If knurling is needed on any light it is this one. At over 3lb it will need every bit of grip it can get. Lack of knurling is not an option IMHO. Remember the battery tube will be a SRK sized tube, that is already hard for some people to hold onto with extra grippy surface.
The cost will be basically the same between 1 and 2, if anything 2 would be a bit cheaper due to less mill work needed (aka, almost everything can be done on the lathe)
Maybe you’re right.
Depends on how matte / sand blasted it is too.
But i don’t think the market for the GT is the ‘professional world’ of search and rescue.
I like #1, but I don’t think I like the red color rounding the button. Maybe different color or just same color with the button would make it look better?
You would be surprised what “professional search and rescue” means. Generally things like flashlights are left up to the “man on the ground” to get for themselves save for maybe a cheap light or a old school “lantern”.
Same with cops, firefighters ect. They are pretty much on their own when it comes to this type of equipment and generally wholly under equipped due to not having the funds to spend on good tools.
Heck most of the cops around me, even though they are some of the best paid and top cops in the country, still have nothing more then a basic ~50-100 lumen AA powered flashlight. If that in many cases, I know some that use the 9 led jobs from walmart!
I could actually see this light being very popular with “professionals” from all walks of life form police to firefighters to search and rescue (which is usually a combo of the prior ones) to farmers and more.
actually i like the Design 2 most, it looks tough, the design 1 look smooth and easily slipping. The weight of the flashlight will makes it become nightmare
They are all too low. I have brought this up in the GT thread, and I was told that, even though they are technically useless, they won’t be moved or added to. I can’t live with a ‘technically incorrect’ light so I had to vote against it.
The design looks purposeful, but I was a fan of 5ar’s from day one.