a stealth black and MultiCam Black version and a bright white and MultiCam Alpine version. And bring the darkness on the outside, to the inside. what if we make the Tokai Sling's equal opposite? We'd bring the light from the inside, to the outside. "Wait a second! Hold on… We Need Balance…"īalance, dualism, negative/positive, contrast, opposites. but one of us was holding up the Tokai Sling prototype to their laptop camera, musing how much we all loved the X50 MultiCam Alpine front pocket contrasting against the X50 Black and X50 MultiCam Black fabrics.
To this day, I'm not sure who had the idea. We were happy, excited, and finally knew we were at a stopping point before we went too far and screwed something up. Michael (based in Melbourne, Australia), Allen (based in San Francisco, California), and myself (based in Austin, Texas) all agreed to hop into our final video call to slap the table and officially send these Tokai Slings off to be made (by the way, you'll see the standard Aer "designed in San Francisco" flight tag replaced with one representing all three cities). After months and months and dozens of prototypes, we were finished. Together, we built our dream sling: the AER x Carryology Tokai Sling, based off the legendary AER City Sling. A quick change to orange paracord and it was a done deal. Allen told us that AER had secretly been working on a new zipper puller design, that was burly as all heck and helped reduce ‘click’, and that the Tokai Sling could be the very first to use it. Less 'Click' PullersĪnd the zipper pullers? We had played around with orange Dyneema cord, but it just didn't feel substantial enough. acting as perfect canvas to laser engrave our two logos onto. The triple secret bonus? The shield on the Fidlock V-Buckle is stainless steel, coated black. So we swapped the existing webbing on the City Sling and opted for a (in our opinion) better suited 38mm nylon strap webbing for the Tokai.
A Fidlock 40mm V-Buckle was selected because it's a dream to use, it's super strong (70kg break strength), and it only requires one hand to buckle or unbuckle. And our love for magnets and Fidlock led us to an important design decision, that ended up for a two for one benefit. Fortunately, the geniuses at Fidlock figured that whole "thing" out for us all.
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