A little more shaping today. I put ripples in the body mostly because I’m not a big fan of smoothy bodies. I don’t know if that was such a good idea. It kinda detracts from the patterned metal. I was previously thinking of turning the tail down narrower than the head to try and balance out the look of short stubby head. I had a change of heart when I saw the pattern on the fat tail and kept it. So now it all looks a bit weird. I did some test fitting to see how it looks…
I wasn’t happy with the shape / balance so I decided to remake the bezel. I actually tried to make it on sunday but my head was a bit fuzzy from having a cold and not long into making the part I screwed it up by turning it down too far I was feeling better and had some time this afternoon so gave it another shot.
Doh! I just realized I haven’t shown the internal organs in place either. I had lots to talk about my thought process on some parts but I don’t really want to spend too long on the pc right now so the pics will have to suffice.
I still need to do some stuff to the new bezel. I don’t like the beam but i’m too lazy to change it. Will get a shot of that later.
Will be away over the weekend for another bicycle race (this one’s on road) so will be another break before next update.
Worked on the bezel this arvo. Looks much better now. It also fits the optic. Last time I test fit the optic into the bezel while it was still mounted in the chuck. I think the bezel had expanded from heat because the optic fit fine but when I finished the lathe work and mounted on the host the optic did not fit anymore It fits now but I need to use something to hold the optic from spinning whilst fitting the bezel.
Lol, one of my daughters likened it to a giraffe. It’s a good thing if it’s being percieved this way because I wanted to make the best of the metal pattern. Of the other superconductor ligths I’ve seen the pattern mostly straight up and down lines
I was laying on the lounge floor with this light in my pocket. I took it out so I could lay on my side and placed it underneath the table. I thought that’d make a cool pic….
The bezel is the same diameter as a D4 but the optics sit deeper
The bezel has some marks from the last time I worked it in the lathe and the tail still has machining marks but other than that I think I’m done. I tried to get a ceiling beamshot to show the beam shape but it didn’t turn out so good. Will try for beamshots again later.