CRX 3000 Post Giveaway

Nice idea for a GAW. Iā€™ll be keeping an eye on this and watching it come together. Please count me in.

I just gave a wuben t046r to a tech averse older friend. It is a perfect gift for the uninitiated because of the built in micro usb charging feature. I could tell he was just used to maglight levels of brightness and was blown away by this relatively little pocket rocket. Often times, giving feels better than receiving.

Love to win something.
Iā€™ve never done a giveaway on here but I have given many of my lights to friendā€™s and family. I always want anyone I know to be able to reach out and light someone

I am in. Thanks for the GAW and congratulations on your 3000 posts.
I have given countless flashlights to family and friends over the years, hoping they will enjoy and use them.
Best of luck on your expertise in the flashlight build.

Hey man, Iā€™m interested in a shot at this light here, since I didnā€™t see anything indicating youā€™ve already finished it.

Regarding what Iā€™ve given away, my flashlight hobby is known by most people, and I have no qualms about reinforcing that view of me. Iā€™ve gifted Nitecore MT06MD penlights to friends when they graduated nursing school, Iā€™ve given many a headlamp to friends working in industrial settings, and Iā€™ve offered countless recommendations to people who ask me. Iā€™ve done modding work for various people, as well, not charging more than a few dollars for my time on top of the cost of parts (generally just enough to round out a dollar value).

Hey, very cool. Please count me in

Iā€™ve given some furniture and time to a struggling single mom.

Sounds like the description of a ā€œOld-Lumensā€ light, too.

Keeping the tradition alive :slight_smile:

Time

Only the tube and the CRX gaw light looks beautiful already. Sweet GAW!

Just gave grandma (recently widowed and canā€™t see well) an Astrolux A01 219B, Convoy S9 in NW & Nightwatch NA40SE SST20 95 CRI.
She isnā€™t afraid of the dark anymore and also loves high CRI lights. Big upgrade from D cell Mag from 1999ā€¦ā€¦

I would like to enter. My recent non financial GAW have been my time. I am a merit badge counselor for the Boy Scouts and I have met with several scouts over the past year. Guessing 10 - 15 hours in 2018. If youā€™re looking for something physical, my wife and I gave away a baked lasagna and bread to some local homeless folks.

Iā€™ve never been rich money-wise but I did give my car to my buddy who needed it. My buddy sold me his car for a couple hundred bucks so I gave my car to my buddy who had a new job and a broken-down car. It was trickle down economics that actually worked. I think part of his first paycheck paid for one of his parentā€™s health bill or something. Crazy how it all flowed down and it was fun to be part of a serendipitous giving chain.

Other more boring things Iā€™ve given are random gift cards that I get in presents or birthday cards. Sometimes Iā€™ll mail them to other people just to surprise them. Usually with an anonymous note just to make them smile. Iā€™ve only done it a few times, really, but once a buddy told me about getting one of those cards in the mail and I just acted surprised and enjoyed seeing his smile as he was talking about it. I didnā€™t get to see him open it but I could tell it was like a random Christmas-morning feeling for him.

nice giveaway! I gave a blf q8 to a friend because he liked it so much and i have a few spare light in my collection;)

As usual, one more piece of art Stevi! :+1:

Please donā€™t count me in.
Iā€™ve given freely many good flashlights to friends who appreciate them but I donā€™t deserve to participate in this great GAW, as I had the honor to be picked as the winer of your amazing Carbon Fibre & Brass Flashlight (CRX 1000 Post Giveaway), so someone else deserves more than I do to win your handmade piece of art. :slight_smile:

Wow, no lathe? I honestly thought that was part of your tool set. :+1:

I am convinced he uses some kind of advanced alien technology. That or telekinesis.

Nah, heā€™s just channeling Old-Lumens. O-L regularly employed the ā€œHuman Latheā€ method to make some very beautiful works of art.

I have a hard time tying my shoes in the dark. He cranks out lights with nothing but a screwdriver and a cold beer.

If the beer is cold enough, he doesnā€™t even need the screwdriver. :disappointed:

Congratulations and please count me in. I absolutely love your flashlights. I like to gift a good flashlight or knife to my hiking and camping companions. Cheers mate!

Thank you for the opportunity.

I have been clearing out the workshop, my two sheds, and garage for several months, a little at a time. I have given several loads of construction materials to Habitat for Humanity. Unused building materials. Nails, bolts, screws, and other assorted home building and renovating hardware. Assorted power tools and hand tools I no longer use or need as newer mostly cordless tools have supplanted them. Assorted lengths of pipe as well as boxes plumbing fittings. Electrical outlets, switches, boxes, and wire staples. The exercise has helped me clean up, free up space and made things tidier here. Habitat will use items for the community home building they do or sell items in their ReStore. Those proceeds are used to help the community.

And I gifted this years contest project to my son. He uses it every day. Or at least everyday I drop by his home. :wink: