I have been comparing 5000 and 4500 . If you need real white and a little more vibrant color, you go to the 5000 . Otherwise the warmer tint of the 4500 helps to have a more relax sight, not being induce in focusing .
This thing is cool. Non-trit shot taken under the light of SST-20 3000k.
Anyone EDC a colorful series Emisar or Noctigon? I’m curious how durable the anodization is. I’d like to EDC this, but it looks so perfect!
Drool…. Looks even better here than on Hank’s site… I really don’t need one but… damn.
Hank said the ano wears like regular ano.
I’m not entirely convinced, ano is a surface coating that is harder than the aluminum substrate…
On Ti I think it’s an etching where the distance between ‘etches’ affects the color reflected that we see. I bet an ano Ti knife guy would know more definitively…
I didn’t either, but here we are!
Titanium anodization wears off extremely fast compared to a properly anodized aluminum surface. Tiny, long scratches called snail trails will show up almost immediately after being handled. Maybe it will hold up a little bit better on the body where the surface isn’t 100% smooth.
The colors will also fade when in contact with skin oils, but will restore once cleaned.
Hmmm, I wonder what other people’s heavily used colorful series look like now.
This is my shelf queen, never carried D4v2 ti blue swirl, tailcap REALLY lets it down
What am I doing wrong? Why isn’t image showing?
My blue swirl tailcap has no markings ??
See my photo? Mine looks awful
Did you rub it?
No, never
Even if I did though, it laser etching, shouldn’t matter
Is it from the second batch ?
I’d say so, I sent my first one back to Hank because of rough threads and a blemish on the copper
I have an ore1 of the second batch and it’s not having markings . You ’re having an exclusive one .
Is it possible to get the flashing kit for $8.5 with a light? When I tried it was $14.5.
Here’s your picture :
I was surprised to see that 26350 tubes for Emisar D4S and D4SV2 were shown as available in all colors. I emailed Hank and he confirmed that green and cyan were really in stock.
I will finally have a 26350 tube for my green Emisar D4S that I purchased a year and a half ago, before 26350 tubes were available.
Noctigon K1, all colors back, including green version, 35HI version restocked.
D4V2 cyan version available,
