one of the countless instances of a manufacturer getting excited and spilling the beans too early
best thing to do would have been to get them all milled polished and raw then reveal them and start taking orders
from a manufacturing perspective I enjoy what happened in this case with the body blanks being scrapped (as harsh as that sounds), it really demonstrates the attention to detail necessary when making things, one upstream process gone just a little wrong ruined a whole project
I dont know how many bodies got scrapped, if it was the whole 1st run as I am inclined to believe by following the pictures that were posted, then a significant amount of money was lost
I am willing to wager that whoever was making the bodies was receiving significant pressure from superiors to complete the job ASAP, and likely made the mistakes in a rushed attempt to finish them
one of my mantra's in the shop is "it takes as long as it takes", realistically that is the bottom line, there is a correct and (most importantly) safe way of doing things, rushing through first run or custom work is a recipe for disaster
and on an aside, after seeing the rendering, I personally was not all that impressed with the looks of the body, and feel that the claims made in the OP are a little too bold as everything stands now
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Polarstar Engineering and Machine