The 6th Annual BLF / Old Lumens Scratch Made Light Contest

We have 1st build thread live! Go and check it out here! Good job gchart!

Ps. I noticed Jack has got a keyboard. :person_facepalming: Bad things may happen. Hopefully Mr. Admin is awake and will ban him if/when needed… :stuck_out_tongue:

FMC is a lightbuilder and an entertainer :smiley:

Let’s see what happens when he pushes the button :smiling_imp:

I’m sure Jack will fill FMC’s head with ideas.

Going to have to miss this one again this year due to the financial mess left from my ex… These build contests are a lot of fun!
I still use my to past contest entries while camping and traveling.

1st Machine Made competitor joined! Please welcome Flashy Mike: 6th Annual Scratch Made Light Contest - Flashy Mike's machined project

At the very least I have to post in here, right? So, perhaps I will make an attempt to find my brain and see if there’s still something rattling around in there by way of ideas for an entry…

… I’ll be back.

You have shown us all here that you have more than rattles in your brain Dale. Your one of the wiz’s with all things flashlights here? :+1: :beer:

Thank you Steve, but the past year has been difficult and the past month has been brutal. Rattles may soon well be all I have left…

That sounds bad. I hope everything works out okay for you. :cry:

Justin used to say… it is what it is, y’all know I ain’t got sense enough to leave modding alone, regardless of how I feel. :stuck_out_tongue:

Lanterns are popular this year, first three entries….

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I WON’T be building a lantern. :wink:

I’m thinking of making a thrower, using the 200mm condenser lens from Edmund Optics, maybe with the focusing aspheric I removed from a Canon ultra wide angle lens. Just have to figure out if I can make the 4-jaw chuck work on the lathe and what materials I need to get as compared to what I have on hand. Haven’t decided on emitter, thinking about the SBT-70 for it’s round die. That would, of course, reduce throw considerably but would give a fantastic pattern and possibly 2000 lumens from a 3V emitter. I can’t see much over a mile anyway…

Sounds amazing Dale. I hope I have internet access OS. :+1:

hope we see some realy nice builds again this year.
unsure at this stage if I will enter anything.
all the best to all

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And another BUMP. :slight_smile:

Too many things going bump in the night around here! Dang near shot my monitor! :stuck_out_tongue:

Oh, and uh, a friend gave me some bits and pieces, absolutely gorgeous bits and pieces, that may have me going a different direction in this build. :wink:

See what my friend gave me….

Mokume Gane and Titanium Damascus, both about 30mm x 40 mm. So, a new challenge is born… what to make with these 2 gorgeous pieces of exotic bar stock?

Oh wow! :heart_eyes:

Well, those are pretty… What can you make out of two 30mm x 40mm pieces? They’re a bit short and wide for most flashlight shapes.

Could be a set of ten keychain-sized 10180 lights, or maybe combined for a 26350 thrower, or maybe split up for three 14500 lights.