The metal reinforcements came in today (a week later than we were told) and we are scheduled to pick them up from being black oxided noon tomorrow. We have been busy building triggers, hinges, prepping the main housing for reinforcements, heat barriers, inserts and everything that goes into the stocks. Our metal stamping company has never been late on any of our parts until the metal reinforcements.

In order for us to be effective please call only if you have a question that does not concern where you are in line to receive your stock kit. We will post our progress towards your order date under “Latest News”. Please email us if you do not remember your order date or have a change in address. We definitely understand your anxiety about receiving your kits (given all the delays), but if you would help us out in this way, it will help us speed up the shipping process.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

We have posted pics of the two accessories on our Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/South-Pasadena-CA/Shernic-Gun-Works/350526958536?ref=ts#!/album.php?aid=201971&id=350526958536

We have an assembly video on YouTube-we need our webmaster to convert the media files before we can post them on our site.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn8J_r52LVo

We are working on a montage to show off our Bullpup Stock kit in action.

We will begin our shipping process within two weeks from today, July 23, 2010!!! We were able to confirm this morning that the metal reinforcements would be finished in time to begin shipping August 8, 2010. We will start shipping sooner if we receive them earlier. The price for our SKS Bullpup Kit will be going to the retail price August 8. The Front Tri-rail Mount Option/Accessory will be $24 and the Extended Magazine Release Lever Accessory for detachable magazines will be $18 and will not be included with the stock kits after August 7, but will be offered separately.

We will be posting an assembly video and close-up pictures the first of this next week.

Great news! All of the Zytel parts have been run and they look great. The inserts are just about completed. We are scheduled to pick up our metal parts, which are having a black oxide finish applied, this coming Monday 7-12-10. The only metal part we have not received is a metal reinforcement which we can install at the end of our assembly process. We plan on beginning the assembly process this coming Tuesday, 7-13-10. It looks promising that we will be able to announce our two week count down ending our pre-sale by 7-16-10. This announcement would also mean that shipping would begin the day after our pre-sale ends. As a reminder, we will ship according to order date. We will keep you informed as to the month we are currently processing under “Latest News” on our home page. Assembly video coming soon.

As you know, our molder told us that they were supposed to run our 6th and final part of the stock kit this past week. As a result of the machinist’s hospital stay, he was backed up with other jobs, as well as ours. However they were able to start on the 6th and final run today. They are well into the run and it looks like they will be finished Tuesday 6-29-10 with our order. Inserting has begun and we expect that to be completed soon.

The receiver cover is slated to be run today or Wednesday. This was scheduled to be completed last week. The Director of Operations (who takes care of the company’s machining needs) was rushed to the hospital last Wednesday. He had heart attack-like symptoms, but tests revealed that he had massive amounts of ulcers. Around 40 ulcers that were severe and 13 that were bleeding. The good news is he doing well and will fully recover. He returned to work today and he is working on reconfiguring our jig to run the upper rear receiver cover. As a result of pricing confusion, the parts that need to have inserts were never taken to the other shop. The pricing issue was resolved today and they have assured us the parts will be delivered either today or Wednesday.

For new users, our latest update regarding shipping is:
http://sgworks.com/preliminary-run-this-monday-4-12-10/

Our molder told us they will finish running the main housing mold (the 5th of six parts) this Monday, June 7, 2010. They will then start set up to run the final mold. They are scheduled to take the parts that need inserting to the shop this Monday. The shop doing the inserts say they need about a week turn around time to get set up with part supports. The actual inserting operation will go quickly.

For new users, our latest update regarding shipping is:
http://sgworks.com/preliminary-run-this-monday-4-12-10/

Today we had another update meeting with our molder. They will be finished tomorrow 5-26-10 with 4 out of the 6 mold runs. Some of the gates and certain parts of the mold had to be polished up better after they began the full scale run, which set back the projected completion times. The jig, which is designed to work on both the main housing as well as the upper receiver cover is almost completed. They are waiting on some lock levers which will lock down the part in the position it needs to remain in. They should arrive any day now. They fully expect to begin running one of the final two molds by Tuesday, June 1st.

On another note, it looks like we are going to have another shop install the inserts. Our molder has never had to heat stake inserts in material as hard as our stock parts before. Without the right machine, it is taking three times longer to insert than anticipated. They have already dropped off sample parts today and should have the answers we need in a day or two. This will help speed up the inserting process.

As our policy has always been for the pre-sale, if the wait becomes an issue for any reason, please contact us for a full refund.

For new users, our latest update regarding shipping is:
http://sgworks.com/preliminary-run-this-monday-4-12-10/