Hey fellow nerds. I have an important note for folks who missed out and wanted to get in on the GB.
The order has been placed with the factory, and they are currently working on a final sample using production tooling, after which production begins. I've been trying my best to process through the many requests I've gotten from people who want to be squeezed in (which I need to cut off, for reals, very soon). However, I've had a horrible flu for the past 10 (!) days, with little time at my computer, and as a result, keeping track of the production quantity spreadsheets, sending invoices, keeping on top of all the back-and-forth emails this generates has been a challenge. So I've decided that the simplest solution is as follows:
I HAVE TEMPORARILY RE-OPENED THE GROUP BUY, WITH LIMITED QUANTITIES/FINISHES AVAILABLE, UNTIL THIS FRIDAY (19 Jan) NOON PST to allow folks to essentially pre-order a sub-set of the extras that I built into the order already placed with the factory. This saves me having to generate and process a bunch of one-off invoices privately to do essentially the same thing.
So, though a limited set of finishes and options are available (particularly WKL), if you wanted to get in on this design, please do that now, through the online checkout form, rather than emailing me.
After that point, regretfully, I won't be able to help anyone who wants a case until all the group buy orders have arrived in the US later this year.
I hope that this is helpful to some folks, and my apologies to those of you who have been awaiting overdue email replies from me. I'll be working diligently on clearing out my inbox this afternoon and pointing people here to this post.
Thanks!
PS: I finished the packaging design last week, and it's a big aesthetic upgrade over last time. Can't wait to surprise you all with it.