KNIGHT MFG

454 Hwy 185 S
Donalds, SC 29638
jamie@knight-mfg.com

KNIGHT MFG Quality American Made Products

We are a small American manufacturer of model rocket launch pads and horse shoe pitching stakes and stake holders. All of our products are designed with simplicity and lasting durability in mind. Just about everything we offer here should easily give it's owner a lifetime of service. Should you have any questions about anything, feel free to ask any time. All questions are answered through our website's email. When you're ready to make a purchase just get in touch with us on our contact page. We look forward to hearing from you.

To purchase products from us, you'll need a PayPal account. Or, you can mail a check or money order (which we actually prefer).

Signing up with PayPal is free and easy, and a PayPal account will allow you to make online payments securely using your checking account or credit card. Sign up for a PayPal account HERE. And please keep in mind, PayPal is the ONLY way we are set up to take credit card payments. We also don't accept Venmo payments. Read our payment policy here.

November 2021 Update:

This is what I'm confronted with whenever I go to buy paint these days.... Mostly bare shelves. I guess we've moved on from hoarding toilet paper to hoarding paint. These are strange times we're living in. So, for what should be obvious reasons, paint color choices will be limited to what I have on hand or what is available to me locally.

Going forward, changes are going to have to be made to make my job easier and more efficient, and to make all the hard work I'm pouring into this business more profitable. Everything about running this business just keeps getting more and more expensive and more and more difficult, especially these last few months. The price of steel keeps going up and I don't see it coming down anytime soon. The price of gas, as we all know, is way up making going to get the steel and hauling it back to the shop more expensive. The price of consumables that I use in the shop on a daily basis has gone up and availability is becoming limited. Not to mention the general increase in the cost of living with all this rampant inflation in our economy. So what choice do I have but to raise prices?

In the past, I've tried to price my products with two things in mind:
1. what the product is, and 2. what I think the product would be worth to the end user. Because I though that was the fair thing to do for my customers. And I've gotten by okay with doing that up until now, but what I've found is that using that pricing formula isn't very fair to me, the manufacturer of the product who is supplying the skilled labor and expensive tools and equipment required to produce these products. So moving forward, the prices of all products will be based solely on the fair market value of the welding job required to produce the product plus the cost of materials used, and without regard to what the finished product actually is, or what it may or may not be worth to the end user. What would it cost, on average, to have an FLP-36 launch pad made in almost any welding shop in America? That's what the price is going to be.

I'm also spending a lot of time doing individual shipping quotes for each and every customer I deal with; just to figure out, to the penny, what it will cost to ship each customer's order to their doorstep. This takes up an awful lot of my time considering the volume of customers I'm dealing with now. I've spent an estimated 25 hours doing shipping quotes so far this year, five minutes here and 5 minutes there, and haven't charged a cent for it. This is time that could be spent doing something much more productive, like welding. So I'm making the move to "FREE" flat rate shipping that covers all of the time and costs associated with shipping an order to anywhere in the continental US. (Shipping to Alaska and Hawaii costs extra) Many other web based businesses have made this switch long ago for this same reason and it's high time I followed suit.

Effective immediately, a 2.9% PayPal fee will be enacted. I have to. I can't keep absorbing these costs as lost revenue every time I accept a PayPal payment. I can't afford it as it adds up to big bucks by year's end. Lots of local businesses in my area do this when accepting credit cards and even debit cards. To avoid this fee you can simply mail a check or money order.

As always, I appreciate your business.

Jamie Knight

New twin bolt Dead Ringer DLX models are now available for those of you who are using longer stakes (30 to 36"). Please note that Knight Mfg does not sell stakes longer than 24".