Hey! I'm Jacob.
Honestly, I'm not sure how to start this. I'm a simple guy. I married my high school girlfriend. We've been together for over 10 years now. We welcomed a little boy into this world in August of 2023. We named him after my grandfather-- a family name. Lescoe. Les, for short. As Les grows up, I hope to include him in the business in as many ways as possible. If you get a drawing in your package, take pride, because that bad boy is authentic.
My full-time job is being a paramedic. It's something that I love (even if I bitch about it) and will probably continue to do, even if this Novox stuff takes off. That said, if you get an email response at 0300, now you know why.
What brought Novox to be?
I always like telling this story! So, before Les was born, I was saving to buy a CZ Bren 2. I would've already had one, but right before I was ready to buy, GarandThumb's video about them dropped. So all the sites with the good pricing went out of stock overnight. I was pissed, tbh. But I had the itch, and I am nothing if not impatient. I'd always wanted a PCC and I am a CZ simp, so I snagged a CZ Scorpion 3+ instead. The thing is pretty sweet, despite that whole OOB thing they're prone to.
Of course, the next step is wanting to suppress it. I've seen the integral options for the Scorpion before, so I did a little bit of research into them and found that the 3+ model is not user-installable. On top of that, it's pretty damn pricey. That sucks. Well, I'm the type of person who always thinks, "Could I just do that myself?". With that in mind, I started thinking about the feasibility of doing a form 1 integral Scorpion build. As I thought about it more and more, I started to think of the downsides of an integral suppressor. I also started to consider how to get around them.
Now, I'm no engineer. Not by a long-shot. I've always loved physics and sought to learn more about it, but I've never taken a class for anything other than bio-sciences. Luckily, I have quite a few engineer/machinist friends who are (in my opinion) absolute geniuses. So, one night (April 23, 2024. I never delete texts lmao) I'm rocking Les to sleep and I shoot a text over to my buddy V, who runs 3dprintfreedom.com . "Hey... Let's design an integral scorpion 3+ suppressor and take it to SHOT next year." He was exactly as enthusiastic as I'd hoped he would be, and we pretty much immediately got to work. He'd answer questions regarding different hypotheses I'd come up with on stimulant-fueled-late-night-drives, and I got to work on teaching myself CAD.
Well, you know what they say about plans and their first contact with implementation. It's not really an integral suppressor anymore. It's up to YOU to complete that part. We just supply the barrel and muzzle device. At the time when I started this project, there was no other product like it on the market. Unfortunately, that is no longer the case, but I do intend to make mine the best choice for those who value versatility of the products they buy.
P.S.
The original name for that suppressor was gonna be "Silent Z." You know, because it was for a Czech gun. Hilarious, right? No, I know. It sucks. We'll stick with X-SD.