As many of you know, I was a Bottlehead customer for years before my family and I acquired the company in 2025. I have a deep respect and admiration for the work Dan, Eileen, and the Pauls (and others, of course) have put into the company. While I'm excited for Bottlehead's future, I'm just as grateful for its past.
With the encouragement and support of Dan, Eileen, Paul Joppa, and Paul Birkeland, we've decided to make a handful of manuals for retired kits available through the new Bottlehead Legacy Project. At the moment, anyone can grab manuals for the Paraglow, Foreplay, SEX 2.1, Quickie, and Quicksand free of charge. We've licensed these under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form and for noncommercial purposes only.
I think the project provides a couple interesting things: first, it allows folks who have these kits but no longer have the manuals an opportunity to grab fresh copies without having to pay for it, potentially extending the kit's functional life even longer. Second, it offers a look into where Bottlehead has been while it continues on into the future.
Naturally, we don't have many of the parts needed for these kits. We can't reproduce old PCBs or iron, and even some of the off-the-shelf components have gone out of production. For this reason, and because we're focused on current production kits, we can't provide support for any new kits built from these legacy manuals.
We may decide to make more of these available over time. PB is sending a Paramour manual my way, so that could make its way to the site in the future. But for now, please peruse the project and let us know what you think.
Thanks for sticking with us. We're grateful.
Jameson
PS - Tomorrow should be a fun day.
With the encouragement and support of Dan, Eileen, Paul Joppa, and Paul Birkeland, we've decided to make a handful of manuals for retired kits available through the new Bottlehead Legacy Project. At the moment, anyone can grab manuals for the Paraglow, Foreplay, SEX 2.1, Quickie, and Quicksand free of charge. We've licensed these under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to copy and distribute the material in any medium or format in unadapted form and for noncommercial purposes only.
I think the project provides a couple interesting things: first, it allows folks who have these kits but no longer have the manuals an opportunity to grab fresh copies without having to pay for it, potentially extending the kit's functional life even longer. Second, it offers a look into where Bottlehead has been while it continues on into the future.
Naturally, we don't have many of the parts needed for these kits. We can't reproduce old PCBs or iron, and even some of the off-the-shelf components have gone out of production. For this reason, and because we're focused on current production kits, we can't provide support for any new kits built from these legacy manuals.
We may decide to make more of these available over time. PB is sending a Paramour manual my way, so that could make its way to the site in the future. But for now, please peruse the project and let us know what you think.
Thanks for sticking with us. We're grateful.
Jameson
PS - Tomorrow should be a fun day.
