FW3A, a TLF/BLF EDC flashlight - SST-20 available, coupon codes public

Your real name is “Toykeeper”? :stuck_out_tongue:

Yes and my real name is Yokiamy :wink:

Maybe make it a slightly deeper carry?

you guys keep this sh!# up there going to have to make up a new zodiac sign… Year of the FLASHLIGHT lol. Three custom bada$$ torches all at the same time I love you guys keep up the awesome work.

and ill take one of these as well thank you

Thanks for your answer Fritz! I guess that will be a nice add to the light, for a better portability, despite the initial look of it is awesome by itself! Good work :+1:
And I’m itching to get it on my hands :smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

Please add me to the list for one :slight_smile:

Looks like I’m not on the list yet, so we have to change that :smiley:

Please put me on for 1 :slight_smile:

I vote DEEP carry. Flush with or almost flush with the switch end of the light. Oh, and can it please be Titanium?

A DEEP carry Titanium clip on a raw Aluminum flashlight? What’s the reasoning for that one? It won’t show, and if/when it does show, it won’t match the light it’s attached to.

David, I’m hoping he meant the body of the light. Titanium would be nice even it was optional and more expensive.

Titanium might just be a stretch :wink:
Oh boy an update of the list is so overdue, sorry will do it!

A titanium body? The limited spreading of the heat that this flashlight already has will be even more localised then!

Think the D4, the head and body are aluminium and have a generous material thickness, and still on turbo the heat is produced so massively that it builds up near the led-shelf without enough heat path to get it away fast enough from there.

The FW3A is built thinner than that, the time on turbo before trouble starts will be even less. Make the body titanium and you can halve even that!

A nice premium version could be made of copper, at least your turbo-time will go up a bit then. It will require a new trick to insulate the inner tube from the outer one, copper can not be simply anodised like aluminium.

In for one if there is still room.

Thanks for the explanation. So aluminum it is. I don’t want the weight of copper.

Please put me down for one.

Please put me down for one

The only flashlight of mine that ever actually melted parts was a FET triple in titanium. It got hot enough to melt the legs and bottoms of a carclo optic while the tail of the light was still comfortable to hold. Just a bit longer and it probably would’ve unsoldered itself. It also burned skin bad enough to leave red welts when I actually touched the head, but luckily no blisters. Titanium is beautiful and I love my ti lights, but titanium hotrods are not a good idea.

I'll take two please.

Welcome to BLF!
Will update list later

Well we work on the FW3A A meaning aluminum
Brass Copper seem like a plan for the future :wink:

Yes. A DEEP carry raw Titanium CLIP on the raw Aluminium FW3A.

In my opinion it matches just fine.

The reason for Titanium is because of the mechanical properties. In its annealed state is much springier then spring tempered stainless and will flex a lot further before it gets deformed. When it does get deformed it can be heated with a torch and re formed to its original shape and not loose any strength. Stainless can't do that. It'll lose its temper and get weaker and eventually break.

Take 2 strips of sheet metal. 1 is stainless steel, 1 is Titanium. Now bend the 2 strips to the point that they crease and don't spring back to their original shape. The Titanium will bend way more and resist deformation much better than the stainless.

Titanium is physically superior to stainless steel as pocket clip material pretty much any way we look at it. It looks better too, IMO.