Best Looking Flashlight (Brand)!

[Olumin]

"Classic" Surefires, for sure.
The regular C2-HA, Z2, Z3 with black M2 bezel or *SRTH* turbohead, and the M3T-along with the M4 or Millenium turbohead on a Leef 2x18650 C-M body, those are just the best-looking lights ever, IMO. "Serious" lights that were sexy and wicked looking without being gaudy, that kind of thing.
Also love the 2 cell E series lights with longer Outdoorsman-style clips.
Still have a beater that's a black E2e body with a long clip, Aleph tailcap, and VME bezel w/Malkoff M60WLF dropin, and a Millenium turbohead that I never got around to selling, but the rest of my SF stuff is long gone. Kinda miss those Legos, though...

Definitely! Agree with all of those. Classic SureFire is hard to beat. But even today the lights they make are as good looking as ever IMO, purely aesthetically. With the best looking ones probably being the 6PX, Fury and Peacekeeper. The only ones I would really call ugly are those little plastic pocket lights like the Stiletto. But I've never seen one of those which isn't ugly. Is there even a name for these types of lights?

 

[Noctiluco]

 

[808vudoo]

So many great options out there but I still keep coming back to the Gizmo's....Don's been nailing it for years

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[808vudoo]

one more...

 

[Olumin]

Many of these Gizmo's in the black give me much the same vibe as a classic SF or a Malkoff design. Very clean and purposeful, no-nonsense. Love it.

 

[archimedes]

Great photos, thanks for sharing those here.

 

[knucklegary]

Nice collection Vudoo!

You must be close neighbor with Gizmo 🌈

 

[808vudoo]

Thanks Archi, loved your pics too!

Great photos, thanks for sharing those here.

 

[808vudoo]

Luckily just a few palm trees away!

 

[archimedes]

Thanks Archi, loved your pics too!

Cheers[emoji106]

 

[boo5ted]

For me it has to be between the Hanko LF2XT

or Sinner Customs 18350RM

 

[Owen]

So many great options out there but I still keep coming back to the Gizmo's....Don's been nailing it for years

Loved those lights, and indeed some of the best looking ones!
Had several Aleph 1, 2 and 3. Carried Aleph 2s, but the 3 was my favorite to play with.
Man, those bring back memories. Don and Wayne(Sandwich Shoppe) made it possible for us tinkerers to have a hand in building our own super nice lights. I look around now, and modding seems almost pointless, at least from a practical standpoint, but back then the Aleph platform was revolutionary. Some snips and a soldering iron, and you could have a unique light that not only looked great, but could outperform any of the LED lights commercially available at the time. Being able to swap pills from a Lux III to V in the same light made them really versatile, too.

 

[Shorttime]

I liked the look of Icon's lights, because they were something different, especially at the time when it seemed like everybody was copying the Surefire 6P. For pictures I'll refer you back to bykfixer's post, all the way on the first page.

I like "busy" looking flashlights with lots of texture and things that look like they could be radiating surfaces. Knowing that, it's easy to understand why I like The Olight Warrior

in it's various models.

As a brand, I like the look of Streamlight, but it's because they're made by Streamlight. I'm indifferent to their design language, I like them because I feel that they offer consistent value for the money. From all I've heard, Surefire does too, but the money that they want for their value is more than I want to pay!

I'm also fond of calling myself a knuckle-dragger, so you should remember that when you read my opinions.

 

[Olumin]

I'm also fond of calling myself a knuckle-dragger, so you should remember that when you read my opinions.

Lol!

Most of Olights designs are quite clean, I just dislike the blue ring/bezel they put on most of their lights. Its brand recognition I know, but I just don't like the look of it. That warrior however looks great.

 

[Buck91]

Another classic SF vote here. Hard to beat the simple appeal of my 6P, 9P, C2HA and C3HA hosts.

 

[bykfixer]

Welcome to CPF shorttime from a fellow knuckle dragger. Warrior lights are cool.

 

[Shorttime]

Welcome to CPF shorttime from a fellow knuckle dragger. Warrior lights are cool.

Thankya! I agree with Olumin that the contrasting bezel is branding, but they at least chose a kinda classy color.

 

[bykfixer]

Warrior lights could be seen as a genre of the tacticool flashlights. Companies like SOG, Bushnell and others have extreme looking tacticool numbers that in ordinary use are actually pretty good flashlights.

Three versions of Warrior lights.
- Top is one PK designed for PowerTac that pushed the lumen line past 1000 sustained for the first time. In other words it had no step down thermal protection built in but dimmed as heat built up and physics took over.
- Below is a possible direct clone of the Olight Warrior shown above (formerly called Javelot M20SX) (820 lumens). This one called the Warrior 820 by PowerTac looked and acted remarkably similar.
- The 500 lumen Bushnell tacticool. It has a nifty slider lockout switch.

 

[wayben]

Classic Surefire. They were my first higher end flashlights and I still love the look of them.

 

[1996alnl2]

Wow, this thread is amazing. So many awesome looking lights..which I had no idea existed, this could be bad for my bank account:laughing: