The remakes of Azrael has finally arrived! And everything looks good, so those are ready to ship.
Unfortunately the manufacture forgot to send the replacement beads for Cassiel, and are telling me to pay extra to ship them over. Unfortunately I cant cover the cost, so I had to source my own. Here is the final bead design I am using for the Cassiel pin.
Shipping overall will be slow as I need to attach all three beads by hand. Thankfully I think it looks nice and is technically closer to the art and what I originally was thinking of.
Production has been rough this year in the pin making community and a lot of us are not sure why, but please know we really appreciate all of you for your understanding and patience!
If you have any questions or concerns please email me at [email protected]. This will always be the fastest way to message me!
I'm back with photos of all the pins! I also got notified that all the remakes will be shipping soon so I expect them within the next week or so. As such I have given out the 48h notice that cards will be charged, and after that another one for locking addresses.
Please note per my last update that Cassiel will have different tear drops due to them all being broken in transit and not actually fitting the rings properly. See last update for the new ones.
Please note: that if you have not fixed your cards for either of the initial pledge and/or for shipping you will not receive your items until it is fixed! Even if you have filled out your survey, if your card is errored your items will not ship! You have until a few weeks after fulfilment is finished to fix cards or you could miss out on your items.
That's all for now! Thanks for checking in and have a good weekend!
Thank you all for your patience! All pins have arrived. Sorry I don't have any photos yet. Ill get them as soon as all of these are quality checked.
And speaking of quality check, here comes the bad news. It is common for chrome pins to often have problems as the plating process is fairly finicky. My manu is usually pretty good with it, but one in every 5 designs I make often come defective. Azrael unfortunately came with some shoddy plating.
Thankfully they are being remade and so far every remake of chrome I have ever done with my manu has come back near perfect, so we just have to wait a bit longer for them. IDK why they don't just check the plating before shipping when they offer free remaking of these anyway. Especially when remakes are always good in quality. Feel like they would save a lot of time and money if they did...
The other issue is Cassiel. While his plating is fine, unfortunately for some reason the manu used really big rings for the water drops, so they all came crushed. So crushed they also broke some of the glass water drops.
Because of this we are swapping for a different bead.
Its a little bigger than I wanted but honestly...they are a lot prettier. This does mean Cassiel will also be delayed as the new beads will be sent with the remade Azrael AND I will need to swap out all of the beads by hand. Thankfully they already have been in production and I am hoping for them to be done soon in about another week.
Angel Salmon shirts are also almost done. I forgot to take a picture of a finished shirt so you can have the first test print I did before printing on the nice blue tie dye shirts.
I'll be back with a nicer finished photo of that when I'm done with quality testing for the pins and have photos of that too.
That's mostly it for now! Thank you all for your patience!
Pins are on track to be done from the manufacturer sometime next month. For now I have a few progress photos from the manufacturer. Sorry they aren't the best but they came out great!
That's it from me! Next update will be when the pins arrive. Thanks for checking in!
This is just a reminder that all surveys had been sent out prior and they are due next week! If surveys are not filled out on time I will have a hard time ordering accurate numbers of counts, which could delay your shipping of your items, or not receive them at all!
On top of that there are a good handful of people who also still have failed payments. Please keep in mind that these are all reasons why your items could be heavily delayed in shipping when it is time!
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