Mirage Man Customs

[Mirage_Man]

A new twist on the Fatty design... a knurled body, extended flutes and trits.

 

[karlthev]

Very nice!


Karl

 

[crossliner67]

They are impossibly handsome :huh:..I just don't get it why a vast majority of cpforumers put high end lights on the pavement or on any rough surface. I could not even imagine myself placing my ITP A3 on an abrasive media or against it :duh2:..Up to now even my Mini Maglite/Solitaire torches of more than 6 years are still bereft of scratches or dings. Sounds lame or even improbable but it's true:laughing:

 

[Mirage_Man]

Just thought this was a cool picture of a light I just finished.

 

[Notsure Fire]

Good craftsmanship. Good photography.

 

[dcaprilia]

That looks really nice!

 

[Mirage_Man]

Thought I'd post a little something I did to spruce up a light I did awhile back. I made this light back before I had a milling machine for Chipwillis. After seeing some pictures of it recently I thought it looked a little plain so I offered to spruce it up a bit.

This is what it looked like when it left me the first time...

And this is what it looked like a year or so later...

And this is what it looks like now...

 

[arewethereyetdad]

Better, definitely. Like the cren bezel, too. Does Corey still own this light, or is this back in the House of Brian?

 

[Mirage_Man]

Better, definitely. Like the cren bezel, too. Does Corey still own this light, or is this back in the House of Brian?

Yep, it's still Corey's.

 

[taewoopa]

Wow.. upgraded best from better ..
Fantastic job, Brian. :thumbsup:

 

[easilyled]

Looks really good now. :thumbsup:

 

[malakye666]

Just thought this was a cool picture of a light I just finished.

Wow thats a real beaut what LED are you using.

 

[TITANER]

Thanks guys above ,otherwise i would miss this wonderful thread.So many fascinating lights here.

 

[TITANER]

Wow thats a real beaut what LED are you using.

Very cool,super polishing and knurl .It looks rather comfort .

 

[Mirage_Man]

Very cool,super polishing and knurl .It looks rather comfort .

Thanks but no polishing there. That's the finish right off the lathe .

 

[TITANER]

Thanks arewethereyetdad for your this thread and beautiful pics :thumbsup:.Maybe i will sleeplessness tonight.

 

[TITANER]

Thanks but no polishing there. That's the finish right off the lathe .

Wow,great machining:thumbsup:.

 

[donn_]

It looks like we lost some posts in this thread. I'll re-build one I posted back in early February.

This is one of my latest Mirage_Man customs. It started off as a VME/Malkoff Ti head for Malkoff drop-ins and E-Series lights.

Brian did some creative Ti-cutting on the head, and ended up with this:

Then he went further, and created his first unitary body/clicky tail, with a matching field of grooves:

And here's one of Brian's photos:

 

[easilyled]

This is my collection of Mirage Man Customs to date:-

top: 27mm light with mirage_man's own copper custom XM-L L.E
bottom: 38mm light with datiled custom XM-L L.E
right: 20mm light with darkzero custom XPG L.E

 

[donn_]

I had photographed this one just before the crash...my latest from Brian.

I bought the tail from Brian in the fall of '08, and bought the head on the forum at around the same time. This has always been my favorite of his A-19 clone heads, because of the wide and deep round-bottom grooves. This photo is from Brian's original sales thread:

I just didn't like the look of it on a McGizmo Ti Clicky, so I waited and waited to find exactly the right body to go between the head and tail.

After over two years, the perfect body never showed up, so I sent Brian this photo, and asked him to make me one:

So here it is, finally complete. It's running a LE made by Tranquillity Base, with a Cree XR-E Q5 and an RV7 AA 3-speed converter.

:twothumbs