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

Fresh from Convoy in China :



Glass bead blasted :


Together :



Very nice upgrade to any C8, thanks for making these available :beer:

You’re welcome! Nice work on the bead blasted finish. Another unique look. Dig it! :+1:

Boy, I once paid $25 for a C8 with an SS bezel just to salvage off the bezel and install it on my top end modded C8. Must have had $100+ in that "UltraFire" C8 with a couple generations of modding. Finally, the Convoy C8 has caught up to what I'd consider my ideal C8!

I think I like the bead blasted best, but for now I will leave one in the brushed finish. I anybody is wondering the bezel is also a perfect fit for the Thorfire C8s.

That looks excellent. What did you use for the bead blasting? I was thinking a combination of glass bead and aluminum oxide.

Got mine today. To be honest, I’m not happy with the finish. Love the design though. A friend of mine is going to bead blast it for me.

Only glass beads 100-200 μ

Polish brand-new stainless steel C8 bezel by convoy.
Left is thorfire c8s, right convoy c8.

I was going to bead blast mine, but after seeing yours I decided to polish it on my buffer with polishing compound. It came out great!

“Yeah” I really like the polish look! :smiley:

Swap Thorfire’s improved C8S tail cap onto the Convoy and you’d have my ideal C8. Fantastic work as always, Tim. :+1:

One of these days I might just buy a Thorfire for the tail cap, as silly as that may be.

What type/brand of polish compound do you use?
I built a simple contraption to fit the bezel on a power-drill, but using Brasso hardly made any difference with the original.

I don’t think brasso is abrasive enough. Polishing compound on a cloth wheel using compounds like this

Thank you!

Thank Litefighter! But the thorfire c8s tail cap will not fit convoy c8, it will not screw all the way down. Convoy c8 tail cap fit thorfire c8s.

I use Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish from Walmart. I polish a couple times.

I got mine. Putted it on my grey C8 with TA driver, XP-L2 led and lighted tailcap. Full modded 3V emitter C8. :smiley:


SWEET!
I love the way it looks on the grey C8. Definitely my favorite C8 color with the SS bezel. :+1:

Let me ask you all a question. Well, by “all” I mean all that have already received the new stainless bezel. Do you think the edges are too sharp? I may do a poll about this. Personally I’d like to see the sharp corners knocked off. Not enough to change the look just so that it’s not so sharp in hand or pocket. Simon asked me to get the overall BLF consensus since some people do like sharp corners. Please comment if you already have one.

I like the sharp corners . If I don’t want the sharp corners then i’ll put the old bezel on it.