Reflector revised: ReyLight Pineapple Brass 14500/AA Flashlight, Nichia 219C 4000K

Personally, I would not.
IMHO what makes the Pineapple so special is the archaic material (brass, as will copper be) in a heavy, dense format and most of all the simple, kind of raw, coarse design. The host ist all hefty and rugged, to a point most non flashoholic people don’t even recognize it as a flashlight on first sight. The modern and functional internals shine through only at the front and the back end, what is why the trit in the button dosn’t disturb the overall looks of the light. Holding it in my fist is like gripping a solid tool handle, and its function, LIGHT, is coming out of the ends, one active, one passive…
That’s why I think trit slots in the head would destroy this look-and-feel.
They better match a technical material (titanium, stainless) and design (Ti Lan), IMHO…

Thought a lot about what I would change if I could.

One thing I’d possibly give a try: flat sections on the head, just like the ones on the tail. Two or four. They would improve grip between thumb and index finger, and add to the rolling-resistance, if done the whole way up to the front, just like the tail flats. But could also stop somewhere in the middle or, better, near the front of the head, at a step (angled), which would also add to the grip, building an anti-slip ramp.
Big problem here: The head flats would not match the tail flats. Could possibly bother a lot of people. But the four tail flats are already not matching the four groves in the middle section anyway - so what? :wink:
But probably not a really workable idea, overall…

What would be interesting to see is how the Pineapple would look like with more breakthroughs in the four rings in the middle section, so that the breakthroughs and the remaining parts of the rings would be about the same size and roughly square. Eight instead of the four existing ones would fulfill this task, I think. As a side effect it would probably look more like a pineapple, that way! :smiley:

But what I would surely do, if it was up to me, is omit the three grooves in the head, to make the design even simpler!
On my aged Pineapple I find them still a lot too shiny, and too technical/modern, a little bit foreign, disturbing. Not really adding to the grip, and collecting debris…

But, of course, leaving the design as ist is, would be perfectly fine! :slight_smile:

Thanks for the advice.

New DHL package was signed, I think Massdrop will lanuch it really soon.

Any chance of getting one straight from you ?

Sorry, I don’t have some spares.




Nice Rey, I like it !

Sandblasting.




Ok, sell me a bead blasted version :smiley:

Sand blasted look fantastic!

My bad, should’ve not expected MD can launch Ti Lan as fast as they did the Pineapple. It was just one day.
Now the fastest they can turn this around is 3 days. Becuase they don’t launch 2 similar lights that will compete with each other.

Do you have a date Rey so we don’t miss out?

Bad thing always comes in double, or even more. Everything takes more time than expected. :person_facepalming:

1: Production delayed. Titanium is not easy to machine well.
2: HongKong DHL warehouse in fire, package hold, returned and reshipped. (6 days wasted)
3: Wrong estimation of launching schedule, without asking MD. (7 days behind)
4: Package was found out being shipped to MD warehouse in New Jersey, instead of their office in California.
They need the sample to take photo. (Another week)

I hope I can learn from this and do better for the future. Get everything prepared, confirmed, and then get back to you.
No guessing, estimating, optimism, only fact and truth.

Finally available on Massdrop, bad pictures though.
https://www.massdrop.com/buy/reylight-ti-lan-aa-titanium-flashlight

Wait… Will the Lan also be available in sand blasted version?

Yes, working on it now.

Pls poll 1# or 2#. I prefer 1#.


Neither, make it smooth with no machining

+1

OK.