Do we know the answer to this, or is this a supposition written in the form of a question?
Question - the blueprints to build the Engel machine modification parts where did they come from? Engel or LQMT/Apple folks?
Maybe we know this from an Engel call or PR or something, but I don't recall it off-hand. Don't think it came from any LQMT info, though I could be wrong there, too.
But I am curious whether you -- or anyone -- really knows the answer to this.
I am pretty sure they may have come from Materion, as they have been using vacuum melting for years. That's my best guess. Engel has no experience in this area. Most likely, Gary Schuster was involved in this.
I am especially confident that Gary Benjamin August Schuster specifically has been involved in the anodizing of the current Liquidmetal black knife: