i like the way you think 
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.
That is the most exquisite tiny light I have ever seen .
UN . BE . LIEVABLE .
BRAVO !
Howly cow 
Thanks God you have used Canon EOS for this work, those shots are simply gorgeous!!! :heart_eyes:
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!
That is just quite frankly jaw droppingly gorgeous. Congratulations.
And severe thumbs up to fred. He is without a doubt a master of the old school.
Cannot wait to see this finished, please keep us updated.
Everything was looking pretty amazing through the build, until the end.
Then you turned the awesome-meter past 11 with those grooves on the head.
ruffles. You are certainly a hard task master. It started of at 12 for me and went to a 15 (out of 10).
Nothing to say, nothing to add. Just posting out of wonder.
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!
[Thud!]
That was the sound of my jaw hitting the floor.
It took 100+ pictures to make those 7! That collage is actually 16x24 at 300dpi, click it and go to Flicker to see it full size.
Laugh out loud Wayne! Thanks! Now my kid will never get to sleep! “What’s so funny Dad? So what’s so funny?”
No I did not make this or take the pictures. I just inquired about it.
Thanks for nothing DBCstm. I will no longer post any pictures of any machining I do. I'm just not worthy. 
I’ve seen your work man, post em up! That little scope looking mini is awesome, send it to me and I’ll take some pics for you.
I tried to show the little pill fob against common objects so’s you could get a sense of it’s size. My mojo was off but I’m happy with a couple of these, especially the ones in front of the P-60 and in my wife’s hand.
Glad you like em.
Bottom’s up!
Wow!! Incredible work. Thanks for sharing!
It looks fantastic. Thank you for the many pictures. I haven’t the equipment or the ability to do such a great work. For me it’s really nice to see, how such a great product was produced.
I’m a photographer. Can’t help myself. So, with that being said, here’s a new shot I just took for a size comparison evaluation. This picture is a stacked macro comprised of 62 individual shots merged together to get this one highly detailed picture. Nothing spectacular about the Solarforce L2P used here other than the Gold color. But, the AAA MiniMag recently acquired from O-L is a very cool little light! I hope to chop it to a single AAA and with that in mind started taking some measurements. That’s when I realized that in chopped form it will be almost exactly the size of the Texas Poker shown above! The chopped AAA MiniMag in this photo is not actually chopped….I took the liberty to Photoshop it to show the result if I’m able to pull it off. Go ahead, look at it full size in Flickr and see if you can find the “seam” lol
Thought I’d give y’all a look behind the scenes, as it were. Fred uses Solid Works to design the product, then machines it exactly like the design. I’ve never seen autocad type work before and find it amazing that someone can design something on this level, then replicate the design on a manual lathe. It equates to sheer Genius as far as I’m concerned!
Fred even sent me a file with this information to be used in a Solid Works Viewer so that I could look through the components, rotate it around 360º and get a good feeling for the light from inside to out. Mind boggling stuff it is! I took the above picture as a screenshot from this viewer while looking at a 3D cutaway view of the Texas Poker on an angle. The copper pill inside the copper heatsink shows that a good portion of the head is copper with the weight of that copper being pretty central in the overall balance scheme. Very nice!