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And the winner is.....this guy below!!!
And the winner is.....this guy below!!!
That's kind of what happens when there are lots of "bandwagon buyers/builders" out there. The "next big thing" or maybe "new big thing" becomes an "overnight success" as soon as the "reviews" hit the internet, people rush to "build" with and cancel or change existing orders and before there is actually stock on the shelves and usually before the "new product" is past "prototype" stage there is a flood of "pre-orders" that noob manufacturer's go broke trying to "fill" and slightly more experienced manufacturers who have almost gone broke in the path playing that game but didn't learn enough to not play it anymore take a more cautious approach and wait til the "initial rush" calms down and then produce the product on more of a "just in time" basis. And plenty of noob gun builders get in over their heads trying to be "gun shops" and spend lots of time and money on "builds" they send out to be "reviewed" and get in over their heads and can't secure the funds to buy all those high-end parts at "feeding frenzy" prices and don't ask for deposits up front thinking their "customers" will just go elsewhere if they want paid up front or they'll have to refund the money if the "build" gets canceled/changed before they get done with it.
When they're using "barrel blanks" and are trying to maximize their "input" into the "build" and are also "bandwagon builders" and depend on "builds" for their bottom line and most "builds" are "bullet-based" its only natural that a "build" is going to take as long as it takes to get the last part ordered/delivered plus "build time" and few "builders" have any idea that successful, long-time manufacturers of "custom" components and parts don't, won't and can't go into "high-volume production" at the drop of a hat and being a "gunsmith" doesn't move some "noob" customer to the front of the line ahead of "amateurs" that aren't "gunsmiths" but are established, proven and loyal customers of that "brand". Barrel blanks are a "commodity" and typically what's "in stock" at manufacturer's who sell "commodities" instead of finished products is the "leftovers" from previous "fads" and/or "scraps" left over from taking several feet of "barrel blank" that came out "premium" after rifling and whacking off however much some "good customer" wants and will pay a "premium" for.
Plenty of manufacturers of "premium" parts find out the hard way that its infinitely harder to make parts that "shoot good" when installed/assembled into actual guns than it is to make SHOT Show "samples" that are shiny and pretty and ready for lots of "fingering". Especially when those parts are assembled with a pile of other parts from other manufacturers by a "gunsmith" who does things like promise a "build" will be done in a month out of wishful thinking, inexperience, hope for a "payday" in a month or all of the above. If making a "prototype" takes 10 hours its unreasonable to think "production" parts are going to take 10 hours minus "programming, planning and prep" time simply because there is a CNC machine in the house and taking a part made "manually" and doing whatever high-tech mumbo-jumbo is involved in getting it "drawn" on CAD and getting a CNC machine to just "crank out" perfect "copies" is difficult to impossible. CNC machines can't "think" and they can't even recognize what material is in them and can't pick/choose which tools, feed rates etc to use to "copy" that manually-made "master" and that handful of feed speeds and rates is the difference between producing "good" parts and "junk" parts. Garbage In, Garbage Out.
The existing state of affairs as far as "wait times" and "availability" is exactly what the "bandwagon builders" and "noob manufacturers" and "getting-started gunsmiths" have made it by trying to be the "first on the block" with whatever "new thing" is most "popular" on the forums, blogs, videos, etc.