Steve Deckert
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Yes, we have shipped many so far, and are getting another large batch completed now. They are really becoming perfected now that we've had a fair bit of practice across all the different woods. By that I mean it is often easy to hit a home run out of the park with a couple great prototypes, but to recreate those in numbers with absolute consistency is at least ten times harder. So I am happy the demand for them has been strong enough to allow us to fine tune the design and finishes to a point where we are actually exceeding the prototypes!
Over the past three years of development I have burned at least a dozen in the wood pile here at Decware because they got wavy or warped. Trial and error has shown us the pattern / board widths for each wood on each model to prevent this, as well as more high-tech sealers. All I can say is OMG it is so easy to make a solid maple block... and believe me, if it were really that easy I would be doing it to.
As is often the case with these forums, most people read the forums, but do not sign up and post. Therefore you will typically find only about 5% of the units sold will be to forum posters, nevertheless that is enough to get some good feedback here that everyone can benefit from.
Steve
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