As usual I have made a compilation of the contestants entries to view easily here, but please do still look through the build threads as we put a lot of effort into those ;)
I hope I've done alright by you, but if you want anything changed then let me know guys :THUMBS-UP:
I understand that, but I guess I thought we had more than our fair share around here. And really, I guess my thought was you don’t have to be interested in building lights in order to just vote on which of the finished works you like best. I don’t have to be interested in the whole process of the Miss USA pageant in order to tell you which girl I think is the prettiest.
So true. I like to sit on the ground so I can interact and play with puppies to try to discover the best match. I guess I’ll need to play with all the lights
I finally settled on FmC’s “Jack’s Survival Sack!” :confounded:
It’s pretty close to exactly what I have been wanting to build for the past 12 months.
I am in NO way worthy of judging any of the builds, they are all inspiring and beyond my talents and if i was an official judge everyone would win, so it’s lucky i’m not!
But i want to show my support for everyone involved so i voted
I have read through all the build threads and appreciate not only the skills that have gone into producing a working light but also the creative and practical thoughts and decisions that result in a build. I wouldn’t know how to make a decision based on all that so i didn’t. There was one build that spoke to me emotionally in a way that the others didn’t, there’s just something about Everydaysurvivalgear’s hardwood twin light build that moves me. Had it been a single light build, had the box been a different colour or had different dimesions, had it lacked the handle it wouldn’’t have moved me as it did. There’s just something about that exact form factor with that exact look that hits me so it got my vote.
Also worth mentioning that i have been on this site at least once a day since the 13th and have only just now seen this thread, so a lack of voting numbers might be more due to a lack of awareness than interest. I navigate mainly by glancing through the homepage which lists the most recently updated threads, it’s easy to miss stuff on there, i only got to this thread because the ‘final results’ thread was top of the homepage list.
If there was a way to stick this to the top of the recent threads list until voting is over i’m sure it would get more interest. I also think that saying ‘Voting still open’ would give it more immediacy. (I think that’s a real word…)
Coincidentally i have only just seen the poll on the left hand side of the screen, i only ever scroll down far enough to see that bit of the page when i’m properly reading a thread so would generally be too focused on the thread to notice it.
You folks are really inspiring! And what you’ve done is worth showing to enthusiasts and others!
I wish some manufacturers had some of the skills and ideas shown here! Our flashlight world would be much better