Yes I think Copper would be very nice, especially with the design of this small light.
Even though copper is too heavy for practical carry, a Copper Light can serve other purposes, it can be a beautiful and useful desk ornament, a convenient nightstand light, and many other uses that do not involve pocket carry…
I think Titanium would sell even more than copper. I vote for Both!
My main suggestion would be to try and go for a more premium feeling matte coating, like a Lumintop or an apple product (macbook, etc). I think most of us would find it more “premium” feeling and it would make your products look and feel higher end. The shiny finish is used by a lot of cheap lights and doesn’t always look as good.
See this image from a review of the FW3A as an example.
Yes, In addition to the prototype, other production we changed to matte oxidation, I’m also looking forward to the oxidative effect it will eventually show
Lets not get too far ahead of ourselves - lets wait to see if the initial aluminium version of the flashlight is fundamentally good before discussing a bunch of different variants.
I am not aware of any lights that use bare aluminum with copper heads.
What you are probably thinking of are lights with polished titanium bodies and bezels and copper heads. Those are much more common. Examples of lights that are or were available in that configuration include:
Lumintop FW3 Ti-Cu
Lumintop FWAA
Emisar D4
Emisar D4v2
Noctigon KR4
Fireflies E07
The only light that I am aware of that comes stock with an exposed copper head plus an aluminum bezel and body tube are a number of lights made by Manker such as the E14 and E14II. However, those lights use black anodized aluminum instead of bare aluminum.
Overall, I’m not in favor of polished bare aluminum. It looks shiny and nice when new. But it is so soft it scratches up almost instantly and then looks really cheap. Titanium with copper looks much classier and premium due to the extra durability of the titanium.
Personally, for a light like this I would prefer all titanium over a titanium/copper combo due to weight. A light this small shouldn’t need the improved thermal properties copper has compared to titanium.
Matte makes much more sense on this shape of a light that tends to be super slippery.
Did you add a cigar grip ring to the reviewed light?
my focus would be on making very subtle,classy ano colors instead of the usual red green blue that everyone makes and make the extra effort to put seriously good binned hi cri emitters in them and people will beat a path to your door .
I agree. I’m sold if it’s high CRI with a old tint. RGB aux lights are all nice but I don’t have to have it. If this light is the usual 6000k then why bother.