This is a great video, THANKS O-L! It's so different reading about it vs seeing it actually being done.
Will definitely try this when I want more flood in a light, but at the moment I probably has too much floodies. The only thing I'd like to flood more is the king, but there's no replacement if I mess up the reflector.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate you sharing this. I was so impressed with the P-60 Nichia you did it was mind blowing. You transformed one of the worst beams ever to one of the nicest beams I have ever seen.
Thanks alot for that tutorial!
From now on I will read all your posts with your voice in my head
I did almost the same on a P60 reflector (I used hairspray instead of clearcoat), but the problem I had was that I always had a few bigger ādropsā in my āspray-streamā wich resulted in a few bigger dots on my reflectorā¦
Do you know this phenomenon? Is it because the spray-can I used had a bad head, that didānt vaporize the hairspray liquid good enough? Or do you think hairspray is just not really suited? (of course it is not_ really_ suited, but I thoght it might do the job )
Haha, you da man, Old, you da man :bigsmile: :bigsmile: Great vid!
Would be great to see before and after beam shots, just to see how much throw is affected and how much it smooths beam down
Whe I first heard about stippling a reflector , some of the practitioners actually damaged the apeture of the spray can to achieve a coarser spray . Others became experts at pushing the button just hard enough to control the coarseness of the spray pattern . Some even felt that a nearly empty can produced the best spray pattern .
For anyone that lacks "holy underwear" just hold it with your hand and wash it off in the sink. That's what I just did a few minutes ago on one of my reflectors. :D
lol :bigsmile: Who are you? Where am I? :bigsmile:
OK, donāt know where to ask this stuff but will try here: have someone tried SMO reflector with XML and de-domed XML with OP/stripple reflector (same reflector or very similar size)?
I havenāt seen any threads on it. I am going to do SMO and Stippled on the Nichia 219 and then on an XM-L T6, but I donāt plan on de-doming anything, unless itās by accident. The 219 should be done this week-end and the XM-L might be a couple weeks away. I canāt do lumens testing, so it will just be beam shots on the same night, in the same light.
I did this tonight, but the outer part of the reflector smooths out every time (did it twice).
The center looks good though, I wonder what Iām doing wrong, maybe need more distance?
my badā¦
it just depends on the side from which you look.
from the side, it looks like it`s smooth towards the wider end of the reflector.
like in my first pic (even though, in the picture it looks more stippled than in person)
but when I checked it from a different angle, I could see that it was stippled all over the place, as seen in my next picture: