yep, looking forward to getting tracking number for the Norbapad 
and tbh I’m broke for the next couple of months (wedding and such) so no rush hahaha
Will there be any more Heavy grails available?
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Yes, we’ve just been focused on shipping out the last open non-Norbazaar orders, but we’ll have more b-stock and some a-stock ones as well to put up before the end of the year. Some Heavies-9 too.
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Alrighty. I’ve just dropped a bunch of new (non-Heavy Grail) items into the Norbazaar. This time I’ve put them online at a time that is convenient for our friends in Asia to give them a fair shot for once. 
There are a lot of factory-second items at fairly modest prices, hopefully of assistance to those who haven’t found our first-quality pieces accessible in the past.
The item likely of greatest interest is a small batch of the Heavy-9 in frosted polycarbonate, which are all first-quality (A-stock). The Heavy-9 was never offered openly in polycarb, other than bespoke and few others earlier in the Norbazaar (at the same price), which were instantly gobbled up. The backstory here is that we had a number of spare Heavy-9 parts, so we ordered a small batch of more housings to pair with them to help prevent those parts going to waste. (Also, because everyone quite seemed to like the ones that were offered privately.) Because the only factory we’ve found that can do top-quality frosted finishes is in Asia, these won’t ship until after the Lunar New Year, likely sometime into the spring.
More Heavy Grail stuff coming, likely around the end of this week. We just want to finish packing and counting the anodized Grails first.
Thanks everyone for bearing with as we’ve scrambled to make some sense of our jumbled workshop of Topre parts! We’re nearing the end. 
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Any possible Norbaforce stuff in the next batch as well?
Looks like a slight typo for lot 74:
“Lot 74: K2 Heavy-9 (C-stock)”
“Aperture Heavy-9 (D-stock). With white rear cover plate. In stock but will be packed and shipped in January.”
Sort of! We don’t have any Norbaforce housings left at the workshop but we do have enough of all the other parts (PCBs, rear cover plates, bumpers that are specific to that design, etc.) to otherwise make up a handful of last Norbaforces. To prevent wasting those parts, I’ve got a few more housings on order in the Aerospace finish and will put them up for sale, likely before the end of the year. However, like the A-stock polycarbs, they won’t ship until the spring since I only just ordered them this week. I’ve finally found an anodizing provider that does flawless work, but their lead time (which also includes machining) is insanely long: 3-4 months, similar to the polycarb.
Oh, thanks! It’s fixed now.
@Mikeroscopik The Aerospace Norbaforces are listed now. Note that production on the housings is just getting started, so (even though all the other parts are ready) they likely won’t be ready to ship until into the spring.
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Damn just got a D stock H9 but didnt see the C stock one, wishing that I can change it…
No photos of these :)??
You could email shop@norbauer.com and Alan would be able to switch you by invoicing you for the difference if there are still some left at the time. If you want to be sure, of course you can purchase the C stock now and we can cancel the original order, but unfortunately minus the Shopify payment fees since they no longer refund those on cancelled orders. I believe it would be <$10 an order like this.
Alas, there are too many of these more heavily discounted housings to photograph individually, which is why we created the classification system. We only do photos in cases where it’s an otherwise very expensive part or where non-uniform areas are particularly hard to characterize with the classification system. Feedback so far from everyone has been that they have been surprised by the quality of Norbazaar items; many have said that for B and even C stock items they couldn’t even find the spot that we considered a defect. 
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Any more D or F stock Veracity Steel HGs? Or cool special editions?
will there ever be any special retro refridgerator finishings for the Heavy Grail? 
I’m afraid not, but you could always buy a factory second and get it refinished by a local powder shop in that finish. You can email us for any of our powder coating color codes.
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Damn, Sunset Blvd Pro 2 already sold out, only pro 3 left hmm
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I missed out too 
looks like my wallet is safe this holiday season
We do have two more pro 2s incoming from the powder shop, quality level tbd.
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Any more heavy grail GOCF? I can’t believe I missed another drop 
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Hope I can be there right when it drops 
phew, got the extra plates for my boards so i can more quickly swap some to use mx (and my periwinkle hg needed a plate as I used that one for a k2 without a plate). I think I’m done and good luck to the rest–I hope theres a few bits and bolts that you can fill out your last itch!