Where you meet a few people and things start falling in place. Nice people. Helpful people. And they’re movers and shakers and I got lucky. That doesn’t happen to me real often, and I really really appreciate it when it does!
Who said it? “I Love it when a plan comes together!”
I’m tellin ya, Fred’s a genious on that lathe of his! He’s got some works that are just drop dead gorgeous and look impossible to do. And manually. Don’t know how he does it. Wish I could!
Hey, y’all see my post count climbing over there? Don’t even think about seeing this light when it hit’s 1000!! ROFLMAO
Who said anything about giving it away for 1000 post's posted. 500 post giveaway would be a lot better. I'm the first entry. Hope I win this thing. Simply orsm and thanks for such an amazing giveaway.
Looking to change the rules eh? You really do have a horrible memory! Don’t even think about it, means it just ain’t gonna happen!
But swim over here through Midland and don’t get blown up at Ft.Hood and we’ll talk
Very exciting time for me, the closest I’ve ever come to “commissioning” a successful build on something was a few holes poked in the top of a gun barrel with a window in the slide over it for competition shooting with a Glock .40 cal. That was before Glock started doing it, and it worked very well. 4 holes and a slot. Nothing like this at all!
Some of y’all will like the idea of this. Know how I happened upon Fred? I was talking with Matt, the designer of the driver, about a build he’s doing for a kick-a P60 drop-in that’s not quite done. He had mentioned making a new light with a bigger head to have cooling fins and I’m sitting here looking at this big 2 1/2” diameter chunk of Titanium, sitting on my shelf like a big heat sink that there’s never gonna be any way I can do anything with it, too big! So I ask him what I could do with it, kind of offhand like, make a flashlight head? He say’s, “Give it to Fred, see what he can do with it” I contacted Photon Fanatic in a PM and gave him the chunk of Ti. Payed it forward if you will. And that’s how I found out what Fred does and ended up commissioning him to do this light with another piece of the same grade of Ti that I also had.
Ironic, isn’t it? When you’re finally willing to give something away look what can come back at ya?
Edit for clarification purposes: Fred works for money.
Thanks for the compliments, really means a lot to me. I can’t, however, take credit for the pictures as they are Fred’s from his 30D and 100mm macro. Nice photo’s though, to be sure.
I’ll take some stacked macro’s when I get the light, with my 5DMkII or 1DsMkII, see if we can show a bit more of his fine detail work!
In doing all this posting and writing the description something occurred to me. Now I don’t know if Fred planned it this way or not, but…the V-Grooves in the head, the wider portion of groove that breaks over the ridge, that is almost exactly the position of the emitter in the center of this lil jewel! Almost like the tines on a physical torch that surround the flame, I really like that visual and once again I have to be amazed at the creative artistry that is Photon Fanatic!
Having made rings from this Ti in the past, I know that the tiny bezel detached from the light is near weightless…one of the things that’s always drawn me to Titanium, the piece is just difficult to believe even when holding it in your own hand, mind boggling compared to like items. I just can’t wait to have this light in my hands!
Here’s a bonus, the last of the Ti bar. Fred made a pill fob for my wife by my request in order to use the rest of the 1” bar. This series of pictures you can thank MRsDNF for, enjoy!