Congratulations and please count me in. I absolutely love your flashlights. I like to gift a good flashlight or knife to my hiking and camping companions. Cheers mate!
I have been clearing out the workshop, my two sheds, and garage for several months, a little at a time. I have given several loads of construction materials to Habitat for Humanity. Unused building materials. Nails, bolts, screws, and other assorted home building and renovating hardware. Assorted power tools and hand tools I no longer use or need as newer mostly cordless tools have supplanted them. Assorted lengths of pipe as well as boxes plumbing fittings. Electrical outlets, switches, boxes, and wire staples. The exercise has helped me clean up, free up space and made things tidier here. Habitat will use items for the community home building they do or sell items in their ReStore. Those proceeds are used to help the community.
And I gifted this years contest project to my son. He uses it every day. Or at least everyday I drop by his home.
I built my dad a copy of my L6, but in the silver and without a lighted switch. It was a birthday gift last year. Now, I have built a C8F 18650 XPL-HI triple for a friend, and am in the process of getting parts for a triple SST-20 95CRI red convoy S2+ for another friend. Also birthday gifts
Your lights are not mere torches, they are masterpieces and demand their own gallery. I would love to visit a art gallery for flashlights, actually.
May I participate in this GAW, please?
I shall giveaway a few lights freely as I have done it before; however, I am also currently building a new light for my aunt who has breast cancer and is facing (unfortunately) a bad prognosis. She is a florist and requires near-distance high CRI lights for her creations.
A large number of Fenix E0s (I was fascinated when they first came out), a couple of E05s, several dozens of various (on sale) led flashlights, in the last couple of months an olight aaa and a Sofirn SP32A .
There have also been a couple of cheap UV lights and many other odd lights, for years I have been trying to get friends and family into led lights and glove compartment and key chain lights, blackout headlights, and rechargeable batteries, including li-ion.
Along with the early E0s I also gifted some early Lightwave lights, the Classic2000 and Pro4000, they were really something at the time. http://www.flashlightmuseum.com/flashlights_list.cfm?list_method=browse&brand=Lightwave
also a couple of CMG Infinity lights and other interesting lights, too many to remember but it is interesting to think about some of those early models.
Wow a chance to use/touch/feel a CRX torch ? Add me in please !
I don't think i would ever buy one because i am too much a "rough" kind of user but i would like to feel how it is to (carefully) use such a nice work for some time then pass it to someone else (for my xxx BLF posts gaw ? ;) ).
What have i given freely ?
Some time and a smile when i meet the lonely old lady from the 1st floor.
When i was younger some more time for teaching astronomy, electronic basics, ... to fellow hobbyist in various associations
A few meters of PFTE insulated wire that i sent to a random BLF member (no offense for the "random" i only mean "someone i didn't know before that")
The usual "buy one for me and add an other other one for the charity org" on my whole shopping cart if they happen to be around when i am shoping.
Maybe the "heaviest" for me was to have a "not so close" friend at home for a few weeks after he was so much a jerk with his mother that he didn't dare going back home. For sure i didn't like what he had done but he had nowhere to go and who knows what may happen when you start sleeping in the street ...
I love to put a big box full of home-made cakes/candies/whatever on my office desk and see people enjoy them (right now i have a 2kg bag of delightfull clementines ready for tomorrow !)
... small lights and knives to relatives, friends and colleagues of course but does that really count ? I know them already and maybe i am only trying to justify my own addictions ! ;)
Congratulations on your 3k posts, your lights are very cool, among the best artistic works out there!
thank you for sharing all the amazing lights you produce, have you thought about a youtube channel where everyone can see how you make these?
Count me in and thanks!
The last time I have done something for others was running a GAW on another forum (R/C related). Happy to run another one, regardless of whether I win here or not.
Since I have so much respect for your mods, I would love to participate in this GAW. In fact, it would be unbelievable to own such a light that can not be bought anywhere.
My regular, not-modded lights are given away to friends and family all the time and I am looking forward to hosting my own GAW on BLF one day.
Others here are worthier than me but I’d just like to own a special light that money can’t buy. (And I don’t have the skills now, maybe later in my lifetime when I retire)