Stress_Test
Flashlight Enthusiast
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So, are we ready for another one? Let's do another one.
This week, we're gonna take that shelf queen OFF the shelf and put 'er to work!
Do you have a shelf queen? A light that you really like, and/or is really nice and/or expensive. A light that mostly (always?!) lives on the shelf. A light you admire when you look at it, a light you might pick up and flash around the room a minute or two then put back. But a light that you always hesitate (or outright fear!) taking out into the world and using as an EDC. You know, because it's real nice, or rare, or unique, or maybe discontinued, and you really like it and all.
Well for this week's challenge, grab that shelf queen and load 'er up with fresh batteries, because that's going to be your one-and-only light for this week!
After all, what good is a light if it just sits on a shelf and never gets used? I once read somewhere that a shelf queen (or garage queen for cars), is just "keeping it nice for the next owner". Might as well get your money's worth, right? If it's kept pristine, some other jerk is just going to end up with it eventually anyway, right?
Now, a bit of a disclaimer. I'm not advocating that anyone take a genuine museum piece that's still "new in box" and subject it to the daily abuse of EDC. To me that's not reasonable. It'd be like taking an all-original 1967 big-block Corvette and beating the hell out of it on your daily commute through Chicago. Nobody in their right mind does that (I hope).
This challenge is about taking a shelf queen that in your own mind you attached a lot of significance to and you almost never use it because it's "too nice" or you don't want to "risk" it. And other than that, there's really no other reason to keep it pristine on the shelf.
For example, the Surefire C2 Centurion in HAIII gray that I bought on closeout years back. That's been one of my shelf queens. I really like the look and feel but I pretty much never used it because I just think about how nice it is and how they don't make them anymore.
The reality is, there's a whole bunch of C2 Centurions out there. It's not gonna fund my retirement or be a downpayment on a house. There's no reason for me not to use mine, so I shouldn't keep it a shelf queen.
See the difference between that and a genuine museum piece? I've written this long ramble in an attempt to explain what I mean in this challenge as a shelf queen. Hopefully some of you out there are like me and have similar lights like mine that should be used instead of left on the shelf.
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See the first post here and scroll down for the challenge "rules": Link to Challenge 1 Thread
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That's it! Have fun! :wave:
This week, we're gonna take that shelf queen OFF the shelf and put 'er to work!
Do you have a shelf queen? A light that you really like, and/or is really nice and/or expensive. A light that mostly (always?!) lives on the shelf. A light you admire when you look at it, a light you might pick up and flash around the room a minute or two then put back. But a light that you always hesitate (or outright fear!) taking out into the world and using as an EDC. You know, because it's real nice, or rare, or unique, or maybe discontinued, and you really like it and all.
Well for this week's challenge, grab that shelf queen and load 'er up with fresh batteries, because that's going to be your one-and-only light for this week!
After all, what good is a light if it just sits on a shelf and never gets used? I once read somewhere that a shelf queen (or garage queen for cars), is just "keeping it nice for the next owner". Might as well get your money's worth, right? If it's kept pristine, some other jerk is just going to end up with it eventually anyway, right?
Now, a bit of a disclaimer. I'm not advocating that anyone take a genuine museum piece that's still "new in box" and subject it to the daily abuse of EDC. To me that's not reasonable. It'd be like taking an all-original 1967 big-block Corvette and beating the hell out of it on your daily commute through Chicago. Nobody in their right mind does that (I hope).
This challenge is about taking a shelf queen that in your own mind you attached a lot of significance to and you almost never use it because it's "too nice" or you don't want to "risk" it. And other than that, there's really no other reason to keep it pristine on the shelf.
For example, the Surefire C2 Centurion in HAIII gray that I bought on closeout years back. That's been one of my shelf queens. I really like the look and feel but I pretty much never used it because I just think about how nice it is and how they don't make them anymore.
The reality is, there's a whole bunch of C2 Centurions out there. It's not gonna fund my retirement or be a downpayment on a house. There's no reason for me not to use mine, so I shouldn't keep it a shelf queen.
See the difference between that and a genuine museum piece? I've written this long ramble in an attempt to explain what I mean in this challenge as a shelf queen. Hopefully some of you out there are like me and have similar lights like mine that should be used instead of left on the shelf.
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See the first post here and scroll down for the challenge "rules": Link to Challenge 1 Thread
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That's it! Have fun! :wave:
GUARDS..SEIZE THIS MAN...Put him In the dungeon HE attempted to assault the Queen!
