A few nights ago, I posted that i was no longer being active in our hobby and I guess I should have been more specific about what I meant because I keep getting questions about what I meant by it and to what degree I have decided not to participate anymore in regard to my previous services. Some of the comments suggested that I was trying to invoke some kind of drama into what I was saying so I will try an clarify this a little more and put this to rest.
Over the years I have offered several kits of model designs that were for the most part , never commercially offered. Eric Rule at RSM did the laser cutting for me and has done a lot of the CAD work also along with some others that I contracted with over the years for CAD files.
ALL of those kits are still available and will be until I guess I die and someone else does them. What I was trying to relate without getting to much in depth in my previous post, is that I have developed some really serious problems with my back and most recently my neck, which is preventing me from building models for others because I cannot bend my neck anymore because of the pain and stiffness I am now experiencing. I just recently finished doing a test build for Eric at RSM on his soon t be released Electric MIG 3 and I really had to struggle to get it finished and actually did not know if I would get it finished because of not being able to sit or stand at the work bench.
In the past few years I have had three (3) spinal fusions and suffer from chronic back pain and now the problem has moved up to my neck and the ruptured discs in my neck are causing me so much pain, I can no longer bend my head down for any length of time so I have quit building, not only for others, but also for myself. Flying has become a very painful endeavor for me and I recently cut down on trying to fly my own models.
So basically if you ever want to order a kit from me, that is fine, I will have it cut and mailed to you as this requires no physical effort to do so. However, I will no longer offer any more ARF or pre built models and doubt if I will do many if any more videos.
I hope this puts to rest any questions you might have had or any doubts as if to I really meant i was slowing my participation down in the hobby. Short of a miracle, I am pretty much done with building and producing any further new kits.
Sincerely
Mike Griffin
Topic: A Clarification (Read 1329 times)