MC preorder?

Rodger, the title of this thread is misleading. If it was up to me, I'd lock it up as there are no immediate plans for the MC preorder. If I get some more time, I'll dig up Nathan's post recently made regarding the preorder topic and will add with quotation marks but to summarize, the CPK folks are currently working on finishing off the EDC2 preorders, work on the Bladesport preorder will be starting up next plus work already at hand on the BC preorders in addition to getting more HDFKs & MCs ready for the upcoming Fridays sales.
 
Here ya go:

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/next-pre-order.1557925/#post-17889463

People are digging these pre-orders. I'm glad. I worry that extended waits will be a turnoff eventually, particularly after drama I've seen elsewhere.

I'm trying to be conservative on my pre-orders because it's only a matter of time before something happens and throws off a schedule. Some things would be in my control, such as poor planning (I'm pretty much a retarded evil genius), but other things such a bad batch of steel, a machine going down, or a batch lost in shipping would be a nightmare.

Looking at the last two preorders I had two problems. I had steel on hand for the EDC2 preorder, but not enough so I'm having to set up and run it again to finish the order and there was a delay getting the material. On the BC pre-order I waited until after the order was closed to order steel but the lead time on that steel was much greater than normal because it wasn't just a matter of having Niagara roll it out, Crucible had to run the 3V powder for the order so that steel is only now being made. Any hope of having BC by Blade is starting to look pretty bleak.

This pre-order business is risky business which creates stress here in the shop. To minimize risk I don't want to start a pre-order on a new pattern that has never been run before because there are often hiccups on a new run, so the DEK1 and FK2 are probably out. That leaves the UF (with antiquate programs and tooling and lacking certain features like chamfers) or the MC which is ready to go but it's another chopper. I could run the HDFK again, but we just did that one. Another EDC2 doesn't make sense we haven't finished shipping the last batch yet. And development time is at a premium right now because we're doing a custom project and trying to get the Competition Cutter ready in time for World's. I may let the EDC2 and the CC finish shipping and get started shipping on the BC before we start another pre-order, which means the next pre-order might not be until after summer. I'm sorry, I know you guys are clamoring for these pre-orders but I don't want to let them get out of hand.
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Casinostocks said:
Rodger, the title of this thread is misleading. If it was up to me, I'd lock it up as there are no immediate plans for the MC preorder. If I get some more time, I'll dig up Nathan's post recently made regarding the preorder topic and will add with quotation marks but to summarize, the CPK folks are currently working on finishing off the EDC2 preorders, work on the Bladesport preorder will be starting up next plus work already at hand on the BC preorders in addition to getting more HDFKs & MCs ready for the upcoming Fridays sales.
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Perhaps the OP could just edit the thread title to add a '?' at the end so it reads 'MC preorder?'.
 
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