Not that I want to speak for Estel, but I asked him about situation recently, and he said he's been trying out different anodizing shops. Apparently the first one wasn't up to the level of quality he was hoping for, so he's been trying others, some of which seem to be too expensive at the volume likely to be made. As I understood it he's waiting on a few more anodizing shops to send back samples, and then he'll update with pictures. Hopefully I didn't misremember anything.