Please call or email us if you do not have access to your order date after searching your email as our office hours have changed.

Please do not call or email for a ship date estimate as it is making it difficult for us to keep up with processing the orders

For more information: click on: http://sgworks.com/shipping-update-6-26-11/

We have currently shipped orders through October 15,  2010

Our hours have changed. Phone calls taken M-T, TH 1:30pm-5pm PST. Please email us if your questions are not answered on our website. http://sgworks.com/faqs/

***Thank you for your patience during this process.

The latest time estimates is as follows: 3-4 days cutting for each side, and 1-2 days for the hand finish work and heavy sand blasting. We are already 1 day into the first side as of 1-18-11. As soon as this work is done it takes a half a day to put the tooling in the machine and prep to run.

In our last post we wrote the date for possible completion, based on everything working out, to be on the 10th, however, as some of you have figured out, we meant the 17th. As you all know, production dates always work out perfectly on paper; one of our manufacturer’s machines broke down and our project was temporarily put on hold. We wish we had more control over these things.

To clear up any possible confusion regarding the Hand Guard modification, we did not build an additional tool for this hand guard. We modified our existing tool, which is a permanent change. We believe that the Upper Hand Guard modification makes the stock not only more effective, but aesthetically better.

Lastly, we would like to let everyone know that while we have not been shipping for lack of Upper Hand Guards, we have been preparing the other components of the stock. We have quite a stock  pile of finished parts (it takes roughly 3 hours for us to process each kit) which will enable us to  rapidly ship out a large number of stock kits once shipping resumes.

Once we resume shipping, the best way for you to know when you will receive your stock kit is to watch the right hand side of our Home page under “Latest News”: Shipping Status Update. (We will send you a tracking number once we process your order.) Shipping will clip along but slow down due to a high order volume during the first week of August 2010, and the last week of December 2010. You can call (we prefer email as we are a small family run business) if you do not know your order date. Feel free to email or call if your questions are not answered in our FAQ’s or “Latest News” posts. Thank you.

Update: 2-3-11

We were very disappointed to find out that our manufacturer is running around 2 weeks behind their “best case” projections for completing the mod. This modification requires precision electrodes to be made for the EDM machine. The actual cutting process is taking longer than what they anticipated. As of right now, one side of the tool is completed. After having a heart to heart with the owner, he has assured us that worse case the mod will be done in two weeks. We have literally hundreds of kits ready to go out once we receive the Upper Hand Guards. You will see quick progress on the right hand side of our home page under “Latest News”-Shipping Status Update (with the exception of the 1st week in August just before our pre-sale ended).

2-12-11

We heard from our manufacturer that the tool modification is to be completed by this Tuesday 2-15-11. We expect our tooling to be loaded and test run that same week. Right now they are checking on their presently running jobs for the first machine they can use to do our test run. As soon as they have that information we will pass that on.

2-13-11

We found out Tues. (2-15-11) that on Monday afternoon, while half way through the EDM cutting on the 2nd side, the electrode somehow shifted and cut  a portion too deep. Tuesday morning our manufacturer had to run the tooling back to the welder to build out the small portion that was cut too deep. The welder said he would likely have the work done by this Thursday (2-17-11) and our manufacturer would pick it up Friday morning. Worst case it would be done Friday and our manufacturer will pick it up Monday morning. The tool maker already has the last two electrodes made. He says once he gets the tooling back he would only need about 2 days to finish cutting and the little bit of hand work that will need to be done. We are very disappointed with this news but makes us all the more excited for the day we can get back to shipping the stock kits out again.

2-21-11

The tool was picked up from the welders this morning and our manufacturer began the cutting process. They are expecting be finished this Wednesday. It will take 1/2 a day set the tooling up in their machine and they will do a test run once the material is to temperature. After a successful test run they will set up for the actual run. We will keep you posted.

2-25-11

Our manufacturer is currently finishing up the last little bit of hand work on our tool! They will load up our tool in their machine tonight and will run our order tomorrow morning (a 6-7 hour job). They will drop it by our warehouse tomorrow afternoon on 2-26-11.

2-27-11

We now have the upper Hand Guards in our possession! Shipping resumes according to order date tomorrow. You can follow our progress on the right hand side of our home page under “Latest News” – Shipping Status Update. We will update the shipping status as we complete shipping through the 15th and the end of each month. Please contact us regarding shipping ONLY if you do not remember your order date so we can concentrate our efforts on shipping. Thank you!

