Hey! I've been a member here since 2015, but it's been a few years since I've stopped in. Happy to be back!
We just acquired a machine shop so we now have full control over our manufacturing. Final changes have been implemented and the Sabre in production now.
To answer the production questions/concerns:
- Protoyping is different from production. The work required to produce one or two pieces is quite different from the effort needed to go into full production and produce several hundred at once (plus being able to readily turn production back on later and produce thousands). So finalizing the design in prototype phase doesn't mean we get to push the "multiply" button and have Sabres start piling up on the shop floor. We have to take that design and then design production around it. Fixtures, tool paths, etc all change when you from prototype mode to production.
- ATT is also in production and the first razor will be back this summer.
- We don't worry about companies in other countries copying our work and using artificially-devalued currency and poor labor practices to produce cheap copies. Instead, we focus on designing innovative products and producing them to the best of our abilities in-house with employees that treated and compensated well.