There really can't be a delay when the company says that a knife will be out around such and such a date. There are always delays from when a knife company would like to have a knife out. The fact of the matter is that their good name rests on the quality and reliability of the product and when they feel that the product is ready to go out the door it will.
ThomasW (national sales manager for Kershaw) gives us relative timeframes for when knives will be leaving and we all know that these things are not set in stone. So the best I or anyone else can do right now is say welcome to the Kershaw subforum, feel free to come on in and slobber on the pictures of the upcoming knives with the rest of us while we clutch our wallets in the hope ThomasW will come in here and say that a batch has left the building. Because any day he says that some have left the building you can bet your bottom dollar that he is telling you the truth.
Again welcome to our little corner of the world. Hang around a while and we will see if we can't make that list of yours a little longer.