Review w/pics: ReyLight's Golden Rey of Sunshine

Very nice review, your pictures are a treat, as usual! It looks like Rey has learned all the lessons there were to learn, and again delivers a custom light for a price that is way below custom light prices, but now also with all the details right.

This light is too heavy for me to consider buying, but seems more than worth the money!

Glue.

Specifically, Norland 61 optical adhesive. It goes on like vegetable oil, but cures in UV or sunlight to form a hard, durable, invisible glue.

Hmm, so that means if I decide to change the vial because the vial’s color doesn’t work for my usage, I’ll have to pry it loose from the adhesive?

Use boiling water to soften the norland. Then pick it out carefully.

101 g with Energizer Lithium prinary AA

Looks super nice. Those low moonlights are awesome, as is the tint, and pocket clip. Good job Rey, and thanks for the review Dale!

Thanks Dale and Rey. Looks like a real winner.

For TK, the ReyLight Brass Cutie next to the DQG 18650 Brass Beauty. Cells alongside for comparison.

(Yeah yeah yeah, I used the little Canon S90 instead of the 7DMkII with 100mm Macro Hybrid IS. Lazy, pure and simple.)

The thing here is, the DQG Brass Beauty was made to be as small as possible and fit an 18650. I have but one cell of all my cells that will fit inside this light and it’s really snug at that. The ReyLight Brass Cutie is made more robust, takes ANY AA cell or ANY 14500, lot of options there. Both are brass, yes. One is more refined, serves a grander purpose. :smiley:

Of a Ti 18650, yes, yes, yes.

I will add a pic with trit installed later.

I was just thinking about that as well Rey, I’ve got a green trit sitting here and the Norland to put it in with. And a crazy powerful UV light I made a while back to cure it. :smiley:

Edit: Not feeling so great but got a quick trit shot anyway. Sorry if it sucks…

Neato .

But I would have to file off the cord hole on the clip .

Thanks! It looks like it’s about the size I expected, similar to a Thrunite T10. Between the nice aesthetics and the clip, I’ll likely get a lot of use out of mine.

It’s fun trying to avoid perspective distortion on those little cameras, isn’t it? I always have to back away and zoom in as far as I can without making the exposure impossibly-long.

I shot that in Macro from about 5” away, applied distortion correction in Lightroom 5. :wink:

Easier, at the time, than digging out the big camera. Not sure what’s going on tonight but I feel lousy. Oh well.

Looks really good. Do you have a Rey Ti for a quick size comparism?

Beautiful! :heart_eyes:

Dear DB Custom,

Thanks for excellent review and especially the photos.
Are you sure that your current measurements are correct?
I suppose you measured current drawn from battery.
Comparison between levels 2 and 3 for both types of energy source looks very disturbing to me.

If a valet is a gentlemans gentleman,
then this must be a gentlemans flashlight.
Ready to serve you a lifetime.

And I would NOT file off the cord hole on the clip!

@Dale: nice review. This light has touched you, or what?

MiG0, I took current readings at the tail with a 12Ga loop and clamp meter. Have no idea why the numbers would disturb you. Must be missing something…

Henk, yeah, I like it. The overall style is nice, build quality is exceptional, numbers from the 2 different (3 different?) cells are very acceptable and the light, used as such a light would be used, just works nicely. The Nichia emitter is a good choice here I think, seems good choices were made in a lot of areas on this one… my opinion of course, as I really like a well made small flashlight.

I know some people just really have to have some negatives to feel good, where I tend to overlook negatives and focus on the positives. So, that said, if one just had to look for cons I suppose one or two could be found. Here’s a couple of little nigglin things… the switch button needs a pretty deep press to turn it on initially. It’s a concentrated effort, not likely to be done accidentally. My ~80 yr old Uncle was here yesterday and he has fat fingers and thumbs, he had issue with it. He loved the light, the weight of it, and thought it’d make a great gift for his wife. (both are very persnickety and want things to be Just So!) He said the light was made solid enough to fire out of a shotgun. I have to agree, but I don’t think it’s overkill here. The CNCQ DNQ Brass Beauty feels like it could be easily crushed, they tried so hard to make it as small as possible. Nice to see a light made for the long haul.

The pocket clip doesn’t grip as strong as some, so it won’t hold the light at the top edge of the pocket for example. And of course it is attached to the tail cap (in a manner of speaking) and comes off when changing cells, where it could have been maybe better if it stayed with the body of the light.

FWIW, the Nitecore MH20GT that just came in yesterday isn’t perfect either, and cost a smooth hundred bucks. (Pocket clip is TOO tight, difficult to remove from the pocket.) But that’s another story…

Nigglin things, hardly worthy to note which is why I didn’t in the first place.

If you look for the bad in life you will find it, if you spend your time looking for good you will likely create it. :wink:

The pre-machined tritium slot is genius