Showing off a custom Preon

I'm really happy with how this turned out! It's a gift for my girlfriend who is going into vet school soon and I figured she could use a good light to carry in her scrubs. Of course being a flashaholic I may have gone a little overboard.

The light is a titanium Foursevens Preon P1 with a Nichia 219B emitter and custom machined tailcap, almost cool enough on its own (but not quite) . Then I had is polished and anodized by TiSurvival (Really great guy), and added a custom engraved titanium pocket clip by prometheus lights. What do you guys think?

Very nice!! I don't think you went overboard at all. If you had splash anodizing done then you would have gone overboard .

Seriously - great gift.

Nice +1

Came out really good looking.

nfetterly said:

Very nice!! I don't think you went overboard at all. If you had splash anodizing done then you would have gone overboard .

Seriously - great gift.

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Can't say I wasn't thinking about it [emoji5] and thanks, she's not at all interested in flashlights but I think she'll like this one.

Wow. That's very impressive!

Quite nice. I almost read that clip as "Dr. Pepper" !!!

Nicely done.

Its convinced me anyway like the form factor of this light. Do you know if you can replace the switch with a McClicky for momentary.

stateoftheart said:

Its convinced me anyway like the form factor of this light. Do you know if you can replace the switch with a McClicky for momentary.

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No way to, its a really tiny switch.

Wow, very nicely done. Beautiful!

Very very cool. I'd be happy to receive it!

Awesome didnt know the ti head ever came with a Nichia. Did you request for 47s.

Engraving finishes it off but its a little steep, the clips 20 and engraving is 25 I can't really work that one out.

Its quite a lot considering a McGizmo ti clip is 15.

mk2rocco said:

It's a gift for my girlfriend

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Awesome! Congratulations on the Love you share.
The taste of Quality continues long after the price is forgotten.

stateoftheart said:

Awesome didnt know the ti head ever came with a Nichia. Did you request for 47s.

Engraving finishes it off but its a little steep, the clips 20 and engraving is 25 I can't really work that one out.

Its quite a lot considering a McGizmo ti clip is 15.

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I had to buy a Preon from Illumination Supply and swap pills.

Damn then that has been a collective evolution. Just ordered my envelope pros.

Yea, and swapping emitters is pretty easy with these lights. Looks like an 8mm board fits well.

You did great. I would be proud to EDC that light. Especially in a professional atmosphere.

Str8stroke said:

You did great. I would be proud to EDC that light. Especially in a professional atmosphere.

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Oh awesome so instead of me buying a Nichia version from Lumn for 50 bucks I could just buy a noctigon 8mm board, solder it on and off I go. Looks like a neutral XP-G might be on the cards.

Did you use glue to stick the pill back in?

Thanks

stateoftheart said:

Oh awesome so instead of me buying a Nichia version from Lumn for 50 bucks I could just buy a noctigon 8mm board, solder it on and off I go. Looks like a neutral XP-G might be on the cards.

Did you use glue to stick the pill back in?

Thanks

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Yea, just thread the pill back in. I don't believe the glue is necessary. The pill in the Ti head came right out with no heat, when you tighten the pill into the head it compresses and o ring. That should be enough to keep it from backing out.

Looks great... Be sure to also give her some advice as to how to minimize the chances of losing a little light like this...