You got the Mother of god today ? 
A better than expected Granddaddy Barlow By Rough Rider via Heinnie Haynes.
I’ve been buying a few Rough Riders recently pretty good value for money…
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And one that I really wanted to like but even a strip. clean and lube didn’t make this better, very poorly made knife, rough, gritty opening and closing and a backspring stupidly strong, you are very likely to hurt yourself opening and closing.
I will persevere with it but without serious dremelling I think it’s a lost cause.
Once I order that XP-L from illumn I will :bigsmile:
Yup I announced it in our product thread.
There are 5 Kinds available:
V6 2C (Yes, V6 bin! U6->V2...V6! Limited qty available)
http://www.illumn.com/cree-xp-l-led-...int-5700k.html
V5 2C
http://www.illumn.com/cree-xp-l-led-...int-5700k.html
V5 2D
http://www.illumn.com/cree-xp-l-led-...int-5700k.html
V5 2A
http://www.illumn.com/cree-xp-l-led-...int-5700k.html
V4 5B4
http://www.illumn.com/cree-xp-l-led-...int-4000k.html
Got a USB Detector. Much nicer than the Charger Doctor. Displays both voltage and current simultaneously. Plus it has an output for charging Apple devices.
I got it here:
2x 9" 75W HID "flood" beams
XinTD X3 (XM-L2 T6 4C)
Convoy C8 (XM-L2 T6 4C)
Got an Armytek Tiara A1 (non pro) from Illumn today. So far I'm impressed. Nice output for closeup work on a regular Eneloop. Tint is cool white without any hint of green or blue. Nice floody beam, and the build quality is excellent. If I had to complain about something, it would be the switch is a little hard to press compared to my Zebralights. Not a big deal really
Today I got shoulder surgery for a torn muscle in my rotator cuff, bone spur, arthritis, and a torn bicep muscle. I have a pump hanging around my neck injecting nerve blocker in my shoulder.
Gotta figure out how to do my flashlight modding one-handed for a while.
So literally pumped full of pain killers? Glad it all turned out well for you, I assume it has as you didnt say anything negative.
You heard it here first. Texas will die by being crushed under a falling shelf filled with 680kg of torches and torch parts.
There goes all my spare cash, but hey its a Jeep thing 
I wish you a speedy recovery!! Take care of yourself!
only learned about these last week after looking at some Z2 reviews, managed to pick up a dusty new in box one with the head torch and lantern, cool little light shame they haven’t done any more like this.
Thinking of looking for another to mod to triple nichia………
I received an SS AA light with Eoslamp driver. I can’t believe the the T5-5B tint is almost similar (or totally the same) to my Spark SF5. 8)
Edit : I scotchbrited the body to make it less bling, here is the result.
i got my tr-j19 today. waitinf for my 32650’s so i can throw some light at the sky
Congrats! 
MOAM (Mother of All Monitors)
My Dell UP2414Q arrived last night. 24” with a 3840 x 2160 resolution giving an astonishing 185 ppi.
And since we’re LED geeks, I thought I’d mention the backlight tech! Instead of using a blue LED with a yellow phosphor, it uses blue and green LEDs with a red phosphor. This means that each of the primary colors have a much more even spectral peak 
Got the chunky monkey yesterday….ie trustfire tr-j20 from dealsmachine. Less than 30 days waiting and $74 shipped.
So I guess Gearbest doesn’t hate me after all. I ordered this after the F13 group buy.