These figures are completely made up but they should help explain why it will costs more. Everything is put super simply on purpose to make it easy to understand.
A one sentence summary would be: FE/Standard use two materials (1 cheap, and 1 expensive), and Carbon uses three materials (1 cheap, 1 quite expensive, and 1 expensive). Before the weight material change only two materials were used.
To start of, a scale of cost of material:
- Aluminium - cheapest and easiest to work with.
- Brass - considerably more expensive and is a softer material.
- Stainless steel - the most expensive and the hardest material.
- Carbon fibre - quite expensive and difficult to work with.
Colours do not matter - only quantity, material and part. I am not accounting for extras to keep it easy to explain.
- 250 70 aluminium bottoms - this is the only thing that stays the same.
- 300 70 aluminium top parts (combined) - these cost slightly more due to the differences, but they are priced together.
- 150 60 aluminium & stainless steel plates - this covers the non-carbon editions.
- 300 60 brass weights - expensive material, high quantity and easy to work with.
- 250 10 carbon plates - low amount, expensive material.
- 400 10 stainless steel weights - expensive material, low quantity and hard to work with.
So in total:
- FE/Standard - 250 + 300 + 150 + 300 = 1000
- Carbon - 250 + 300 + 250 + 400 = 1200
Before the stainless steel weight, we were looking at the aluminium weight being
250, therefore the carbon edition
1050.
Hopefully this explains everything.
