FINISHED pinkpanda's entry for 7th Annual BLF Old-Lumens Scratch-build contest!

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…

It is different, looks good

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 :person_facepalming: 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.

Progressing nicely :+1:

Very Nice pp ,your attention to details is Awesome

how do place the photo’s in a grid? when you post.

Just set all the pics to 30% width :wink:

This is turning into a real ripper pp. Love the style. :+1:

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 :open_mouth: It fits now but I need to use something to hold the optic from spinning whilst fitting the bezel.

:slight_smile: Nice to see progress.

That is an item of extreme beauty. Having a light inside is a bonus……. I’d happily look at it empty lol! Looks like Leopard skin.

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

@pinkpanda3310:

I cannot see any of your pics in the above post.

Me neither, but the others make up for it top job pp

See pics?

Yes, now I do.

Thanks!

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.

Wow, it turned out really nice. I like how the curves highlight the patterns in the superconductor material. I wonder how it will patina.

Nice work. I like the shape.

Very nice work pp. The different materials really comes to life in the larger pictures. :beer:

Cool. The showing of the patterrn turned out really well :+1: