Comments on: Tom Bihn’s Bags & Customer Service

By: Robert Nicholson

Robert Nicholson — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:32:11 +0000

I’ve had a Brai nBag ever since I met Jeff Carlson at the Bellevue Starbucks and he showed me his. Mines got a lot of air miles on it and it’s seen many computers inside i going back as the A21p Thinkpad. I have one of the older ones that doesn’t have the newer clips but the older snaps so I’m now using a WaterField sleeve over my Unibody and I stand that vertically in the old BrainCell my previous MacBook Pro use to sit in. I also use the Waterfield Wireless Keyboard, AC Adpater zip bag in the other compartment of the bag.

The best upgrade you can give your BrainBag is a set of Domke Pads. I’ve had two of these on mine since I bought it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00009R86L

By: Duncan

Duncan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:48:57 +0000

So who do you go to for camera bags? I’ve been looking for something that works, but haven’t been able to find a shoulder bag or backpack that suits me yet.

By: bbum

bbum — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:34:36 +0000

Good question; TiBook, PowerBook G4, MacBook Pro Core Duo, MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo #1 and MacBook Core 2 Duo #2, so far.

I deformed the brain cell just a bit shoving the MBPs into it; they are slightly wider and thinner than the PBG4. No worse for wear, though.

By: James Duncan Davidson

James Duncan Davidson — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:29:22 +0000

I wonder how many laptops have been through that bag? Seven years. Wow. It’s like you posted about that bag just the other day.

By: Brad Mohr

Brad Mohr — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:02:22 +0000

Agreed. I can’t say enough good things about Tom Bihn. My wife and I have messenger bags we bought at the Santa Cruz store something like 13 years ago. They’ve been heavily used and abused and still look like new. I’ve had a couple of their computer bags over the years, too, both of which outlasted the computers they went with. Tom was in Port Angeles, Washington for a while before coming to Seattle a few years back.

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:05:55 +0000

So cool. They were famous years ago, at least 15 or 20, in my home town of Santa Cruz, where they used to be located. They had a location downtown on the Garden Mall. It’s so great that they have not only survived all this time but flourished.