I'm on the wait list for some custom made knives that should be completed somewhere around 2015. The way I see it, Mac's custom lights are no different in quality and workmanship, but a heck of a lot less wait time to get your hands on one. These are not made in some factory with 100's of workers cranking these out on an assembly line. It's just one guy and a dog (bunch of kids thrown in there somewhere) in a garage burning the midnight oil making little titanium illumination tools. Mac's flashlights should be considered a piece of functional art, which cannot and should not be rushed. His products are worth waiting for and if you're on the list you should consider yourself lucky...there are some custom makers who's list t I'm dying to get on, but those lists have been closed for years!
Just my 2 cents...
Flavio