I am sorry to say that I just can't see the improvement over a stock shiny new LS27.
It is a rare light to begin with. I guess that if you are looking to make it look beat up or aged then you succeeded.
I would like to see what you call gnarly.
I prefer a real used look to a "used" finish.
It is like buying jeans which have been "stonewashed" to make them look used. Instead of just using them and washing them allowing them to develop their own personality over time.
Titanium does this in it's own way all by itself.
The big problem here is now that you have PRETTIED up your LS27 you risk LOOSING the NEW finish if you use it and make it gnarly again.
I have not found a finish that Titanium HOLDS well. (others may have I just haven't) My experience is that a finish applied to TI tends to wear UNLIKE nice hard annodozed aluminum whose finish is very hard and designed to last and last.
please show us what it looked like before you did that to it.
Yaesumofo
You haven't found a finish that Ti holds well? From my experience, stonewashed finish holds quite well. Most of my Ti framelocked knives and other Ti tools have been stonewashed.
And who said that this is an improvement over a new McGizmo?
Also, you ask about my flashlight looking gnarly. Let's just say that it didn't look like a pair of old jeans like it does now. Looked more like what a new BMW looks if I took for 2 hours of off-roading. Not pretty.
Oh, and sorry, I have no pics of the light right before it was stonewashed. You'll just have to take my word for it.