[fennecs]

I'll get into it in the next update, ETA next week sometime. The short version is that these are some of the samples we've gotten from our production CNC manufacturer, which is different from our earlier prototype manufacturer. We hedged our bets a little with this order by getting a couple of different finishes (polished and bead blasted).

We're not super happy with the initial bead blast finish from this manufacturer, and we don't really have the time or budget to go back and forth iterating to get a better sense of the right grit+process to get exactly the right result. But we *are* very happy with this polished finish (it's a nicer final result than anything we thought we might have access to originally!) so we're strongly considering just committing to cases with this finish for our production batch.

So far the polished finish hasn't seemed super scratch-prone, but that's obviously our main worry compared to bead blasting.

that makes sense! the polished finish does look quite nice.

and i guess since the case model is open a bead-blasted case could be offered in the future (by the team, or indeed anyone) for people who strongly prefer that option - i personally have no strong feelings one way or the other