Incredible start! Feature Upgrades?
about 2 years ago – Thu, May 05, 2022 at 12:46:48 AM

Hey Backers,

 What an incredible first day! 🥳

We successfully reached over $15,000 in less than 24 hours! We are thankful to have such awesome support for our new REKT mini knife, especially from our hundreds of returning backers. 🤗

Current Status

At the time of this update backers have pledged for 554 knives! 252 are Survivors and 302 are Minimalists which is a fairly close ratio. We look forward to 30 more days of pledges!

In the meantime, please consider sharing our project with friends and family, this can help us reach for higher and perhaps some accessories can be made!

Feature Upgrades?

Before we launched we opened up a sneak peek of our campaign and we received a number of great suggestions from backers. Unfortunately, we are unable to make any significant/major design changes at this time. However, we should be able to make minor changes. For example, the blade can come with half of it being serrated for "sawing", or perhaps the carbon fiber scales (handles) can come with a few tritium slots (1.5mm x 6mm slots) so you can install tritium vials or glow vials into them if you wanted to, or maybe we add a flip tab or thumb tab to the blade for one-hand operation. All of these are great ideas, but let's say we implement all three of these features, it technically becomes an all new product. Let's discuss what happens if it is an all new product...

The reason why we can't implement everyone's suggestions even if they are all great, is that our manufacturing partner will consider these to be an entirely new product once we re-submit these new drawings to them. When it is considered an all new product, there are also new pricing and fees associated with it, and it may add delay to the current delivery timeline since we will need several new prototypes made for testing before we green-light a mass production run (manufacturing new functional prototypes can take weeks maybe even months depending on how busy our manufacturing partners are). In addition, we currently have our pledge rewards priced for the knives as they are designed currently and any price increases may not fall within our current and projected budget. We also need to be mindful that not all backers want any of these changes at all and they may have pledged because they prefer the more simple and utilitarian design that we currently have.

With that being said, we are going to work on a voting poll of some kind and see what the majority of backers want and the circumstances they are willing to accept. By casting a vote, we can have a better idea and direction to take regarding these changes. We will need a few more days to gather all of this data and compile a list of suggestions and present them to you in a future backer update. Please hang tight for this.

Mass Production Timeline

Because we have already made a deposit for raw materials for 1,000 of each REKT, mass production can be green-lighted very soon, however, we are holding off due to the potential feature changes we mentioned above. Ultimately, we can deliver the REKT sooner if there are no further design modifications.

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and for your support! 🙏