Tom Kaye

[HFDMinimag]

Someone needs to convince Tom Kay to come back to paintball. Almost everything made is inferior to his product. I went to the paintball store for the first time in 8 years the other day and realized that most of the guns hanging on the wall seemed like cheap garbage. I felt like if I dropped it that it would shatter into a million pieces. lol.

[Smoothice]

I think we all agree TK should come back.

Just a matter of time. I hope the hp compressors are his gateway drug back in

[PaintballEngineer]

COME BACK TOM!! =( i want a NEW xmag!

Course if AGD starts producing them again that would decrease their value maybe just make a few

lol

[behemoth]

He might listen if you spelled his name correctly.

Jus' sayin'

[Beemer]

He might listen if you spelled his name correctly.

Jus' sayin'

[going_home]

He might listen if you spelled his name correctly.

Jus' sayin'

Tom Kotsiopoulos ?

[behemoth]

[Frizzle Fry]

Please come back.

[CatoRockwell]

COME BACK!!! Rock the house of paintball once again

[AGD]

I am pleased with the response to the mini-compressor. I am working on it now.

Maybe......

AGD

[PaintballEngineer]

I am pleased with the response to the mini-compressor. I am working on it now.

Maybe......

AGD

AO, we have a Tom sighting.

lol

[Frizzle Fry]

I am pleased with the response to the mini-compressor. I am working on it now.

Maybe......

AGD

The Automag is amazing. At lvl5 it was an incredible semi-auto in a world of double action, at lvl7 classic it was the best semi among innumerable simple blowbacks, at lvl7 R/T it got better faster and stronger, and at lvl10 X-valve it became perfect. Light, fast, durable, easy to own and operate and perfectly capable of ripping off strings of paint without chopping.


There's a reason people are making aftermarket pneumatic and EP frames. The Automag is perfect where it is. It will stand the test of time and provide hours of tinkering and play to paintballers the world around. Now, we need something new. We need the kind of innovation that created a blowforward semi automatic spool valve in a world that only knew pump action markers and 10 pound double-action clunkers... We need a marker that will make people look at paintball in a whole different light.


Look at the Ego... You had a stacked tube Sheridan pump, then someone made a VM68 stacked tube blowback, then someone said "OK, lets make it smaller" and we had Spyders, then someone realized that you could make an Intimidator with the same stack tubed body by small changes and the elimination of the hammer/valve, then someone honed the Intimidator operating system into what we now know as the Ego. All of those markers were inventive in their respective times, but they were all just building off a previous design... That in no way makes them less 'great' a marker, but it does show that people go with what they know.


The Automag wasn't a Sheridan style valve and it wasn't a Nelson style valve and it wasn't a modification of the strange setup of Splatmasters. It wasn't some mutant poppet valved or electronicly actuated verison of the existing markers of the day. It was NEW and it was good... Honestly, from the level5 Classic to the level10 X-valve, the perfecting that went was so simple and specific from generation to generation that a person can take their 1991 Automag and slap in the newest most perfect AGD has to offer (body, valve or frame) and be competitive with the premium of Automag technology, worlds more effective than the already amazing original.


This may seem like a lot of butt kissing but it isn't. There's a reason that I've owned scores of markers over the years and always come back to the Automag... It has always stood alone with very few posers and copies, and every time it has been changed it has been with a useful technology that served to make the marker more effective, with an eye for compatibility between generations.


What paintball needs now is a marker that doesn't boil down to an Angel, a Spyder, an Automag, an Intimidator, a Matrix, a Tippmann or a Shocker. Name a common marker by a major manufacturer and it could almost certainly be boiled down to one of those guns... The game needs something new and different, and maybe it's not by "Airgun Designs" or AGD as the lovers have come to know it, maybe it's by "Tom Kaye Innovations" or "Tom Kaye Engineering" or what the hell, "Kotsiopoulos Paintball"! The world of paintball needs something that doesn't necesarily outshine existing markers, but makes people think twice about what they need in a marker and what they can have in a marker.


/rant

[AGD]

"new gun design"

I did that here

http://www.automags.org/forums/showthread.php?t=245459

But the world didn't get too excited about it.

AGD

[Ando]

Well the world doesn't have your vision.

[TwilightG]

Build it... and they will come.