Introduction
We are a team of two friends who have loved flashlights for as long as we can remember. Being able to turn our hobby of building flashlights into a business has been a dream of ours for awhile and we’re excited to finally start. Our main passion is super long range throwers, there is just something about a solid beam of light projecting into the sky that is just wonderfully entertaining. And with that comes one simple goal: building the longest throwing, highest candela, lights in their class. Packing the highest Kcd numbers in a given size whether it be for raw performance or practical throw in an EDC package.
Product lineup
In Cocobolo and Copper
We’ve all seen countless new lights come out in materials like copper, brass, titanium, stainless steel and more exotic alloys and some of them have some nice machining but in end they are all still metal tubes that light comes out the end of. We wanted something more interesting, something anyone can pick up, flashlight enthusiast or not, and appreciate. While we may think many lights look nice, to most people they are just a flashlight and titanium or not, it isn’t going to inspire beauty. Members of our team have training in classical woodworking, so when we started working on this light we saw a chance to apply that skill, to be able to incorporate the natural beauty of wood. This light harkens back to a time when things were handcrafted by artisans and finished to show the inherent aesthetic of the materials. Paired with raw copper, brass accents and just a hint of modern flair with blue GITD elements around the switch and charging port we think we’ve made something quite striking, something you could gift someone and before even knowing what it is they would instantly recognise it as something of elegance and beauty.
And of course because we are really still performance junkies at heart we have a range of options for all your needs, from the 260kcd night piercer variant to high lumen and high CRI models and even one of our particular favorites, the Nichia 319A which projects a hexagonal beam profile. All stuck to a big 1/8in thick aluminum or copper block to suck away heat. Comes with internal high discharge batteries and micro USB charging. Uses a conventional switch to prevent parasitic drain and a brass switch rod for a clean and crisp switch feel. Driver firmware is either Bistro or LD-3 depending on the LED and drivers are mounted in thermally filled potting compound mounted close to the backer plate for good thermal sensing and cooling (LD-3 has the thermistor mounted on the MPCB).
In Red Oak and Aluminum
In Cherry and Copper
A shot of the finish on the back and engraving
150 yards
With up to 1 million candela, equivalent to 2km ANSI throw distance this is on par with the most powerful LED throwers on the market. Comes with 4 modes, moon, low, medium and turbo. Five thermal upgrades including a potted driver keep the LED and high efficiency buck driver cool to allow maximum time in turbo. For maximum throw these come with a tuned SrAl powered GITD spacer ring that sets them at optimal focus and keeps the head aligned.
150 yards
For a more portable and practical jacket-pocket sized light, we built the Strike of Hyperion, it spits out “only” 400kcd, 1265m ANSI throw but in a much smaller package. Well beyond any light it’s size and more than double other modded high throw lights using the same host. These really are the zoomie that performs like it should, provides nice flood when working close up with crazy throw when you need it. These have the same thermal upgrades as the WoR but also include the more feature rich Bistro firmware with thermal monitoring that works particularly well when combined with the potted driver. They also come with our GITD tail rings for a bit of added flair. Since these lights are so practical but still slightly too large for pants pockets we've also released a quick deploy holster so they can be easily carried.
Other products
280+kcd C8 with GITD tail ring
We’re also working on a number of accessories including our first release of GITD tail rings for a number of popular hosts. They use the much brighter and longer lasting SrAl based GITD materials and have a more interesting effect so are all around more impressive than the common GITD tail boots.
Testing
Each light is tested for it's main performance spec and includes a verification and authenticity card.
Pricing
Being this is budget forum I’m sure price will be a point of contention for many of you and in a way I agree. I also love cheap lights because it allows me to mod them just the way I want. I’m sure many of you are thinking “well I could build that for less” and that may be true but the majority of flashlight enthusiasts are not modders. The skills, tools and large time expenditures it takes to mod a light appear as free when doing personal projects but when selling something built in the US, with careful attention to detail, machining, and expensive custom tooling it’s really not cheap. And while we would love to be able to keeping doing this as a hobby and make no money the reality is it has to be at least somewhat profitable to justify continuing and allow us to work on new projects.
What LED and upgrades are you using?
We know people will want to know all the different tweaks and tricks we put into this light, especially the emitter. I know I would be dying to know so I could mod a light for myself. Here is the thing though. We really want to keep building cool lights, pushing boundaries, and doing new things in the future. But there are a lot of other established companies and builders a lot better positioned to sell lights than we are. So while, obviously, people will probably figure out most of what we’ve done eventually, we’re hoping this will give us enough of a head start before other modders copy us.