That is just quite frankly jaw droppingly gorgeous. Congratulations.
And severe thumbs up to fred. He is without a doubt a master of the old school.
Cannot wait to see this finished, please keep us updated.
Everything was looking pretty amazing through the build, until the end.
Then you turned the awesome-meter past 11 with those grooves on the head.
ruffles. You are certainly a hard task master. It started of at 12 for me and went to a 15 (out of 10).
Nothing to say, nothing to add. Just posting out of wonder.
Here’s a bonus, the last of the Ti bar. Fred made a pill fob for my wife by my request in order to use the rest of the 1” bar. This series of pictures you can thank MRsDNF for, enjoy!
[Thud!]
That was the sound of my jaw hitting the floor.
It took 100+ pictures to make those 7! That collage is actually 16x24 at 300dpi, click it and go to Flicker to see it full size. 
Laugh out loud Wayne! Thanks! Now my kid will never get to sleep! “What’s so funny Dad? So what’s so funny?”
No I did not make this or take the pictures. I just inquired about it.
Thanks for nothing DBCstm. I will no longer post any pictures of any machining I do. I'm just not worthy. 
I’ve seen your work man, post em up! That little scope looking mini is awesome, send it to me and I’ll take some pics for you.
I tried to show the little pill fob against common objects so’s you could get a sense of it’s size. My mojo was off but I’m happy with a couple of these, especially the ones in front of the P-60 and in my wife’s hand.
Glad you like em.
Bottom’s up!
Wow!! 
Incredible work. Thanks for sharing!
It looks fantastic. Thank you for the many pictures. I haven’t the equipment or the ability to do such a great work. For me it’s really nice to see, how such a great product was produced.
I’m a photographer. Can’t help myself. So, with that being said, here’s a new shot I just took for a size comparison evaluation. This picture is a stacked macro comprised of 62 individual shots merged together to get this one highly detailed picture. Nothing spectacular about the Solarforce L2P used here other than the Gold color. But, the AAA MiniMag recently acquired from O-L is a very cool little light! I hope to chop it to a single AAA and with that in mind started taking some measurements. That’s when I realized that in chopped form it will be almost exactly the size of the Texas Poker shown above! The chopped AAA MiniMag in this photo is not actually chopped….I took the liberty to Photoshop it to show the result if I’m able to pull it off. Go ahead, look at it full size in Flickr and see if you can find the “seam” lol
Thought I’d give y’all a look behind the scenes, as it were. Fred uses Solid Works to design the product, then machines it exactly like the design. I’ve never seen autocad type work before and find it amazing that someone can design something on this level, then replicate the design on a manual lathe. It equates to sheer Genius as far as I’m concerned!
Fred even sent me a file with this information to be used in a Solid Works Viewer so that I could look through the components, rotate it around 360º and get a good feeling for the light from inside to out. Mind boggling stuff it is! I took the above picture as a screenshot from this viewer while looking at a 3D cutaway view of the Texas Poker on an angle. The copper pill inside the copper heatsink shows that a good portion of the head is copper with the weight of that copper being pretty central in the overall balance scheme. Very nice! 
My 5 year old, in the background, just asked the question “What do you call a flying skunk?”
Drumroll
A Smellicopter!
that is stunning!!! congrats!!
this is pure pr0n :heart_eyes:
Wish it were here already. lol The driver is being programmed in Germany, shouldn’t be much longer. (fingers crossed on the lucky rabbits foot while wishing on a 4 leaf clover)
Well, the driver is on the way from Germany so Fred should have drivers to put in the Texas Poker within a week, should be getting the light within a couple of weeks. Wonder if I should take pictures of it with beamshots when it gets here?
Yes you should. No really, you should!
This is an amazing light through and through. Thank you for sharing it with us :-)