Iron Heart Products - What do you think we should make?

[Matt]

That’s a great idea.

[tody]

Indeed, full vintage moto racing style!

[goosehd]

[Alex]

Yeah cool idea, would be fearfully expensive

[Oaktavia]

@Alex those stripey shirts are awesome.

[Deonte1719]

I am new around here, but I would like to know if any of these ideas have actually come to be created and released? Limited releases or continuous production?

[goosehd]

@Deonte1719 Some of the ideas get made and a lot of them don’t. The IH Crew in Gosport will take some of the better ideas and discuss them in meetings amongst themselves. @Alex and/or @Giles has taken those ideas to Japan to discuss with Haraki who has the final say on if they are made.

IH welcomes ideas all of the time and you never know if one of them will be something you see in the future.

[goosehd]

…and to add: Currently, the single biggest limiting factor is that most of the production factories in Japan are at and over capacity with little room for new items to be made outside of the current offerings from Iron Heart. While they would love to create some of our ideas, there just isn’t the room in the production lines to make them a reality.

[Deonte1719]

@goosehd Thank you for taking the time to respond. I didn’t know so much work went into the creation of a new design. Do you have any examples for research purposes? Maybe some vintage pieces that I can look up.

[goosehd]

@Deonte1719 The easiest example for me would be a cut of jeans called the Beatle Buster. Huge hit in the earlier days of the forum and still has a sweet spot amongst some of the members from that time.

Edit: I’m sure there are many others that people may add

[Jett129]

@Deonte1719

The Untucked CPO was suggested,made and named after that exact Forum member.

[goosehd]

Here is another good example submitted by a forum member @Chap in discussion with @Giles

The Extractor

[Matt]

The 6.5 oz tees with each denim cut’s logo were a forum members suggestion.

[Matt]

I think there are a lot actually. That’s why this thread is so popular.

[Nik]

Which is again what makes IH and the forum cool. I also think that there are a batch of ideas cooking in the IH kitchen that get bumped in priority when they generate forum excitement. Seems to me that this forum is a useful data source even if we as a contingent aren't always representative of the wider IH intl' base. So some ideas come from the forum, but I bet many also have already been suggested by the IH team and then when those same or similar ideas for product appear on the forum the IH team decides to push for production? But also that narrative leaves out the ever-important perspective of Haraki who has the final say? I wonder how this kind of distributed decision making and design process will progress in the future as the company evolves.

[Giles]

777, 666, 888, whipcord work pants, duck type III, the original denim CPO (IHD-01), from which all others have been derived. Even the UHF's which were made once and then disappeared came back after a member questioned why we had stopped making them....

I could go on and on and on and on, but a massive amount of stuff we sell has been directly influenced by forum members

[Deonte1719]

@Jett129 this is crazy! I would have bought a few pair to celebrate!

[Deonte1719]

@goosehd this is a legendary piece. I’ve seen a few videos on this piece! I wish it came in my size.

[Deonte1719]

@Matt do you have a picture of one? I’m curious.

[Deonte1719]

@Giles I will have to go back and do my research. Thanks for the info and hype!