Border on Holiday

[BorderBows]

We are a tight team (no reference to scotsmen and money please) who work hand in hand with each other. This means that we all take our holidays at the same time.

Id like to say its our annual 2 week holiday starting this friday, where we scatter far and wide and this means that we are not at our desks to answer any emails or PM's

Thanks folks for your understanding, and we will be back to chat to all on the 21st june

Hope you all shoot well inbetween now and then

Regards

From all at Border

[JohnK]

Surely 21st July? Please say you're back before next June

Have a good and well-deserved break.

[BorderBows]

yeah, your right, just shows how much we are needing it...

[bkupris]

Enjoy your hols, well deserved I'm sure..

[Hidden Hippo]

For a moment then I thought you meant the Border team went on a giant roadtrip. Enjoy your holiday.

[not dead yet]

trip to scotland.......a robbin we will go .a robbin we will go .we're off to border archery a robbin we will go.

you can't just pack up just like that, get back to it, you can have monday off



pmsl

[BorderBows]

yeah, we thought about that... but we also thought that all our products are serial numberd and logged to a computer...(with off site backups) thats the finished products!... as for the rest ie, approx 80 of the stuff is in progress, which means if your keen on tillering hex5 limbs, then you needent steal then, as you could get staff discount... lol

We are planning a kind of staff roadtrip to a shoot in Austria next summer... so it could be a road trip

And yes, we could do with getting on with it, as the backlog is not funny... This time last year we were looking at 8-10 weeks delivery and we are currently sat at 16 weeks. That doesnt include prototypes...and R&D....

[Jay.g]

O dear... Another two weeks delay on my hex5s, that'd make it something like 6 months of waiting. Ahh... Just hope them limbs will be worth the wait.

[JohnK]

Those limbs are certainly worth the wait, believe me... and I ordered mine when they were still theoretical.

[BorderBows]

Originally Posted by Jay.g

O dear... Another two weeks delay on my hex5s, that'd make it something like 6 months of waiting. Ahh... Just hope them limbs will be worth the wait.

Jay, We tried to get them before the holidays, but we fell short, in that they are in the spray room, they need there logos, and they need the final coat and polished.

So thats 3 days work, in terms of drying time...

TBH, if we hadn't had staff turnover issues like we have had recently you would have had them by now. So far we have had 1 guy work 2 weeks in 13 weeks employment, and his replacement has worked 1 week in 3! We have a great team at the moment, its just a problem to tie down the last 2 positions.
We have had 75% staff turnover 2x in the last 20months.
The guys we have at the moment are mostly xmas and newer and are learning fast, and very compitently. We have gone from finishing 4 bows a day to 6 looking to push onto 7. so this is great news for our back log, all down to the guys in the workshop.