Hi Ed,
I would love to purchase a set of these forward controls if you still have any available/could make a set.  Email me at millsryanp@gmail.com and let me know how the process works.

Thank you,
rpmills

Hey, Ed  you get my PM? It still shrimp season in florida?

Hey everybody, I'm pull the kits off the marketplace for now. There was a problem with a set and the hassels I'm dealing with right now because of it just is not worth it for me. Don't know if it was caused by the kit or by the installer. I'm reviewing the instructions to see if that is where the problem was and checking how I'm making them to try to identify a possible problem at that end.
Ed L.

After 20 pages of happy customers, and many more not shown, the weight of one is a feather to fort knox.  

Even if true (which I doubt) an honest man would accept a refund and be done with it.

Ed, review your instructions yourself and if you have any doubts post the troubled instruction section here on your thread and let all your happy past customers as a whole give you feedback and suggestions for any needed wording changes.

Tell whoever it is that he can come talk to me about his issues in a PM.  Some folks just need to gripe and get it out of their system.  

Next, shamelessly incorporate any good suggestions that come out of it into your product, either paperwork-wise or product-wise.  I worked in Quality for 30 years and any semi-valid complaints always went back to the engineering group with the "good bits" highlighted for incorporation into the next revision of the product.    

Designers need feedback too, and they always listened to the valid bits.

The lady manager of the complaint department was affected by her job however.  The stress of reading a constant diet of all the bile and inflammatory statements over time became too much for her.   So, the moral of that story is  "roll on past it after you incorporate any good bits, and don't dwell on it as it can hurt you some if you dwell on it too much".

So, you (with me knowing you) need to pass this nasty along to someone mean enough to handle it without being affected (that's me).   Get your paperwork fixed if you have any doubts about it.   Keep on making the forward controls because most folks love them a lot.  Steal his good ideas if he had any and incorporate them because that is the only good value you will get out of the mess.  

All I can do is try to use his complaints as a starting point to help improve the kits. I'm not posting his name because it would not be right to have the forum jump all over him, he is a Savage rider after all and that is what we all are dispite our differences. As far as I'm concerned it is over, I'm deleating his e-mails before reading them, got tired of being pulled into a peeing match with no ending in sight.
Thanks for the support.

I will just add my $.02 to this thread...

I purchased a set of used forwards from another member and when they arrived I could tell they were Ed L's design but they were missing the extended shift lever. After unsuccessfully trying to get it from the prior owner and unsuccessfully trying to fabricate/locate an alternative option locally I contacted Ed by PM and asked him if I could purchase just that part and the instructions from him directly. Ed replied and sent me out the part & the instructions, free of charge if I recall correctly. When I installed the controls, the instructions were hardly needed and I think the only confusion involved the changes necessary for the rear brake, otherwise it's a straight forward mod that I would highly recommend anyone with a 30" inseam or greater.

Ed was a stand up guy in my circumstances and I wouldn't hesitate for a minute to purchase another set from him if the need arises.