Hahaha I’m glad I brought some fun to u guys, I’m cooking a lot of lights to ,will show soon ,lol it’s addictive
yep, I was skeptical at first..then fired up the toaster oven on broil and threw er in...ten minutes later I was whoopin. Wife thought I had burned kitchen stove as it smelled for a minute or so.(old lube i guess). When I showed her what I'd done she laughed out loud. Alchemy Alchemy....turning black soot into GOLD....LMAO !!
I tried this out on the bezel and tail cap of a cheap torch I had. Instead of putting it in the oven I put it under the grill for more direct heat. I think the problem with putting it in the oven is even at the highest temp the element will be switched on and off to maintain a constant temp. The grill just runs flat out. It worked well and I got a nice bronze effect after ten minutes. Not able to post pictures at the moment.
I had to crank it up to 500 degrees before anything happened. I put an L2i in @350 and it did nothing. Gonna try again at 500.
500Foy
Broil not bake 
Ohhhh . . . .
I did it wrong. No wonder it took four hours.
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I really must stop. I am wondering what my original dqg tiny aaa would look like baked. It currently has a titanium finish. Well thats what it was called I think.
Swear to God, this is the last one....
This time I did use the broiler, 20 minutes vs 1:45 in the oven. I must say this little project breathed some new life into my least liked flashlight, the Yezl Z1 - Poor finish, ringy beam, flickers, sometimes won't switch modes. So I figured it wouldn't be a great loss either way, plus I saw how edc's UF2100 (the Yezl's doppelganger) turned out and I liked it. And better pictures from my wife's new digital camera instead of the iPhone:
Color is really a cross between gun metal and antique bronze, depending on the light. While I had this thing apart, scrubbed everything clean, sprayed a bit of anti-corrosive lube spray into the switch, lubed the O-rings and threads, tightened everything down and added diffusion film to the lense (courtesy of Chicago-X):
I've always liked the size and form of the Yezl, now it looks nice and works nice too. No longer my least favorite, now middle of the pack. 
Science Projects Rock!
If you can get, or borrow a small butane or propane torch, it works as well or better than the broiler and it’s more fun to “burn it yourself”.
You could do it over a gas stove too. It would only take minutes to do. Don't over cook it though. I haven't cooked my dqg yet. I am still trying to resist the temptation.
I actually used a frying pan! put it in aluminum foil and just heated that up... (fan on)
not sure what helped the best, because I used a conventional oven and a 1000w toaster :)
now it has a nice "brown glow"
It's press fit. By pushing hard on the tailcap you might push the whole assmbly out. The boot will be severely damaged (could use a better color boot anyway) and maybe the switch too. You will probably need to glue it back in after cooking.
Your oven will be calibrated in degrees Centigrade, not Fahrenheit like the American ones - 250oC is 482oF
Just had to do one more... I put it in the electric toaster oven with a pad of foil under all parts and BROIL for 25-30 minutes. Put parts as close to top elements as you can. 
Streamer -
That looks awesome with the black clip.
Foy
that did come out awesome! might do mine
might also just do bezel and tailcap
I did tractor supply 3xD zoomie w/ torch and it came out GOLD (was orange but changed fast, too much heat)- terrible, I hate it. I think it will get stripped...
dam sipik really looks nice, but dissasembling the light would probably make me ruin it :p
I took the clip off the sipik68...didn't bake the tail and couldn't get the lens out of the bezel so it's black for and aft with a black clip ..I think it's balanced better with touches of black all over it rather than just the tail and clip black ..i like it better than stock :P :)
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That looks awesome with the black clip."
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....and also has black boot... not visible in pic.
btw: the clip was left on and didn't change...not type II I guess 
The clip's coated steel, not anodized aluminum...