Thats the thing though isn’t it, they’ve been building hardtails for a few years, and have done a few one-off full suss frames for people including the proto for the Pinner, and feedback from everyone has been good. they’re now at the stage where they’d like to produce more but need cash up front, so have decided to try KS to raise the money, otherwise it will be carry on with custom stuff or find an alternative source of income.
You can’t really knock them for trying to get a small batch run off the ground this way.
It’ll be interesting to see how the Swarf frame goes into production too, as I guess there may be similar financial issues to work around there too unless he has funding in place or plans on staying on a one-off custom basis too.