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

Thanks RC

Its weird not to write anything since june last year… Fritz where are u

Not the exact word I would use, but I do not disagree with your opinion.

This is my opinion, and what I am going to say applies to anyone in any situation… myself included.

When people are depending on you & your input about something, so that it may come to completion… there is absolutely no excuse on earth to just ‘disappear & go totally silent’ unless you are dead, totally incapacited , or lost in a remote wilderness area. No excuse at all.

It makes no difference if life happens, you lose interest, you get mad, whatever.

It takes about a minute or two to make a short post or send an email saying you quit & pass the torch on to someone else.

We have seen that happen in the case of the BLF GT where the lead person just vanished at a critical time in the project. Thankfully Texas_Ace picked up the torch & straightened out the mess that project was left in…. seeing it through to completion. Without TA & JasonWW, who tirelessly answered an untold number of questions… over & over & over & over; the BLF GT project might well have been a disaster.

And with this project the same thing has happened to some degree. The keeper of the list disappeared first & the designer next. Toykeeper has taken up the torch as best she can to keep this project on track…. which I can only imagine is totally frustrating to her as she receives little info to even give us updates about. :person_facepalming:
And pepinfaxa graciously took on the task of straightening out & keeping the list.
If they had not done what they have done… who knows where this project would be?? :person_facepalming:

Anyway…. except for fhe reasons mentioned above there is no excuse to not at least say “I quit”. To not do so is rude, crude, & socially unacceptable…… no matter who the person or what the situation.

This is my opinion…… yours may vary. . :+1:

Is the “team” section oft the first post still up-to-date? The one with the persons involved and their role in the project.

I am fairly new to the TLF and BLF but I guess I could relay some messages if the persons involved in the production/design over here would want that.

I will ask in the TLF thread about the whereabouts of Fritz/Cawi in the meantime as I am interested on their perspective.

Edit: In the second thread for preordering on TLF I read that ToyKeeper contacted Bluzie from the TLF (Admin and part of TLF forum’s team) - so I guess my help as a message broker isn’t needed after all :smiley:

Leaving us…

:person_facepalming:

H,

Could I put my name down for 1 light please?

Kind regards

Priceless KB…. :smiley:

My opinion is that the FW3A is still a very nice flashlight and I’m still in for 4 of them, and that’s it. :wink:
Many thanks to Fritz and other people involved in designing it, even if it will never go into production, at least it was an interesting project to follow.
One thing that can be put to the credit to Fritz is to have initiate a project that generates so many interests till now.

To me, it shows that there is a pretty strong perceived need to have a very small and powerful light with top tier UI and emitter choices.

I totally agree, it is a very nice & well thought out light and I am certainly still in for the four or five I’m on the list for…. but it still has to make it to the finish line. Otherwise all the neat design & great hype it deserved were an exercise of futility. :slight_smile:

yes i agree, its just sad that the project is hanging lose when the makers of light are gone missing and not updating :frowning:

This thread reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode.

“Where is everybody?”
That one?

I’m also still in for two and look forward to receiving them… sometime this year? :innocent: I hope all the delays and lack of communication don’t adversely affect the quality.

Maybe, can’t remember . Just the whole feeling.

Yeah, that’s it:

There is a sixth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space, and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears, and the sunlight of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area that we call, The Twilight Zone.

More like “Car 54, Where are You?”

My opinion:

  1. No BLF member depends on this, I do not see why you see it like that. No one except Lumintop and Fritz have spent money on this and Toykeeper spent time writing firmware and testing a prototype, all other members have wishes and expectations and have a good subject to talk about (which why we spend time on BLF), but do not depend on this project.
  2. For Fritz and most others this project is part of his hobby. Essential to hobby is that there are no obligations. If he feels like it he may disappear and go silent just like that, for any or no reason. It is a pity for Lumintop, Toykeeper and all other people who have hope for his continuing input, and a message explaining why is welcome (you’d be surprised how much effort it takes to write a simple message in a situation where people are so demanding as in this thread), but actually demanding anything is totally out of place.

If I had succumbed to all the people who more or less demanded things from me over the years on BLF I would have been stressed out in no time and have disappeared years ago, probably without notice. I try to help people out if they ask me for something, but if I do not feel like doing something I just do not do it, or take weeks to do it, or simply forget it. It is not my work, I do it for fun.

(you’d be surprised how much effort it takes to write a simple message in a situation where people are so demanding as in this thread), but actually demanding anything is totally out of place.

Well said djozz.

2 more Please :slight_smile:

I’m not surprised “you do not see how ‘I’ see it like that”. We are talking about two different things.

  • Of course none of us ’need’ this light. Did any of ‘us’ ask for this light, or was it presented & offered to us?
    It is a neat light, but the sun will still rise if it never happens.
    Your coming at this from the hobby aspect & I agree… nobody is ‘owed’ anything.
  • What I am saying is this, and it pretty much applies to anything in life. If I start something that involves others, I have learned to finish it OR have the common decency to at least tell those involved “I quit”, maybe even with no explanation.
    Don’t tell me that takes any effort at all to do.
    It is simply the respectful thing.