Build in progress

Great work so far, I find myself wishing more and more often that I owned a lathe.

It is a nice blue but i wonder if the grey suits better for the colour scheme… The reason i use different switch boots during a build is because some have the nub on the inside cut short.

I’d love it if more folks got into building lights on lathes :smiley:
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I got just a little more progress after work today

That is going to look fantastic! I would love to build lights on a lathe, used 2 for rifle work and mould making for about 15 years but lost access and owner died and have not use one since. He also had an awesome Bridgeport knee mill that I learned to use. I do not have a place to set either up and really can’t justify the cost of a building, lathe, mill and tools now.

Same - I have a few different sizes of a similar color that’s also GITD that I swap into most of my lights.

Yeh aside from the cost, lathes (and associated machinery) require a bit of space.

Being sunday i got a bit done today…

Oh this one is going to be neat! That looks really sharp paired with brass.

I’ve had other things sucking up my attention so progress on this has been super slow. I made a pill, of sorts.

The head opened up and threaded

The led star will sit on that shelf , optic and bezel over top.

Very elegant and beautiful. Wish I had your skills and workshop…

Another masterpiece PinkPanda!

Looks amazing!

Cheers guys :beer:

I wasn’t happy with the body tube colour so i sanded it back and did it again. All up i did the head twice and the body three times. Little bit irritating but i like the results now.


I’m thinking of making a retaining ring for the lens. I made an error during machining and couldn’t make it work with an o-ring on the glass. The head/bezel is what clamps the led star to the pill so any minor change in the height of the leds , or star , or optic , or glass lens might affect how well the whole assembly gets clamped.


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BTW running gear is - LH351B in 4000K and driver is a low power driver and a blue lighted tail

Absolutely stunning!

Unbelievable! Please keep posting pictures!

The lacquer really makes it pop doesn’t it….just gorgeous! I like the look of the body after you sanded some more, turned out great. What’s that material called again?

Also…clever use of fittings for the head and such. The head/pill looks really sharp!

The head and body are titanium damascus, also known as mokuti and timascus™.
It’s just sanded and buffed a little to bring up the shine of the titanium, no lacquer used. I didn’t end up using the fittings either, they were a tad short for what I needed so it was all made from bar stock. Cheers :beer:

Well that’s even more impressive then…nice finish and polish! :slight_smile: Mokuti is what I was trying to remember.

This build look amazing, awesome job. You have come so far with your machining skills.

Did you hand wire the LEDs? Or did you make a custom PCB?

As mentioned in post #21:

It is a 20mm triple emitter MCPCB from KaiDomain with 3x LH351B emitters.