WOW,
very nice work! will be following this to see the final product.
Cheers 
Knew I was good for something 
Ruyi Jingu Bang 
Simply orsm. Now we know what we were waiting for and it was worth it. Looking forward to the finish. 
Pinkpanda, that looks seriously cool. Also it is always nice to see those detailed machining pics and show us your skills as well as the results.
Looking foward for more pictures !
That looks great. Wish I had your lathe skills!
Why steel?
Awesome work PinkPanda!!!
Where’s the group buy for the completed light? 
Are you saying you’re no good at making/modding lights?? Is that why you need to practice so much ? :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
…and you’re saying you’re gettting a group together to buy one light…? :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:
Lol, just jokes. Thanks guys
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EDIT- I missed this first time round….
Titanium 
Daaaayum! That’s beautiful, PP. Can’t wait to see more.
I resent that fact!
This light should be interesting :+1:
A little more done today.
I mounted the main tube and was about to start boring when I thought I probably should take a pic
Bored out with the router bit first
Finish boring with the boring bar
Cut the thread and step for the o-ring. I almost had a disaster here. I said to myself ‘remember to change the thread gearing back to 1mm as it’s on 0.7mm from last time’ but I just had to change the cutting bits and set the other stuff and, of course, forgot to change the gearing. DOH! 
So the first pass was at 0.7mm, as it was cutting I could tell something was different by the number of revs it took to move 1mm on the Z axis DRO (digital read out). I have a rough idea of the revs because when I thread I turn at the lowest speed my lathe allows for (80rpm) whilst having a handle mounted to the back end of the spindle. I thread under power until it gets close to the end of thread then I finish by turning the spindle by hand. After changing back to 1mm there was luckily still enough meat on the tube to not affect the final thread.
Damn, that was a lot of explaining. I hope it makes sense. If not the short story is I nearly stuffed it but didn’t 
The reason the thread is all dirty is because of the way I get the male-female ends to match up. When it gets close to the right diameter I slow up and take fine passes, checking with the mating part each time. When it screws on 1 thread or so but is still too tight to go any further then I wipe grinding paste on the parts and work it on by hand. Having the other side mounted in the tail stock collet makes it easier to grab and to work it back and forward. This process is a little slow and tedious but it makes for a tight but smooth feeling thread. When both parts are titanium I have to get the tolerance between the parts closer before I can do this process.
Here it is wiped clean
…and the 2 parts together
Think I’ll work on the bezel next
Amazing workmanship!!! . . Thanks for sharing… 
Just beautiful!
Thanks for sharing your journey with this project.
Sweet.
When I get a thread to start a thread or two I will take a couple of thou off the side of the thread which generally gets the threads nice and tight when screwed together.
Holy crap! I normally prefer plain jane work horse lights but this is amazing.
WOW
I could read your threads and CRX’s all day, Panda. This is art. For real, I’m already betting it’ll be even prettier than the Ti-Mo.
Really nice work, love it!
So you give it a nudge on the compound slide for the last pass? I’ll give it a go next time.
I did a little more threading tonight (not with the moose method though) and the results weren’t quite what I was hoping for.
I got the titanium out again for the bezel. Bored out to smallest ID of the bezel
Secondary boring for the threaded section
Threading
Parts together
I couldn’t work out if it was the smaller thread (0.7mm) or because both parts were titanium or some other factor but the final thread came out a little loose and quite gritty. It made me wonder if the indexed bit I used was suitable (or too large) for 0.7mm threads. So I got out the thread gauge and put it against the cutting bit. It was only then that I could just make out the bit was chipped 
Now that I know I was working with a chipped bit I’ve got half a mind to make it again :confounded: There is nothing drastically wrong with the one I made, it works, I just think I can do better.
Bugger. 