The long wait for the STōN-WoLF: an update and the customers still waiting

Editor’s disclosure: I ordered a STōN-WoLF in May 2025 and am still waiting for my printer. This is a story I’m following as both a writer and a customer.

There’s something appealing about a small team building a printer with its own ideas. I saw the STōN-WoLF at the Rocky Mountain RepRap Festival, and it caught my attention. I ordered one in May 2025. The wait has been much longer than I expected, but I’m still interested in the machine—and still hoping to see it on my workbench.

Founder Nathan Dodd’s October 28 update offers some reasons for hope. He says STōN-3D has signed a Czech manufacturing partner, cleared an export review that was holding up shipments, and resolved a stubborn printer reliability issue. These are substantial steps in his account of getting the WoLF into customers’ hands, even though there isn’t a new delivery date yet.

Why the WoLF caught our attention

STōN-3D is a small Prague-based business run by Nathan and Tereza. According to the company’s about page, Nathan previously spent six years at Prusa Research as a senior developer. The company describes the WoLF as an open-source printer with a 300 mm build plate, a flying gantry, a CNC-machined metal frame and Klipper-based software.

It’s an interesting combination for anyone who enjoys the machinery as much as the things it makes. I haven’t had the chance to test one myself, so those details come from STōN rather than a hands-on review.

Still waiting, still interested

For those of us with orders in, the difficult part has been not knowing when the wait will end. I ordered in May 2025 and haven’t received mine yet. Other buyers have shared their experiences too: a March 2026 customer discussion includes accounts of delivery estimates moving back and questions about refunds. These are individual experiences, rather than a complete picture of everyone’s order.

It’s understandable that people feel differently after a long wait. Some are ready to move on; I’m still hoping the WoLF works out. Wanting this small company to succeed and wanting a clearer idea of when an order will arrive can go together.

For me, hearing what Nathan has been working through helps put the delays in context. It doesn’t settle the delivery question, but it gives me more to go on while I wait.

A little more help getting printers out the door

In the October update, Nathan acknowledges missing earlier dates and describes the work behind the delays: export and product-compliance requirements, manufacturing and customer communication handled by a small operation, and a layer issue that he says took months to diagnose.

He says the export review is now cleared, although shipments still need to meet the requirements of their destinations. He also reports that a Czech manufacturing company has signed on and will gradually take over more of the work, including packing and shipping. If that arrangement works as planned, it could give the team much-needed help fulfilling existing orders.

According to Nathan, very few printers have gone out so far, mostly through local pickup. He says new orders will stay behind existing customers and tracking will be sent when an order ships. He hasn’t offered a new date for clearing the backlog.

Refunds are also part of the work still ahead. In an earlier June update, Nathan said requests had exceeded what he could repay immediately and that he was paying customers back over time. That was his account at the time, rather than a current measure of outstanding refunds.

Hoping for the next chapter

The part of this update I find most encouraging is the prospect of more help with manufacturing and shipping. Alongside the technical and export progress Nathan describes, it offers a possible route from a promising printer to one more of us can actually use.

There’s still work to do, and I don’t have a delivery date to share. As printers arrive and refunds are completed, we’ll have a clearer sense of how things are moving. For now, the update is welcome, and I hope the changes Nathan describes make a difference for both the team and the people waiting.

I’d like the next WoLF article I write to be about setting mine up and making the first print. I’m still rooting for that outcome.

This article reflects public information available on November 3, 2026. Manufacturing, technical, shipping and refund updates are attributed to STōN-3D and have not been independently verified by Hotend. Customer experiences are drawn from the linked discussion and my own outstanding order.