2/9/12 – Now that John has finished quadruple checking out all possible kinks with the design, it is my turn to take a stab it now. I go through each and every part; dimensioning, applying tolerances, and final aesthetic details. I then pass it on to the machinists who program it all in to their machines.

The extrusion die is already made, and we have a sample batch of metal all finished up. I went to film the actual extrusion this week for you all, but they pushed the metal through 2 hours before they said they would so I was not able to witness the process for the fence. I only saw the stack of metal on the pallet. Next time it should work.

2/23/12 – We are shooting to ship the Jointmakers by the end of June.  For those that ordered one of the Fence systems only, we should be able to get those out earlier, most likely beginning of June.  The assembly time on these will be the slow part. There are more parts to the Fence Systems than there are on the whole Jointmaker, and we are shipping them mostly assembled. We will ship both the JMP and Fences together if you ordered them together.

3/15/12 – Finalizing some of the tolerances and dimensions of everything, triple checking everything before production goes full steam.

 4/12/12 – Parts are being made and working out fit issues.  So many parts on this thing!

5/10/12 – Sorry about the long delay in updating this! Extrusion metal is just about done. The hard chrome plated steel rods are being made right now too. The end of June is looking slim right now though. Especially with the many unknowns dealing with assembly of the fence units in a production environment.

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