It started in the mid part of 07’. I had spent a lot of time on the net reading everything I could on SKS Bull pups in an effort to modernize the SKS into a decent defensive arm as California law made it difficult to acquire legal AK’s and AR’s. As I was mowing the yard one day the idea dropped into my head of making a Bullpupped SKS which would be California Legal.  Growing up, I was always coming up with ideas to make this or that, but they were always dismissed as just dreams. The Bullpup idea was different.  Nothing had ever been as clear. In my spare time it took almost a year to build a non-working model out of wood, plastic, PVC, and fiberglass. It took another six months to come up with a trigger linkage that would work.

I was led to a man through my construction work who in his past had actually worked in private and government projects bringing ideas to production. He basically took me under his wing and walked me through the necessary steps to hook up with a designer and manufacturer.

At this point we were able to fairly accurately price out the project.  After finding out the maximum amount I could take out of my retirement, we were still short by a substantial amount.  Based on the number of people who seemed to be interested in a bull pup stock for the SKS (anecdotal evidence), a pre-sale seemed to be the only way we could raise the necessary funds. Also, we were actually helped by the economic downturn which reduced prices of steel and margins to a point which made it possible for us to move ahead.

The design work was to take about six weeks. Long story short it took almost six months. The designer was hit very hard by the economic slowdown.  We felt we were running out of both time and money. Out of the blue, I was told by the designer that he would deliver the completed, updated build files in five days, and the final 3D model within another three to four days.  Now we felt behind the ball. In order to raise the money in time, we felt we had to have Shot Gun News advertisements come out on the same day as our web site went live. These advertisements required a 30 day advance reservation. Simultaneously, we would be hitting gun shows in order for customers to be able to see and feel the stock up close. This “plan” was our first big mistake. We received the build files not in five days but rather six months. We never received our final 3D model.  It was too late to cancel the advertisements, so we felt compelled to move forward. This led to our first two ship dates being moved back.

We finally received the build files and were assured by the designer that all the changes made as a result of our first prototype had been added to the files. The tool manufacturer met the schedule they had originally given us. After receiving our first articles, we found eight items where the revised dimensions and/or changes had not been added to the files. Five of these items could not be easily corrected with a Dremel operation. It cost us five more weeks and several thousands of dollars to have the corrections made.

Once we had received stocks made out of the correct materials, we began testing aspects of the stock other than fit and feel, etc. We had established a minimum level of stock performance we felt the stock needed to meet in order for us to feel right about what we were doing and so that our customers would be getting good value for their hard earned money.  The testing led us to add steel and wood barriers, barrel support inserts and reinforcement plates. We also determined at the end of the testing that the upper hand guard would need to be opened up for better ventilation for those who would do more than casual shooting and plinking. From the beginning, we wanted to build a stock which if you needed to throw several hundred rounds down range in only a handful of minutes, the stock would perform not only during, but after such an episode.

Once we knew what the final product would be, we began to gather parts cost and assembly time data. As we began to see a ship date coming into view, we estimated what out presales would be and added several hundred more to the order that made up our first run.  As soon as the first run was completed we began the modification process of the upper hand guard to improve ventilation. As we approached the end of our presale, which would begin our shipping, we had a surge of presale orders which far out paced our projections.  We put in an order for a second run to put us ahead of the game again. In a few short weeks we received all of the ordered parts except for the upper hand guard. The modification of the tool was still in progress. Based on the schedules we had received prior, we would have the upper hand guards well before we ran out of the first run hand guards. Our second big mistake was that we sold way more presales than we ever imagined at a presale price which should have been $30.00 higher.  Fortunately, my wife and I kept our day jobs during all of this, as we need to eat too.

So here we are at the present, waiting for the tool modifications to be completed. Our parts manufacturer received the tool from the welders today. (1-3-11) I don’t know how this can happen, but the tool had to be sent to the welder four times. If the present schedule holds up, the modifications should be complete by the end of this week/ first of next week. It is possible we could have the upper hand guards by the end of next week. If this plan holds up, we would resume shipping again Monday, January 10, 2011.

SGW

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

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

For new users, our latest update regarding shipping is:

http://sgworks.com/preliminary-run-this-monday-4-12-10/

For new users, our latest update regarding shipping is:

http://sgworks.com/preliminary-run-this-monday-4-12-10/