Update 10/12/23
TL;DR
uwu30 fulfillment is delayed 1-2 months due to having to change cerakoters last-minute, but otherwise is fully in progress for delivery this year.
Serendipity in-stock is indefinitely postponed as the funds set aside for it had to be used to move uwu30 cerakoting.
The Longer Version
Back in July, we (CBKBD and myself) made the decision to skip anodizing uwu30 boards so that we could get them to P3DStore as quickly as possible for cerakoting. Despite them arriving at P3D that month, they sat untouched for months. In late September, Jake from P3D messaged me that he no longer had time to cerakote uwu30. By his own admission, this was his own fault for procrastinating long-standing and paid-for group buy Cerakote orders in favor of new storefront orders.
Because we had collaborated so much in the past, uwu30 cerakote had been offered at a significantly lower price when negotiated back in March/April. This cost was baked into the price of uwu30. For many reasons, the little board is expensive to manufacture and was run on virtually no margins. One of the challenges in finding a new cerakoting service for uwu30 is the very custom mixes that we developed for this board. Given how much of the advertising for uwu30 centered around the colors, it felt unfair to customers to go with just any cerakote shop at the cost of losing our unique colors.
Space worked with me to get as close as possible to the originally advertised colors while having consistently great quality. After getting a refund from P3DStore and getting the boards shipped to CBKBD, I utilized the fund set aside for in-stock Serendipity orders to ship the boards to Space Cables and pay for the new cerakoting. Space has been absolutely wonderful to work with and I think uwu30 buyers will have some fantastic-looking boards coming out of this.
I would not have mentioned the cost aspect at all here, but I felt that I needed to explain why Serendipity in-stock buy is so heavily delayed. Between this, moving, and multiple upcoming surgeries I simply do not have the funds on hand to make that happen in 2023.
The current status of uwu30 right now is that the raw boards will arrive tomorrow at Space Cables, with a projected cerakote completion estimate of early November. These will then be shipped back to CBKBD, packed, and shipped to customers. PCBs are currently in manufacturing, and all other components are ready to ship.
My apologies for the delays in these boards' fulfillment, I hope to see them in everyone's hands soon!