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I had become very familiar with Savage through several previous design projects and also as a Savage expert witness in several court cases. I decided to present this proposal to their top management. When I demonstrated the pistol to Jack Knode, the VP and chief engineer of Savage, he was enthusiastic over the design prospectus and decided to make the tooling in-house. I had recommended subcontracting the die-cast frame to Alcoa, the contractors for my Whitney Wolverine pistol frame. They had a large engineering office and a huge manufacturing facility. Jack decided to save money and hire a moonlighter to design the tooling and produce the die castings in-house at their own facility. I was hired by Savage to work with this individual in the Savage engineering department until the tooling for the die-cast frame was complete. Fabricating the frame from an aluminum die casting saved Savage a considerable amount of direct labor in machining and polishing. The hammer and trigger were formed and hardened by the sintered metal process from a subcontractor, and this further eliminated large machining and finishing costs. The plastic-impregnated wood segments for the grips were subcontracted with the typical Savage molded Indian head logo embedded.