Aussie-Yank Flashlights Inc. Or how to span the oceans with crazy mods and good BLF friends. All Done

Fantastic foundation for a fantastic light!

Marvelous, they are beautiful flashlight hosts.

One more Photo. A picture is worth a thousand words.Wink

What I would do for one of those hosts...

What on these hosts is "stock" parts and whats 100% custom? I know at this point all parts are custom, but is the battery tube and head just turned down stock mag parts? If so, I did not think there was enough material left to do that.

How did you paint it?

I will let Steve answer about the lathe work. There is quite a bit of material in a Maglite tube.

Clean with alcohol and a toothbrush, (in the knurling), mask off with painters masking tape, spray on with VHT caliper paint. In a couple days they will go into the oven at 250 degrees F, for an hour and a half. That hardens the paint. It’s still paint and it will chip at some point, but I don’t have the source or funds for having them anodized, which is what I would really like to do.

^+1 Speechless!

Subscribed for sure!

Thanks for the kind comments guys. I was going to sit back and keep quiet but OL said I’m not allowed to.
Firstly this was originally going to be a 3 way build with ChicagoX involved as well. Unfortunately and I hope he and his family are ok, he has sort of just disappeared.
The work these two guys have done amongst others have been an inspiration beyond words to me to the point I asked Justin and Wayne if they could do me the honour of building a light with me. These lights are a result of that request kindly agreed to by both parties. Unfortunately there is just the two of us this time.
Trust OL when he says this was a long time in the making, it was. My fault. I’ll send OL a PM later with a brief description on what was actually done so that it can be added into the OP.
To keep OL quiet there is another light in the lathe as we speak half finished that will be winging its way to OL in the future.
Thanks again guys and a special thanks to OL for allowing me to build some lights together. :beer: :beer:

WOW!!!

Awesome sauce - even before I saw them painted I was thinking of something that would compliment the flame light - just didn’t realize how incredible they would be …

having participated in a couple of across the pond builds….it really is awesome and for me, made the light extra special to me.

These are a massive step up, I cant wait to see them finished, congratulations guys, their a thing of beauty and no mistake.

Simply spectacular, awesome, mind tingling … art, beauty, engineering, all-in-one .
Gee, you are the Michelangelo of the Electronic Torch J) :heart_eyes: :beer: for both of you … just Wow !!!

Sensational !
Aussie-Yank Flashlights Inc. rule.

They look great :)

awesome!

Beautiful lights guys! Awesome!

Can't wait to see these come together. Fingers crossed an OL auction is in the works!

Nice work you two. The sum is definitely greater… And the parts ain’t half bad.

Wow, this combined effort for this build has really resulted in one of the best builds I’ve seen in awhile. They look so nice and the black paint looks very good too, especially on the knurled part, almost looks anodized. Only thing I would have done different was kept that worn look with the black on teh head. It looked kind of neat, almost as if the light had wear from a lot of use. Can’t wait to see the end product!