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What Are You Wearing Today (WAYWT)
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    DougNg
    Joined: 24 Sept 2009

    https://www.oveready.com/flashlight/boss-clicky-zirconium-hot-rod-black-35/

    I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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      Giles
      IHUK Crew
      Joined: 22 Sept 2009

      There are so many words/phrases I don't even start to comprehend in that product description, I am afraid I will have to pass….

      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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        LewisStonehouse
        啓蒙家
        Joined: 11 May 2020

        @jothishan check out McGizmo

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          DougNg
          Joined: 24 Sept 2009

          @Giles:

          There are so many words/phrases I don't even start to comprehend in that product description, I am afraid I will have to pass….

          No mention it’s a $1700 flashlight…

          I messed up anyway, not titanium

          I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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            Giles
            IHUK Crew
            Joined: 22 Sept 2009

            That's part of the point.  It's $1,700, which obviously is a hell of a lot for a flashlight, so the marketing strategy seems to be to talk a lot of pretentious, complex bullshit, to make it seem worth it…

            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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              Anesthetist
              見習いボス
              Joined: 14 May 2011

              Current EDC
              Bedouin Balian Sling
              Promethius pen w Mont Blanc Fineliner
              Field Notes
              Hill Side hanky
              Titanium bottle opener/pry bar
              Blue Bottle tyvek bag for impromptu grocery runs
              Benchmade Aller
              Microtech UTX 70 HellHound
              IH cordovan
              GoodArt clip


              Just realized I forgot my torch at home but it’s usually either a Prometheus or 4sevens.

              Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

              IG: bluehandsslim

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                DougNg
                Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                @Giles

                To be fair, the specifications it gives means a lot to flashlight nerds, and they're impressive. The narrative for the light is a little the top, but personally I think making a flashlight out of a higher strength material than aluminum and plastic is for suckers so they're catering to that crowd.
                Oveready has been around for awhile, and they do impressive work. They have a weaponlight that will fit in the palm of your hand that supposedly puts out more light than a flashlight the size of a toilet plunger. The mods they do is likened to putting a 700hp engine in a Jeep Wrangler. Nobody really does what they do, though admittedly the level of power their lights put out relative to the size approaches the realm of diminishing returns. I'm pretty sure some of the lights get as hot as the guns they're attached to.
                I've been around flashlights for a long, long time (one of my best friends back in NYC used to work for Surefire), and nothing has impressed me as much as the Surefire Stiletto. For the first time in decades, I think there has been some real innovation and there is a true multifunction flashlight in a package that has no negatives in ergonomics.

                I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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                  DougNg
                  Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                  @Anesthetist

                  You also forgot your shoes  😉

                  I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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                    Giles
                    IHUK Crew
                    Joined: 22 Sept 2009

                    @DougNg I'm sure you are right.  I was just being an asshole….

                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                      DougNg
                      Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                      @Giles

                      I didn't think you were being an asshole. Building a flashlight out of high strength materials like zirconium which is used in "industrial, aerospace, nuclear, blah blah blah" applications is pretentious bullshit. Like I said before, they're catering to suckers.

                      I've had a Surefire X300UB attached to the rail of my rifle for a couple years now. Basically it's clamped to the end of a baseball bat and gets whacked against wood, rocks, and dirt. When my rifle falls over it crashes on the flashlight into concrete. Not to mention the recoil and vibration it has to deal with.

                      Still works fine, and the flashlight is made out of 6061 aluminum, not even 7075 aluminum which is stronger.
                      The electronics on a flashlight will crap out long before you damage the body.

                      I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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                        DougNg
                        Joined: 24 Sept 2009

                        I'm a little bitter at the flashlight industry

                        I know violence is not the answer, I got it wrong on purpose

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                          Anesthetist
                          見習いボス
                          Joined: 14 May 2011

                          @DougNg:

                          @Anesthetist

                          You also forgot your shoes  😉

                          Well I was in West Virginia [emoji12]

                          Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

                          IG: bluehandsslim

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                          • hm1944H
                            hm1944
                            Joined: 3 Feb 2020

                            Again, I do not carry all these together all the time but…

                            Want:
                            Leather jacket IHJ-64-BRN     XXXL

                            last edited by 10 Aug 2020, 07:34 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                            • neph93N
                              neph93
                              見習いボス
                              Joined: 18 Aug 2014

                              Some nice items there @hm1944 That little damascus steel folder catches the eye especially. Care to share details?

                              “Some of those that work forces
                              Are the same that burn crosses”

                              • Virginia Woolf
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                              • hm1944H
                                hm1944
                                Joined: 3 Feb 2020

                                Thank you! Yes, it is pendant/small knife by William Henry.

                                Want:
                                Leather jacket IHJ-64-BRN     XXXL

                                last edited by 10 Aug 2020, 09:02 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                • mikebarhootM
                                  mikebarhoot
                                  Iron Heart Deity
                                  Joined: 15 Dec 2015

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                                  • BD81B
                                    BD81
                                    Iron Heart Deity
                                    Joined: 11 Jan 2019

                                    What is that thing that looks like an ice pic?

                                    R.I.P. Filthy🤘

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                                    • mikebarhootM
                                      mikebarhoot
                                      Iron Heart Deity
                                      Joined: 15 Dec 2015

                                      Ti Toothpick

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                                      • BD81B
                                        BD81
                                        Iron Heart Deity
                                        Joined: 11 Jan 2019

                                        Cool that makes more sense to me now. It's a tooth pick in a cork. Lol

                                        R.I.P. Filthy🤘

                                        last edited by 26 Nov 2020, 15:00 1 Reply Last reply Reply Quote 0
                                        • mikebarhootM
                                          mikebarhoot
                                          Iron Heart Deity
                                          Joined: 15 Dec 2015

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