Lol Leon, yeah, the pieces are all falling into place now!
He sold the business recently, after a very messy split with his business partner. I worked with him essentially free of charge as a favour for almost a year to help him finish all the unfinished project work that his partner had taken on and subsequently dumped when he left.
Along with stealing equipment from the workshop and funneling vast amounts of cash out of the business he indirectly cost John his marriage.
John sold his stake in the business to his ex partner; who is now making all sorts of promises to other unsuspecting businesses, and customers, and telling all sorts of lies about John as well. They will no doubt find out the hard way fairly shortly.
Anyway, the only ones to be powdercoated was the most recent bulk run of 16 that I did. Any issues with that lot would be entirely my own, as I did all the prep, and coating myself; with John observing.
All the others were sprayed, and Scotty's was one of the first out.