Where did you pre-order from?

CRKT's site.

Wow... just saw both... Gotta put in some orders. :-)

Looks like great Stuff Doug and your version of the Pico is cheaper than the others I've found! Any thoughts on rolling out your own turned titanium whistle like one of Atwood's? When I finally conjured up the money to buy one of his, he got out of making whistles entirely and I missed out. So it would be nice to see something high quality in a larger production run (which is obviously not what Atwood Knives is about).

Unlikely. Just not a big enough market for mass production and no significant practical advantages to use titanium for a whistle beyond the cool factor. There is someone in New Zealand who is working on a run of titanium whistles that should come to market before long, but won't be cheap. Not Atwoood expensive, but not even close to reasonable...for a whistle.

http://www.batteryjunction.com/en392384siox.html

Energizer silvers, they start at 90 cents, and drop to 60 if you buy more than 10 of them. However...

http://www.batteryjunction.com/onemalrmialb.html

Maxells start at 99 cents but drop to 50 if you order ten or more. So for ten bucks, plus a little shipping, you can get five full sets of spares.

Any cheaper, and you have to whack little old ladies over the head and steal their hearing aids.

Thanks for the info, IronRaven.

...And the visual.

Even so, that sounds nice! Hopefully when that happens it gets posted here (*hint* *nudge*) . Yeah, the cool factor was about the only reason for titanium, but Atwood stopped making them altogether and the steel ones were gone as well. Maybe the word "cool" shouldn't apply... my friends give me no end of grief for carrying a whistle. Everything else they think is fine. Just not a whistle as it has little practical use to carry every day. :-)

I actually snagged one of Peter's whistles a couple of weeks ago....for 50bucks. Made my day to find one that cheap.

You're killing me!

Good find. I guess I stick with my titanium finish Columbia - it's really not too shabby and the coating has held up surpassingly well for the cost.