Here is a break down of what is currently taking place at the manufacturer during the preliminary run:

The tooling is mechanically hoisted up by a trollie crane and secured to the machine by several dozen very large bolts. This process alone takes a couple hours for each mold (the stock kit consists of six molds).

Our molder works to tweak the factory provided set points for the temperature of the molds and the cycling intervals for optimum quality.

There are also two parts which will require jigs to be sure the form is not warped after coming off the line.

They felt confident that by the end of this week they would be able to have the preliminary runs completed.

We are still taking pre-orders for our SKS Bullpup Stock kit that will include a front tri-rail mount and an extended magazine release lever (a quick thumb release for detachable magazines). These accessories are included in the kits as a thank you for remaining dedicated to this whole pre-sale process. These two accessories will not be included in orders placed after our pre-sale ends.

This Monday our molder will begin a preliminary run to work our tooling temperatures and cycling rates to prevent warpage.

Please see our previous post regarding shipping:
http://sgworks.com/our-manufacturer-has-received-the-toolingcosta-mesa-gun-show/

Today, our long awaited tooling arrived at our molder’s facilities! We have not been given a date when our first run will occur but are hopeful that we will be able to begin shipping around the first week of April, or so. Tomorrow they will start to remove the protective coating, put there to prevent rust from occurring. They will lubricate the moving parts and treat the molds to aid in parts removal.

We will be shipping to all our pre-sale customers before any delivery of retail sales, either from our store page or gun shows, occur. The kits will be shipped according to purchase date, starting with the first month’s orders in July ‘09. We feel that we will be able to process 100 kits per week.

In a few days we should be able to post the date when our pre-sale price of $119.96 ends. We hope to give around a week to ten days notice. We will also announce which month orders we are processing and will send a tracking number once we have processed each order. A signature will be required upon delivery.

We will be at the Costa Mesa Show this weekend on March 27 & March 28.

Updates will continue via our website and our Facebook fan page.

We found out today at 4p that there was a cancellation and we are able to have a table at the Glendale, CA Gun Show. We look forward to showing our final sample to you if you live in the area.

We hope to be posting the tooling ship date soon. The New Year in China will be ending this weekend. We expect to hear word first of this week. We will make a news post the moment we get information.

Some have asked where the stock will be manufactured. It will be manufactured here in the United States.

We look forward to seeing some of you at the gun show this weekend at the Reno Convention Center.

Some of you may know, we have received our pre-production final samples and they look great. All of the corrections that needed to be made were corrected. We have approved the sample and are waiting for a ship date. This past Monday it was confirmed that all the tooling was crated up and ready to go. Unfortunately, although the traditional Chinese New Year doesn’t begin until February 14th, almost the entire country shut down (including the ports) this past Friday.  We’ve been told that the country will resume work Monday the 22nd of this month.

We want to thank you for being patient with our highs and lows with the SKS stock kit.   As soon as we’re told that the tooling has shipped, we will let you know.  We just put together another video showing accuracy comparisons between a standard SKS and the same SKS mounted in our bullpup stock.  Although it is not the end all of accuracy tests, it should give you a general idea of how much accuracy can be expected from our bullpup stock. It is now uploaded to our home page.

We will be at the Del Mar gun show this weekend so if you’re in the area, feel free to stop by our table.