McR45 head - anodise or polish?

[Ganp]

Here is an McR45 head I am making for another flashaholic.


The plan was to finish it HAlll-natural to go with a 2 cell HA-nat' body.
The trouble is ... when I tried it on his beautiful bare alloy Mirage_Man 18650 body ... well I just didn't want to take it off.

Should I anodise it?:thinking:

Maybe I'll just polish it and keep it for myself. :naughty:



Colin.

 

[greenLED]

As much as I like the looks of bare Al, it's a pain to maintain the finish and prefer anodized (or duracoated?) parts.

 

[nein166]

Ganp nice work, did you make the tail cap? It looks great!
If you do it with HA III Black it would look sweet. Can you mask off the grooves in the head and tail so its striped? Or do you need to re-machine the grooves?

 

[skalomax]

Your work impresses me everytime!

:twothumbs

also, HA NAT just looks great

 

[PhotonAddict]

+1 on what GreenLED said, especially if the light will be used or handled frequently.

 

[MorpheusT1]

Beutiful work there Colin,


Id say Chrome it


Regards,
Benny

 

[Ganp]

Thanks for your views guys. I'm not a fan of polished torches - I prefer to handle an anodised finish - but that MM body looks so good.

Ganp nice work, did you make the tail cap? It looks great!
If you do it with HA III Black it would look sweet. Can you mask off the grooves in the head and tail so its striped? Or do you need to re-machine the grooves?

Nein166 ... Yup, it is one of my tailcaps. If I were to do a striped head I would anodise first and machine the grooves after.



Colin.

 

[rcnuk]

Nice! It looks cool bare. I suggest persevering that look with a polished nickel plating.

 

[Mirage_Man]

Nice looking light there! :twothumbs

 

[bombelman]

Annodize and use, but keep the crown bare... :thumbsup:

 

[chesterqw]

chrome it

or nickel plate it

 

[ianb]

Colin,

I have another beauty of a MM body this time annodised, but grooved, personally I prefer it, I'll get it on its way to you Monday, then you can have a compare, though if it were me, I'd go for annodised :devil:, I hate finger marks and that looks like a user

Beautiful work, I'm very and I mean VERY impressed,

Ian

 

[ianb]

Maybe I'll just polish it and keep it for myself. :naughty:

noooooooooooo :sick2:



the real question is where is the tailcap going? It looks really nice, what are the internals?

Ian

 

[Ganp]

the real question is where is the tailcap going? It looks really nice, what are the internals?

Ian

Too late ...the tailcap is with the anodisers along with the head.
It takes a McClickie.


Colin.