Back when I pre-ordered, I figured, hey I'll have more than enough time before my friend's birthday in September. Little did I know how overly optimistic I was being, though I really shouldn't be at all surprised. This is the mech keyboard hobby we're talking about after all...
Round 1 went super fast. The main issue that caused round 2 to take longer was the Galaxy Blue. It proved an exceedingly difficult color to anodize due to the unusually high number of dye pigments required to match it, and it was thus the source of almost all the anodizing issues that delayed things this round. (Of course, the factory only mentioned this difficulty with the color
after they returned the first batch and I observed that the color match wasn't right.) As such, I'm sorry to say that in the next round I don't think I'll be able to offer Galaxy Blue again. It's just way more trouble than it's worth. (You guys have all been very patient, which I greatly appreciate, but it still causes me a lot of stress to be running later than my planned schedule, so I want to do anything I can do avoid that in subsequent projects.)
Incidentally, by way of an update, I got the tracking numbers for the anodized cases last weekend, and they have been en route since then. I keep hitting refresh on the page twenty times a day, but as yet don't know precisely what day they'll arrive. I keep hoping they'll arrive this week, since that's what the freight forwarder told me, but I guess I need to keep remembering to keep multiplying everyone's time estimates by a factor of at least 3.
