This past Mon. 2/22/10 the tooling was picked up and delivered to port customs. We were told that that take a few days to clear customs. It is our understanding they have ships leaving twice a week. We will pass on any information once we are given news.
For those that are in the area, we will see you at the Phoenix Gunshow this weekend.
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.
We just got word that our final samples look good and we should get them any day now. We are excited! As soon as we get the samples, and approve them, we will give the OK for the molds to be shipped to the good old USA for manufacturing. We will keep you updated on the progress through our website.
For those of you that are interested, we will be at the Costa Mesa gun show showing our pre-production sample. We would also like to let you know that the customers that pre-purchased will receive their kits before anyone else.
Some have asked why their comments and questions are not showing up on our website. Some of the reasons are we don’t have time to answer the many comments that are posted daily. We set up a FAQ page and suggested that if there are questions you may have that aren’t addressed, then you may email us. We are still working our regular jobs full-time and are using pre-sales only for the production of the stocks. We do not have the funds to hire a full-time moderator to properly respond to misinformation and conjecture.
Four months ago we were given a January ship date by our manufacturer. No one expected the build files to be missing several important details. The corrections for the tooling have been completed. We are presently waiting for the samples showing the corrections. We were to receive them over a week ago. We are expecting them any day now. After we approve the corrections the tooling will be on their way to our molder. We know this is terribly frustrating but we are very close now. We really appreciate your patience and ask that you bear with us just a little longer.
On another note, for those who are interested in dropping by, we will be at the San Fransisco, Cow Palace show this weekend (1-16, and 1-17, 2010).
If you have any questions or concerns that are not addressed in our FAQ’s, please email us at shernicgw@gmail.com
SGWorks will have a table at this weekend’s (January 9 & 10, 2010) gun show in Ventura, CA.
As a side note, we are still waiting for a ship date from our manufacturer. As soon as we have a hard date, we will make another post.
SKS Bull-pup stock kit (front tri-rail mount and magazine release enhancement lever not shown)
Left/Right pistol grips
Left/Right butt-plates
Upper handguard/sight-rail (two views, not two pieces)
Main housing
Front portion of main housing
Back portion of main housing
Receiver cover assembly (hinged flip cover and release lever installed)
Hinged flip cover and release lever
Top portions of bull-pup kit easily removes for cleaning. The barreled action remains securely mounted in the lower portion of the stock.
These pictures represent samples sent to us from our tool maker. We’ll be giving an update post on our present status very soon. This next week we’ll be posting an assembly video and hopefully a shooting video. Thank you for your continuing patience!
We have received the first article samples (for our approval to sign off on the molds) from our manufacturer today, so we will be working fast and furious to put together close-up pics and an installation video, ASAP.
On another note, some of you may have noticed that Paypal has closed down our store as they consider us a risky business because we are making pre-sales and not shipping within 20 days. (Even though their user agreement allows for that as long as the customers are aware of that fact up front.) Our attorney has delivered them a notice to reverse this action. We will be receiving a wireless terminal in a couple of days. Those of you that would like to purchase by credit card can call us directly starting December 5th.
We received word at the end of last week that all the molds had been cut and they were assembling them. Today we received these pictures from the manufacturer. We are waiting to receive word that the sample sets have been sent so we can inspect and approve. To clarify any confusion, we expect shipping to commence in January, according to the time frames given to us by our manufacturer.
We have just receive this message from our manufacturer today, October 21, 2009:
"Just wanted to give you an update on the progress of the molds, the latest
schedule show the molds to be completed around Nov. 8 2009. This should be
great news for you and us."
