Does anybody have a phone number for Kary Welch at ESW.
Thanks for any help
Ryan
Can’t you reach him by email?
The reason I ask is that I ordered a belt from him 6 weeks ago and I was going to email him about the status.
I believe he was going down for some medical issues and working like a madman to get everything done that he could before he went down.
I tried email and Facebook with no luck. I wanted to check on the belt I ordered 6 weeks ago too.
yeah, I think he was spending more time at the sewing machine than the computer.
Got my Cobra riggers belt a few weeks ago, superb craftmanship. :n:)
Well I won’t even try to email since you haven’t got a response yet, but if he gets back to you, post something here if you could.
Be patient–I have an order currently in with him, too. He’s been communicating well with me. Just dealing with a backlog at the moment.
Looking forward to my gear coming in!
Just to follow up with this post, the original person who posted on here was using an email address that wasn’t mine, and then not responding to my emails. He ordered through one email and would then contact me using a different email and not give me his order number and the email address didn’t have a name attached to it so it made it impossible for me contact him or atleast very difficult. And because of how the customer was contacting me , he didn’t realize his belt had already been shipped.
It is very important when contacting any small shop to give the person you are contacting order information, on my website it states to supply me the order number so that I can properly look up the order.
I am not trying to bad mouth or complain about how this customer contacted me but it made it so difficult by using different email addresses the customer didn’t know his belt had even left yet.
I am just trying to clear it up any confusion
kary
Kary - any word on my order, placed in mid-April? Five weeks ago you apologized and said you were shipping it right away. You haven’t responded to either of my emails over the past week and half or so.
I need you to email me the order number otherwise ibhave no idea on who you are and I am unable to locate the error on my part. I am running behind on emails because I have been trying to get everything build and shipped. I am sorry for the error. But if you can pm me either the order number or the email address I can hunt down the problem and make good on it.
Please pm me that information and I can get the problme fixed.
Sorry for the trouble , it is just an mistake on my part
Kary
I sent you the info via PM right after this post yesterday. Please let me know where things stand.
As described on my website please comminicate with me directly. To commincate through a discussion board is cumbersome and only slows everything down. I have stop log in , find the discussion and answer the question if you email me and I don’t respond that doesn’t mean your question is being ignored jusy I am curretly working on orders and I am running behind on emails also as previously stated I have no idea who people are on the forums at any given time I have 150-200 orders on the books and I am sure people woild rather know I am sewing as opposed to answered emails all day. It is quite easy to spend an entire day just answering emails.
I don’t mean to appear rude communicthing with me directly through email is the best, it give me a searchable database if I have questions about your order.
My goal is always to get people orders out as soon as possible, I got behind due to a military unit order that didn’t following sizing directions so most of the order had to be rebuilt. Before I was injured I would have just worked late at night but being about 2 months past the last surgery I don’t have that ability wothout high levels of pain. So one groups mistake slowed things down but the guys are leaving the US so they needed their product.
So if you have a question about an order emai me please it just faster and cleaner communication. If you want to know when it will ship the wait time is listed on my website
Sorry for the confusion
kary
I’m very unhappy with Endeavour Stitch Works (Kary Welsh)
On November 2012 I did order two belt from Endeavour Stitch Work. I did used PayPal to paid Endeavour Stitch Works. The financial was completed very quickly. Kary Welsh told me I will get my belt by January 2013.
Since I did pay for the belts, Kary Welsh hide under the rock. No news from him. No reply to my several email I did send to him.
If anyone is looking to deal with Endeavour Stitch Work (Kary Welch), I will recommend you guys to think twice before willing to buy something from Kary Welch. He’s not honest.
If you don’t want a lose your money don’t deal with Kary Welsh.
Patrick
June 21 2013
WARNING
Do not buy from Kary Welch of Endeavor Stitch Works for now! I’ll update if the situation changes.
I placed an order for his belt and paid fully in August 2012. I have not yet received my order 11 months later - ridiculous considering the estimated 6-8 week build time on his website.
I have emailed him asking him for the status of my belt 9 times starting after the 2 month requisite wait, and posted on his website 3 times over the entire waiting period (all 3 postings unapproved). I’ve only managed to get him to reply twice - both times claiming a shortage in cobra buckles in the entire US, as well as promising that he’ll ship by the end of the week. Both deadlines got missed. After emailing him that it’d only be responsible of me to warn people not to order from him, I got a shipping notification of “Electronic Shipping Info Received” in April. However, the package itself has not been shipped.
It looks like I’m not the only one having trouble with him:
http://edcforums.com/threads/best-riggers-belt.84597/page-3#post-1643067
I’d appreciate it if any one who knows him better is able to get in touch with him. I need to know if I’m being scammed so I can start looking for alternative belts. I’ve had to make do with crappy belts for almost a year while waiting for this!
What did you order, and how much did you pay - if you don’t mind me asking?
Paid close to USD$100 (including shipping) for a cobra rigger belt with inner belt. I can PM you with the exact order details if you want.
It’s alright, brother - I believe you.
I don’t know Kary all that well, but he helped me out early on in my company’s start - and that means a lot to me. I also know he’s going through some medical issues - and I’ve experienced a little of that - so I do feel for him.
That said, I certainly don’t think it’s right he’s ignoring customers, especially customers that have paid.
If I gave you a $100 gift certificate to my company - would that take some of the sting off? Buy Kary some time - if you will. You’re welcome to keep the gear, resell it to recoup your funds, send it back if / when the belt arrives… whatever you want.
I’ll try and get in contact with Kary to square up with you, but this in a way allows me to repay his kindness years back when I got things started.
No sweat either way. If yes, just shoot an email to Orders@PerSecSystems.com and put “Endeavor Stitch Works” in the subject line.
I’m sorry for your troubles. He does make great belts, so it sucks hearing this.
Thanks for the offer! You’re a kind and generous man. 
I’ve no need to take you up on it for now though, but I’ll be sure to mention you if people ask for recommendations on kydex gear.
I have read many good recommendations for his belts as well as him being a stand-up guy circa 2010, so it’s a bit disappointing for me to run into this problem. I do still want my belt, and I do want to be able to recommend his products if it does turn out as good as they say, but for now it’s giving more headache than I bargained for.
Thank you. I appreciate your help.
Steve S. - that’s a hell of a generous offer. I applaude you sir.
In regards to Kary, it’s a real bummer. I’ve had one of his belts for about 3 years now. I love it but it’s on the verge of being too large even for IWB carry. I would love to replace it with a smaller size but I’m not going down that road at this point. Hopefully things will get turned around someday, for everyone’s sake.