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The Gent has been a big hit with members - both knife enthusiasts, and folks who never carried a pocket knife before giving it a shot with the Gent being their first EDC.
While the G-10 scales are great for everyday carry, we have seen a number of members making their own scales and asking for upgraded materials. So, based on that community feedback, we worked with our great partners at Ferrum Forge and WE Knife to bring back this popular knife with some new scales: a modern carbon fiber, and a classic rosewood.
A few notes on this drop before we get started...
* The drop will begin on June 19th at 6:00am PT. The price will be $99.99, with free shipping to US, reduced rates for International. * This drop is limited to 1000 units of each material. * Wood is a natural material; the color and grain of all scales will vary between every knife. * All knives purchased in this pre-production drop will be serialized. * After this drop ends, Gent Select in any future production runs will not be serialized. * Serial numbers will be randomly distributed; the time/date when you join the drop will not have any affect on which serial number you get. * Members who join prior to 10:00pm on June 30th will see their order processed and cards charged on June 30th. Members who join after this time will have their orders processed when the drop ends.
Thanks for your suggestions to give the Gent an upgrade to Select class, we hope you like it just as much as the original if not more!
Carry On - Jonas
PS - In case you missed it, the original Gent can be found here: https://www.massdrop.com/buy/massdrop-x-ferrum-forge-gent-s35vn-pocket-knife
1) Massdrop's business has evolved a lot since the days of just being a reseller of other brands, but our site layout is largely the same; we're just not setup that well to be a store that sells parts and accessories in addition to complete products.
2) There need to be enough Gents already out in the world to make it likely that we'd be likely to sell enough of the scales to deliver them at a price the community thinks is a good value. My best guess is that once we've sold 5000 Gents, maybe 5% of those members buy additional scales - that's only 250 total, split between two materials, which is a very small MOQ for something like this.
My first priority on this front is to make replacement clips and hardware available for all the models we've released so far, which I'm working on now. Once we can do that, it may be feasible to make scales available separately, but we're looking at late 2018 or early 2019, realistically.
Hope that all makes sense. Thanks again for letting us know you're interested, we'll give it some thought.
I see your point: On its own, 250 pieces would be low for something like this. However, an even smaller amount might be negotiated into a future purchase with WE. If you're buying 1000 complete knives at once, it'd be easy enough to ask for an extra 50 scales of each flavor, no? Of course, I may be talking nonsense & WE isn't receptive to that level of flexibility.
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It won't stop me from jumping on a future MD CF scale offering, but there's a lot to be said for instant(ish) gratification.
There won't be any changes for a couple of months at least.