Photos of your lights strip, polished, baked, or whatever you thinks it look good!

Baked thorfire vg10, fet+1 dedome xml2.
I call it “three musketeer VG10”

New to baking, so I thought I’d try it out on a cheap zoomie. The main body is a nice copper/orange, and the tailcap and bezel turned out kind of chocolate, fortunately I rather like the contrast :slight_smile:

Now I just need to decide if it’s worth replacing the lovely blue LED and NMM driver :confounded:

I like how it turns out good job! :+1:

Thorfire c8s strip, polish swap driver FET+1 dedome xml2

Tim70, put your hands up and back away from the oven cleaner.

JK of course. Very clean looking lights. I love the stripped/polished look.

Thank WillyD, I like the polished look too! :smiley:

Those polished lights look fantastic. How long does it take get them like that, and what polish do you use?

I’m considering stripping an S2+ host, but I may be too lazy to put the effort in :stuck_out_tongue:

Thank Erethryn, I use Mothers Mag & Aluminum Polish I have to polished a couple time.

I love the uniform color you baked into this X6 :+1: looks really really nice, can you share the details on what you did to achieve that nice color, oven temp, time, prep, etc.

If you ever want to sell it let me know… :wink:

Here are some oldies I had a while back…


This thread is interesting but also reminds me that there are different tastes than mine. I really like quality aluminum anodizing on aluminum lights. Polishing on copper and steel lights.
But other methods like cerakote, tenifere or unique approach of artistic airbrushing could really add final touch to a modder light.

Nice :+1:

Thank AlexGT, I took all out apart baked 550F 30min or less keep on checking 10min or so, see the color that you want and take out the one you think is done maybe leave it longer some. The key is your eye :cowboy_hat_face: That light you have is beautiful! :+1:

First one I’ve done, I blowtorched an inexpensive LuxPro zoomie that I got a while ago from Lowe’s. It came out how I wanted with a gradient from burnt orange to black. Next up is a driver swap and possibly putting in a TIR lens instead of the aspheric.

Look good! :smiley:

Selective masking with silicone thread lubricant.

That is awesome! Kinda’ reminds me of urban camouflage.

Hey lads this is a stainless steel host from Kaidomain i sanded of the coating and polished it shiny. The light its self is standard set up 3amp Nanjg driver with a high CRI XPG2 on Noctigon board.

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I don’t get this… Silicone thread lubricant? How in a earth does that can take anodizing off if it is used for lubricating threads?

Q8 proto to see what is possible
The grey tailcap is so nice, think I will do the rest like that too when the real Q8 is in :wink:

I love the look you have created. What led is in the light and do you like the light overall?