Would you pay $4.50 for a stainless steel C8 bezel by Convoy?

I like it a lot!
This will radically change the C8 feel. Definitely higher end and classy.

…speaking of stainless steel, i would love to see a SS S2 too.

Yes, I would like at least 1.

Yes, 2 maybe more

That’s why people invented Brasso.
And a spoonful of sugar helps the :beer: go down :wink:

Actually, I am Polish but not necessarily polished. :stuck_out_tongue:
I’m fairly certain the “finish” on the new version would be just like the “finish” on the last prototype I posted so it should be quite lovely to look upon…

Oh man is that dust and greasy fingerprints on the head of the flashlight.

Yes that's right a picture is worth a thousand words and the picture shows that J-Dub74 friend has a greasy hands and he does not clean the dust. LOL J-Dub74 you have to be more careful when choosing friends.

Bezel itself is great I have no complaints.

Yeah, I hear ya buddy. Hard to find good help these days so you have to take what you can get ya know? :stuck_out_tongue:

:+1: ……… :wink:

Wow this is beautiful… do you know where I can get one?!

Don’t mean to be rude, but what is the current status on the SS bezel?

Not stainless, it’s polished aluminum

i like the non polish look. the convoy c8’s are matte black, so i think the bezel would look much better brushed.
do you think simon would give the early goer’s like us a discount? maybe a group buy, or a limited time order, or first 50-100?
$4 or even $5 would be pretty cool.

Sorry all, I know it’s been a long delay but such delays are part of being informed long before these things are even approved. I’ve spoken with Simon several times in just the last few days about the C8 SuperBezel. A small order is being placed for around 100 of these to be produced in the newly proposed design. I can’t make any promises on price. Convoy is a small business with slim profit margins so I will not ask Simon to sell these for any less than the price he sets. He is always very fair on his pricing though, as most if not all here would agree. Small runs of specialty items like this cost far more than runs with quantities in the thousands. If these come out the way we want and sell well, I imagine that we may be able to arrange a better price in the future.

Keep this in mind though…We are not just his first potential customers for a new product here. This is a product being produced specifically for us. I talked him into this on behalf of BLF when he didn’t even want to mess with stainless bezels because of high production cost and the fact that there has been no profit for stainless bezels in the past. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all about a deal too, but let’s just see how this first batch goes and take it from there.

6 dollars sounds extremely reasonable to me. Heck, if it were Nitecore, it would be 25. I think that brushed finish looks good with mat black as well. May even blast one with aluminum oxide to match the mat texture of the black.

Thanks Robert. Keep in mind on the “brushed” finish, I don’t know exactly how the end product will look. The picture I posted is not really a picture, just a very nicely done rendering by a friend. My guess is the end result will be a more “machined” look than a brushed look like the first Stainless samples he did. This one of course will just be way cooler looking than round one. If you end up tinkering with the finish by all means buddy post pictures. I don’t know exactly how long it will be before they’re available but I’m very excited to see how these come out. :sunglasses:

I’ll definitely grab a few, now if I can get a convoy C8 nichia triple to put it on………

Have a clear C8 on route so this bezel will fit that nicely!

Oh and if small numbers are an issue, Simon could just make it the default, setting his C8 apart from the rest, more his own with that different design.

We think alike here my friend. :wink: I recommended Simon take the new bezel style across the board for the same reason. Too many lookalike yet not necessarily equal C8 lights out there. Something to visually set Convoy apart is the way I want to go. We shall see…

Well if you go for a “L style” light that is compatible with all inner parts and accessories of the C8 Simon would get a C8 sized, same output light of course.
But in case of a smaller L light, please use this C8 bezel and update the L2 and L6 so they lose the ring of bulges on the top for those take away a lot of the visual appeal of them, add weight and machining for no clear advantage.
It would make the L series more classy and appealing to more IMHO.