thats awesome
First I want to say. “WOW that is crazy.”
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Second is what deep thinking, or drinking, hold my beer, inspired this one?
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You knocked it out of the park and it is amazing, Great job.
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Are you waiting for the x2 tubes for the q8? more power…. Re : BLF Q8 and Sofirn Q8 Extended Tubes?
Expecting longer run time from Sofirn’s new tubes, hoping the carriers can carry the current, don’t know if there’s leeway for more power but would be happy to at least not lose power.
No alcohol was harmed during the making of this light. 
Klrman, I ran it in the lightbox for 2 minutes with zero air circulation around the head, it dropped to 12,800 lumens as the 4 cells took a hit but, while it did get pretty warm, I could still cover it with my hand and keep contact.
So yeah, interested to see what Sofirn’s tubes do for run time… 8 cells? 12? 16? I have 16 brand new Samsung 30Q’s on standby.
Awesome light! Bet it’s got a nice beam.
Nice threading of the bezel. From my limited machining experience that is not so easy. I like this strategy of making interchangeable heads for the Q8 battery. Could make a nice multi emitter super high output thrower!
As everyone said totally awesome build Dale. It seems battery tech is what’s holding you back. Thought about doing something like this with a Boss1 ?
2 minutes is really impressive, even more impressive is that it only dropped to 12,800 lumens 
Sofirn is expecting to have the tubes/carriers in the next week or so, it should prove interesting how it does on more cells…
Back when the Boss 1 came out I was pretty interested, but big lights really aren’t my thing and I never got one. Now I seem to have been acquiring and building big lights and they take up so much space… running out of room!
When Sofirn agreed to build carriers to hold 4 cells and maintain the 3V parallel set-up, I got the idea to do this. 4 tubes/carriers holding a total of 16 cells made me think to go 4 quads, seemed a natural progression at the time. When I laid it out and saw the big gap in the center, well, seemed like something was needed to add some punch so the reflector idea came up. If necessity is the mother of invention, then it’s also true that form follows function… and sometimes following that gets us out on a limb! 
I got the brass in and today I fitted the 4 shells to the light. Glued in with black Sugru after sealing the electrical connections with Arctic Alumina Thermal Adhesive.
So I have the 4 quads, 5 drivers, just need the extension tubes from Sofirn to run the 8 cells… making it truly a 458 that Ham’rs. 
As usual, nice work Dale! 
Any chance for a groupbuy for the 458 Ham’r?
I’d say you could have also named it “musclelight”
Great work Dale. You need to mass produce your works of art man. Guys like me will buy and DEFINITELY support your brand.
It’s a big block right? That much grunt (8 cells) behind it it must be a big block 
Nice. I was wondering why you changed the name, but I see you kept with the bullet theme.
Just amazing Dale!
That is one kick arse light.
I wanted to incorporate SMD emitters into the primer cups and tie them into the switch light, in the end I figured it would be a virtual waste of effort as they would seldom be seen.
I used the Ham’r last night, walked down to the road to try and flag down the UPS driver but it was just a venture in play as I ended up having to get the truck and go find em. lol Really enjoying the central hot spot with all the flood surrounding it, makes for a nice walk light at lower levels and on the occasion higher levels are used it’s kind of cool having football stadium lights on hand at a double click.
PP? It’s an Aluminum Big Block. 
3 lbs 2 ounces, guess that’s a bit more now with the 4 cartridges in there filled with Sugru. I need to put a keychain lanyard on it….
I had made a bronze finned “heat sink” with a 1/4x 20 threaded end to screw into the side of my BLF GT as a grip aid, have been moving it around to hot rodded Q8’s… now it’s found it’s most appropriate home on the Q8 458 Ham’r… gives a great stop to wrap a finger around and take stress off holding the weight with grip alone and adds that little bit of heat sink to the driver bay area. I Like It!
As an aside, here’s a pic of the .458 HAM’R brass beside a fired .454 Casull casing. Notice on the cut piece how thick the walls of this brass is down about 1/3 the length up from the base. Crazy! The .458 HAM’R is a custom cartridge designed to fit a custom AR-15, it utilizes a .50 AE cartridge necked down to fit the .458 diameter 300 grain bullet… very potent round with 3000 ft lbs of energy! It truly does “Ham’r”! (Interesting though, the .458 HAM’R only has 46,000 psi chamber pressure while the .454 Casull has 65,000 and in my case, is fired from a 3” barreled handgun in the form of the now legendary Ruger Super Redhawk Alaskan!)
Oh, another interesting note… by complete chance the bronze heat sink threads down and is virtually the same height as the width of the aluminum head… with the head on a flat surface the bronze heat sink is also flat and allows the light to stand on a table top with the battery tube parallel with the table. Totally by chance!
