2025 Annual

Confirmed with CRK that no lefty Damascus were ordered this year. Sucks to suck!
 
Hyesouljah said:
probably has to do with CRK’s production scheduling
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Guarantee the reason for the staggered release is to get people to buy the MagnaCut ones now as a hedge against being unable to get the damascus ones later. Though in fairness the odds of getting the damascus ones at all is low...
 
madcap_magician said:
Guarantee the reason for the staggered release is to get people to buy the MagnaCut ones now as a hedge against being unable to get the damascus ones later. Though in fairness the odds of getting the damascus ones at all is low...
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I don’t think so. There’s never much Damascus to begin with.
 
I’m very interested to see what these annuals look like! It appears there’s a lot of range for color and patterns. I see they offered this wood back in 2018 for Blade Show but cool to see it back now on a 31. Now if only we could get some dealer exclusive wood Mnandi…. Seems like they don’t do much of that anymore.
 
Hyesouljah said:
I don’t think so. There’s never much Damascus to begin with.
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Like I said, in fairness, they always sell out really quick, so there's not really a reason to juice sales at all, they always sell whatever they have. But I still think a lot of people will try for a plain and then try for the damascus when they come out who would have only tried for the damascus if they released at the same time.
 
Their site can't handle the amount of traffic they get for these annual releases. They dropped a couple minutes early and I was able to get both a large and a small, even with a snag of my CC company thinking someone was making a fraudulent transaction and having to check out again. I thought I was gonna get stuck without either, but somehow it went through according to the confirmation email. Good luck to everyone stuck in the traffic jam now.
 
pork said:
Their site can't handle the amount of traffic they get for these annual releases. They dropped a couple minutes early and I was able to get both a large and a small, even with a snag of my CC company thinking someone was making a fraudulent transaction and having to check out again. I thought I was gonna get stuck without either, but somehow it went through according to the confirmation email. Good luck to everyone stuck in the traffic jam now.
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Last year I got a small damascus. I started checkout about three seconds after the drop... and after watching spinning blue circles for various components of the web site, the order went through. Eleven minutes later. I could hardly believe it worked.

This time I went for a large, I also noticed a couple of the models were accidentally opened early, but even so, checkout took me nearly three minutes of waiting for web site bits to load.
 
Shockingly the large is currently still available...I'm tempted to buy one just because I can, but I know I won't keep it and I've never been one to chase the annuals.
 
madcap_magician said:
I think I'm just hoping I'll get some good wood. Koa can vary pretty wildly.
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Yeah that's pretty apparent even in just the examples they chose for the photos of the small and large. I would think knowing the appeal of Koa is the beautiful figuration that CRK would have chosen some pretty pieces for the annuals but of course there will always be some that look nicer than others.
 
Ilikesharpstuff said:
Yeah that's pretty apparent even in just the examples they chose for the photos of the small and large. I would think knowing the appeal of Koa is the beautiful figuration that CRK would have chosen some pretty pieces for the annuals but of course there will always be some that look nicer than others.
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Really hoping the photo they chose for the large wasn't the nicer wood for the larges. The wood on the small photo sample was nice.
 
pork said:
This is why I bought two. I'll probably keep whichever has the nicer inlay, regardless of size.
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It's enough of a premium over a normal one that I passed, and it was a tough decision if I was going to go for a MagnaCut annual at all, given the pending damascus.
 
If you didn’t get one this year, you may want to check GP’s website every 30 minutes or so today.

Last year, they were sold out by noon (IIRC), but I picked up a large 2024 annual when I checked their website at 6pm.
 
Yeah their system was a little wonky, I actually checked their website 15 minutes before the release time and it was already in stock.
 
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