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A small change of plans.
I did a brief cost analysis this afternoon and I have decided to postpone the production of the Large Headlight Guard set. Hitting the pause button on this product allows me to do two things: 1. I'll be able to fulfill your current orders sooner and, 2. I will be able to start the development of the Heritage Grill design. The large headlight guards are very expensive to make because the grills are cut out of a very large solid piece of 3/4" aluminum. Since no one has pre-ordered any at this time I would prefer to focus on prototyping the Heritage Grill instead. I will still proceed to finalize the prototypes for photography so we can see the final result and the design is finalized so it is possible that it can be made available as a built to order item.
So in the light of the above decision heres the new rough schedule. Final prototype parts (Golden Samples) will have finished the tumbling process this weekend. Beginning of next week we will assemble them and if the assembly goes smoothly I will place another order at the Laser cutting vendor to cover all the products that have been ordered so far. So the schedule should be expedited a bit by running things in parallel. By the time the prototypes comes back from the anodizer and are photographed your orders should already be in production. I feel pretty good about this. Feedback welcome.
Last item. I have received a couple orders of the aluminum headlight surrounds. This designs is 17% funded at this time, in order to pay for tooling. I'm really looking forward to these so I'm hoping to drum up some more pre-orders by providing you with some better photography of the current prototypes. Stay tuned.
Discount Quantity Status:
Small Guard set: 17 sets left at discount price.
Rear Guard set: 18 sets left at discount price.
OEM Grill: 15 sets left at discount price.
Headlight Surround set: 22 sets left at discount price.
Tiktaalik Bottle Opener: 17 sets left at discount price.
I did a brief cost analysis this afternoon and I have decided to postpone the production of the Large Headlight Guard set. Hitting the pause button on this product allows me to do two things: 1. I'll be able to fulfill your current orders sooner and, 2. I will be able to start the development of the Heritage Grill design. The large headlight guards are very expensive to make because the grills are cut out of a very large solid piece of 3/4" aluminum. Since no one has pre-ordered any at this time I would prefer to focus on prototyping the Heritage Grill instead. I will still proceed to finalize the prototypes for photography so we can see the final result and the design is finalized so it is possible that it can be made available as a built to order item.
So in the light of the above decision heres the new rough schedule. Final prototype parts (Golden Samples) will have finished the tumbling process this weekend. Beginning of next week we will assemble them and if the assembly goes smoothly I will place another order at the Laser cutting vendor to cover all the products that have been ordered so far. So the schedule should be expedited a bit by running things in parallel. By the time the prototypes comes back from the anodizer and are photographed your orders should already be in production. I feel pretty good about this. Feedback welcome.
Last item. I have received a couple orders of the aluminum headlight surrounds. This designs is 17% funded at this time, in order to pay for tooling. I'm really looking forward to these so I'm hoping to drum up some more pre-orders by providing you with some better photography of the current prototypes. Stay tuned.
Discount Quantity Status:
Small Guard set: 17 sets left at discount price.
Rear Guard set: 18 sets left at discount price.
OEM Grill: 15 sets left at discount price.
Headlight Surround set: 22 sets left at discount price.
Tiktaalik Bottle Opener: 17 sets left at discount price.