Happy New Year to you all! Hope you each had a great holiday season and that 2024 is off to a wonderful start! 🤗 This will be another quick update, and I'm excited to show you more progress on the samurai pin production. Since my manufacturer evidently gets a pretty large number of orders, our pins have been stuck sitting in the queue a couple of times and have been moving slowly through the process when they do finally get worked on. I seriously appreciate your guys' patience through these pins' long production time while I continue to push my manufacturer for updates. The good news is, we're closer than ever now! Check out the recent photos of our fabulous 3 samurai variants:
The pins filled with enamel and coated with pearlescent powder. From here they still need to be polished down and plated in their respective metal colors.
Plated and polished pins! They're finally looking more like the finished product here. Next, they need to have the screen print layers pressed on. How smooth are those gradients though?!
As we draw nearer to the finish line, I'll be locking mailing addresses and charging cards (for any outstanding charges) later this month. Please triple check your shipping and payment info on your Backerkit Survey, especially if you've moved recently or had any changes to your payment method. You can find your survey for this project again by going to Backerkit.com > click your icon in the top right corner (once logged in) > "Your Pledges & Surveys" > "Your Surveys". From there you can find this project and check to make sure that all your info is up to date.
Thanks again for following along and supporting Sakura Samurai! May each of you have an abundantly blessed new year, and I look forward to delivering some shiny little swordswomen to you soon :)
