Titanium NiteCore EX10 Golden Dragon Plus

Just finished it tonight...

Thats sweet.:twothumbs

Wow!
:twothumbs

It's like a Ti PD's newborn baby.

very purdy sir!:bow:

Mayo

edit: is the head grippy enough for twisty activation?

Will there be a limited run?

I would be in...:naughty:

I'd be happy with just the clip. :mecry:

Marvelous.

Looks very nice! I'm impressed with how quickly you've picked up the lathe work :thumbsup:.

So is that a new body or did you decide to turn the knurling off the other one you were making?

Thanks for the kind words...

FrogmanM said:

is the head grippy enough for twisty activation?

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Yes, with bare skin the machined finish is very grippy. Probably not so if wearing gloves though.

toby_pra said:

Will there be a limited run?

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I would probabably make another one if someone realy wanted it. It wouldn't be a "run" though. More like a crawl...

1dash1 said:

I'd be happy with just the clip. :mecry:

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You can get the clip here..

Mirage_Man said:

So is that a new body or did you decide to turn the knurling off the other one you were making?

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I had to start from scratch. The wall would have been too thin if I cut the knurling off. I completely give up on knurling titanium. I can't get two pieces to match no matter what I do.

JHanko said:

I had to start from scratch. The wall would have been too thin if I cut the knurling off. I completely give up on knurling titanium. I can't get two pieces to match no matter what I do.

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Yeah, me too. I think that's why you don't really see it that often.

The new light looks great in any event. Keep up the good work!

Just a thought on the knurling. One way to get matching knurling to match on the head and body, if the knurling is the same diameter on both, is maybe to knurl a rod long enough for both pieces all at once. And then after knurling is done, and whatever other machine work can/needs to be done at this point, cut them to length. This won't help with matching more than a couple of lights, limited by maximum length that can be knurled, and the knurling has to be the largest diameter of the light. But just a thought I wanted to throw out there. Just ignore this if I'm way out in the left field. LOL I haven't even done steel knurling, and never anything hard to work like Ti, since I was in vocational school almost 30 years ago.

Excellent job!! :thumbsup:

So if you were to make another, what would the price tag be? And is this one getting a slotted piston with a trit?

rocled said:

So if you were to make another, what would the price tag be? And is this one getting a slotted piston with a trit?

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I really don't think there will be another. Takes way too much time, and I'm currently out of titanium round. No money right now for more titanium or for a slotted piston...