tino_ale
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Hey Ma', look what I've done to my favorite knife
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Megatrowned
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Oooo! I've always wanted one of those. Lookes even more awesomer!
yoyoman
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@Tino_Ale, I just got an AA Haiku. Are you up for bead blasting it? I can't seem to PM you, so please PM me. Thank you.
tino_ale
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Yoyoman, I can do it.
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RedLED
Flashlight Enthusiast
Bonjour Monsieur Tino,
Next time I am in Paris, we can meet and you can take my light and work on it.
You do wonderful work, I love the blue Haiku. And I can take the TGV! That is quite an experience to ride that train, and fun to go some place for lunch, and come back to Paris.
I would like my light to be finished like that, after which I would wear my Italian suit and my French Shoes, and I would wear the light on a lanyard around my neck in the open and wander down the Champs-Élysées like Mark Twain sauntering up to a bar for a mint julep.
After that, I will meander up and down Boulevard Haussmann, RUE Saint-Honore, La Madeleine for some pocket squares, and a new set of hand towels for our guest bathroom for our home in Palm Springs, California.
On the way home, I will stop in New York City, and we will stay at the Waldorf Astotia, as usual. And I will repeat my walk with my light hung low around my neck, again - only I will walk from 126th and Lenox up to 145th. Should be fun.
Until then,
Au revior
Ned Redway
Next time I am in Paris, we can meet and you can take my light and work on it.
You do wonderful work, I love the blue Haiku. And I can take the TGV! That is quite an experience to ride that train, and fun to go some place for lunch, and come back to Paris.
I would like my light to be finished like that, after which I would wear my Italian suit and my French Shoes, and I would wear the light on a lanyard around my neck in the open and wander down the Champs-Élysées like Mark Twain sauntering up to a bar for a mint julep.
After that, I will meander up and down Boulevard Haussmann, RUE Saint-Honore, La Madeleine for some pocket squares, and a new set of hand towels for our guest bathroom for our home in Palm Springs, California.
On the way home, I will stop in New York City, and we will stay at the Waldorf Astotia, as usual. And I will repeat my walk with my light hung low around my neck, again - only I will walk from 126th and Lenox up to 145th. Should be fun.
Until then,
Au revior
Ned Redway
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tino_ale
Flashlight Enthusiast
RedLed,
I like your vision of Paris, you can certainly spend some quality time over here, assuming you are ready to drop some "quality" cash too :huh:
Yoyoman,
You AA Haiku is processed and in the mail on it's way back to you.
The hint of blue in the first picture is just a proof that titanium like to play tricks to eyes and cameras, it is plain BB titanium.
I like your vision of Paris, you can certainly spend some quality time over here, assuming you are ready to drop some "quality" cash too :huh:
Yoyoman,
You AA Haiku is processed and in the mail on it's way back to you.
The hint of blue in the first picture is just a proof that titanium like to play tricks to eyes and cameras, it is plain BB titanium.
yoyoman
Flashlight Enthusiast
Tino, Looks great. Thank you.
BenChiew
Flashlight Enthusiast
+1.
You must be a happy man Yoyoman.
Looking forward to see your artistic images of the light.
yoyoman
Flashlight Enthusiast
tino_ale
Flashlight Enthusiast
Hey guys,
I had a Sapphire that I wanted to renovate after a couple years on my keychain.
Disassembled the light and bead blasted it to a smooth finish :
Then decided to go for a champagne color ano (about 14V) :
As good as new !
Thanks Don for the first class maintainability nature of your lights.
I had a Sapphire that I wanted to renovate after a couple years on my keychain.
Disassembled the light and bead blasted it to a smooth finish :
Then decided to go for a champagne color ano (about 14V) :
As good as new !
Thanks Don for the first class maintainability nature of your lights.
yoyoman
Flashlight Enthusiast
+1 The color is subtle and adds to the bb finish.
tino_ale
Flashlight Enthusiast
Hi,
I'm using trisodium phosphate and voltage was somewhere between 13.5V and 14V.
Just start around 12V and work your way up until you like the color. With titanium ano you can always go up in voltage, colour will change, but you can't go down. Make sure you rinse and dry the parts before you decide to go any further because wet BB ti doesn't show the same colour as dry.
I'm using trisodium phosphate and voltage was somewhere between 13.5V and 14V.
Just start around 12V and work your way up until you like the color. With titanium ano you can always go up in voltage, colour will change, but you can't go down. Make sure you rinse and dry the parts before you decide to go any further because wet BB ti doesn't show the same colour as dry.
Hi guys,
I discovered by accident a number of years ago that titanium reacts with hydrogen peroxide (Don't store hydrogen peroxide in a sealed titanium vessel! :green: ) So anyway a few months back for the heck of it, I put some of the titanium clips in a shallow bowl of hydrogen peroxide and left them in there for a day or two. They ended up getting an oxide film very much like you get with the lower voltage seen in the Sapphire pic above. You need to aggitate the bath occasionally and make sure no air bubbles are trapped on the surface but it does seem to be a viable way to get a bronze color without adding electricity to the mix.
I discovered by accident a number of years ago that titanium reacts with hydrogen peroxide (Don't store hydrogen peroxide in a sealed titanium vessel! :green: ) So anyway a few months back for the heck of it, I put some of the titanium clips in a shallow bowl of hydrogen peroxide and left them in there for a day or two. They ended up getting an oxide film very much like you get with the lower voltage seen in the Sapphire pic above. You need to aggitate the bath occasionally and make sure no air bubbles are trapped on the surface but it does seem to be a viable way to get a bronze color without adding electricity to the mix.
Megatrowned
Enlightened
About to try this, thanks Don!
tino_ale
Flashlight Enthusiast
Got some new babies to BB :
Some scratches that should happily disappear :
The lights are prepped, BB will be follow.
Some scratches that should happily disappear :
The lights are prepped, BB will be follow.
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Nice to see my babies. They're a long ways from California!
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