Late last year, my friend and assistant of many years, Adam, was involved in a tragic motorcycle accident, leaving his leg shattered. He will be confined to a wheelchair for much of the year. This crippling injury has forced him to move out of state to be with his family. I relied on him extensively and have been overwhelmed doing all the prep work he accomplished behind the scenes.

While I love what I do, it is also how I feed my family, and so for 2008, I am forced to reduce the wide variety of work I used to accept to those projects which are most time and cost effective. This will include refinishing, standard kit builds, and standard gunsmithing. For the time being anyway, I will have to respectfully decline some of the more esoteric projects I used to relish. Also, until such time as I get a handle on my current backlog, I will either have to accept no new work, or to accept it only with the understanding that I really cannot make any estimates on completion date.

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