Copper Olight S1

Agree.

Why not a gunmetal bezel?

Uncoated and silver from this crop of selections. I love me some patina on copper…

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Gunmetal is a good option.

I like bezel and clip in the same color
If gunmetal bezel: gunmetal clip
If silver bezel: silver clip

Uncoated might be slightly more appealing, but I would accept both, coated or uncoated.
Just don’t make the bezel blue please. And could the button be made out of copper too? plastic button on beautiful brass light is just wrong…

Patina lover here, I prefer uncoated.

clearly unfinished is the way to go .
the upside of these lights is you could use them to fix the shut off valve under your sink and … use them to fix the shut off valve under your sink.

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I’d take it uncoated with silver bezel in a heartbeat!

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Olight really need neutral white option! Its mandatory!

I vote for coated and SS bezel.

I’ll take the one on the left just the way it is! :wink: Very industrial looking, or steampunk, which ever, I want it! Does it take a 18350? :~

I’m with you, that uncoated/ss or gunmetal whatever is the best option for this light. I’ve got the original black ano light and it does not take 18350. I wouldn’t expect this to either. 16340 works fine through.

Are the walls thick enough to take a brake cylinder hone to them and still have room for an 18350?

Regardless, I could justify a couple of 16340’ just for this light…

I think you’d be buying those 16340s…

Yup, that thing is tiny… Had to ask though, thanks for the pic…

Welcome. It’s really a great little light and the copper will be awesome I’m sure, but I really hope it’s not blue pvd…

Another reason for my vote on the unfinished copper

Antibacterial if unfinished, plus the patina can look so worn in without any actual wear….

Of course coated will look shiny for a long time, each has their own virtue…

For me it depends on the coating. If it's clear lacquer then forget about it, I'll take the uncoated. I'm a patina fan more than anything so safest bet is uncoated.

I saw on another forum where Marshall at GoingGear said they were PVD coated. I don’t know exactly how that works, but some googling around informed me that normally PVD coating copper requires that it be chrome plated first, then PVD coated using a copper colored dye. That’s kind of cheating, if you ask me, so I wouldn’t be very I interested in that either.

Good thing I’m a big fan of raw copper, patina and all.

Uncoated all the way! One of the main reasons I like copper light is because the natural properties of it… The platina, the smell and the feel.

A coating would be like preserving it in vacuum