FINALLY!! A quality led lantern. I want this. Any chance to have it available by spring fishing season? Do you have a price target? I know at least 4 people that would want one.
Please continue your efforts. I believe you are about to fill a huge void in the market.
I am most likely interested!
I would buy at least 2 or 3 of these, I’m 1000% in for a quality LED lantern for camping.
I’m interested as well! Thanks for this!
I’m interested as well! Thanks for this!
Update?
Den has been busy with real life this fall.
This is a light i would consider buying based on pricepoint. I really like lantern style lights over flashlights, the “flood” over a “throw” is way more useful for me. I wasnt able to find a good one, so I made one, intentionally rustic. I wrote up the sumary of it for another site, I wont “cross post” but the lessons learned I had were:
I couldnt find a good LED, everything needed something to defract the beam. But I didnt want a beam, so I sent with a G4 5W 580-Lumen 102 SMD DC 12V, this works great. I little more light output would be nice, but this is good.
I would have prefered something to hold up top, like a lantern, not like this coffee cup handle.
Having a beam that goes 360 around would be better than this, which is a little over 180 deg.
Its a 12v bulb, I am using unprotected laptop pulls, so I use the volt meter to watch their power and dont let it drop below 9v, that leaves them with enough juice to not over discharge.
Many hours of light. Two modes, on and off.
I will be building something to replace this, but if this BLF build first, I would buy that, again, depending on the pricepoint.
Nice! Useful and it immediately makes a good athmosphere while camping 
This is an awesome project. I really hope it gets off the ground. I’m very interested. Might buy multiples depending on price.
I’m in
This is interesting, I will buy if the price is good.
I would be in for at least two if the finished product is as good as I think it will be.
The price and quality will both be better than good.
Happy new year to DBSAR!
It would be great to know how his project is going to in 2017
I’d be interested for one, possibly more depending on pricing. I’m all for a good (maybe perfect?) lantern… but this IS the budget light forum, so budget is key. That’s not to say I expect this lantern to be sold for 8.78 on GB! lol… no, that’s ridiculous. But I certainly don’t want to pay $60-$80 for it either.
I’ve been looking for decent lanterns for a week, this is the most promising one I have found. Definitely interested.
If it can eventually get rolling to a production model then will be no prob.
Nice to hear from the “father of the lantern”
How possible is that the lamp will get into production this year?
I don’t know at the moment, as The Miller is busy working on the BLF Q8 and BLF Thrower lights at this time, ( he has more resources to reach out to manufacturers than i do.