Turn around times a bit longer these days

 It looks like several large weaving tool manufactures are experiencing some delays in production while others are retiring and closing shop.  I keep my head buried in saw dust so I wasn't aware.  It wasn't until my orders started to double or more that I looked into finding out why.
The shop closing is Bluster Bay,  so this is the reason you are not able to find their shuttles.  He's retiring sadly for weavers but I'm sure he's ready to just sit back and enjoy the rest of his life without the daily hustle and bustle it takes to run a shop.

While there are delays of 6 months or more for shuttles at some weaving manufactures I'm sure I'll be busier than  normal and this is causing a slight delay in getting orders out.  So at the moment it can take a week to 10 days to get your order. I am super sorry about this and I'm working as fast as I can.  If I get too many orders I will shut down and stop taking orders till I get caught up.  It's hard to know when that is going to occur so please bare with me.  :)  and thank you for finding my shop to fill your weaving needs.  It is much appreciated. 

This is a pile of tools waiting for me to sand with the belt sander, this is the first sanding and shaping of your weaving tool.   It takes two days to get to this point in production.  

Then it moves on to hand sanding where each shuttle is sanded 5 more times with different grades of sand paper...  This is one set of orders and this is 8 -10 hours of hand sanding. 

Once sanding is complete the following day I put in the hardware, add my logo.  Here is one table full at a time getting hardware installed.

Then each shuttle is waxed, then buffed, then shellac'd and buffed a final time where it is then ready to ship the following day.  Then I start all over with the new orders that came in while I was finishing this set of orders.

It's all worth it cause look at these beauties; this is where I get to the good part!