类型: IC
作者:
smittysteve
发布时间:
2018-06-05 17:56:40
更新时间: 2018-06-05 17:56:40
原链接:
https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=95953.0
Hello All,
Long time listener, first time caller.
After
being pleasantly surprised by the way my Blackbird felt with
the nice weight Merlin64 (MechMerlin) ran bolted in, I’ve
been one of the many eagerly awaiting more cowbell. And more
Duck weights. I spoke with Merlin about this a bunch- he is
so active in the community tackling many other awesome
projects that, with his blessing, I decided to take on the
weight buy. So…. here we go.
In an act of unbridled
pathological optimism, I’m going to run weights for ALL the
recent Duck boards at once. I may regret this decision, but
it will help bring our cost down and I don’t foresee that
much more trouble running all of them vs. just running one
or two. Duck kindly provided all of the weight dimension
files, so we are good to go. With that in mind, I’m trying
to keep it simple:
-Everything will be brass
-You
can choose engraved or plain brass
-That’s it
My
good friend and freaking talented guy, Gaiden has put
together the graphics for us. They are awesome and I
appreciate him helping with these SO very much.
Viper/ Eagle v2:
Lightsaver v3:
Jetfire:
TC-V3:
PRICE:
~$65 engraved
~$35
plain brass
Price is the same for all
weights. I was a little surprised by this, but the material
difference isn’t enough to change pricing much at all. The
manufacturer I’m going with quoted the quantity across all
the weights for one price, so I’ll do the same here. Hoping
the pricing may come down a little as we go- wanted to give
worst-case scenario. The plain brass will be a tumbled
finish- uncoated and unpolished. The engraved weights will
be polished.
Timeline: I’m going to
hold this IC up for a couple of weeks then open group buy
for two weeks. I hope to place the order the week of July 9
and assuming all goes well (of course I’ve been in enough
buys to know that’s a 5% of the time statement, but recall,
the pathological optimism…) I expect to be shipping these by
the first week of August. Fwiw, I’m doing everything here in
the US. I did investigate overseas manufacturing, but I
really like the folks I’m working with for the weights and
the engraving, so I feel more confident doing everything
here and think it’s worth a little extra $.
Shipping:
will either invoice shipping later or do it all all at one
time- not sure yet. If I feel good about estimating shipping
and doing it all with one invoice, I’d prefer that instead
of sending shipping invoices separately later on. TBD… Will
ship internationally, but will definitely have to quote that
case-by-case. That could get expensive- sorry international
peeps.
Should mention that I am not sure whether these
weights will fit earlier versions (Viper/ Eagle v1, LSv2) of
these boards. My hunch is that they will, but if anyone
would like to measure and evaluate with me, I’m happy to
share sizes of the weights we will be making here.
Kindly
let me know what you plan on purchasing so I can finalize
quotes by filling out this handy form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdFQuE3Fs2TJZpE0mg-sfB8j5B3sg7oTm73S1h0f1r2nZHJKw/viewform?usp=sf_link
That’s it. Whew, not too bad. Comment or message me
(smittysteve on GH, Reddit or Discord) with any questions.
Please let any friends you know out there with Duck boards
that this is happening. Thanks for looking and hope to see
you in the buy!