This is a great video, THANKS O-L! It's so different reading about it vs seeing it actually being done.
Will definitely try this when I want more flood in a light, but at the moment I probably has too much floodies. 
The only thing I'd like to flood more is the king, but there's no replacement if I mess up the reflector.
Very good video. Thanks.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate you sharing this. I was so impressed with the P-60 Nichia you did it was mind blowing. You transformed one of the worst beams ever to one of the nicest beams I have ever seen.
Thanks alot for that tutorial!
From now on I will read all your posts with your voice in my head 
I did almost the same on a P60 reflector (I used hairspray instead of clearcoat), but the problem I had was that I always had a few bigger ādropsā in my āspray-streamā wich resulted in a few bigger dots on my reflectorā¦
Do you know this phenomenon? Is it because the spray-can I used had a bad head, that didānt vaporize the hairspray liquid good enough? Or do you think hairspray is just not really suited? (of course it is not_ really_ suited, but I thoght it might do the job 
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I doubt that a few bigger dots will matter. After all that is the point of making it OP. ;)
Haha, you da man, Old, you da man :bigsmile: :bigsmile: Great vid! 
Would be great to see before and after beam shots, just to see how much throw is affected and how much it smooths beam down
Whe I first heard about stippling a reflector , some of the practitioners actually damaged the apeture of the spray can to achieve a coarser spray . Others became experts at pushing the button just hard enough to control the coarseness of the spray pattern . Some even felt that a nearly empty can produced the best spray pattern .
I think the hair spray is not suited for the job and the spray head will not give a coat like a paint head will.
Yep, I probably need to do that, with the next Maglite D build. Guess I had better write it down, before I forgetā¦
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What am I supposed to remember again?
LOL
For anyone that lacks "holy underwear" just hold it with your hand and wash it off in the sink. That's what I just did a few minutes ago on one of my reflectors. :D
Nice Video Old-Lumens!! Great info.
I thought I could smell paint earlier!!
Many Thanks!!
Thanks OL, Iāve always wanted to see this as I have a light or two Iād like to apply this treatment too.
Very informative, thanks for sharing.
lol :bigsmile: Who are you? Where am I? :bigsmile:
OK, donāt know where to ask this stuff but will try here: have someone tried SMO reflector with XML and de-domed XML with OP/stripple reflector (same reflector or very similar size)?
I havenāt seen any threads on it. I am going to do SMO and Stippled on the Nichia 219 and then on an XM-L T6, but I donāt plan on de-doming anything, unless itās by accident. The 219 should be done this week-end and the XM-L might be a couple weeks away. I canāt do lumens testing, so it will just be beam shots on the same night, in the same light.
One thing to be aware of when using this technique on high-powered, heat generating lights is the tendency of the spray to yellowā¦
I did this tonight, but the outer part of the reflector smooths out every time (did it twice).
The center looks good though, I wonder what Iām doing wrong, maybe need more distance?
my badā¦
it just depends on the side from which you look.
from the side, it looks like it`s smooth towards the wider end of the reflector.
like in my first pic (even though, in the picture it looks more stippled than in person)
but when I checked it from a different angle, I could see that it was stippled all over the place, as seen in my next picture:
anyway, all is good now!
Can someone try to stipple only the inner half/part of the reflector? 
You should try it and report back to us.