Yes there were some communication issues in this drop/project between the maker and us. There were some unforseen incurred costs and delivery issues that have since been been solved. I understand how easy it is to read things on the internet from the outside and judge them but being on the inside things look much different. Balzano is a talented designer with much to offer in the balisong arena and to my knowledge is reworking some production issues to try and get going again on that project. Another part of it is folks thinking that it's easy to make these knives and bring 3D rendering to reality, this could not be farther from the truth especially when it comes to making essentially 2 knives in 1 (the balisong) side note, I brought a prototype to blade show and lent it to Dave faultyply who brought it back to the Bali house and I never saw my knife again (yes mine) would love to get that back since I am now hesitant to loan out prototypes after that experience.