It has been a good few months and we really need more progress updates. I know your a busy man but your last update didn't really tell us anymore then you being alive and well (Not being rude or anything). Please more detail would much appreciated.
Thanks.
They are still in production, this stuff takes awhile. As far as what Ivan is currently up to, he's just about finished packing and shipping on of his other group buys. His attention is on making sure everyone gets their packages and everything is in good order as well as dealing with changes of addresses and other things. There is nothing more he can tell you than the factory is working on it.
The factory does not have empty machines waiting on an order, they have to get your order, schedule it to be produced alongside their normal operations, and once production is finished, time for QC, and packing and shipping to another company for the dye subbing, which takes time ( as each key is dye subbed one at a time ), production, QC, packing and shipping, who goes to Ivan, who has to separate each set key by key ( upwards of 10,000+ keys to sort ) package, label, confirm everyone shipping information, QC, and package and ship all over the world.
The buy I mentioned that he is currently shipping took about 11 months from closed orders to shipping, and I would expect this order to take about the same. I wouldn't really bother getting worked up until about march or so.
Patience young padwan.