How about a Orange Dry with a brown center :) Tutorial as well!!!

BetweenRides · February 21, 2012, 1:05pm

Just have a minute, Bryan before I head off to work. Good points, all. Copper is not exactly my favorite color, which is why I'm happy with the C8 in the multi shades. My best experiment was with my Yezl Z1 - turned out gunmetal/brown, not really copper. Breathed new life into a light I didn't really like before. The act of taking it apart and putting it back together seems to have helped it's performance. I had another light that I could not get completely apart so I couldn't bake it. Maybe someday I'll figure out how to fully disassemble it, but for now I'm afraid I'll break it if I do.

I found watching the process fascinating. In the oven the color change was more gradual, but also harder to see. Looking at all the different colors and hues achieved on different lights was cool. This has been a great thread.

DrJones · February 21, 2012, 3:01pm

The lower one was 'blow-torched' only, the upper one first baked in the oven, tailstanding, then additionally blow-torched a bit at the head, too.

Foy · February 22, 2012, 4:41am

I like the good doctor's fade.

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Sonofspectrum · February 28, 2012, 9:35pm

I tried this out on a cheap torch i got for my daughter. I put it under the grill as close as I could with some foil under neath. It took about 10 minutes to turn this bronze colour. Its a nice colour though the photos dont do it justice.

(sorry if the photos arn't great its my first attempt)

apt323 · April 12, 2012, 4:23pm

Did you get a chance to bake the gold L2 if so how did it turn out?

cainn · June 24, 2012, 7:07pm

Tried this on a tail piece of an UltraFire KF-T60

The silver anodizing becomes a much warmer silver, closer to the colour of the bezel. I like it. Going to do the whole body tomorrow

jaynick · June 25, 2012, 7:07am

did you try this yet? im probably gonna try baking my sand l2 along with a black l2m this coming week. that golden sand is strange as is.

edc · June 25, 2012, 7:16am

I would be suprised if baking the sand will change the color very much. If you bake a black host long enough it will go a sand colour but it will need to get very hot. I have noticed baking can improve the anno on some poorly ano’d lights.

gords1001 · June 25, 2012, 2:07pm

Awesome, I had to have a go……

Just stripped it to bare aluminum components, turned on the blow lamp and there you go. :bigsmile:

I actually did the bezel separate, hence the much lighter gold colour, but I like it, it makes the c8 really pop.

cainn · June 25, 2012, 2:41pm

Sorta hated this host for the most part. Something kinda cool about it now. I am presently debating about whether or not to put the head and the tail cap in as well, but for much longer so they come out a brighter copper colour. I like contrasting colours.

DarkSide · June 25, 2012, 2:52pm

A Cerakote oven bake or air dry kit will yield a much better coating and you can pick a few colors.
Nice job nonetheless!

cainn · June 30, 2012, 6:34pm

Black Solarforce L2i, but not anymore!

Terrible photo really, as it looks much classier in person.

BetweenRides · June 30, 2012, 7:34pm

Picture looks gold on my monitor - did it really come out that way or is it more copper? Either way, that turned out nice.

Funny how they come out differently. My old P7 C8 is several shades of copper, my Yezl Z1 more of an antique copper/gunmetal color.

UPz · June 30, 2012, 7:37pm

I wonder what colour will come after if I cook the FF S3:

cainn · June 30, 2012, 7:43pm

@BetweenRides

It really did come out gold. Well, the head and the knurled part of the body anyway. There is actually a separate piece between the knurling and the head which came out a sort of greyish army green type colour. The tail piece came out the same way, although it’s hard to tell in the photo. Seems that there were two different sorts of anodizing in play.

BetweenRides · June 30, 2012, 7:47pm

Now that you mention it, I can see the greenish tint. That turned out very nice. I like it much better than the Solarforce sand color (which looks more like a pimp's tooth :p ).

cainn · June 30, 2012, 7:52pm

It really does look very very nice in person, and there is more contrast between the greyish green and the gold. But I only have my shitty phone camera to use at the moment unfortunately.

cainn · June 30, 2012, 10:52pm

Somewhat better photo:

First time I’ve seen it in daylight myself. Copperish gold, and goldish green, it would seem

JohnnyMac · July 1, 2012, 2:08am

Looks like a good partner for the King. I like it!

edc · July 1, 2012, 11:48am

You really applied some heat to that to get that color.