Good morning. Here are new pictures of the progress of the frames. I had a conversation with the owner of the other machine shop from California who are producing the Prods for both Bowcasters and the scopes and front piece for TFA version. The prods should be machined, and assembled in two weeks. The ANH frame in these pictures should be ready no later than next week. Like I mentioned before, three different cutting tools were needed, this is a complex piece to machine because of the three different radius and differences in thickness on different areas of the frame. This is not cast aluminum, this is a solid block of aluminum that has to be CNC cut on one side first and then the other side. These first two frames were water jet, which for production purposes is very time consuming because of the time needed to clamp the frame to the CNC machine. For production, the block of aluminum will be CNC cut in the shop, NOT water jet. Production will not be an issue, and it will not take time to complete each frame, but for the first frame unfortunately took longer, many things had to be considered, something I discussed with the other machine shop at CA when I new prop project is created, and depending of the complexity of the part there is a sequence from start to finish that has to be programed into the CNC machine. It won't be as bad to finish the frame by hand as we thought. You may see a rough cutting around the handle but it will be finished by other tool. The finished Bowcaster frame like the rest of the parts to complete this prop will look amazing all assembled and finished. I will have two of them painted and weathered, with all the parts and greeblies. I will post more pictures this weekend. I know there are a few fans concerned and frustrated that this is taking longer but for all of you rest assure that you guys will be pleased with the final product.