.

"When I made the first gen RatPadz, I never even considered any of this.

"The entire OG product is based on digging into the minutia of perfection and patriotism.

"Every competitor in this hard mouse pad space is made in China or elsewhere in Asia. I am going to give you a better product than their top end premium product and I am going to either match or cut their price. I am going to give you better customer service. And do it in the USA."

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@PcPhilanthropy Oh my. I think I met this guy at QuakeCon in 1999.

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@SmokeRngs_ Sadly, there does not seem to be anything cheap any more. However we are holding true to our roots in giving RatPadz users a solid return on investment.

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That feeling you get when you lost your RatPadz and are looking at new mousing surfaces.

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The OG RatPadz was damn near indestructible, except to fire. Some warped over time, usually over the five to seven year mark. Our new polymer should remedy that a good bit. New RatPadz OG surface will be even better.

Shipping was always included in the purchase price.

[Josh Walrath @JoshDWalrath]

So the original RatPadz was nearly indestructible, and I still have two here. They do warp a bit, so you need to bend them to adjust. Having said that, the surface on the original NEVER degraded after years of use. It was just heavy and shipping costs were high.

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This guy knows what it is like to still have an OG RatPadz. 🤠

[Community Notes & Violations @CNviolations]

Okay, that's enough internet for today.

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I am sure someone stole your RatPad and is using it still today. 🤠

[GABlackburn @blackburn_ga]

So stoked these are getting made again! I had one in the early or mid 2000s and lost it in a move 😭 was never able to find another pad like it after they stopped making them

[RatPadzOG @RatPadzOG]

Drop us a follow and we will follow back for sure! New RatPadz OG surface has been testing for months now. Man, this is SLICK!

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@Incognito1971 @KyleBennett I have no doubt that we will bring back some HardOCP merch if the @RatPadzOG ends up successful.

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We just hinted at what's coming in terms of @RatPadzOG on HardForum. The first post from MavericK in response told me he never needed to buy another one since he still had the first ones he bought. I want to make RatPadz OG even better.

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