2025 Annual

John Phillips said:
Not sure what I think about “Meadow Damascus”. I know they’ll be gone in 60 seconds though. lol.
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It's still a fairly nice pattern. Not my favorite pattern, but nice.

I think they'll be gone in 20 minutes, because the web site will poop the bed and it'll take that long for people to check out.

EDIT: Here's a pice of etched billet meadow-pattern from Chad. Actually looks pretty nice, so I guess what the blades look like will depend on how the shallow hollow grind distorts the pattern. Could be nice!

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Looks too similar to Spartan Harsey Damascus for me. I have a couple SHF in Damascus and they aren’t my favorite patterns but that’s just my personal opinion.

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GPK's web site did, in fact, poop the bed again, but not nearly as badly as it did last year. Took me about a minute and a half for the various checkout page items to load. I think going crazy hitting F5 instead of just waiting for the requests and buttons to load would have made it worse. I am glad I stopped practicing checkout with about ten minutes to go, at the three-minute mark I started getting 502 gateway errors on some GPK pages, and it was hit or miss and showing some partial error messages when I successfully checked out nonetheless.

Congrats to all who scored! It was a roughly three-minute sellout. By the time I was checked out, the larges were gone. I idly went back to try and check out with a small, and they were out of stock by about halfway through me trying to check out, so maybe 2-3 minutes total to sell out? My official order time was 10:02:32, and it took maybe three product page refreshes to get the "ADD TO CART" button, so probably about 2:30 total ordering time.

Hope the wood on mine is nice. Heck I guess at this point I don't trust fully that I scored until I see the "PENDING" note on my order change to "SHIPPED."

But... MATCHED SET OF LARGES!!!
 
I had previously thought I would try to snag one of these, but I'm out on a new Sebenza at $985. If I was going to spend that on a CRK I'd rather have a cool vintage one. Congrats to all who scored!
 
madcap_magician said:
Congrats to all who scored! It was a roughly three-minute sellout. By the time I was checked out, the larges were gone. I idly went back to try and check out with a small, and they were out of stock by about halfway through me trying to check out, so maybe 2-3 minutes total to sell out? My official order time was 10:02:32, and it took maybe three product page refreshes to get the "ADD TO CART" button, so probably about 2:30 total ordering time.

Hope the wood on mine is nice. Heck I guess at this point I don't trust fully that I scored until I see the "PENDING" note on my order change to "SHIPPED."

But... MATCHED SET OF LARGES!!!
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You might've been one of the last ones ... I was at the same point you were roughly at the same time. I got Unable to place order and posted a screenshot to a friend at 11:03 ET
 
GP website was a bit clogged up, however the purchase process was fairly painless (especially compared to many other sites when releasing limited releases) Glad to be able to add a Damascus blade version!
 
d9jms said:
You might've been one of the last ones ... I was at the same point you were roughly at the same time. I got Unable to place order and posted a screenshot to a friend at 11:03 ET
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I wonder what the count was this year. Also no lefties.
sn0wman72 said:
GP website was a bit clogged up, however the purchase process was fairly painless (especially compared to many other sites when releasing limited releases) Glad to be able to add a Damascus blade version!
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I wonder if they did the MagnaCut and Damascus on separate dates in part because of the site traffic load. DLT has by far the smoothest internet experience on limited drop checkout that I've ever experienced, no one comes close. This year the Annual was much better than last year for checkout at GPK, but it was still a slog. Last year I thought I missed entirely, but somehow checked out with a damascus small after almost twenty minutes of waiting for web page or page component loading.
 
Well I completely missed this…missed the announcement and had no idea they dropped. That said, I’ve been carrying my Frankenstine Koa annual small/boomerang Damascus blade a lot, so I’m probably ok with missing the genuine article.
 
Ilikesharpstuff said:
I had previously thought I would try to snag one of these, but I'm out on a new Sebenza at $985. If I was going to spend that on a CRK I'd rather have a cool vintage one. Congrats to all who scored!
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A nice thing and a weird thing - I like how GPK automatically priced and shipped all of these to include FedEx two-day without having to manually select a shipping upgrade.

The weird thing is that in July when the MagnaCut large annuals appeared, I got charged sales tax, so the $735.00 retail price came to $794.72 after tax. Free shipping. But now in December, retail on the damascus is $985, but no tax is applied.
 
madcap_magician said:
I wonder what the count was this year. Also no lefties.

I wonder if they did the MagnaCut and Damascus on separate dates in part because of the site traffic load. DLT has by far the smoothest internet experience on limited drop checkout that I've ever experienced, no one comes close. This year the Annual was much better than last year for checkout at GPK, but it was still a slog. Last year I thought I missed entirely, but somehow checked out with a damascus small after almost twenty minutes of waiting for web page or page component loading.
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If I recall correctly from GP Knives post, the damascus versions were just not ready/complete in time for the drop earlier this year. I am happy to have snagged a damascus and can’t wait to see it.
 
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