If anyone is interested to see how the finish might look, banggood is currently selling a clear version of the BLF A6.
And the finish on the FW3A will go in the same direction, just the machining of the threads will hopefully be better 
sweet
Very nice, interested in 2 
It will be smaller and brighter than the A6 though, yeah?
Yes cabfrank, and a little more elegant and less boring too (IMHO so that is mere personal taste/preference 
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So your bringing attention to the bare A6 made me pull my down from the shelf and give it a look. And odd as it is, the Efest 35A cell inside is deaderān a doornail! No charger I have will recognize it at all. How does that happen? Thereās no parasitic drain on this tail clicky light, so why did the cell die?
Left it on moonlight or one of the hidden modes by mistake? Iāve done that
Iām in for 1 please.
My clear A6 has a de-domed XP-G2, the moon mode is low but not ultra low, difficult to not see that itās making light while setting it down especially as it resides on a top shelf above my headā¦ it would have been shining virtually in my face as I set it on the shelf. A6 firmware, so thereās not really a hidden mode that would not have been noticed.
And, this is the third Efest cell lately that is totally dead on me. (worthy to note that this one IS 3 years oldā¦)
High internal resistance is my first guess. If the cell was abused like I am sure it was, this is not far fetched. Possibly a short in the tail switch allowing a small amount of power to flow but then the LED should light up I figure.
Yeah, I wanted a bare one so I got them to make a bare one.
Itās not anodized at all; itās just the bare machined aluminum. The texture is pretty grippy due to the machining grooves:
Some people have polished theirs to give it a smooth shine.
Thats how I think the finish on this should be, just bare aluminum. Clear anno doesnt seem really worth it
Thatās cool. How does the bare aluminium hold up? Does it scratch very easily?
Yes, bare aluminum is pretty soft / scratchable. However, itās not usually very noticeableā¦ and itās not difficult to polish if desired.
Clear anodizing would make it much harder to scratch, and would still not look bad after scratches form since itās at least the same color. However, it wouldnāt be polish-able, and clear ano is difficult to get right since itās so thin.
I am interested, put me down for 1
Welcome to BLF!
Will update list later
Iām in for at least one.
2 for me please!
Um, sorry TK, but clear anodization is merely regular anodization without dye added before the sealing process. Not thin, not any more so than any black anodized light. Take the ZebraLight or DQG Tiny III 7xXP-G2 for example, they are anodized without dye but hold up very well.
In the case of the DQG, itās also a direct from machining ano process, showing the lines from the tooling. And by the way, these lines are really not necessary, a final pass can be made at slower feed rates for a near polished look straight off the lathe.
