I’m using the iPhone input format. Keypad takes up 2/3 of the screen and on a long post the text doesn’t all fit in the box and I have to navigate out of the box without having the cursor move to get to the controls and input pics, links, paragraphs, etc. after a few edits in the op it’s much easier to put updates at the current end of the thread and put a link at the top of the op. Then, no matter how many posts follow the stages of the build can be tracked. Since there’s just descriptive explainations in Post 16 I might not link that or if I did just put”blah, blah, blah” in the link text box. Just for you I also edit the thread title with each new link added.
I hate using a phone to even read threads let alone try and post with one. What you did last time from memory works fine by me. Just remember lots of pictures and waffle. 
I know a lot of people do that, but to me it’s just nuts. I don’t have a smart phone though so that probably explains it. I can’t imagine reading this forum and looking at the pics on anything less than my 24” monitor. lol. Heck, I’ve had bride and groom try to pick their pictures out on smart phones, baffles me.
However you do it, keep it coming. And make the pictures bigger if you will, I just ordered an M1 and need to see your shot’s closer so I can copy you…
First bump.
Incredible. There is no way I would have the skill to modify lights to this sort of degree!
I am still a bit lost with how it will all come together in the end, but will be following this thread closely to watch it all unfold!
Sweet dreams and may the skin grow back. Was it burnt or cut flesh?
Check out my earlier mods. I haven’t done all that many. There’s a steep learning curve. Just try it. Screw up. Learn. Get better. It’s fun.
Sanded off holding the part between my fingers and spinning the sandpaper. Even calluses don’t last forever.
I like how various parts of the build look gruesomely ugly and then it beautifies in the end. When I reflowed a 20mm Noctigon with MT-G2 onto the 7/8” diameter 1” long copper heat sink for my L2m, when it was done it was all one piece and working perfectly, but the heat really made the copper ugly, not to mention some flux overflow. lol
What’s the old saying “It all comes out in the wash.”
You’re off to a great start, have fun!
Second bump.
I hope the masking tape is hiding bare flesh and not holding fingers on. There seems to be a thumb nail missing in that picture.
I dont have any hints for you at all boring holes out in little thin pieces of fragile steel. Looking good.
Index finger is missing the end. The tape was to protect them from the thin edges of the discs should it “grab” and spin I my grip. Ugly but it worked. The last few thou on each hole had to be done by reaming with the sanding drum.
You are one tough cookie.
Third bump.
I dont recall MTG-2 being mentioned and what a driver aye. You dont see BLF on many. Looking at it I got dizzy looking down from the top of the chips. Orsm.
It’s not often the led is as big as the driver but it’s just there for scale. It’s going in my Buck modded M1.
Fourth bump.
Are you going to solder the star in?
Ive gone out on a couple of limbs lately, so here I go on another one. You would have to solder it to get the heat away… no? All that work making the head, the fins etc.
Built from blood & tears! Nice work! Cool build to follow there.
I don’t know quite how you pull off the production aspect of all these parts being made and assembled. Envisioning it all in the first place, I guess that’s the part that gets me. How do you come up with the idea of all the various pieces parts for the build? Spend a lot of time looking at the pieces parts so they’re in your mind’s drawer ready to pull out for a build?